WATCHUNG, N.J. – The University of Pennsylvania men's golf team is very much in the mix after the first day at the Ivy League Championship. In addition, freshman Max Fonseca made quite an impression in the first Championship round of his college career and is atop the individual leaderboard after Friday's play.
 
The three-day, 54-hole event is being played on the par-71 course at Watchung Valley Golf Club.
 
Day 1 Results (Golfstat.com)
 
Penn shot 3-over-par 287 as a team on Friday, its best round at this event since 2015. That left the Quakers fourth in the field of seven teams, one stroke behind Columbia and Yale (both teams shooting 286). Princeton is atop the leaderboard after shooting a 2-under-par 282. Harvard is fifth, four shots behind Penn, while Dartmouth and Cornell are tied for sixth.
 
Individually, Fonseca shot the best round by a Penn player ever at this Championship to shoot to the top of the leaderboard. Fonseca carded a 5-under-par 66, bettering Michael Blodgett's previous mark (67, -4) set in the second round at the 2008 Championship. Fonseca led the field in par-4 scoring (-3) and was tied with five other players (including teammate Hayden Adams) for the best par-3 score (-1).
 
Adams finished the day at even-par 71 and is tied for seventh in the field of 35 golfers. George Roessler and Ben Scott were Penn's other scorers on Friday, both of them carding 75. Jimin Jung rounded out the lineup.
 
Fonseca is two shots ahead of Princeton's William Huang, while a pair of Yale golfers—Ben Carpenter and Robert You—and Cornell's Tyler Debusschere are tied for third at 2-under-par 69.
 
Up Next
The Ivy League Championship continues tomorrow and concludes on Sunday. Tee times will start at 10 a.m. on both days. Penn will play with Harvard with Jung teeing off at 10:50 a.m., Scott at 11:00, Roessler at 11:10, Adams at 11:20, and Fonseca at 11:30.
 
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