No. 20 Men's Golf at the Tartan Invitational 
Monday, October 12 | 8 a.m.
Tuesday, October 13 | 8 a.m.
Laurel Valley Golf Club | Ligonier, Pa. 

WHAT TO KNOW
•    The Babson men's golf team will conclude the fall portion of its schedule by competing in the 54-hole Tartan Invitational hosted by Carnegie Mellon for the second time in program history on Monday and Tuesday. 
•    The Beavers are one of 17 teams that will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 holes on Tuesday to determine a champion at Laurel Valley Golf Club. 

ABOUT LAUREL VALLEY GOLF CLUB
•     Laurel Valley, which opened in 1959, was designed by Dick Wilson and renovated by the late Arnold Palmer. 
•    Located just south of Pittsburgh, Pa., the course hosted the 1965 PGA Championship, the 1975 Ryder Cup, the 1989 U.S. Senior Open and the 2005 Senior PGA Championship. 

2025 TARTAN INVITATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
•    Colin Fowler '26 shot 73-74-77 to tie for 17th place at 8-over par as Babson tied for 11th among 16 teams with a 54-hole total of 50-over 914 on October 13-14, 2025, at Laurel Valley GC. 
•    Juniors Aman Vantipalli (78-74-80) and Chad Tordone (78-76-78) tied for 50th position at 16-over, while senior Jack Berry (82-72-79) and Shane Quinn '26 (76-78-79) were a shot behind them in 56th place for the Beavers. 
•    Babson's second round score of 8-over 296 was tied for the fourth lowest in the 16-team field. 

ABOUT THE BEAVERS
•    No. 20 Babson is coming off a fourth-place finish at the West Pines Collegiate last Tuesday. 
•    Vantipalli shot 69-72-70 to tie for 10th place at 2-under, sophomore Luke Walker fired a 3-under 68 in round two on the way to tying for 21st position at 2-over par and classmate Mason Malouf opened with a 4-under 67 and finished in a tie for 28th place at 4-over for the Beavers, who posted a score of 8-over 860. 
•    Vantipalli boasts a team-best 71.67 stroke average and has three consecutive top-10 finishes to begin the season, Walker owns a 73.78 average and has posted back-to-back top-25 finishes, first-year Jay Sherwood (73.83) has one top-10 result in two tournaments, and Berry is coming off his low 54-hole score of the year (6-over 219) and has a 74.78 average this fall. 
•    The Beavers have a 294.00 team average over their first three tournaments and have shot 294 or better in five of their last six rounds. 

RED NUMBERS
•    Vantipalli has finished under par four times in nine rounds this fall and finished 2-under over 54 holes to tie for fifth place at the Gate City Invitational in mid-September and in his tie for 10th place at the West Pines Collegiate. 
•    Walker has finished under par twice in nine rounds, including a career-best 3-under 68 in the second round of the West Pines Collegiate, while Malouf recorded the low score of his career with a 4-under 67 to open the West Pines Collegiate. 

STRONG FIELD MEETS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 
•    The 17-team Tartan Invitational features 14 squads that were ranked in the last Bushnell Golfweek Division III poll back on September 25. 
•    No. 1 Huntingdon, which recorded a three-shot victory last October at Laurel Valley, No. 2 Kenyon and No. 3 Emory are among seven of the top-10 teams in the poll set to compete. 
•    Other top-10 squads include sixth-ranked Carnegie Mellon, No. 7 Sewanee, No. 8 Methodist and No. 10 Oglethorpe, which is coming off a win at the West Pines Collegiate last Tuesday. 

NUMBERS TO KNOW
•    Babson's 54-hole score of 860 at the West Pines Collegiate was its second lowest going back to the start of last year. 
•    The Beavers' first round total of 5-under 279 was their lowest of the season. 
•    The Green and White owns average team scores of 289.33 (first round), 293.33 (second round) and 298.33 (final round) over its first three tournaments this fall. 
•    The winning score of last year's Tartan Invitational was 22-over 886, and the lowest team score in any round was 286. 

UP NEXT
•    Babson will return to action in March.