The Yale Bulldogs golf teams represent Yale University in intercollegiate competition. The men's team has won more national team championships and more individual national championships than any other university golf program in the United States. The women's team was founded in 1980 and has won a number of Ivy League championships. The teams play out of the Yale Golf Course and compete as members of the Ivy League. History In the fall of 1896, Yale Alumni Weekly reported that a "new game," golf, was the "rage among seniors" at the school. Students used hockey sticks and tennis balls to simulate golf clubs and golf balls on a "makeshift course" on campus. For a more "serious" game, students traveled off-campus to a complete, nine-hole course, New Haven Golf Club, that had been completed the previous year. The top Yale undergraduates at New Haven created an independent organization, Yale Golf Club, later in the fall. In November, they played their "first intercollegiate competition." It was against Columbia University. The golf team's coach during this era was Robert Pryde, a Scottish-born former cabinetmaker. The following year they won first national intercollegiate championship. Overall, during Pryde's tenure as coach Yale won another 14 NCAA championships in team golf. Pryde's 15 total victories is "a record that still stands." By 1922, however, Yale had not won a championship in seven years. George Townsend Adee made some proposals to the Director of the Athletic Association to improve the program. One of them was to create a new golf course. Golf was becoming more popular among undergraduates but it was becoming difficult to find courses accommodate all of the new players. New Haven Country Club was not open to undergraduates. The local Race Brook Country Club was bursting at its seams so prospective players "were forced to go even further afield." In addition, Princeton University already had its own golf course and Harvard University was building one. In 1923, construction on a new golf course began. Three years later, in 1926, it was opened as Yale Golf Course. That year they also hired a new coach, the Scottish-born Ben Thomson. Yale won the national intercollegiate championship that year for the first time in several years. In 1927, a University Championship tournament was held. The top scorers at the tournament would have the opportunity to make the Yale golf team. The event was held in spring and had