In the spring season opener, RPI freshman Griffin Chenard led the Engineers to victory by finishing tied for third place in the Centre Spring Invitational, a five-school event at the Palmer Course at Saddlebrook in Wesley Chapel, Florida. He finished +19 in the three rounds to place a stroke from second and six from first. Griffin shot 79 (+9), 78 (+8) and a team-best 72 (+2) with 28 pars and six birdies. He was fourth among the field of 30 participants in birdies, including two in the first round and three in the third, and fifth in pars. He was third on both the par-3s (+4) and par-4s (+12). As a team, Rensselaer won by nine strokes over the host Colonels with a score of 922 (317, 302, 303).