After a long hiatus, the Blue Devils have brought themselves back into the winner’s circle.
Yesterday, No. 13 Duke won the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship at the English Turn Golf & Country Club in New Orleans, La., ending a winless streak that had spanned its last 21 tournaments.
“I couldn’t be more happy,” head coach Dan Brooks told GoDuke.com. “The passion was maybe down a little bit from last year. It seems like it has picked up in the spring and everybody realizes how special it is to be on a team that’s got the talent to do this kind of thing. Maybe it took a win for us to pull together.”
Posting rounds of 295, 294, and 288, the Blue Devils won by three strokes over No. 17 Colorado with a total score of 877.
Duke began the third round in second place behind No. 4 Southern California by four strokes, but after posting 16 birdies Tuesday, the Blue Devils emerged victorious.
Top-ranked Lindy Duncan led Duke as the only golfer on the team to finish under par, posting a 3-under-par 69. Duncan carded three birdies on her closing nine en route to a 3-under 33 back nine, bringing her into fourth place overall.
Three other Blue Devils finished in the top 20, with sophomore Laetitia Beck placing ninth, junior Stacy Kim 14th and junior Courtney Ellenbogen 16th.
Despite struggling with her putting, Kim posted her best finish of the season, ending with a 5-over-par 221.
Beck tied her season best with a total of 219, improving by one stroke each day, and in just her second tournament of the season, Ellenbogen carded a team-low 25 putts, closing with an even-par 72 in the final round and a 6-over-par 222 finish overall.
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