Phoebe Brinker, in just her third collegiate event, continued her eye-opening improvement with a second-place finish at 10-under.
From moving to the U.S. as a high schooler to spending the last 12 months in Thailand amid COVID-19, Boonchant's journey has been unique to say the least.
"Honestly I had about five seconds to think and kind of soak it in before I got drenched with water.... I saw my fellow sophomore [Megan Furtney], she was crying, looked over at my parents and they were crying, so I was just overwhelmed with emotion," Shepherd said.
Bouncing back from a rough 12th-place finish the previous weekend, Duke strung together three rounds of solid golf to finish fourth in the Wake Forest Invitational at the legendary Pinehurst No. 2 golf course.
Shepherd paced the Blue Devils with a third-place individual finish, despite the fact that she's still recovering from knee surgery.
Duke suffered a setback in an otherwise smooth-sailing season this week, placing 12th out of 15 teams in the Seminole Intercollegiate this past weekend in Tallahassee, Fla.
After last season was cut short, Duke enters a second-straight campaign as defending national champions.
The Blue Devils have the potential to make some noise in the NCAA Championship.
Duke tied for second place in its second tournament of the year, an outcome that has become typical for the successful program. However, this tournament was anything but familiar.
Chinn was named the junior boys' player of the year by the American Junior Golf Association just a few weeks ago.
With the team's two upperclassmen forced to live off campus, the Blue Devils will expect incoming freshmen Phoebe Brinker and Anne Chen to adapt quickly without veteran guidance.
Streelman finished second at the Travelers Championship and tied for seventh at the Workday Charity Open in his last two starts on the PGA Tour.
The Duke women's golf team capped off a historic stretch from 2005-2007 with a dramatic victory to claim its only three-peat.
Women's golf sophomore Gina Kim, men's golf junior Evan Katz and women's lacrosse senior Catherine Cordrey discuss the crazy last couple of months.
Long, Mickelson, and Hadwin battled throughout the day, with Long and Mickelson especially putting the pressure on each other down the stretch.
In the limited competition they had, the Blue Devils were able to go toe-to-toe with national powerhouses, contend in major tournaments and post impressive individual numbers.
There’s no reason to believe that the Blue Devils could not have figured out a strategy to repeat as national champions.
After a disappointing start in the first two days, Duke ended this past weekend's tournament on a high note.
Topping our list at No. 1: Women’s golf survives a series of tense matches on the last day of the NCAA tournament before clinching the program’s seventh NCAA title in extra holes on the final pairing of the day. The win marks the first national championship for any Duke team since 2015.
The team walked through the Oval Office and spoke with President Trump, but did it get the fast-food treatment offered to Clemson this January? Regardless of the President’s shortcomings on the golf course, everyone involved got a taste of something new during the expedition up north.
