SPORTS | MEN'S GOLF
Georgia takes down Blue Devils in NCAA semifinals
By Chris Cusack | June 4, 2011
The Blue Devils continued their red-hot spring with a respectable finish at the ACC tournament, placing second overall in the team stroke-play event.
After a weekend of dominant play, the Blue Devils won the Irish Creek Collegiate with an eight-under performance, giving them their second tournament win of the spring.
Duke fired a team score of 276 yesterday to finish in a tie for third in the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate.
The Blue Devils may have entered the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship seeded 10th out of 16, but it would seem nobody told them that.
The tournament may have been called the Oven Experience, but the Blue Devils handled the heat yesterday to beat the Horned Frogs.
The reality is that most rookie golfers are not good enough to err in the way that freshman Blue Devil Yaroslav Merkulov did.
Even though the Blue Devils fell short of their desired result over the weekend, their play in the final round of the Rod Myers Invitational bodes well for the future.
It would be nearly impossible to find somebody who met former Duke men’s golf coach Rod Myers without coming away having learned something—whether it was about golf, life or something in between.
After a solid first day saw Duke atop the leaderboard in Raleigh, just 18 holes separated the Blue Devils from their first tournament victory of the season Tuesday.
The No. 23 Blue Devils came out firing in the opening day of action at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate Monday, taking a three-stroke team lead into the final day of golf today.
The Blue Devils finished sixth this weekend after concluding play at the Fighting Illini Invitational Sunday.
The Blue Devils will waste no time teeing it up with the best teams in the nation when they start play today at the Fighting Illini Invitational, their first tournament of the fall season.
Sophomore Brinson Paolini did not rest on his laurels after posting a record-setting campaign during his first season as a Blue Devil.
Duke wrapped up a long spring season last Thursday at the NCAA Championship, held at The Honors Course in Chattanooga, Tenn. Although playing relatively close to home, a young Blue Devil team could...