Last week saw the second playing of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, an exclusive invitational for the top nonprofessional players in women’s golf. This year’s event featured 85 players, and close observers of Duke women’s golf might have recognized a few names.
Featuring No. 5 Duke, No. 3 Wake Forest, N.C. State and North Carolina, Saturday’s match play tournament at the par-72 Lonnie Poole Golf Course in Raleigh, N.C., boiled down to a 2019 NCAA Championship rematch between Duke and Wake Forest.
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.
Shepherd paced the Blue Devils with a third-place individual finish, despite the fact that she's still recovering from knee surgery.
After last season was cut short, Duke enters a second-straight campaign as defending national champions.
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.
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.
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.
Gina Kim is a sophomore at Duke University from Chapel Hill who plays on the Duke women’s golf team. As a freshman, she was instrumental in the Blue Devils’ run to their seventh national championship, as she shot a birdie on hole 18 of the NCAA Division I Semifinals against Arizona to send her team to the finals.
This week, let the numbers take you inside the start of men's basketball's season, football's blowout loss, men's golf's first victory and another women's soccer tie.
Virginia Elena Carta continues to rake in awards and honors even after graduating.
When Virginia Elena Carta graduated from Duke in May, her accolades as an athlete spoke for themselves, but her greatest legacy at Duke has come off the fairway.
Gina Kim and Erica Shepherd were two of only 19 golfers to eagle at least one hole.
It will be Duke's first team competition since hoisting the program’s seventh national championship last May.
