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Career: Three-time National Player of the Year, three-time Golfstat award winner, three-time first team All-America and three-time All-ACC honoree ... enters her senior year with a school-record 14-tournament streak finishing in the top five ... in the Duke career charts, ranks first with 64 rounds of even or under par, first with 32 top 10 finishes and second with 11 victories ... 2006 and 2008 U.S. Curtis Cup team member ... led Duke to three ACC Championships and two NCAA titles in three years.
2008 Summer Action: Won the U.S. Women's Amateur with a 2-and-1 victory over Azahara Munoz ... was co-medalist at the U.S. Women's Amateur as well with rounds of 66-74=140 ... led the U.S. to a 13-7 victory over GB&I in the Curtis Cup ... compiled rounds of 72-78-71-77 to finish tied for 38th at the U.S. Women's Open with a total of 298 (+6) ... advanced to the first round of match play at the WAPL.
2007-08: Golfweek and PING National Player of the Year ... won the Golfstat Cup and the Dinah Shore Trophy ... became the first golfer to win the Golfweek and PING National Player of the Year and the Golfstat Cup three different times ... won the Honda Award for the second consecutive year ... first team NGCA and Golfweek All-America ... tied her own school record with a 71.00 stroke average ... ACC Player of the Year ... became the first repeat winner of the Nancy Lopez Award ... registered four victories and finished in the top five of all 11 tournaments ... NGCA All-East Region ... collected wins at the Mason Rudolph Championship (66-68-69=203), Tar Heel Invitational (71-68-70=209), Wildcat Invitational (68-72-73=213) and the ACC Championship (73-68-71=212) ... All-ACC ... became the first three-time individual ACC women’s golf champion ... appeared in the LPGA Kraft Nabisco Championship and finished tied for 30th (73-73-73-74=293) ... finished the season ranked No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index for a third straight year ... led NCAA Division I in par three scoring (2.93), par five scoring (4.76), subpar strokes per round (3.53) and greens in regulation (.817), while ranking fourth in par four scoring (4.04) ... selected Duke's female MVP of the Carlyle Cup.
2007 Summer Action: Finished tied for 50th at the U.S. Women’s Open with rounds of 72-76-74-74=296 and was one of four amateurs to make the cut ... advanced to the second round of match play at the WAPL ... at the North & South Women’s Amateur, made it through to the semifinals of match play ... runner-up at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, falling, 1up, to Maria Jose Uribe in 36 holes.
2006-07: NGCA and Golfweek National Player of the Year ... won the Golfstat Cup and Golf Honda Award ... notched a school-record 71.00 stroke average ... won a school-record three straight tournaments and finished with four wins ... first team All-America ... tied an NCAA record with a nine-under-par, 63, at NCAA Regionals ... received the Nancy Lopez Award ... ACC Player of the Year ... ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America ... set a school record with 10 straight rounds of even or under par ... All-ACC ... NGCA All-East Region ... notched wins in the Wildcat Invitational (70-69-71=210), UCF Challenge (70-65-70=205), LSU Tournament (68-69-70=207) and the ACC Championship (70-68-74=212) ... named to the All-ACC Academic team ... posted 20 rounds of even or under par.
2006 Summer Action: Led the U.S. to a 2006 Curtis Cup victory ... tied for low amateur at the U.S. Open with rounds of 70-77-73-73=293, finishing tied for 10th overall ... named MVP of the Fuji Xerox USA vs. Japan Collegiate Golf Championship, leading USA to a 37-23 victory ... tied for 17th in the Wegmans LPGA with rounds of 70-74-70-68 ... competed in the LPGA ShopRite Classic and missed the cut (72-73).
2005-06: NGCA National Player and Freshman of the Year ... first team NGCA and Golfweek All-America ... won the Edith Cummings Munson Golf Award ... earned the Golfstat Cup ... Golfweek National Player and Freshman of the Year ... nominee for the Honda Award ... notched the lowest stroke average by a Duke freshman, 71.62 ... became the first Duke golfer to begin her collegiate career with nine-consecutive rounds of even or under par ... registered a single-season record at Duke with 24 rounds of even or under par ... ACC Player and Freshman of the Year ... became the second freshman golfer at Duke to win her first collegiate tournament ... All-ACC ... set a Duke freshman record with a 54-hole total of 208 at the Mason Rudolph Championship ... finished the season ranked No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index ... NGCA All-East Region ... collected wins at the Mason Rudolph (69-71-68=208), Longhorn Invitational (72-74-72=218) and the ACC Championship (69-71-72=212) ... named to the All-ACC Academic Team.
2005 Summer Action: Finished 10th in stroke play at the U.S. Amateur and then fell in the second round of match play ... Western Women’s Amateur medalist.
Prep: A four-time Rolex Junior All-America ... ranked third nationally by the National Junior Golf Scoreboard and Golf Digest for junior girls ... registered 10 AJGA Tournament titles over the last three years ... won 14 national titles ... led her Xavier Preparatory team to the 5A State Championship from 2001-04 ... selected Arizona’s Female H.S. Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2005 ... 2003 and 2004 first team Rolex Junior All-America and 2002 second team selection ... 2003 and 2004 Arizona H.S. 5A State Individual Champion ... earned 2003 and 2004 Arizona 5A State Player of the Year ... named Phoenix Women’s Sports Association H.S. Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2004 ... during the 2004 AJGA campaign, collected wins at the McDonald’s Betsy Rawls Girls Junior Championship, the Southwestern Junior, PING Indianapolis Junior and PING Phoenix Junior ... played on the 2002, 2003 and 2004 West Canon Cup teams ... represented the U.S. on the PING/Junior Solheim Cup teams in 2002 and 2003 ... holds Arizona’s 5A High School Girl’s Golf State Tournament record with a score of 69-66=135 (-9) ... a four-time 5A H.S. Girls’ Regional Individual Champion from 2001-04 ... a four-year letterwinner at Xavier Prep.
Personal: Born November 4, 1986 in Scottsdale, Ariz. ... daughter of Dave and Amy Blumenherst ... has one brother, Andrew (18) and one sister, Erica (13) ... started playing golf at age four ... majoring in history along with a minor in English and theatre studies ... a three-time ACC honor roll selection.
Blumenherst By-The-Numbers
2007-08
Mason Rudolph (66-68-69=203, 1, -13)
NCAA Fall Preview (73-68-67=208, 2, -11)
Tar Heel (71-68-70=209, 1, -7)
Stanford (66-73-76=215, T5, +2)
Arizona Wildcat (68-72-73=213, 1, E)
UCF Challenge (69-68-74=211, T3, -5)
Liz Murphey (74-72-74=220, T3, +4)
Bryan National (70-73-74=217, 2, +1)
ACC Championship (73-68-71=212, 1, -4)
East Reg. (68-73-74=215, T2, -1)
NCAA Ch. (75-71-77-68=291, T5, +3)
2006-07
Mason Rudolph (73-69-74=216, T8, E)
Daytona Beach (72-74-72=218, T10, +2)
Tar Heel (76-74-69=219, T4, +3)
Arizona (70-69-71=210, 1, -3)
UCF (70-65-70=205, 1, -11)
LSU (68-69-70=207, 1, -9)
Bryan National (73-71-75=219, T6, +3)
ACC Ch. (70-68-74=212, 1, -4)
East Reg. (73-70-63=206, T2, -10)
NCAA Ch. (70, 73-74-72=289, 4, +1)
2005-06
Mason Rudolph (69-71-68=208, 1, -8)
Tar Heel (72-72-71=215, T3, -1)
Stanford (70-71-68=209, T2, -4)
Auburn Derby (75-73-71=219, T4, +3)
Arizona Wildcat (70-70-71=211, T8, -2)
Guadalajara Invite (73-72-70=215, T5, -1)
Longhorn Invite (72-74-72=218, 1, +2)
Bryan National (78-68-70=216, 2, E)
ACC Ch. (69-71-72=212, 1, -4)
Central Reg. (70-75-73=218, 2, +2)
NCAA Ch. (76-74-70-74=294, T9, +6)
LPGA Events
2008 Kraft Nabisco (73-73-73-74=293, T30)
2007 U.S. Open (72-76-74-74=296, T50)
2006 U.S. Open (70-77-73-73=293, T10
2006 Wegmans (70-74-70-68=282, T17)
2006 ShopRite Classic (72-73=145, MC)
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