Second Round Play Halted at NCAA Championship

Wednesday, May 19

Wilmington, N.C.

All Day

Duke University

Day Two

Second Round Play Halted at NCAA Championship

5/19/2010 8:00:00 PM | Women's Golf

By: Duke Sports Information

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Coming off a solid even par round on Tuesday to open the 2010 NCAA Championship, the fifth-ranked and third-seeded Duke women's golf team struggled on Wednesday and finds themselves in 12th place as the second round play was halted due to inclement weather at the 6,368-yard, Par 72 Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C.

Duke was one of 18 teams who completed its second round with six squads still yet to finish action. The second round will resume at 7:30 a.m., on Thursday morning followed by the third round starting one hour after the second round is completed. Play was stopped on three different occasions on Wednesday afternoon due to inclement weather.

The Blue Devils own a two-day total of 591 and is 21 shots off leader Southern California (570). Duke has made impressive comebacks already this season and will need yet another to make a run at its sixth NCAA title. In the fall, the Blue Devils were down 10 strokes heading into the final day of the NCAA Fall Preview at Landfall and fired a final round 288 to win by one stroke over then No. 1 ranked UCLA and Auburn.

"It wasn't what we had in mind," said Duke Head Coach Dan Brooks on Wednesday's round. "There are two days left and we have players who have all shot under par golf this year. We came back from 15 shots in nine holes at the ACC [Championship] and then let it slip away at the end. We actually made that kind of run so we have possibilities. It is a little bit tougher to do here. I believe everyone is on board to keep fighting, play two more days and you never know. We came back here as a matter of fact and won in the fall."

At the ACC Championship in April, the Blue Devils were down 15 strokes on the final day to Wake Forest and came back to take the lead after nine holes before falling back to third to close out the day.

Rounding out the top 15 squads are Alabama (577), Purdue (578), UCLA (580), Arizona State (581), Arizona (582), Virginia (585), Florida State, Vanderbilt (588), Auburn (589), Oklahoma State (589), Duke (591), TCU, Texas A&M and Texas (595).

"We have to stay really patient and not try to do anything spectacular," said Brooks. "I think it is very important on a Pete Dye Golf Course to just keep playing solid golf -- hitting lots of greens. The putts are either going to fall or there not and that's the way you are going to go under. You are going to have it happen or not, but it is not going to be because you are making more aggressive choices -- that won't work."

Carding Duke's best round of the day was freshman Courtney Ellenbogen as she fired a one-over-par, 73. After totaling a bogey on the second hole, Ellenbogen responded with five pars before registering back-to-back birdies on No. 8 and No. 9. On the 168-yard, par three eighth hole, Ellenbogen rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt and then stuck her approach shot on the ninth to within six feet for another birdie. She closed the day with seven pars and bogeys on No. 13 and No. 14. A Blacksburg, Va., product, Ellenbogen had a team-best 29 putts to go along with 10 greens in regulation and hitting 11 fairways.

"I hit the ball very well," commented Ellenbogen. "I was hitting my drives right down the middle and hitting a lot of greens. A few putts could have fallen that I didn't make but the opportunity was out there to score. That is good as I can take that into tomorrow."

Ellenbogen enters the third round tied for 29th with a 147.

"I am real happy for Courtney," said Brooks. "She has been working hard on her swing. She came in a year ago with a hook that had pestered her for a year and a half before she came to Duke. She has got that worked out and is hitting a straight ball or a slight fade right now."

Senior Alison Whitaker turned in a 75 on Wednesday and owns a 36-hole total of 149, which is tied for 52nd. She turned in three birdies, four bogeys and a double-bogey on the 387-yard, par four 11th hole. Whitaker, who is from Melbourne, Australia, was even par through 11 holes with birdies on the second and seventh holes. Her double on No. 11 along with bogeys to close out the round on No. 16 and No. 18 led to the three-over-par, 39, on the back. Whitaker drained her third birdie of the day on No. 14 as she holed an 10-foot putt.

For the round, Whitaker notched a team-high 35 putts, while hitting 14 greens and 10 fairways. She was 0-of-3 on up-and-downs.

Freshman Lindy Duncan carded a four-over-par, 76, on the second day, which was marred by two double-bogeys on the fifth and 15th holes. Duncan, the ACC Player and Rookie of the Year out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., struggled with her putting and driving as she finished with 34 putts and seven fairways hit in round two. She opened her day with a three-over-par, 39, on the front nine without any birdies and then notched two birdies on the back nine on holes 12 and 16. If you take away the two doubles, she ranked second on the Blue Devil squad with 12 pars on Wednesday. Duncan enters the third round tied for 46th with a 148.

A product of Columbus, Ga., freshman Stacey Kim continued to struggle in her first appearance at the NCAA Championship as she turned in her second straight 79, but closed strong with back-to-back birdies on the 17th and 18th holes. Kim turned in a wild first nine as she was six-over-par when she made the turn but was solid on the back with a one-over-par, 37. On the day, Kim totaled three birdies, which included No. 4 when she hit her 56-degree wedge to within two feet from 85 yards away.

After carding a four-under-par, 68, on day one, junior Kim Donovan got off to a rough start on Wednesday and never could quite get it going in the second round. One shot off the individual lead through 18 holes, Donovan suffered a quadruple-bogey on the second hole as she hit her tee shot into the sand trap on the 131-yard, par three island green. It took her three shots out of the sand and then she three-putted for a seven. Donovan made the turn at six-over-par, 42, and played better on the back with seven pars, one bogey and one double-bogey to finish with an 81. She enters the third round tied for 52nd with a 149.

Donovan, who is from Hopkinton, Mass., hit 10 greens on Wednesday after hitting all 18 the first day, while totaling 34 putts and hitting eight fairways.

"This tournament is a day longer than all the other ones so that is a lot of golf," said Ellenbogen. "We have seen what can happen with both our team and other teams. So we know the opportunities are out there to come back."

If Duke remains in 12th place through the second round, the Blue Devils will tee off in the afternoon on Thursday to kick off the third round. Tee times for the third round will be released in the morning following the completion of the second round.

"We have to be really positive -- insanely positive in fact," said Whitaker on the chances to come back the next two days. "I think that nationals is one of those weeks where it is such a long week that everyone is going to have a bad day. This is ours. Over the next two days, we will make up a little bit of ground. ACCs showed us -- the first nine holes of the last round we made up 15 shots on our opponents. I think that really showed us what we are capable of doing on the golf course. If we can keep that in mind hopefully tomorrow we can go out and shoot some low scores."

Notes:

As a team, Duke registered 11 birdies in the second round. The Blue Devils had 15 birdies in round one.
Duke has won NCAA Championships in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007 under Head Coach Dan Brooks.
Duke won the NCAA Fall Preview October as the Blue Devils came back from being down 10 shots on the final day to win by one stroke over Auburn and UCLA.

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Duke Results
Start Finish Player Team Scores
T49 T29 Courtney Ellenbogen Duke 74 73 (F) 147 +3
T20 T46 Lindy Duncan Duke 72 76 (F) 148 +4
T49 T52 Alison Whitaker Duke 74 75 (F) 149 +5
T4 T52 Kim Donovan Duke 68 81 (F) 149 +5
T108 T111 Stacey Kim Duke 79 79 (F) 158 +14

1 2 Team Scores
1 1 Southern California 282 288 570 -6
T6 2 Alabama, U. of 289 288 577 +1
2 3 Purdue 284 294 578 +2
T3 4 UCLA 288 292 580 +4
T3 5 Arizona State 288 293 581 +5
T12 6 Arizona 296 286 582 +6
10 7 Virginia 294 291 585 +9
T12 T8 Vanderbilt 296 292 588 +12
T6 T8 Florida State Univ. 289 245 534 +12
9 T10 Auburn 293 296 589 +13
11 T10 Oklahoma State 295 294 589 +13
T3 12 Duke 288 303 591 +15
8 T13 TCU 292 256 548 +18
T14 T13 Texas A&M 297 247 544 +18
18 15 Texas 299 296 595 +19
T19 16 South Carolina 300 297 597 +21
22 17 New Mexico 303 296 599 +23
T14 18 Pepperdine 297 306 603 +27
24 T19 Tulane University 311 239 550 +28
T14 T19 Tennessee 297 307 604 +28
T19 21 Stanford 300 258 558 +29
17 22 San Jose State Univ 298 310 608 +32
23 23 Kent State 307 257 564 +34
21 24 Oregon 302 309 611 +35

Start Finish Player Team Scores
T1 1 Jennifer Johnson Arizona State 67 70 (F) 137 -7
T1 2 Jennifer Song Southern California 67 71 (F) 138 -6
T4 T3 Cyna Rodriguez Southern California 68 72 (F) 140 -4
T14 T3 Margarita Ramos Arizona 71 69 (F) 140 -4
T1 T3 Maude-Aimee LeBlanc Purdue 67 73 (F) 140 -4
T8 T3 Caroline Hedwall Oklahoma State 70 70 (F) 140 -4
T30 T7 Numa Gulyanamitta Purdue 73 69 (F) 142 -2
T14 T7 Rhea Nair Alabama, U. of 71 71 (F) 142 -2
T8 T7 Brooke Beeler TCU 70 52 (13) 122 -2
T20 T10 Cydney Clanton Auburn 72 71 (F) 143 -1
T20 T10 Megan McChrystal * LSU 72 71 (F) 143 -1
T30 T12 Candace Schepperle Auburn 73 71 (F) 144 E
T30 T12 Jodi Ewart New Mexico 73 71 (F) 144 E
T8 T12 Brooke Pancake Alabama, U. of 70 74 (F) 144 E
T49 T12 Nicole Agnello Virginia 74 70 (F) 144 E
T14 T12 Cheyenne Hickle Oregon 71 73 (F) 144 E
T30 T12 Kimberly Kim * Denver, Univ. of 73 71 (F) 144 E
T30 T12 Sally Watson Stanford 73 55 (14) 128 E
7 T12 Jessica Negron Florida State Univ. 69 55 (13) 124 E
T30 T20 Belen Mozo Southern California 73 72 (F) 145 +1
T64 T20 Jennifer Kirby Alabama, U. of 75 70 (F) 145 +1
T20 T20 Erica Popson Tennessee 72 73 (F) 145 +1
T8 T20 Brittany Altomare Virginia 70 75 (F) 145 +1
T20 T20 Marta Silva Zamora * Georgia 72 73 (F) 145 +1
T8 T20 Maria Salinas Florida State Univ. 70 59 (14) 129 +1
T20 T26 Katie Burnett South Carolina 72 74 (F) 146 +2
T30 T26 Camilla Lennarth Alabama, U. of 73 73 (F) 146 +2
T30 T26 Calle Nielson Virginia 73 73 (F) 146 +2
T49 T29 Lizette Salas Southern California 74 73 (F) 147 +3
T87 T29 Nikki Koller Arizona 77 70 (F) 147 +3
T49 T29 Haley Stephens Texas 74 73 (F) 147 +3
T8 T29 Laura Gonzalez Purdue 70 77 (F) 147 +3
T20 T29 Nicole Vandermade Texas 72 75 (F) 147 +3
T72 T29 Tiffany Lua UCLA 76 71 (F) 147 +3
T49 T29 Courtney Ellenbogen Duke 74 73 (F) 147 +3
T72 T29 Stephanie Kono UCLA 76 71 (F) 147 +3
T30 T29 Sydnee Michaels UCLA 73 74 (F) 147 +3
T30 T29 Juliana Murcia Arizona State 73 74 (F) 147 +3
T14 T29 Glory Yang UCLA 71 76 (F) 147 +3
T72 T29 Brooke Goodwin Vanderbilt 76 71 (F) 147 +3
T64 T29 Marina Alex Vanderbilt 75 72 (F) 147 +3
T64 T29 Victoria Park Oklahoma State 75 72 (F) 147 +3
T49 T29 Danielle Kang Pepperdine 74 73 (F) 147 +3
T20 T29 Sarah Zwartynski Texas A&M 72 63 (15) 135 +3
T20 T29 Julia Boland Texas A&M 72 55 (13) 127 +3
T64 T46 Amanda Strang South Carolina 75 73 (F) 148 +4
T30 T46 Sherlyn Popelka Arizona 73 75 (F) 148 +4
T20 T46 Lindy Duncan Duke 72 76 (F) 148 +4
T30 T46 Shraddhanjali Singh San Jose State Univ 73 75 (F) 148 +4
T49 T46 Hannah Thomson Florida State Univ. 74 63 (15) 137 +4
T72 T46 Mercedes Germino Kent State 76 60 (15) 136 +4
T72 T52 Shannon Fish Texas 76 73 (F) 149 +5
T64 T52 Jaclyn Sweeney Arizona State 75 74 (F) 149 +5
T30 T52 Giulia Molinaro Arizona State 73 76 (F) 149 +5
T49 T52 Alison Whitaker Duke 74 75 (F) 149 +5
T49 T52 Britney Choy New Mexico 74 75 (F) 149 +5
T4 T52 Kim Donovan Duke 68 81 (F) 149 +5
T49 T52 Megan Grehan Vanderbilt 74 75 (F) 149 +5
T30 T52 Ellen Mueller * Oklahoma 73 76 (F) 149 +5
T30 T52 Valentine Derrey TCU 73 67 (16) 140 +5
T72 T52 Sarah Beth Davis Texas A&M 76 64 (16) 140 +5
T30 T62 Haley Wilson Auburn 73 77 (F) 150 +6
T4 T62 Brianna Do UCLA 68 82 (F) 150 +6
T101 T62 Jessica Wallace Pepperdine 78 72 (F) 150 +6
T87 T62 Nina Muehl * East Tennessee St. 77 73 (F) 150 +6
T72 T62 Sarah Bradley Kent State 76 65 (16) 141 +6
T101 T62 Samantha Troyanovich Tulane University 78 61 (15) 139 +6
T20 T62 Melissa Loh TCU 72 66 (15) 138 +6
T87 T62 Ashley McKenney Tulane University 77 53 (13) 130 +6
T108 T70 Alejandra Llaneza Arizona 79 72 (F) 151 +7
T72 T70 Corrine Carr South Carolina 76 75 (F) 151 +7
T64 T70 Isabelle Boineau Arizona 75 76 (F) 151 +7
T72 T70 Carlota Ciganda Arizona State 76 75 (F) 151 +7
T72 T70 Diana Cantu Tennessee 76 75 (F) 151 +7
T72 T70 Courtney McKim Oklahoma State 76 75 (F) 151 +7
T49 T70 Hillary Wood Oklahoma State 74 77 (F) 151 +7
T49 T70 Lisa McCloskey Pepperdine 74 77 (F) 151 +7
T72 T70 Macarena Silva Florida State Univ. 76 68 (16) 144 +7
T87 T70 Ashley Freeman Texas A&M 77 65 (16) 142 +7
T49 T70 Kristina Wong Stanford 74 66 (15) 140 +7
T87 T70 Maribel Lopez Porras Tulane University 77 58 (14) 135 +7
T14 T70 Rebecca Durham Stanford 71 60 (13) 131 +7
T64 T83 Patricia Sanz Auburn 75 77 (F) 152 +8
T87 T83 Benedicte Toumpsin South Carolina 77 75 (F) 152 +8
T87 T83 Madison Pressel Texas 77 75 (F) 152 +8
T101 T83 Sarah Salvo New Mexico 78 74 (F) 152 +8
T101 T83 Lauren Stratton Vanderbilt 78 74 (F) 152 +8
T108 T83 Lauren Greenlief Virginia 79 73 (F) 152 +8
T87 T83 Joy Kim Virginia 77 75 (F) 152 +8
T49 T83 Cristina Corpus San Jose State Univ 74 78 (F) 152 +8
T14 T83 Anna Leigh Keith Vanderbilt 71 81 (F) 152 +8
T87 T92 Taylor Barrett South Carolina 77 76 (F) 153 +9
T30 T92 Nathalie Mansson Tennessee 73 80 (F) 153 +9
T49 T92 Madeleine Ziegert San Jose State Univ 74 79 (F) 153 +9
T30 T92 Ashley Edwards Oregon 73 80 (F) 153 +9
T108 T92 Janine Fellows Tulane University 79 67 (16) 146 +9
T64 T92 Shamira Marshall Kent State 75 58 (13) 133 +9
T49 T98 Paula Reto Purdue 74 80 (F) 154 +10
T101 T98 Louise Kristersson TCU 78 71 (17) 149 +10
T108 T100 Desiree Dubreuil Texas 79 76 (F) 155 +11
T87 T100 Inah Park Southern California 77 78 (F) 155 +11
T116 T100 Thea Hoffmeister Purdue 80 75 (F) 155 +11
T101 T100 Bethany Buchner New Mexico 78 77 (F) 155 +11
T72 T100 Rosalyn Kim * Texas Tech 76 79 (F) 155 +11
T87 T105 Carlie Yadloczky Auburn 77 79 (F) 156 +12
T87 T105 Helena Blomberg Alabama, U. of 77 79 (F) 156 +12
T116 T105 Rebecca Hellbom New Mexico 80 76 (F) 156 +12
T87 T105 Rachel Raastad TCU 77 70 (16) 147 +12
T72 T109 Sara Monberg Tennessee 76 81 (F) 157 +13
T108 T109 Kendra Little Oregon 79 78 (F) 157 +13
T108 T111 Stacey Kim Duke 79 79 (F) 158 +14
T116 T111 Erica Omlid Oregon 80 78 (F) 158 +14
T87 T111 Katrina Delen Briones San Jose State Univ 77 81 (F) 158 +14
T30 T114 Taylore Karle Pepperdine 73 86 (F) 159 +15
T101 T114 Lacey Agnew Florida State Univ. 78 81 (F) 159 +15
T72 T116 Kaitlin Drolson Pepperdine 76 84 (F) 160 +16
T108 T116 Linn Gustafsson Tulane University 79 81 (F) 160 +16
T116 T116 Martina Gavier Kent State 80 71 (16) 151 +16
T122 T119 Jody Ho San Jose State Univ 83 78 (F) 161 +17
T108 T119 Kate Hildahl Oregon 79 82 (F) 161 +17
124 T121 Lauren Spurlock Tennessee 84 79 (F) 163 +19
126 T121 Angela King Stanford 86 77 (F) 163 +19
125 T123 Mandi Morrow Kent State 85 74 (17) 159 +20
T116 T123 Chloe Garner Texas A&M 80 79 (17) 159 +20
T122 125 Eyglo Oskarsdottir Oklahoma State 83 83 (F) 166 +22
121 126 Sydney Burlison Stanford 82 78 (16) 160 +23