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Duncan Named to U.S. Curtis Cup Squad
12/21/2011 1:15:00 PM | Women's Golf
DURHAM, N.C. - The United States Golf Association announced on Wednesday the selection of five players, including Duke University junior Lindy Duncan, to represent the USA in the 2012 Curtis Cup Match, to be conducted June 8-10 at The Nairn Golf Club in Scotland.
Along with Duncan, Amy Anderson, Austin Ernst, Tiffany Lua and Brooke Pancake were selected to the prestigious team. Three additional players will be named to complete the eight-member Team in January. Duncan is the 12th different Blue Devil to be selected to represent the U.S. in the Curtis Cup.
The Curtis Cup Match is a biennial international women's amateur golf competition between eight-player teams from the United States of America and Great Britain and Ireland. The USA won the 2010 Match at Essex County Club in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., 12.5-7.5.
Duncan, who is a product of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is coming off a very strong fall campaign that earned her midseason Player of the Year by Golf World. She totaled three top 10 finishes and one victory in four tournaments.
She posted a 70.44 stroke average in nine rounds during the fall. Duncan was even better over the final 36 holes in each of her three tournaments as Duncan carded a 21-under-par ledger in those rounds. Of the nine rounds, six were under-par and she led the Blue Devils with two eagles.
A two-time first team All-America and reigning two-time ACC Player of the Year selection, Duncan owns 10 career top five finishes and 18 top 10 placements.
Away from college, Duncan has been very successful as she was a semifinalist in the 2006 U.S. Women's Amateur at the age of 15. She also finished as second-lowest amateur at the 2011 Women's Open.
All five players named to the USA Curtis Cup Team finished within the top 20 at the 2011 NCAA Division I Championship. Duncan, Ernst and Pancake were named to the 2011 NGCA All-American first team, while Anderson and Lua received second-team honors.
The Curtis Cup Match consists of six foursomes (alternate-shot) matches, six four-ball matches and eight singles matches over three days of competition. The USA Team has won the last seven Matches and leads the series, 27-6-3.
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