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2018 NCAA Championship
May 18-23, 2018 • Stillwater, Okla.
Karsten Creek Golf Club
72-Holes of Stroke Play Followed by Match Play
DUKE SET TO TRAVEL TO STILLWATER FOR 2018 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
In search of its seventh NCAA Championship, the fourth-ranked Duke women's golf team will hit the road for Stillwater, Okla., for the 2018 NCAA Championship May 18-23 at the 6,328-yard, par 72 Karsten Creek Golf Club.
Participating in the championship will be -- Alabama, Arkansas, UCLA, Duke, Stanford, Southern California, Furman, Texas, Arizona, Arizona State, Florida, Northwestern, Washington, Kent State, Wake Forest, Auburn, Oklahoma, Florida State, Louisville, Baylor, Virginia, Colorado, Mississippi and Ohio State.
Duke will tee off Friday, May 18 at 1:10 p.m. (ET) in the first round off No. 1, followed by an 8:30 a.m., tee time Saturday, May 19 off the 10th tee box.
For the fourth straight year, the championship will feature a different look as there will be 54 holes of stroke play qualifying and then the top 15 teams and nine individuals (not on advancing teams) will play a final 18 holes to determine the individual champion and the top eight teams will advance to match play. On May 22 there will be 36 holes of match play and then the match play championship will take place May 23.
THE DUKE LINEUP
Duke will feature a lineup of senior Leona Maguire, senior Lisa Maguire, junior Virginia Elena Carta, sophomore Ana Belac and freshman Jaravee Boonchant.
It will mark the fifth time this season the Blue Devils have featured this lineup. Duke won the Jim West Challenge to open the season, finished tied second at the Liz Murphey Collegiate, won the ACC Championship and won the NCAA Madison Regional in the most recent tournament.
Duke has not featured a healthy lineup in the five tournaments the Blue Devils have competed in due to sickness or injuries. Carta did not compete in the first three tournaments of the spring and rookie Miranda Wang missed the last three tournaments with a knee injury.
BLUE DEVILS IN THE NCAA'S
Duke is making the program's 30th trip to the NCAA Championship, including its 20th out of the last 21 years. The Blue Devils snapped a streak of 13-straight appearances in 2011 by finishing ninth at the NCAA Central Regional. Of the previous 28 NCAA Championship appearances for the Blue Devils, Duke has finished in the top 10 on 20 different occasions. The Blue Devils won the championship in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2014 and have registered top-five finishes in 1988 (5th), 1994 (4th), 1998 (4th), 2001 (2nd), 2004 (3rd), 2008 (3rd), 2013 (2nd), 2015 (2nd) and 2016 (6th).
COVERAGE
The Golf Channel will feature extensive coverage of the championship beginning Monday, May 21. Here is a full listing of the coverage --
Monday, May 21 - 4:00-8:00 PM: Live coverage
Tuesday, May 22 - 11:00-1:30 PM: Live coverage match play quarterfinals
4:00-8:00 PM: Live coverage match play semifinals
Wednesday, May 23 - 4:00-8:00 PM: Live coverage match play championship
Fans can also follow along on Twitter (@DukeWGOLF), Instagram (DukeWGolf) and Facebook (DukeWGolf) for coverage of the championship.
Live scoring will be available via www.GolfStat.com.
HEADING BACK TO THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
For the third time, the NCAA Championship will be contested in the state of Oklahoma. The previous two times were in 1999 and 2014 in Tulsa with the Blue Devils winning the NCAA title on both occasions.
Duke won its first NCAA Championship in 1999 in the weather-shortened event and then won its sixth NCAA title in 2014 at the Tulsa Country Club. The Blue Devils played a NCAA regional in Norman, Okla., in 2013 and won with a 13-under, 851 ledger.
LOOKING FOR THE TRIFECTA
Duke won the 2018 ACC Championship and 2018 NCAA Regional Championship as the Blue Devils head to the NCAA Championship. If the Blue Devils could come away with a NCAA title in 2018, it would mark the third time in Duke history a Blue Devil squad has won all three championships -- 2002 and 2007.
TOP FIVE FINISHES AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Duke owns the tied for second-most top five finishes in the NCAA Championship since 2004 as the Blue Devils have totaled eight.
Top Five Finishes Since 2004
1. Southern California 12
2. Duke 8
UCLA 8
4. Arizona State 7
BIRDIES FOR BABIES
Spearheaded by junior Virginia Elena Carta, the Blue Devils announced a fundraising program benefitting the Duke Children's Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units called Birdies for Babies this winter. Duke has raised $7,583.75 so far this season.
Those looking to support Duke women's golf's partnership with the Duke Children's can make pledges per birdie. Pledges will start at $0.50 and high pledge increments are welcome. If the Blue Devils register an eagle (counts as two birdies), albatross (three birdies) and hole-in-one (four birdies) they will count as stated. Each pledge will receive an autographed photo of the Duke women's golf team.
For more information, head to https://www.bluedevilsbirdiesforbabies.org/.
TRENDS/NOTES
• In the last 16 appearances at the NCAA Championship, Duke has placed in the top 10 in 14 of those. The only exceptions were a 15th place ledger in 2012 and 18th a year ago.
• Assistant coach Jon Whithaus will head to Karsten Creek for a second time in a NCAA Championship. Whithaus was an assistant coach with the Duke men's golf program and helped the Blue Devils to a semifinal appearance in the 2011 NCAA Championship in Stillwater, Okla.
• Over the last four tournaments, rookie Jaravee Boonchant has shot a 13-under-par and featured only two rounds above par. Leona Maguire has shot 24-under-par over that stretch as well.
• Duke's 10 NCAA Regional titles are the most by a school -- 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2014 and 2018.
• In the latest Golfweek/Sagarin rankings, Leona Maguire is listed No. 9, while Jaravee Boonchant (24), Ana Belac (32), Miranda Wang (49) are Virginia Elena Carta (62) are ranked.
• Leona Maguire has counted 117 of 118 rounds she has played as a Blue Devil with the lone one not counted being the first day of NCAA regionals in Madison this season.
• The Blue Devils enter the event with nine top five finishes on the season in 10 tournaments, highlighted by wins at the Jim West Challenge, Tar Heel Invitational. Landfall Tradition, ACC Championship and NCAA Madison Regional.
• Leona Maguire's round of 63 earlier this season in the Jim West Challenge is tied for the second-lowest 18-hole score this season in the nation.
• Senior Leona Maguire owns a team-best 10 rounds in the 60s this season with Ana Belac just behind at nine. Belac owns 10 in her two-year career, while Maguire owns a Duke record 32.
• Freshman Miranda Wang will miss her fourth straight tournament due to a knee injury. Wang was coming off her best collegiate finish in the Evans Derby Experience as she notched three straight under par rounds on her way to placing tied fifth overall.
• Duke currently features four golfers with stroke averages below 73.00, which would be a first in program history -- Leona Maguire (70.40), Jaravee Boonchant (71.40), Ana Belac (72.27) and Virginia Elena Carta (72.35). The previous best was three in 2016-17 and 2013-14.
• Leona Maguire leads the ACC with a 70.40 scoring average and nine top 10 finishes on the year.
• Jaravee Boonchant has the lowest score average among freshmen in the ACC -- Boonchant (71.40), Emilia Migliaccio of Wake Forest (71.58).
• Leona Maguire has been named ACC Golfer of the Month a total of nine times, which is a new ACC record. She earned the award three times this spring.
• Duke cruised to the team title at the Jim West Challenge in the season opener. The Blue Devils carded a school-record 33-under-par, 819, on their way to totaling a 22-stroke victory. It was the first season-opening win since the 2006-07 campaign when the Blue Devils claimed the Mason Rudolph Championship in Nashville, Tenn. The Blue Devils carded an 18-hole school-record, 269, in the first round, before finishing the 36-hole opening day with a school-record 26-under-par, 542.
• Ana Belac opened the season with 56 straight holes without a bogey. She was bogey-free in the Jim West Challenge.
• Freshman Miranda Wang had a 35-hole stretch without a bogey in the Evans Derby Experience, which pushed her into a career-best tied fifth placement.
ACC CHAMPIONS ONCE AGAIN
For the 21st time in school history, Duke won the ACC Championship as the top-seeded and fifth-ranked Blue Devils compiled an impressive 15-under-par, 849, to win by 27 strokes at the Grandover Resort & Conference Center East Course in Greensboro, N.C.
Blue Devil senior Leona Maguire won her third ACC Individual crown as she outlasted teammate Jaravee Boonchant in three playoff holes to win the title. The duo birdied the final hole of their rounds on No. 18 to finish in a tie at six-under, 210, and needed three playoff holes to decide the winner in pouring down rain.
Duke carded rounds of 282, 281 and 286 over the three days to produce a 15-under-par, 849, to finish 27 strokes ahead of Florida State (876). Clemson (877), Virginia (885) and Wake Forest (890) rounded out the top five teams. The 15-under, 849, was the lowest 54-hole ledger in Blue Devil ACC Championship history besting a five-under, 859, a year ago.
It marked the 20th ACC Championship under the direction of Brooks and the second straight. The win was the first of the spring season for the Blue Devils and the fourth victory of the 2017-18 campaign.
Duke featured four golfers in the top five of the leaderboard after it was all said and done. Maguire (1st), Boonchant (2nd), sophomore Ana Belac (T3rd) and junior Virginia Elena Carta (T5th).
Maguire's ACC Individual title was the third over her impressive four-year career as she also won the trophies in 2015 and 2017. She joined only Duke standout Amanda Blumenherst (2006-08) as three-time ACC individual champions in league history.
EAGLE CITY
Duke freshman Jaravee Boonchant notched four eagles in back-to-back tournaments (ACC Championship/Liz Murphy Collegiate) and has now tied a school record with five on the year. She has equalled Lindy Duncan (2011-12) and Candy Hannemann (2000-01) with five on the season. Boonchant currently ranks tied 11th nationally with five eagles.
Her five eagles on the year is a new Duke freshman record.
MAGUIRE BREAKS DUKE MARK
Senior Leona Maguire owns 84 rounds of even or under par, which is a new Duke career record and is the second-most in NCAA history behind Texas A&M's Maddie Szeryk (90).
Maguire moved past Amanda Blumenherst's mark of 78 on the Blue Devil charts.
NCAA Career Even or Under Par Rounds
90, Maddie Szeryk, Texas A&M (2015-present)
84, Leona Maguire, Duke (2015-present)
78, Amanda Blumenherst, Duke (2006-09)
BOONCHANT HITTING HER STRIDE
Freshman Jaravee Boonchant owns four top seven finishes over the last five tournaments (Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, Evans Derby Experience, Liz Murphey Collegiate and ACC Championship.). She is coming off placing tied for 23rd at the NCAA Madison Regional.
This also includes a runner-up finish at the ACC Championship, after falling in a three-hole playoff to teammate Leona Maguire. The second place finish was a career best for the rookie.
Boonchant has notched a 71.40 stroke average, which if the season ended today would be the second-lowest by a Duke freshman in school history behind Leona Maguire (70.78). Boonchant has notched six top 10 finishes and eight top 20 placements on the year in 11 tournaments.
With her five-under-par, 66, in the first round of the Jim West Challenge, Boonchant matched the Duke record for lowest 18-hole ledger by a freshman in their first collegiate round. She equaled Brittany Lang's five-under score from the NCAA Fall Preview in 2003. Lang signed for a five-under, 67. With a three-day total of 205, Boonchant tied for the third-lowest score by a Duke freshman in Blue Devil history.
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE
Leona Maguire has competed in three NCAA Championships and turned in two runner-up finishes and a tied seventh placement. The runner-up finishes came in 2017 as she was one shot behind Monica Vaughn (Arizona State) and one shot behind Alabama's Emma Talley in 2015.
Lisa Maguire will see action in her third NCAA Championship, after competing as a freshman (83rd) and junior (T116).
Virginia Elena Carta has placed tied 95th as a sophomore and won the individual title as a freshman in record fashion. She shot rounds of 69, 68, 66 and 69 for a 16-under-par, 272.
Ana Belac carded a tied 89th finish a year ago in Sugar Grove, Ill.
DUKE IN THE NCAA STATS
In the NCAA stats, Leona Maguire and the Blue Devils rank in numerous categories (information provided by Golfstat.com --
Leona Maguire
Average Score: 70.40 (5th)
Par 4 Scoring: 3.95 (2nd)
Birdies: 111 (15th)
Fairway Percentage: 86.2 (12th)
Greens in Regulation: 76.7 (5th)
Average Putts: 30.27 (7th)
Putts on Greens in Regulation: 1.768 (1st)
Sand Saves: 54.5 (3rd)
Ana Belac
Eagles: 4 (T17th)
Greens in Regulation: 76.7 (4th)
Putts on Greens in Regulation: 1.853 (16th)
Jaravee Boonchant
Average Score: 71.40 (17th)
Greens in Regulation: 71.9 (16th)
Average Putts: 30.43 (11th)
Short Game Percentage: 66.2 (1st)
Par 4 Scoring: 4.04 (14th)
Eagles: 5 (T11th)
Putts on Greens in Regulation: 1.853 (19th)
Virginia Elena Carta
Greens in Regulation: 79.4 (T2nd)
Par 4 Scoring: 4.05 (20th)
Lisa Maguire
Average Putts: 30.45 (12th)
Miranda Wang
Sand Saves: 52.2 (5th)
Fairway Percentage: 85.9 (13th)
As a team, Duke ranks--
Average Score: 72.37 (3rd)
Par 3 Scoring: 3.14 (10th)
Par 4 Scoring: 4.09 (3rd)
Par 5 Scoring: 4.81 (4th)
Eagles: 11 (T8th)
Fairway Percentage: 79.6 (2nd)
Greens in Regulation: 72.0 (1st)
Average Putts: 31.27 (6th)
Putts on Greens in Regulation: 1.854 (3rd)
Sand Saves: 43.7 (2nd)
Short Game Percentage: 55.5 (1st)
IN THE DUKE RECORD BOOK
Leona Maguire continues to move up the Duke career record charts as she closes in on her final collegiate tournament -- wins (3rd, 10), top five finishes (2nd, 24), top 10 finishes (2nd, 35), top 20 finishes (3rd, 38), even or under par rounds (1st, 84), scoring average (1st, 70.92) and rounds in the 60s (1st, 32).
On the freshman record list, Jaravee Boonchant ranks second in scoring average (71.40), third in even or under par rounds (21), tied seven in top 10 finishes (6) and tied seventh in top 20 finishes (8).
ROUNDS IN THE 60s
With her 32 career rounds in the 60s, Leona Maguire has the NCAA record passing former Duke standout Amanda Blumenherst (2006-09), who had 30 over her career.
NCAA Career Rounds in the 60s
32, Leona Maguire, Duke (2015-present)
30, Amanda Blumenherst, Duke (2006-09)
30, Maddie Szeryk, Texas A&M (2015-present)
29, Ally McDonald, Mississippi State (2012-15)
As a team, Duke has totaled 30 rounds in the 60s this season, which is a new school record. The previous mark was 25 in 2003-04.
Rounds in the 60s - Team Single Season
30, 2017-18
25, 2003-04
21, 2013-14
20, 2014-15
Leona Maguire owns 10 rounds in the 60s this season to lead Duke, which is tied for the second-most in a single season in Blue Devil history behind Amanda Blumenherst (13).
Rounds in the 60s - Single Season
13, Amanda Blumenherst (2007-08)
10, Leona Maguire (2017-18)
10, Lindy Duncan (2011-12)
10, Leona Maguire (2014-15)
9, Ana Belac (2017-18)
9, Leona Maguire, 2016-17)
ALL-TIME WINNINGEST COACH
Blue Devil head coach Dan Brooks became the all-time winningest women's golf coach in NCAA Division I history in the fall of 2005 as he won his 92nd career tournament title at the Stanford Pepsi Intercollegiate Oct. 23, 2005. Brooks passed Mark Gale of San Jose State who won 91 career tournaments from 1978-96.
Brooks now has 133 career tournament wins over his 34 seasons. He has guided Duke to at least one victory in 33 of his 34 years.
BROOKS NETS 20TH ACC TITLE
With Dan Brooks collecting his 20th ACC title, it placed him in some pretty impressive company. Brooks now ranks tied second in league history for most ACC titles by a head coach behind only Anson Dorrance of North Carolina (22). Brooks is tied with Sully Krouse of Maryland (Wrestling) and Karen Shelton of North Carolina (Field Hockey).
FORMER NCAA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION CARTA RETURNS
Virginia Elena Carta had one of the most impressive NCAA Tournament runs in the history of the tournament two years ago cruising to the NCAA individual title with a NCAA-record 16-under-par 72-hole ledger. Her eight-shot margin was the largest dating back to 2000, became the first freshman to win her first collegiate tournament at NCAAs since 1998 and was the eighth freshman to win the NCAA individual title.
Carta totaled rounds of 69, 68, 66 and 69 over the four days of action. The win remains Carta's lone victory over her three years at Duke.
Carta went on to finish as the runner-up at the U.S. Women's Amateur the summer after as she dropped a 1-up decision to Eun Jeong Seong at the Rolling Green Golf Club in Springfield, Pa.
A LOOK BACK AT LAST YEAR
Duke struggled as a team from the start and couldn't recover as the Blue Devils placed 18th with rounds of 325, 309 and 300 over three days of play at the weather-shortened NCAA Championship in Sugar Grove, Ill.
Leona Maguire carded rounds of 77, 71 and 70 to finish runner-up, individually, for the second time in her career. She placed one shot behind Arizona State's Monica Vaughn (217).
With the top five finish, Maguire joined only Celine Boutier and Amanda Blumenherst as Duke golfers to finish in the top five of multiple NCAA Championships. Duke has featured a golfer in the top two of the individual leaderboard in each of the last three NCAA Championships – Maguire (T2nd in 2017, 2015), Virginia Elena Carta (1st in 2016).
In the team standings, Northwestern finished first with a 33-over-par, 897, while Stanford (905), Arizona State (909), Ohio State (913), Southern California (914), Florida (914) and Kent State (919) rounded out the top eight teams that advanced to match play. Duke finished the 54 holes in 18th with rounds of 325, 309 and 300 for a 70-over-par, 934.
The 18th place team finish for the Blue Devils is the highest team finish in Duke history in the NCAA Championship. The previous high was 16th in 1983, which was the first appearance in the event for the Blue Devils.
INTERNATIONAL ROSTER
Duke features a very international flair to its 2017-18 roster with one golfer from Slovenia (Ana Belac), Italy (Virginia Elena Carta), Thailand (Jaravee Boonchant) and China (Miranda Wang), while two are from Ireland (Lisa & Leona Maguire).
DUKE FEATURES SET OF TWINS
For the first time in school history, Duke features a set of twins with the senior tandem of Leona and Lisa Maguire. The duo is from Cavan, Ireland and have both competed in an incredible amount of international competition.
The Maguire twins combined to win 36 amateur events over their careers and have both played in the Curtis Cup.
THE HEAD COACH
Dan Brooks is in his 34th season as the head coach of the Blue Devils. The 1981 graduate of Oregon State has led Duke to 20 ACC Championships over the years. Brooks owns the school's six National Championships in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2014.
Brooks' teams have finished with a top-20 ranking 31 times (looking for the 32nd this season), while 20 of his squads have earned a top-10 finish in a NCAA Tournament-- 1987 (T7th), 1988 (5th), 1994 (4th), 1996 (7th), 1998 (4th), 1999 (1st), 2001 (2nd), 2002 (1st), 2003 (10th), 2004 (3rd), 2005 (1st), 2006 (1st), 2007 (1st), 2008 (3rd), 2009 (6th), 2010 (T8th), 2013 (2nd), 2014 (1st), 2015 (semis) and 2016 (semis).
In 34 years, his teams have won 133 tournaments, which is a NCAA record for women's golf. He was named the 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2018 ACC Coach of the Year for his efforts and 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2014 National Coach of the Year.
DUKE ALUMNA BLUMENHERST JOINS GOLF CHANNEL TEAM
Duke alumna Amanda Blumenherst will join the Golf Channel broadcast team for the NCAA Championship for the third straight year.
One of the most decorated women's collegiate athletes in history, Blumenherst was a three-time National Player of the Year (2006-08) and four-time NCAA All-America (2006-09). She led the Blue Devils to three ACC championships and two NCAA Team Championships in 2006 and 2007.
DUKE'S KIM QUALIFIES FOR US OPEN
Playing in a stacked field of LPGA golfers Monday, Duke incoming freshman Gina Kim turned in rounds of 67 and 71 to qualify for the 2018 U.S. Women's Open that will be played at Shoal Creek Golf Course in Shoal Creek, Ala., from May 31 through June 3.
Kim, who hails from Chapel Hill, N.C., registered a five-under-par round of 67 early Monday with three birdies on the front nine and three on the back. In the second round in the afternoon, Kim was two-under-par through 11 holes as she rolled in birdies on No. 6 and No. 11. She closed the day with seven pars and a bogey on No. 14 to finish with a 71. Kim was six-under-par with a 138 to finish tied third and earn one of four qualifying selections.
Also earning qualifying spots in Manakin-Sabot, Va., at the Hermitage Country Club were Paula Reto (-10, 134), Xiyu Lin (-7, 137) and Julieta Granada (-6, 138). Kim was the only amateur to advance.
Duke alumna Lindy Duncan turned in rounds of 70 and 67 for a five-under, 139, and is the first alternate. Other former Blue Devil golfers Yu Liu (-4, 140) and Celine Boutier (-2, 142) just missed the cut.
Former Duke two-time All-America Brittany Lang won the 2016 U.S. Women's Open at CoredValle in San Martin, Calif.
FIVE BLUE DEVILS EARN ALL-ACC
For the seventh time in Duke history, the Blue Devil women's golf team has placed five student-athletes on the All-ACC squad as announced by the league office following a vote of the 12 ACC head coaches.
Along with the five All-ACC selections by senior Leona Maguire, junior Virginia Elena Carta, sophomore Ana Belac, freshman Jaravee Boonchant and freshman Miranda Wang, Maguire was selected ACC Player of the Year and Dan Brooks earned ACC Coach of the Year accolades.
It marked the first time since the 2006-07 campaign the Blue Devils posted five All-ACC selections with other seasons being in 2005-06, 2004-05, 2003-04, 2000-01 and 1999-00.
The 2018 ACC Champions and four-time winners on the season, Duke is currently ranked No. 4 nationally and received one of four No. 1 seeds in the upcoming NCAA regionals.
Maguire, a native of Cavan, Ireland, was tabbed ACC Player of the Year for the third time in her illustrious career. She joined Jenny Chuasiriporn, Amanda Blumenherst and Lindy Duncan as the only three-time winners of the award.
For the 15th time at Duke, Brooks was selected ACC Coach of the Year after leading the Blue Devils to his 20th ACC Championship over the 34 years with the Blue Devils. The 20 ACC Championships ranks tied second for the most by an ACC head coach in league history.
With Maguire earning four All-ACC selections over her career, she joined the likes of Celine Boutier, Laetitia Beck, Lindy Duncan, Amanda Blumenherst, Jenny Chuasiriporn, Anna Grzebien, Candy Hannemann, Leigh Anne Hardin, Jennie Lee, Virada Nirapathpongporn, Jennifer Pandolfi and Liz Janangelo as the only four-time All-ACC selections in Blue Devil history.
BLUE DEVILS ADD KIM FOR 2018-19
Two-time Rolex Junior All-America Gina Kim has signed a national letter of intent to play for Duke University women's golf head coach Dan Brooks and the Blue Devil golf program. Kim, who is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., will join Duke in the fall of 2018.
“We're all very excited to welcome Gina onto our team and she's excited to join us,” said Brooks. “Her enthusiasm for our team has been strong for years. That sort of passion for what we're all about, combined with great talent, can lead to a lot of fun. I can't wait for her to join us.”
A two-time winner on the AJGA at the 2016 Rolex Girls Junior Championship and 2014 AJGA Junior at Cattail Creek, Kim is currently ranked No. 6 overall in the Rolex AJGA ranking and fifth in the Golfweek listing. Over the last four AJGA events she has competed in, Kim has placed second twice, tied fourth and eighth with a 70.79 stroke average.
“Gina sets high standards for herself,” commented Brooks. “Her greatest strength is that she will do whatever it takes to improve. Consequently, she's a very hard worker. Regarding her game, she has all the parts: she hits it hard, and has a solid short game.”
Kim was a Rolex Junior All-America honorable mention in 2015 and 2014, while collecting 23 top-10 finishes on the AJGA since 2012. The 5-6 senior at Chapel Hill H.S., was a member of the 2017 Junior Solheim Cup, 2016 Junior Ryder Cup as well as the 2016 and 2017 Wyndham Cup East Teams. Kim is a two-time North Carolina 3A State Champion and in 2016 finished at three-under-par to win by nine shots.
During the Junior Ryder Cup and Junior Solheim Cup over the last two summers, Kim registered a combined 4-1-1 record.
SIX-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
The Duke women's golf team are six-time NCAA Champions. The Blue Devils won their first title in 1999, a second in 2002, third in 2005, fourth in 2006, fifth in 2007 and sixth in 2014. Duke became only the second team along with Arizona State to win three straight national titles (1995-97).
Virada Nirapathpongporn (2002), Candy Hannemann (2003), Anna Grzebien (2005) and Virginia Elena Carta (2016) each have won individual titles. The Blue Devils became only the third squad in NCAA history to post the individual champion in two straight years in 2001 and 2002.
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