Blue Devils Go Low Tuesday in Second Round; Brinker T3 Individually

Tuesday, September 12

Lake Elmo, Minn.

Duke University

ANNIKA Intercollegiate

Photo by: Tim Cowie

Blue Devils Go Low Tuesday in Second Round; Brinker T3 Individually

9/12/2023 9:36:00 PM | Women's Golf

Scoring

LAKE ELMO, Minn. – On Tuesday in the second round of the ANNIKA Intercollegiate, the 14th-ranked Duke women's golf team went low, carding the third-lowest round of the day to move up the leaderboard at the 6,395-yard, par-72 Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn.

Senior Phoebe Brinker led the charge for the Blue Devils for the second straight day with a 4-under-par, 68, to move into tied for third and only one shot off the lead heading into the final round.

How It Happened
•   For the second straight day, the Blue Devils opened action on hole No. 10.
•   Phoebe Brinker registered five birdies, one bogey and 12 pars in the second round en route to totaling her 12th career round in the 60s.
•   She opened with three pars and then rolled in a pair of 5-foot birdies on No. 13 and No. 14 to get to 2-under-par. Brinker made the turn at 2-under, 34, and then played the final nine holes at 2-under, 34, with birdies on No. 3 and No. 9. She hit 13 fairways, 14 greens and rolled a tied for team-best 28 putts on the afternoon.
•   Entering the third and final round, Brinker is 6-under-par, 138, and only one shot behind Mimi Rhodes (Wake Forest) and Maylis Lamoure (South Carolina), who are 7-under, 137.
•   Graduate student Emma McMyler turned in her second straight 1-under-par, 71, and is tied for 15th, individually, with a 142. In the second round, she registered back-to-back birdies on No. 10 and No. 11 to open her day. She rolled in a 27-footer for birdie on No. 10 and then collected a 6-foot birdie on No. 11. McMyler dropped three shots over the next six holes, but closed strong with a 2-under-par score over her final 10 holes. She converted a great bunker shot with a short birdie putt on No. 18, stuck her 60-degree wedge from 81 yards to a foot on No. 3 and then birdied No. 8. McMyler lipped out for par on No. 9 to close her day with a 71.
•   After struggling a little on day one, sophomore Andie Smith posted her eighth career round of even or under par with a 1-under, 71. She parred the first four holes and then suffered a bogey on No. 14. Smith then drained a 16-foot birdie on No. 15, 2-footer on No. 18 and then chipped in from 20 yards with her 54-degree wedge to move to 2-under. She lipped out for par on No. 5 and then had a bogey on No. 6, but rebounded with a 12-foot birdie on No. 7. Smith had another lip out for birdie on the final hole and concluded with a par.
•   Senior Anne Chen turned in an even-par, 72, as she tied for a team-best with five birdies. She had a span of three birdies over four holes to close the first nine holes with a 1-under, 35. Chen moved to 2-under as she hit her 54-degree wedge to nine feet from 81 yards and rolled in the birdie. She dropped two shots, but then stuck her 8-iron from 142 yards to a foot and a half for birdie on the 406-yard, par-4 eighth hole. Chen lipped out for par on No. 9 to close her round.
•   Rookie Katie Li was solid all day totaling 16 pars, two bogeys and one birdie on her way to posting a 1-over, 73. Li had a nice up-and-down par on No. 16 and rolled in her lone birdie of the day on No. 18 from four feet. She registered another up-and-down on No. 1 as she had a flop shot from behind the bunker stop 10 feet from the cup and rolled in the par putt. Li hit 12 fairways, 13 greens and rolled 32 putts.

Notes
•   Phoebe Brinker now owns 36 career rounds of even or under par. Her 10 birdies over 36 holes are tied for second-most in the field. She has shot 4-under-par on par-4 holes this week, which ranks tied for first.
•   Last year, Brinker shot 6-under-par and finished fourth, individually, at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate.
•   Emma McMyler totaled her 40th career round of even or under par between her time at Xavier and Duke. She owns two through two rounds at Duke.
•   McMyler has missed only seven greens and four fairways through 36 holes.
•   As a team, Duke had 20 birdies in round two.
•   All five Blue Devils birdied No. 18 in the second round.
•   Three Blue Devils had under 30 putts Tuesday – Brinker (28), McMyler (28) and Andie Smith (29).

Quotes
•   "We had a great day. We were the tied for third-lowest round of the day and I feel like that could have been 10-under easily. We saw some lip outs and some little things that happened. I thought the golf was really good today." – Duke head coach Dan Brooks

What is Next
•   Duke opens the final round Wednesday morning at 9:35 a.m. (ET), in an All-ACC grouping along with Florida State and Virginia. The teams will open the round on hole No. 10.

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