Duke WGolf: 2014 NCAA Champions

[roywhite]

Play is underway: with the 2nd round (of 4) nearly complete, Duke's Women's Golf team is in 3rd place, only 3 shots back from leader Oklahoma, with 2nd place Stanford still playing.

Link to Live Scoring (http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/static/team_leaderboard_5174.html)

Tournament notes from goduke.com (http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22558&SPID=1838&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=209497146&DB_OEM_ID=4200)

[MCFinARL]

Play is underway: with the 2nd round (of 4) nearly complete, Duke's Women's Golf team is in 3rd place, only 3 shots back from leader Oklahoma, with 2nd place Stanford still playing.

Link to Live Scoring (http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/static/team_leaderboard_5174.html)

Tournament notes from goduke.com (http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22558&SPID=1838&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=209497146&DB_OEM_ID=4200)

Duke now in second, as Stanford has added some strokes and is in 4th, 5 behind Duke and 8 behind the leader, on the back half of the course.

[InSpades]

Girls jump into first as Oklahoma struggles at the start of round 3! Go from down 3 to up 4 with about half the front 9 played.

[arnie]

Girls jump into first as Oklahoma struggles at the start of round 3! Go from down 3 to up 4 with about half the front 9 played.

Lets wrap this thing up today - ahead by 6 and still on front nine

[InSpades]

Celine Boutier also jumps into a tie for first. The girl who was leading for Oklahoma at -5 coming into the day is at +7 thru 7. Yowch.

[BigWayne]

Southern Cal had a good day and made it very close earlier today, but Duke is finishing strong.

[MCFinARL]

Looking very good--Duke maintains 6-stroke lead over USC--Duke players on holes 16-18, USC finished for the day.

The top USC golfer is tied with Boutier for first, the second golfers from each team are at +7, and the third golfer for USC is a stroke ahead of the third Duke golfer. But the fourth and fifth golfers for Duke are both far ahead of the fourth golfer for USC, which could provide a useful cushion tomorrow.

[BigWayne]

Looking very good--Duke maintains 6-stroke lead over USC--Duke players on holes 16-18, USC finished for the day.

The top USC golfer is tied with Boutier for first, the second golfers from each team are at +7, and the third golfer for USC is a stroke ahead of the third Duke golfer. But the fourth and fifth golfers for Duke are both far ahead of the fourth golfer for USC, which could provide a useful cushion tomorrow.

You just never know though. Main reason OK fell out today is that their best golfer the first two days, who is playing in the group with Boutier, just fell apart for a +10 today. Her score didn't even count in the team competition today.

[roywhite]

Looking very good--Duke maintains 6-stroke lead over USC--Duke players on holes 16-18, USC finished for the day.

The top USC golfer is tied with Boutier for first, the second golfers from each team are at +7, and the third golfer for USC is a stroke ahead of the third Duke golfer. But the fourth and fifth golfers for Duke are both far ahead of the fourth golfer for USC, which could provide a useful cushion tomorrow.

Just to clarify on the scoring....the team score is compiled day by day and consists of the best 4 rounds of the 5 competitors for each team. The highest individual score on a day, or the 5th score, doesn't really matter in the team scoring. It is good to have 5 good players, so an off day by any one competitor can be covered by the other 4 golfers.

Going into the final round Friday, Duke has a 6-shot lead over USC, but USC came in ranked #1 and this should be a tough fight.

[BigWayne]

Just to clarify on the scoring....the team score is compiled day by day and consists of the best 4 rounds of the 5 competitors for each team. The highest individual score on a day, or the 5th score, doesn't really matter in the team scoring. It is good to have 5 good players, so an off day by any one competitor can be covered by the other 4 golfers.

Going into the final round Friday, Duke has a 6-shot lead over USC, but USC came in ranked #1 and this should be a tough fight.

Most of the teams have had a different player be the 5th and discarded score each of the three days. Oklahoma is all over the map today. Their best score today was from the player whose score was discarded the first two days and the discarded score today was by their player that was leading the tournament this morning. Should be interesting tomorrow.

[MCFinARL]

Just to clarify on the scoring....the team score is compiled day by day and consists of the best 4 rounds of the 5 competitors for each team. The highest individual score on a day, or the 5th score, doesn't really matter in the team scoring. It is good to have 5 good players, so an off day by any one competitor can be covered by the other 4 golfers.

Going into the final round Friday, Duke has a 6-shot lead over USC, but USC came in ranked #1 and this should be a tough fight.

Ah, I understood that the fifth score was discarded, but I didn't realize that happened on a daily basis; I thought it was a cumulative score. If that had been the case, my point would have made sense--having two golfers well ahead of the last two USC golfers would have made a difference. But of course if the fifth golfer is dropped each day, that's a different story entirely. Thanks for the clarification.

[roywhite]

The Duke players will be among the last on the course today (1:10 tee time, which I believe is CDT); they are grouped with 2nd place USC (6 shots back) and 3rd place Oklahoma (10 shots back)

Additionally, the last players off for Duke and USC are the co-leaders for the Individual Championship -- Doris Chen for Southern Cal, and Celine Boutier for Duke.
Both the individual and team championship could come down to the late stages of their matchup.

Go, Duke.

[SoCalDukeFan]

I am not there but have played golf in Oklahoma and it can be very windy and scores can be all over the map.

What is a little scary to me is that Annie Park of USC, last years national player of the year, has played poorly for her so far. She is due for a good round.

Duke has a strong team and all of the players can go low.

Should be fun to follow.

SoCal

[Bluedog]

Duke only up one now on USC. UCLA is 10 back of Duke. They're not playing poorly today at even par, but USC is at a scorching -5 through 4-8. Let's keep on the pressure! Want #6 (and #14 overall across all sports)!

[roywhite]

Yeah, was just about to update; Duke playing okay, but USC hot.

Now tied for team lead about 1/3 way through final round.

[BigWayne]

Yeah, was just about to update; Duke playing okay, but USC hot.

Now tied for team lead about 1/3 way through final round.

More or less at the turn, Duke is even par but USC is -9 for the day and in the lead. Need USC to falter.

[Bluedog]

More or less at the turn, Duke is even par but USC is -9 for the day and in the lead. Need USC to falter.

Duke now -2 for the day! One stroke difference and still a lot of golf left as golfers are on 10-12. Doris Chen (USC) at -7 has a four shot lead over Boutier (Duke) for the individual crown.

[arnie]

Duke now -2 for the day! One stroke difference and still a lot of golf left as golfers are on 10-12. Doris Chen (USC) at -7 has a four shot lead over Boutier (Duke) for the individual crown.

Now tied. Will clearly be Duke or USC as next team is 10 back. Too bad Golf Channel doesn't televise the last round.

[burnspbesq]

Duke now has a one-shot lead. We needed somebody to get hot, and so far it's Sandy Choi, with birdies on 10, 12, and 13.

USC is maybe starting to cool off. Chen double-bogied 11, and Chung bogied 12.

[Bluedog]

Duke now has a one-shot lead. We needed somebody to get hot, and so far it's Sandy Choi, with birdies on 10, 12, and 13.

USC is maybe starting to cool off. Chen double-bogied 11, and Chung bogied 12.

And now Popov for USC just eageled 16...eek! All tied up.

[burnspbesq]

And now Popov for USC just eageled 16...eek! All tied up.

Two-shot swing on 16 for the second group. Beck birdies for Duke, Park bogies for USC.

And Boutier birdies 14. Duke now up three.

[heyman25]

Nail biting finish

[burnspbesq]

It won't matter to the team score, but Duke's Yu Liu just hit a remarkable second shot out of the left rough on 18.

Duke is holding a two-shot lead, and its four scoring players are putting the pressure on USC by making par after par.

[burnspbesq]

In the last group, Boutier birdies 16 to give Duke a three-shot lead in the team competition and get within one of Chen in the individual competition.

[SCMatt33]

Boutier with a great putt on 16 for birdie after Chen misses one of similar distance. 3 up and Boutier within 1 of the individual lead.

[SCMatt33]

Matching pars at 17 mean that Duke takes a 3 shot lead to the 18th. Boutier remains 1 back for the individual crown.

[sagegrouse]

Go, Celine! Go Duke!!

[burnspbesq]

Rut-roh. Boutier's tee shot on 18 goes well left. Chen safely in the right-center of the fairway, with a good angle if she wants to go for the flag.

[SCMatt33]

Rut-roh. Boutier's tee shot on 18 goes well left. Chen safely in the right-center of the fairway, with a good angle if she wants to go for the flag.

But Boutier gets inside of Chen on the green!

[sagegrouse]

But Boutier gets inside of Chen on the green!

Where's the live feed?

[SCMatt33]

Where's the live feed?

NCAA.com
http://www.ncaa.com/championship/liveplayer/player?gameId=479802&date=2014/05/23

[SCMatt33]

Both players miss the birdie putts and have shorties for par left.

[SCMatt33]

Boutier ends up bogeying the last, but its still good enough for Duke's 6th National Title! CONGRATULATIONS!

[burnspbesq]

That's number six. Women's golf school!

[DukieInKansas]

Congratulations! Great start to the weekend.

[heyman25]

Way to go team. National Champions. How Sweet it is!

[Merlindevildog91]

Woo to the hoo!!!!!

[burnspbesq]

Remarkable performance down the stretch. Duke's four scoring players were a combined minus-six on the back side.

[Olympic Fan]

Amazing ... I clicked onto ESPN and checked out women's golf and found a story about Southern Cal winning the championship:

http://espn.go.com/ncaa/feature/video/_/id/5810542/ncaa-championships

The story is a year old -- from 2013 ... no update since then. Way to be on top of things.

[killerleft]

Yip! Congrats!

[Des Esseintes]

Wonderful news! Congratulations, ladies.

[arnie]

Congratulations! Great start to the weekend.

Womens golf school. Great comeback today. Lots of pressure on the lacrosse team now!

[SoCalDukeFan]

I am not good of a golfer but know from our club handicap tournaments that its tough to sleep with a small lead.

Duke not only held on to the lead but they held against a charging USC team that was fantastic today.

Duke had four players under par, really great. Laetitia Beck and Alejandro Cangrejo finish their college careers as Duke graduates and NCAA champions.

SoCal

[SCMatt33]

I am not good of a golfer but know from our club handicap tournaments that its tough to sleep with a small lead.

Duke not only held on to the lead but they held against a charging USC team that was fantastic today.

Duke had four players under par, really great. Laetitia Beck and Alejandro Cangrejo finish their college careers as Duke graduates and NCAA champions.

SoCal

Duke did an incredible job over the last few holes once they had the lead back. It seemed that every hole was fairway, green, lag, tap in for par. They really forced USC to make some birdies down the stretch, and they just couldn't, though USC had an incredible day going -10 on the day, easily the best team round of the week. Boutier's birdie on 16 gave some breathing room on the team score and allowed her to be aggressive to try and make an individual playoff, coming just short. That certainly doesn't take away from the incredible team effort this week to win a title.

[Henderson]

Boutier's tearful breakdown on the 18th green with her team mates around her was a great sports moment almost no one will remember.

[sagegrouse]

Here are the scores by round:




Sandy Choi +2 +1 +4 -1 F
Celine Boutier E E -3 -1 F
A. Cangrejo +9 +2 +1 -2 F
Laetitia Beck +6 +2 +2 -2 F
Yu Liu +5 +6 -2 +2 F


Scores by day were +13, +5, -2, -6. The wind was apparently a problem early in the tournament, but the Duke improvement day to day is amazing.

[roywhite]

Here are the scores by round:




Sandy Choi +2 +1 +4 -1 F
Celine Boutier E E -3 -1 F
A. Cangrejo +9 +2 +1 -2 F
Laetitia Beck +6 +2 +2 -2 F
Yu Liu +5 +6 -2 +2 F


Scores by day were +13, +5, -2, -6. The wind was apparently a problem early in the tournament, but the Duke improvement day to day is amazing.

Gotta like the overall team depth. The first 3 rounds, the excluded high score for that round came from 3 different golfers. In a tournament decided by only 2 shots, the details count.

Southern Cal was a very worthy opponent, but Duke was tough down the stretch.

[4Gen]

The Harvard on Steroids meme is getting a little hard to deny. Our student/athletes are truly that.

[Gargoyle]

Choi and Liu are freshmen. Boutier is a soph. Duke will have some mpressive freshmen coming in:

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22558&SPID=1838&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=209318280

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=22558&SPID=1838&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=209387416

Assuming no one turns pro, Duke should be very good for a number of years.

[awhom111]

Even though my other degree is from there, I can certainly say that USC did not deserve to win based on their terrible uniforms after I saw pictures. Maybe their other ones were avoided to not create color conflicts with Oklahoma?

[SoCalDukeFan]

Well deserved Player of the Year honors for Celine Boutier. She has a reputation as a hard worker and it paid off.

6th Coach of the Year honor for Dan Brooks. It goes without saying that he does an absolutely great job.


http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=209507348 (http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&ATCLID=209507348)

SoCal

[Reilly]

Just wanted to see the WGolf and MLax threads 1 & 2 ... will leave it to others to resurrect 2010 hoops ....

[chrishoke]

This weekend, 2 Duke NCAA Titles and the Cheaters lose in the Women's tennis finals. That qualifies as great!

[duketaylor]

I have a little knowledge of the program and I consider Dan a good friend. He has more NCAA titles than almost any coach in NCAA D-1 sports over the last 30 years. I think he has 6 now, only rivaled by a very few peers, given any sport. Pat Summitt, and only a few others.

I'm so proud of golf and LAX over the last few days, just awesome!!! Two titles in 3 days, WOW!!

[uh_no]

I have a little knowledge of the program and I consider Dan a good friend. He has more NCAA titles than almost any coach in NCAA D-1 sports over the last 30 years. I think he has 6 now, only rivaled by a very few peers, given any sport. Pat Summitt, and only a few others.

I'm so proud of golf and LAX over the last few days, just awesome!!! Two titles in 3 days, WOW!!

I think you're underestimating the number of really good and successful D-1 coaches out there. Here is what I believe to be an exhaustive list of coaches with >=6 NCAA D1 titles who won at least one of their titles in the past 30 years:

John Mcdonnell: 42
pat henry: 33
Anson Dorrance: 21
Al Scates: 19
Dick Gould: 17
Dan Gable: 15
Richard Quick: 13
Emmanuil Kaidanov: 12
Jovan Vavic: 12
David Marsh: 12
vin lananna: 10
Eddie Reese: 10
Suzanne Yoculan: 10
Geno auriemma: 9
Pat Miller: 9
Greg Marsden: 9
Beth Anders: 9
Pat Summit: 8
Francis Allen: 8
Cindy Timchal: 8
Mike Candrea: 8
Pete Cutino: 8
Dante Dettamanti: 8
Marsha Beasley: 8
Sharron Backus: 8
Missy Meharg: 7
Roy Simmons Jr.: 7
Kelly Amonte Hiller: 7
John Murphy: 7
Richard Rokos: 7
Skip Kenney: 7
Adam Krikorian: 7
Lele Forood: 7
Karen Shelton: 6
Dan Brooks: 6
Linda Vollstedt: 6
Sarah Patterson: 6
Valorie Kondos Field: 6
Bill Tierney: 6
Jerry Yeagley: 6
Jack Bauerle: 6
Russ Rose: 6

No doubt dan is at the top of his sport, but as you can see, there are many coaches who have been atop their sport in the past decades.

[MCFinARL]

I think you're underestimating the number of really good and successful D-1 coaches out there. Here is what I believe to be an exhaustive list of coaches with >=6 NCAA D1 titles who won at least one of their titles in the past 30 years:

John Mcdonnell: 42
pat henry: 33
Anson Dorrance: 21
Al Scates: 19
Dick Gould: 17
Dan Gable: 15
Richard Quick: 13
Emmanuil Kaidanov: 12
Jovan Vavic: 12
David Marsh: 12
vin lananna: 10
Eddie Reese: 10
Suzanne Yoculan: 10
Geno auriemma: 9
Pat Miller: 9
Greg Marsden: 9
Beth Anders: 9
Pat Summit: 8
Francis Allen: 8
Cindy Timchal: 8
Mike Candrea: 8
Pete Cutino: 8
Dante Dettamanti: 8
Marsha Beasley: 8
Sharron Backus: 8
Missy Meharg: 7
Roy Simmons Jr.: 7
Kelly Amonte Hiller: 7
John Murphy: 7
Richard Rokos: 7
Skip Kenney: 7
Adam Krikorian: 7
Lele Forood: 7
Karen Shelton: 6
Dan Brooks: 6
Linda Vollstedt: 6
Sarah Patterson: 6
Valorie Kondos Field: 6
Bill Tierney: 6
Jerry Yeagley: 6
Jack Bauerle: 6
Russ Rose: 6

No doubt dan is at the top of his sport, but as you can see, there are many coaches who have been atop their sport in the past decades.

This is a fascinating list, and I enjoyed googling the names i didn't recognize (which was, of course, quite a few) to see what sports they coached. But I couldn't find Pat Miller--too common a name. The only coach I came up with was a D-III basketball coach for Wisconsin-Whitewater. Can you tell me who this Pat Miller is?

[uh_no]

This is a fascinating list, and I enjoyed googling the names i didn't recognize (which was, of course, quite a few) to see what sports they coached. But I couldn't find Pat Miller--too common a name. The only coach I came up with was a D-III basketball coach for Wisconsin-Whitewater. Can you tell me who this Pat Miller is?

late Skiing coach at the university of Utah. I realized after I compiled the list i should have listed sports. if you look on the NCAA pages for "history" they list the winning school, coach, and score of every NCAA championship....it was fun to look through.

[chrishoke]

I think you're underestimating the number of really good and successful D-1 coaches out there. Here is what I believe to be an exhaustive list of coaches with >=6 NCAA D1 titles who won at least one of their titles in the past 30 years:

John Mcdonnell: 42
pat henry: 33
Anson Dorrance: 21
Al Scates: 19
Dick Gould: 17
Dan Gable: 15
Richard Quick: 13
Emmanuil Kaidanov: 12
Jovan Vavic: 12
David Marsh: 12
vin lananna: 10
Eddie Reese: 10
Suzanne Yoculan: 10
Geno auriemma: 9
Pat Miller: 9
Greg Marsden: 9
Beth Anders: 9
Pat Summit: 8
Francis Allen: 8
Cindy Timchal: 8
Mike Candrea: 8
Pete Cutino: 8
Dante Dettamanti: 8
Marsha Beasley: 8
Sharron Backus: 8
Missy Meharg: 7
Roy Simmons Jr.: 7
Kelly Amonte Hiller: 7
John Murphy: 7
Richard Rokos: 7
Skip Kenney: 7
Adam Krikorian: 7
Lele Forood: 7
Karen Shelton: 6
Dan Brooks: 6
Linda Vollstedt: 6
Sarah Patterson: 6
Valorie Kondos Field: 6
Bill Tierney: 6
Jerry Yeagley: 6
Jack Bauerle: 6
Russ Rose: 6

No doubt dan is at the top of his sport, but as you can see, there are many coaches who have been atop their sport in the past decades.

That is a fabulous list, thanks for compiling and posting. If you have the sport they coached in and could post that I and I bet others would appreciate it.

[MCFinARL]

I think you're underestimating the number of really good and successful D-1 coaches out there. Here is what I believe to be an exhaustive list of coaches with >=6 NCAA D1 titles who won at least one of their titles in the past 30 years:

John Mcdonnell: 42
pat henry: 33
Anson Dorrance: 21
Al Scates: 19
Dick Gould: 17
Dan Gable: 15
Richard Quick: 13
Emmanuil Kaidanov: 12
Jovan Vavic: 12
David Marsh: 12
vin lananna: 10
Eddie Reese: 10
Suzanne Yoculan: 10
Geno auriemma: 9
Pat Miller: 9
Greg Marsden: 9
Beth Anders: 9
Pat Summit: 8
Francis Allen: 8
Cindy Timchal: 8
Mike Candrea: 8
Pete Cutino: 8
Dante Dettamanti: 8
Marsha Beasley: 8
Sharron Backus: 8
Missy Meharg: 7
Roy Simmons Jr.: 7
Kelly Amonte Hiller: 7
John Murphy: 7
Richard Rokos: 7
Skip Kenney: 7
Adam Krikorian: 7
Lele Forood: 7
Karen Shelton: 6
Dan Brooks: 6
Linda Vollstedt: 6
Sarah Patterson: 6
Valorie Kondos Field: 6
Bill Tierney: 6
Jerry Yeagley: 6
Jack Bauerle: 6
Russ Rose: 6

No doubt dan is at the top of his sport, but as you can see, there are many coaches who have been atop their sport in the past decades.

So I am looking at this list again, and I have a question. Where is John Wooden? 10 NCAA championships. Seems like he should be here.

[tbyers11]

So I am looking at this list again, and I have a question. Where is John Wooden? 10 NCAA championships. Seems like he should be here.

List was restricted to winning at least one of the championships within the last 30 years. Wooden's last championship was 1975.

[MCFinARL]

List was restricted to winning at least one of the championships within the last 30 years. Wooden's last championship was 1975.

Oh, good point, didn't see the "30 years" qualifier. Never mind.

[nyesq83]

We are so proud of your hard work and dedication to excellence!

[duketaylor]

Thanks for the clarification, didn't realize there were so many more coaches with more championships. Some are rather small in scale, others like Dan Gable, not so much. THX!!