Duke Women's Golf, 2019 National Champions!!!!!!!
The fall season has started with the Duke women playing in the ANNIKA Intercollegiate at Elmo Lake, Minnesota. The tournament, which runs today through Wednesday, features nine of the top ten teams in its 12-team field.
Play was truncated this afternoon due to lightning, but with Duke (#4 preseason) in the lead at -9 with only two players still to finish. Second is pre-season #1 Alabama at -8. In the individual competition, Ana Belac and Virginia Elena Carter are tied for second and Jaravee Boonchant is tied for fourth.
Play in the 54-hole will resume tomorrow AM.
Go Duke!
Day 2 -- Another Strong Round by the Women
The Duke women finished today with a ten-under par score and a two-day total of -19. They lead the field by three shots (over UCLA) with some teams still on the course. Here's the link.
Ana Belac, at -11, has a two-shot lead over the field in the individual competition. Jaravee is tied for fifth.
Duke Wins Tar Heel Invitational!
I am going to retire from reporting women's golf -- this is the second of a three-day tournament. Somehow I thought it was a 36-hole tournament. So the headline is wrong, or, at least, premature.
Duke's second round was seventeen strokes higher than Friday's opening round, but we maintained a sizable lead. Duke is eight strokes ahead of Virginia, with Arkansas in third, eleven shots behind.
Virginia Elena Carta is second in the individual competition; Ana Belac is tied for sixth. First-round leader Jaravee Boonchant went 66-76 to sit in a tie for ninth.
Go Duke!
Dukee Really Does Win Tar Heel Invitational
A day after my false headline, Duke finished strongly to win the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational by six shots over Virginia and nine shots ahead of Arkansas.
Ana Belac finished third in the individual competition behind Wake's Emilia Migliaccio. Virginia was tied for fifth, and Jaravee Boonchant was tied for eighth.
Go Duke!!!
Day One of the NCAA Championship - Duke in Fifth
The standings are pretty much a rugby scrum at the Women's NCAA golf championship in Fayetteville, AR. There are ten teams within ten shots of the lead, which is held by Texas and host Arkansas at +10. Duke is in fifth at +13. The team scoring uses the best four out of five scores over 18 holes for the team total each day.
If the format is the same as last year's, four days of medal play produce the individual champion and the top eight teams, which then go through a single elimination tournament over the next two days (Tuesday and Wednesday). Miranda Wang (T13, +2), Jaravee Boonchant and Ana Belac ( both T19, +3) lead the Blue Devils.
Duke (seeded #3) tees off at 7 AM CDT playing with and against Texas (#2) and Southern California (#1).
Duke has won the NCAAwomen's championships six times.
Go Duke!!