NEWS RELEASE FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY
Leona Maguire leads Duke team to Notre
Dame for South Bend Regional, May 7 to 9
DURHAM, North Carolina – The sixth-ranked Duke University women’s golf have been seeded No. 2 in the South Bend Regional at Notre Dame, Indiana, from May 7-9 to play for an invitation to the NCAA Championship. The regional will be played at the 6,301-yard, par 72 Warren Golf Course.
Other teams competing in the Region are:
Arizona, Oklahoma State, Wake Forest, UC-Davis, Pepperdine, Tulane, Notre Dame, Purdue, Kent State, Louisville, San Jose State, North Carolina, Kentucky, Harvard, Troy, Eastern Kentucky and Youngstown State.
The following individuals will also be competing – Madchen Ly (California State), Elizabeth Tong (Indiana), Martina Edberg (California State), Leilanie Kim (Idaho), Gabby Yurik (Michigan State) and Michaela Fletcher (Memphis).
The regional will be a three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes played each day. Duke will open action on Thursday, May 7 on hole No. 1 at 9:39 a.m., along with Arizona and Oklahoma State.
The top six teams and top three individuals (not on one of those eight teams) advance on to the NCAA Championships to be played May 22-27 at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida
The Blue Devils (Duke) have won a total of six NCAA Championships over the last 16 years ---1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2014.
The top three seeds in the other regions were – Raleigh (South Carolina, Louisiana State, Mississippi State), San Antonio, UCLA, Washington, Texas A and M) and St. George (Southern California, Arkansas, Virginia).
The Duke team enters regional play with six top five finishes on the season, highlighted by wins at the Tar Heel Invitational and Darius Rucker Intercollegiate. Two different Blue Devils have collected individual victories on the season – Sandy Choi at the Cougar Classic and Leona Maguire, pictured right, at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and the ACC Championship.
In the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index, Maguire, ranked No 2 in the WWAGR, is listed No. 1, while former world female amateur No 1 Celine Boutier (10), Sandy Choi (55) and Gurbani Singh (84) are ranked.
Duke has won NCAA regional title in 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2013.
Leona Maguire leads Duke team to Notre
Dame for South Bend Regional, May 7 to 9
DURHAM, North Carolina – The sixth-ranked Duke University women’s golf have been seeded No. 2 in the South Bend Regional at Notre Dame, Indiana, from May 7-9 to play for an invitation to the NCAA Championship. The regional will be played at the 6,301-yard, par 72 Warren Golf Course.
Other teams competing in the Region are:
Arizona, Oklahoma State, Wake Forest, UC-Davis, Pepperdine, Tulane, Notre Dame, Purdue, Kent State, Louisville, San Jose State, North Carolina, Kentucky, Harvard, Troy, Eastern Kentucky and Youngstown State.
The following individuals will also be competing – Madchen Ly (California State), Elizabeth Tong (Indiana), Martina Edberg (California State), Leilanie Kim (Idaho), Gabby Yurik (Michigan State) and Michaela Fletcher (Memphis).
The regional will be a three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes played each day. Duke will open action on Thursday, May 7 on hole No. 1 at 9:39 a.m., along with Arizona and Oklahoma State.
The top six teams and top three individuals (not on one of those eight teams) advance on to the NCAA Championships to be played May 22-27 at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida
The Blue Devils (Duke) have won a total of six NCAA Championships over the last 16 years ---1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2014.
The top three seeds in the other regions were – Raleigh (South Carolina, Louisiana State, Mississippi State), San Antonio, UCLA, Washington, Texas A and M) and St. George (Southern California, Arkansas, Virginia).
The Duke team enters regional play with six top five finishes on the season, highlighted by wins at the Tar Heel Invitational and Darius Rucker Intercollegiate. Two different Blue Devils have collected individual victories on the season – Sandy Choi at the Cougar Classic and Leona Maguire, pictured right, at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and the ACC Championship.
In the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index, Maguire, ranked No 2 in the WWAGR, is listed No. 1, while former world female amateur No 1 Celine Boutier (10), Sandy Choi (55) and Gurbani Singh (84) are ranked.
Duke has won NCAA regional title in 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2013.
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