Leona Maguire Collects Second Straight Top Five Finish to Open Season

From: Jack Winters, Duke Golf Coach

Leona Maguire Collects Second Straight Top Five Finish to Open Season

October 4, 2016

GOLF, Ill. – Over the first two tournaments of the 2016-17 campaign, Duke University’s Leona Maguire has combined to shoot 17-under-par, but the junior is still looking for her first win of the season as she placed third overall at the Windy City Classic Tuesday with an eight-under-par, 208.

Maguire has been outstanding in the first two tournaments and has just missed collecting her fifth victory of her Duke career.  She shot nine-under-par in the Annika Intercollegiate and was only two shots off the individual lead, while in the Windy City Collegiate Classic she was also two shots off individual medalist Andrea Lee of Stanford (206).

A native of Cavan, Ireland, Maguire featured another strong start to her round Tuesday as she held a two-under-par ledger through 11 holes as she connected on birdies on No. 7 and No. 11.  Maguire posted bogeys on No. 12 and No. 14 to fall back to even par.  She drained her third birdie of the day on the 505-yard, par five 15th to return to red numbers, but suffered another bogey on No. 17 and par on No. 18 to finish at even par.

Senior Sandy Choi concluded the tournament with a five-over-par, 221, which was tied for 32nd.  In the final round,

With a ledger of 221, junior Lisa Maguire carded her second-best 54-hole output in her career over the last two days.  Maguire, who is from Cavan, Ireland, signed for rounds of 74, 74 and 73 to finish tied 32nd.  It was her best finish since a tied for 27th placement as a freshman at the Tar Heel Invitational.

Maguire turned in six pars, two bogeys and a birdie on the 375-yard, par four fifth hole on the front nine as she made the turn at one-over, 37.  On the back, she rolled in a birdie on the par four 10th and then and seven pars along with a bogey on No. 14.  Maguire had a season-best 27 putts, while hitting nine fairways and eight greens.
 
As a team, Duke finished fifth overall with rounds of 288, 291 and 293 for a 54-hole collection of 872.  Georgia took home the team title with a 10-under-par, 854, with Stanford (858), Southern California (859), Florida (865) and Duke (872) in the top five.

Duke will next compete in the Tar Heel Invitational Oct. 14-16 at Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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Duke Results
T2 3 Leona Maguire Duke 66 70 72 (F) 208 -8
T38 T32 Lisa Maguire Duke 74 74 73 (F) 221 +5
T32 T32 Sandy Choi Duke 74 73 74 (F) 221 +5
T50 T47 Ana Belac Duke 75 75 74 (F) 224 +8
T38 T52 Virginia Elena Carta Duke 74 74 77 (F) 225 +9

1 2 3 Team Scores
3 1 1 Georgia, U. of 282 282 290 854 -10
T7 3 2 Stanford 291 282 285 858 -6
T1 2 3 Southern California 281 287 291 859 -5
T7 5 4 Florida 291 287 287 865 +1
6 6 5 Duke 288 291 293 872 +8
T7 7 6 Purdue 291 290 292 873 +9
T1 4 7 Northwestern 281 294 301 876 +12
4 T8 8 Arizona 285 298 296 879 +15
T10 10 T9 Oklahoma State 292 295 293 880 +16
12 11 T9 Oregon 294 295 291 880 +16
T10 12 11 Ohio State 292 297 296 885 +21
5 T8 12 Iowa State 286 297 305 888 +24
13 14 13 Vanderbilt 300 309 299 908 +44
14 13 14 Tulane 303 303 305 911 +47

Start Finish Player Team Scores
4 1 Andrea Lee Stanford 68 71 67 (F) 206 -10
1 2 Bailey Tardy Georgia, U. of 66 69 72 (F) 207 -9
T2 3 Leona Maguire Duke 66 70 72 (F) 208 -8
T8 T4 Linn Andersson Purdue 73 69 70 (F) 212 -4
T8 T4 August Kim Purdue 70 72 70 (F) 212 -4
5 T4 Gabriella Then Southern California 68 72 72 (F) 212 -4
T2 T7 Hannah Kim Northwestern 66 70 77 (F) 213 -3
T8 T7 Marta Perez SanMartin Florida 73 69 71 (F) 213 -3
T6 9 Karen Chung Southern California 71 70 73 (F) 214 -2
T17 T10 Jillian Hollis Georgia, U. of 72 72 71 (F) 215 -1
T6 T10 Harang Lee Georgia, U. of 71 70 74 (F) 215 -1