After last season was cut short, Duke enters a second-straight campaign as defending national champions.
The Blue Devils have the potential to make some noise in the NCAA Championship.
Duke tied for second place in its second tournament of the year, an outcome that has become typical for the successful program. However, this tournament was anything but familiar.
Chinn was named the junior boys' player of the year by the American Junior Golf Association just a few weeks ago.
With the team's two upperclassmen forced to live off campus, the Blue Devils will expect incoming freshmen Phoebe Brinker and Anne Chen to adapt quickly without veteran guidance.
Streelman finished second at the Travelers Championship and tied for seventh at the Workday Charity Open in his last two starts on the PGA Tour.
The Duke women's golf team capped off a historic stretch from 2005-2007 with a dramatic victory to claim its only three-peat.
Long, Mickelson, and Hadwin battled throughout the day, with Long and Mickelson especially putting the pressure on each other down the stretch.
In the limited competition they had, the Blue Devils were able to go toe-to-toe with national powerhouses, contend in major tournaments and post impressive individual numbers.
There’s no reason to believe that the Blue Devils could not have figured out a strategy to repeat as national champions.
After a disappointing start in the first two days, Duke ended this past weekend's tournament on a high note.
Topping our list at No. 1: Women’s golf survives a series of tense matches on the last day of the NCAA tournament before clinching the program’s seventh NCAA title in extra holes on the final pairing of the day. The win marks the first national championship for any Duke team since 2015.
The team walked through the Oval Office and spoke with President Trump, but did it get the fast-food treatment offered to Clemson this January? Regardless of the President’s shortcomings on the golf course, everyone involved got a taste of something new during the expedition up north.
Gina Kim is a sophomore at Duke University from Chapel Hill who plays on the Duke women’s golf team. As a freshman, she was instrumental in the Blue Devils’ run to their seventh national championship, as she shot a birdie on hole 18 of the NCAA Division I Semifinals against Arizona to send her team to the finals.
Virginia Elena Carta continues to rake in awards and honors even after graduating.
When Virginia Elena Carta graduated from Duke in May, her accolades as an athlete spoke for themselves, but her greatest legacy at Duke has come off the fairway.
Gina Kim and Erica Shepherd were two of only 19 golfers to eagle at least one hole.
It will be Duke's first team competition since hoisting the program’s seventh national championship last May.
After bringing home the individual title in her freshman season, Virginia Elena Carta struggled to reach the same level of play dude to injuries for much of the next three seasons. But on the biggest stage, Carta came through for her teammates, helping the Blue Devils secure a national championship.
Second-seeded Duke secured the NCAA championship title Wednesday evening 3-2, taking down No. 5 seed Wake Forest in the final round of match play at the Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark.
