Duke men's golf 2024 season review
By Andrew Negus | June 21, 2024Duke men's golf was unable to qualify for the NCAA Championships as a team, but has a bright future ahead with multiple young stars.
Duke men's golf was unable to qualify for the NCAA Championships as a team, but has a bright future ahead with multiple young stars.
Through the second round, the Blue Devils sat in fourth place, but slipped to seventh with a 3-over third round as the teams around Duke shot in the red that day. Evans tied for second place and punched his ticket to the National Championship as an individual.
Joined on the leaderboard by top-ranked teams like North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia, the Blue Devils, led by sophomore Ethan Evans, rallied on to fifth place, securing their eighth-consecutive top-five finish at The Hat.
Early this week, Pinehurst No. 2 hosted the Blue Devils at the Wake Forest Invitational, who tied for fourth place out of 12 teams, including national powerhouses Auburn and East Tennessee State.
Duke finished joint-fifth at The Prestige, hosted in La Quinta, Calif., this past Wednesday, the sixth-consecutive time the Blue Devils have finished in fifth place or higher so far this season in what is shaping up to be a great spring campaign.
There's good reason to feel confident given the steady growth Duke showed last season and flashed over the course of the fall. But it has yet to be seen how high this team’s ceiling is, and with limited sample size, this group is still somewhat of an unknown in the larger ACC picture.
The Blue Devils went down to Georgia and found themselves in that exact position, as Duke rallied Sunday to cap off a fifth-place finish out of 15 teams in the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate in Alpharetta, Ga.
Down 10 strokes to North Florida in the middle of the third and final round of the NCAA Norman Regional, Duke managed to pull off the spectacular comeback, finishing the event with a total team score of 21-under at 843 total strokes.
Duke ultimately placed fourth in stroke play at 4-under to advance before falling in Sunday’s match play semifinals to Georgia Tech.
Duke changed up the format and still walked away with a win in Sunday's regular-season conclusion.
Every week, the Blue Zone breaks down an outstanding spring athlete, looking at their weekly performance and their season as a whole. Up next is William Love.
The Blue Devils collectively had a rollercoaster stretch at the Valspar Collegiate and the Seahawk Intercollegiate tournaments.
The Blue Devils assembled a strong performance up and down the roster while freshman William Love earned the individual title in Puerto Rico.
Duke's season is nearly upon us, with the spring's first tee time set for Sunday in Puerto Rico.
The Blue Devils closed out the fall season with a record-tying team score and first place in the Bahamas.
Duke placed 11th of 14 teams at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate in Alpharetta, Ga., a drastic difference from its first win of the season at the Georgetown Intercollegiate one week earlier.
Duke won its first tournament of the season at the Georgetown Intercollegiate in Jersey City, N.J., as Ian Siebers led the way.
Duke started off its season with a strong performance at Duke University Golf Club.
After four years at Duke, Quinn Riley is moving up.
Duke teed off Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for the three-round NCAA Columbus Regional and finished with a final score of 867 (+15), putting the Blue Devils in eighth place.