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By Sabreena Merchant | May 29, 2008Putts were falling. Chips were dropping. Seven-under par. Duke was the best team on the golf course.
Putts were falling. Chips were dropping. Seven-under par. Duke was the best team on the golf course.
Two days into the final leg of its quest for an unprecedented fourth national championship, top-seeded Duke finished in 12th place Wednesday
And when you're named National Player of the Year in your first two campaigns and you're the leader of a Blue Devil dynasty-that is, when you're Amanda Blumenherst-you couldn't be further from the...
Although Duke advanced to the NCAA Championships for the 11th straight year with a top-eight finish at the East regionals, the Blue Devils moved ahead in an un-Duke-like fashion.
To be successful in match play, you've got to stay positive, adapt on the fly and bounce back quickly from disappointment.
The Blue Devils finished second in the ACC championship at the Old North State Club in New London
With the team title and an individual crown hanging in the balance on the final hole, Amanda Blumenherst could sense the importance of her final putt.
No. 14 Duke registered its first tournament win since October this weekend, finishing a collective 13-under and beating the field by nine strokes at the River Landing Intercollegiate in Wallace, N.C.
A week after a disappointing fifth-place finish, Duke entered the final day of the Bryan National Collegiate with the lead, but once again failed to come away with a victory.
Clark Klaasen and Michael Shachner each shot 1-under 70s Tuesday in the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, but it wasn't enough to lift the Blue Devils, who finished last in the 15-team field...
Duke has not finished worse than a sixth place tie all season. After two days at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, however, that streak appears to be in jeopardy.
No. 1 Duke trudged to a fifth-place finish at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in Athens, Ga., the Blue Devils' worst finish since October 2006.