DURHAM – The Duke women’s golf team received its 30th-consecutive bid to participate in NCAA Regional action on Wednesday as the Blue Devils are seeded No. 5 in the Palm Beach Gardens Regional and will travel to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., from May 8-10 to play for an invitation to the NCAA Championship. The regional will be played at the PGA National Resort.
Other teams competing in the regional are LSU, Texas, Northwestern, UCF, Michigan State, California, Arkansas, Alabama, South Florida, Penn and Quinnipiac.
The regional will be a three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes played each day. Duke opens action on Monday, May 8.
The NCAA regionals feature six different regional sites with 12 teams (72 total) and six individuals (36 total). The top five teams and top two individuals (not on an advancing team) will advance from each regional site to the championships, which will be held for the third straight year at Grayhawk Golf Club (Raptor Course) in Scottsdale, Ariz., from May 19-24.
Duke enters regional action coming off a solid showing at the ACC Championship in Greensboro, N.C. The Blue Devils turned in a second-place ledger in stroke play, before falling to third-seeded Clemson in match play, 3-1-1. Duke was led by Phoebe Brinker in stroke play as she carded an impressive 12-under-par score to finish second overall.
The Blue Devils have collected 10 NCAA Regional Team Championships over the last 27 years – 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 and 2018. The 10 regional titles rank second nationally behind Southern California (14).
Brooks has guided the Blue Devils to an NCAA Division I record 141 career wins and 21 of Duke’s 22 ACC titles. In his 39 seasons at Duke, Brooks has led the Blue Devils to seven NCAA Championships (1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014 and 2019) and has taken his squad to the NCAA Regionals every year since 1993.
This year’s women’s golf championships will be broadcast for the eighth consecutive year by Golf Channel with more than 100 news and tournament hours planned again for the men’s and women’s golf championships.
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