DURHAM, N.C.— The Duke women's golf program has won seven NCAA Championships since 1999 under the direction of head coach Dan Brooks. The seven NCAA titles over the last 21 years are the most by any program in NCAA history. Recently, Duke has been looking back at each NCAA Championship along with the four NCAA individual titles.
In 2001, Candy Hannemann won Duke's first NCAA Individual title and then Virada Nirapathpongporn won the title in 2002 for back-to-back. Anna Grzebien won the individual crown in 2005 and then Virginia Elena Carta turned in a record breaking performance in 2016 for another individual title.
Recently, all four winners along with head coach Dan Brooks got together to reflect on their individual championships.
2001
Candy Hannemann
Duke junior Candy Hannemann defeated Arizona's Lorena Ochoa in a playoff to capture the 2001 NCAA Individual title at the El Campeon course in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
"This is so exciting," said Hannemann. I cannot express how good this title feels."
The Rio de Janeiro, Brazil native, notched a par on the first playoff hole to capture the title as Ochoa had a bogey on hole number one. The NCAA title for Hannemann is her second overall tournament victory this season and her first NCAA title. This title is extra special for Hannemann as she finished second overall at the 1999 NCAA Championships to Grace Park of Arizona State.
"I was thinking even if she misses her putt I knew I could make mine," said Hannemann. "I was very relieved, relaxed and happy. It was a good feeling. I think both of us were nervous as we had to wait around for so long. It gave us time to think. It is a hard situation to deal with. I was focused on winning the individual title."
Each golfer had to wait around four and a half hours before the playoff began at around 7:00 p.m. After errant tee shots by both golfers, each made it on the par five green in three. Ochoa had about a 25-foot put and went about 10 feet long and then Hannemann went about six feet past the cup. Ochoa missed her par putt and then Hannemann nailed her put for the victory.
"I couldn't be happier for Candy," commented Duke head coach Dan Brooks. "She led by example and has worked so hard this year. She deserves this title."
2002
Virada Nirapathpongporn
Duke sophomore Virada Nirapathpongporn won the individual crown and led her team to the overall title on the final day of the 2002 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships at Washington National Golf Club.
Nirapathpongporn, who opened the day with a three-stroke lead and widened it to five by the end of the round, carding an even-par 72 to finish at nine-under and equal the NCAA's all-time championships scoring record of 279 established by Jennifer Rosales in 1998.
Three athletes tied for second at 4-under 284, including 2001 NCAA Player of the Year Lorena Ochoa of Arizona. Georgia's Summer Sirmons, the closest competitor to Nirapathpongporn through 56 holes, fired a 1-over 73 to join Ochoa at 4-under for the tournament, while Auburn's Danielle Downey carded an even-par 72 to round out the list of second-place finishers.
"I just kept telling myself, you've got to keep playing hard, because it might come down to a shot or two," Nirapathpongporn said. "We worked hard all year and I was happy to finish this off."
Nirapathpongporn is the second Duke player to win the national title in as many years, marking just the third time in history that teammates have performed the feat back-to-back. Candy Hannemann won the 2001 title for the Blue Devils, Emilee Klein and Kristel Mourgue d'Algue won titles for Arizona State in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and Susan Slaughter and Annika Sorenstam did the double for Arizona in 1990 and 1991, respectively.
2005
Anna Grzebien
As a sophomore Anna Grzebien won the 2005 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Individual Championship, while also leading Duke to the team title at Sunriver Resort's Meadows Course in Sunriver, Ore. Grzebien entered the round with a four-shot lead and held on for a one-stroke victory with a 2-over-par 73.
Grzebien (+2, 73-75-65-73=286) was even-par through three rounds and had a four-shot lead to start the day. Virginia sophomore Leah Wigger (+3, 73-72-73-69=287) put some pressure on by shooting a 2-under-par 69 during the morning rounds, giving her a four-round total of 3-over-par as the afternoon groups teed off.
"I didn't look at the scoreboard once," said Grzebien. "So I didn't know. It was exciting. It's really special. I just put my head down and walked past the scoreboards. I didn't want to look at the numbers. I've played well, but I'm just starting to get where everything is coming together and I'm shooting better numbers."
Grzebien had two bogies and no birdies on the front nine, putting her at two-over-par for the tournament and giving her a precarious one-stroke lead over Wigger. Grzebien found some breathing room when she birdied the par-14 12th hole. But after three straight pars, she bogied the par-3 16th hole, again giving her a one-stroke lead.
Grzebien missed a short birdie putt on the 17th hole and settled for par. On the par-4 18th, she found the green in two, but was about 25 feet from the cup. She got her first putt to within about four feet, and later calmly sank her second and final putt for the title.
Wigger finished in second place, while UCLA freshman Amie Cochran (71-79-70-68) and Duke's Brittany Lang (74-75-68-71) tied for third place at a 4-over-par 288.
"I didn't see a lot of it," commented Brooks on Grzebien's final round. "I whispered something to her before we started, that I think you know what you can accomplish here. Obviously, she had the same thing in mind that I did. She was fantastic."
2016
Virginia Elena Carta
Duke freshman Virginia Elena Carta capped off a very impressive four days at the 6,331-yard, par 72 Eugene Country Club by becoming the fourth Blue Devil to win a NCAA title with a NCAA-record 72-hole ledger of 16-under-par, 272.
Carta, who hails from Udine, Italy, carded rounds of 69, 68, 66 and 69 over the 72 holes to win her first collegiate event and became only the eighth freshman in NCAA history to win the NCAA title. She won the championship by a NCAA-record eight shots and closed play with only one bogey over her final 53 holes. Her 16-under-par score along with the 72-hole total of 272 were both new NCAA records.
"I mean, of course this experience was just awesome and great," said Carta. "My long game was really, really good the first three days. Today I struggled a little bit because I was really nervous, but my putter has always been with me and made the difference. I scored really well because I was making a lot of putts. I'm really excited. I still can't believe I won. I'm so proud of also the team, and I want to say also thanks to the team and the coaches. They are just great, both Coach [Dan Brooks] and John [Whithaus]. They are awesome."
"It is great and especially her," said Duke head coach Dan Brooks. "Virginia is a fantastic team member. It is great to have somebody like her play that well."
After totaling a NCAA-record 54-hole score of 203 through Sunday's play, Carta held a six-stroke lead heading into the final day. She concluded the action with an eight-shot victory over Dewi Weber of Miami and Haley Moore of Arizona, who finished with an eight-under, 280.
With cameras following her every move the last two days, Carta didn't let it bother her and jumped out to quick start Monday with four birdies on the front nine. She drained a 40-foot putt on the third hole and then holed out from the fourth hole for birdies. Carta added an eight-foot birdie on No. 7 and then sank a 25-foot birdie on No. 9 to make the turn at four-under, 33.
Carta headed into the 152-yard, par three 11th with 46 straight holes without a birdie, but the rookie suffered a three-putt to fall back to three-under. She went on to grind her way through the final seven holes with all pars. Carta had a key up-and-down for par on No. 16 from the rough.
"It means a lot," commented Carta on winning the NCAA title as a freshman. "As I said, I would have never thought to win this tournament, especially as a freshman. Now my expectations are going to be high. But I mean, it has been a great year. I've been working really hard also with the team, and we've been working so much, so I'm just excited that the work paid off and that my putter finally worked, too."
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She became the first freshman to earn her first collegiate win at NCAAs since 1998. Carta played the front nine at 12-under-par for the week and led the field with 20 birdies. She closed her season with her fifth straight top 10 placement.
"She is strong, she hits it straight and she is flying it high onto these greens," commented Brooks on what led to Carta's success this week. "They actually firmed up a little bit today so that probably helped her. She's got the whole game. She has a lot of passion. All we do is just kind of calm her down."
Notes:
• Virginia Elena Carta broke the lowest score to par record by four strokes. The previous mark was Caroline Hedwall of Oklahoma State (2010) and Penny Hammel of Miami (1983) at 12-under.
• Carta held the largest margin of victory at the Women's NCAA Championship dating back to 2000. It broke Annie Park's record of six from 2013. Duke holds two of the top three on the list as Virada Nirapathpongporn won by five in 2002.
• Carta joined the likes of Annie Park (USC, 2013), Austin Ernst (LSU, 2011), Jennifer Rosales (USC, 1998), Marissa Baena (Arizona, 1996), Charlotta Sorenstam (Texas, 1993), Vicki Goetze (Arizona, 1992) and Annika Sorenstam (Arizona, 1991) as freshman to win the NCAA title.
• Three of the four Duke NCAA individual champions have come on the West Coast as Nirapathpongporn won in Auburn, Wash., and Grzebien won in Sunriver, Ore.
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