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Duke Claims 10th Straight ACC Championship by Record 47 Strokes
4/17/2005 1:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The top-ranked Duke women's golf team claimed its 10th straight Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championship on Sunday in record fashion as the Blue Devils won by an ACC-record 47 strokes at the 6,318-Yard, Par 72 Carmel Country Club in Charlotte, N.C. The title is the 13th overall and 12th under the direction of Head Coach Dan Brooks.
"It feels great to get the win," said Brooks. "It was nice to widen the margin today and that is probably because everyone was trying to win the individual title. The win is good but we are looking to prepare ourselves for the NCAA Championship and want to have teams nipping at our heels. But to win our 10th title feels good."
The Blue Devils shot a four-over-par score of 292 on the final day and finished with a three-day total of 886, which was ahead of Wake Forest (933), N.C. State (944), Virginia (944), Miami (946), Florida State (949), North Carolina (963) and Maryland (989) round out the teams. Duke's 47-stroke victory broke the previous ACC-record of 34-stroke victory in 2000 at the Salem Glen Golf Club in Clemmons, N.C. The margin of victory is also a new overall school record for Duke.
Duke sophomore Brittany Lang claimed her second straight individual ACC Championship as she registered a final round 70 on her way to finishing with a 54-hole total of 219. Lang, a product of McKinney, Texas, becomes only the second golfer in ACC history to notch back-to-back ACC Individual titles. The only other golfer was Jenny Chuasiriporn in 1996 and `97. A Duke golfer has won the ACC Individual title now a record 11 times and six out of the last seven years.
"The win feels good," said Lang. "The team played well as we battled tough course conditions the first two days. We stayed with it and played well. Today I played well and made a lot of good par saves. I didn't putt very well, but I had a lot of good up and downs."
On the final day, Lang collected three birdies, three sand saves and only one bogey, which came on the par-five hole 18. Overall in three days, Lang notched eight birdies, only six bogeys, one double-bogey and one triple-bogey in 54 holes. Over the final 45 holes of play, Lang played the course at even par and the victory is the sixth of her career, which is tied for third on Duke's all-time wins list.
"Brittany looked solid out there today and I was very happy with her swing," said Brooks. "She hit some great shots and was sticking it all over the course. She had a very tough bunker shot on the 16th hole to save par that was key."
Overall, Duke finished with four golfers in the top four of the individual standings as Lang was first, Anna Grzebien was second, Liz Janangelo third and Niloufar Aazam-Zanganeh had the best finish of her career in an ACC Championship at fourth.
"I loved having everyone out there fighting to win the tournament," said Brooks. "At a time during the day, the tournament was anyone's to win and that made it a lot of fun. I loved it. It was nice to have that many golfers out there that had a chance to win."
The leader after two rounds, Grzebien turned in an even-par round of 72 to conclude the tournament with a three-day ledger of 220, which was one-shot back from the ACC Champion, Lang. Grzebien, a product of Narragansett, R.I., tied her career best with the second place finish and has turned in second place finishes in two out of her last three tournaments.
On the final day, Grzebien birdied holes five and six to get to two-under-par on the day, but had bogey's on seven and nine to make the turn at even par. She collected pars the rest of the day except for a bogey on 13 and a birdie on 18 to finish even par. Grzebien finished with nine birdies over the 54 holes this weekend.
Much like the first day, Janangelo managed only one birdie on the round to finish with a 76 on Sunday. With a 54-hole total of 224, the West Hartford, Conn., golfer finished in third. Janangelo fired six birdies on Saturday as she shot an even-par 72, but managed only two other birdies on the other 36-holes. The third place finish for Janangelo marks the third time over her three years she has finished in the top-four of the ACC Championship and she owns four top-five finishes this season.
Aazam-Zanganeh, from Lausanne, Switzerland, gutted out a stellar finish with a three-day total of 225 as she was battled a wrist injury. Not knowing if she would play on Sunday, Aazam-Zanganeh had two birdies on the day and turned in her best tournament finish since winning the Lady Gamecock as a freshman in 2002.
"It feels great to get the win," said Aazam-Zanganeh. "I wasn't expecting anything out of this tournament, from my standpoint, as I didn't know what to expect because I hadn't played in over a month. I felt rusty but I was very happy with the way I played. This victory is very rewarding and nice to win as a team. It was very important in a preparation for the NCAA Championship and I had a lot of fun out there. We went through some difficult conditions the first two days but nobody ever complained."
Freshman Jennifer Pandolfi finished off the tournament with a strong even-par 72 to finish in eighth place with a three-day total of 229. In her first ACC Championship, Pandolfi made significant progress each day starting with a 79 on Friday, 76 on Saturday and a 74 on Sunday. A native of Navarre, Fla, Pandolfi started the final round with a birdie on the par-four first hole, but went five-over-par over the next five holes. She settled down after that and played the final 12 holes at two-under-par with birdies on holes 10 and 16.
As a team, Duke carded 12 birdies on the day and has 37 birdies over the three days of play. The Duke men's golf team also picked up the ACC Championship on Sunday with a four-stroke victory over Georgia Tech. It marks the first time in ACC history that a school has won both the men's and women's golf championship in the same season.
The win for Duke gives the Blue Devils one point in the race for the Carlyle Cup, an all-sports competition between the two schools. North Carolina continues to lead the event this year, 12.5 to 9.5. The Carlyle Cup is sponsored by Carlyle & Co., a North Carolina-based jeweler.
Duke will next play in the NCAA Regionals from May 5-7 at the University of Florida Golf Course in Gainesville, Fla.
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