Brinker, McMyler Shoot Under Par; Duke Has Solid Start at NCAA Championship

Friday, May 17

Carlsbad, Calif.

Duke University

NCAA Championship

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Brinker, McMyler Shoot Under Par; Duke Has Solid Start at NCAA Championship

5/18/2024 12:35:00 AM | Women's Golf

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CARLSBAD, Calif. – Led by under par rounds by senior Phoebe Brinker and graduate student Emma McMyler, the Duke women's golf team featured a solid start at the NCAA Championship, which is being contested at the 6,297-yard, par-72 Omni La Costa Resort & Spa North Course in Carlsbad, Calif.

As a team, the Blue Devils carded a 2-under, 286, in the opening round and are tied for sixth overall, including only one shot out of third place. The under-par round for Duke is tied for the second-lowest opening score for the Blue Devils in school history at the NCAA Championship.

Brinker turned in a 3-under, 69, and is tied for eighth after day one. Her score in the 60s was just the fifth in the first round in Blue Devil history. McMyler posted a 1-under, 71, in her NCAA Championship debut and is tied for 18th.

How It Happened

As a team, Clemson opened the morning action with an 8-under, 280, and leads the field.Texas A&M (281), Stanford (285), Auburn (285), Northwestern (285), San Jose State (286), Duke (286) and Arizona State (286) round out the top six.
Duke opened action on hole No. 10 at 12:55 p.m., local time (3:55 p.m. ET).
Going off first for the Blue Devils, Phoebe Brinker jumped out to a tremendous start with birdies on her first two holes.She rolled in a 20-footer on the par-5 10th hole and then hit her 50-degree wedge from 105 yards to seven feet for birdie on No. 11.Then after waiting for a little while for the group ahead of hers to finish on No. 12, Brinker went on the miss each of the next two greens and drop a pair of shots.A product of Wilmington, Del., Brinker regrouped and went on a string where she birdied three out of five holes.She rolled in a 6-footer for birdie on No. 17, hit her 9-iron from 140 yards to two feet for birdie on No. 1 and stuck her 7-iron from 155 yards to six feet on No. 3 for birdie to move to 3-under.Brinker missed the 17th green and suffered a bogey, but closed strong with a 15-foot birdie on her final hole, the 364-yard, par-4 No. 9, to close the day with a 3-under, 69.She hit 13 greens, 13 fairways and tied a season low with 28 putts.
In her first NCAA Championship appearance, Emma McMyler shook off a few early nerves after bogeying No. 10 and No. 13 to drop to 2-over.Following back-to-back pars, McMyler hit her pitching wedge from 136 yards to 11 feet on the par-3 16th.She rolled in one of only four birdies on the hole all day.McMyler, who is from San Antonio, Texas, kept her putter working on the next hole as she sank a 15-footer for birdie to get back to even par for the afternoon.She got stuck in a fairway bunker on No. 1 and missed the green, which led to just her third bogey.McMyler once again responded in a big way with two consecutive birdies on No. 2 and No. 3 to get to 1-under.She drained a 9-footer birdie on No. 2 and then hit her 7-iron from 154 yards to five feet for birdie on No. 3.McMyler parred the final six holes to finish with a 71.She hit 12 greens, 11 fairways and rolled 29 putts.
Both freshman Katie Li and senior Anne Chen turned in a 1-over, 73, in the opening round.
Li, who was also making her NCAA Championship debut, was scrambling early after bogeying her first hole.She was able to get up-and-down on No. 13 and then registered sand saves for par on No. 15 and No. 16 to remain at 1-over.Li, a native of Basking Ridge, N.J., bogeyed No. 17 and then parred seven straight holes.She connected on her lone birdie of the afternoon on the 430-yard, par-4 seventh as she hit her pitching wedge from 130 yards to 14 feet.Li hit 13 greens, 12 fairways and had 32 putts on Friday.
Chen parred the first two holes and then suffered a double-bogey.She came back to turn in a terrific birdie on the 396-yard, par-4 13th.Chen, who hails from Sugar Land, Texas, found herself in the fairway bunker off the tee, but hit her approach to 20 feet.She rolled in her first of three birdies on the day.Chen then hit her 54-degree wedge from 96 yards on No. 17 to 12 feet for birdie to return to even par.She suffered a bogey on No. 2, but came back to drain a 35-foot putt from off the green on No. 3 to once again get back to even.Chen had five pars and a bogey on No. 6 to close the day with a 73.She had 29 putts, 11 greens and 10 fairways.
Sophomore Andie Smith held an even-par score through 10 holes, but struggled on the way in to finish with a 77. Smith, a product of Hobe Sound, Fla., notched two birdies on the day on No. 14 as she rolled in a 7-foot putt and on No. 1 as she hit a solid shot out of the fairway bunker from 111 yards to four feet with her pitching wedge.

Notes

Duke's 2-under, 286, in the first round is tied for the second-best opening round score in Blue Devil history at the NCAA Championship.The score was one shot off the school record of 285 from 1998 in Madison, Wisc.The Blue Devils also shot 286 in 2013.
Phoebe Brinker posted a 3-under, 69, in the opening round, which is her best score in NCAA Championship action over her career.
Duke has shot under par in four out of its last five tournaments in the first round.
In Duke's NCAA Championship history, Brinker's score of 69 is just the fifth in opening round in the 60s for a Blue Devil golfer. It is the 25th round in overall NCAA Championship history for the Blue Devils in any round.
Brinker collected her tied for team-best 18th round of even or under par on the season and fifth in the 60s.
In the Duke record book, Brinker now ranks tied for seventh along with Celine Boutier with 52 career rounds of even or under par.She also moved into sixth place on Duke's all-time birdies list with 342, passing Boutier (338).Brinker is in sole possession of seventh with 16 rounds in the 60s.
Emma McMyler posted a 1-under, 71, in her NCAA Championship debut as she notched four birdies. She now owns a tied for team-best 18 rounds of even or under par this season.
McMyler tied for first among the field with a 2-under-par score on par-3 holes.
McMyler's birdie on hole No. 16 was one of only four of the day at the par-3.It played as the hardest hole on the course (+0.46).
Katie Li tied for an individual best with 15 pars.
Duke led the field with a 4-under-par ledger on par-4 holes, but was 5-over on par-5 holes.
The 16 birdies by the Blue Devils ranked tied for fifth.

Quotes

"We had a great day.We had the afternoon wind, so it was a little tougher than the morning play.The fortunate thing is the greens rolled about the same speed as the practice round.I was a little worried they might speed them up and that might surprise us, but they were pretty much the same."-- Duke head coach Dan Brooks
"They handled it very well.This is a solid team. They are mature and they know how to handle pressure well."-- Duke head coach Dan Brooks on the late start
"She got the putter going.She said she hit it really well the last day at regionals, but the ball just didn't fall in the hole.Today it was dropping so things worked for her today."-- Duke head coach Dan Brooks on the play of Phoebe Brinker

"The conditions were playing pretty tough. The course isn't easy. You have to really pick apart the tee shots and figure out what clubs you want to hit off the tee. I played a solid round. I didn't quite have the best start, but I knew if I stayed patient, there'd be some birdies out there.I was able to roll in a few putts coming in. So, overall it was a good day."-- Duke graduate student Emma McMyler
"I was really in a flow today.I felt really, really focused.I hit a lot of fairways and greens.I was rolling the ball really well. I missed a couple of birdie putts, but overall it was a low stress kind of day."-- Duke senior Phoebe Brinker

What is Next

Duke will have a quick turnaround as the Blue Devils will tee off on Saturday in the second round beginning at 7:35 a.m., local time and 10:35 a.m. (ET) with Texas and Southern California.The Blue Devils open action on hole No. 1.

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Duke Results
- T8 Phoebe Brinker Duke 69 -3
- T18 Emma McMyler Duke 71 -1
- T58 Anne Chen Duke 73 +1
- T58 Katie Li Duke 73 +1
- T116 Andie Smith Duke 77 +5

1 Team Scores
1 Clemson 280 -8
2 Texas A&M 281 -7
T3 Stanford 285 -3
T3 Auburn 285 -3
T3 Northwestern 285 -3
T6 Duke 286 -2
T6 San Jose State 286 -2
T6 Arizona State 286 -2
T9 Mississippi State 287 -1
T9 Oklahoma State 287 -1
T9 Florida State 287 -1
T12 Michigan State 288 E
T12 Arkansas 288 E
14 LSU 289 +1
T15 UCLA 291 +3
T15 Pepperdine 291 +3
17 Oregon 294 +6
T18 Purdue 295 +7
T18 Wake Forest 295 +7
20 South Carolina 296 +8
T21 Southern California 299 +11
T21 Texas 299 +11
T21 Oregon State 299 +11
T21 Ole Miss 299 +11
T25 Vanderbilt 300 +12
T25 Baylor 300 +12
T27 Virginia 301 +13
T27 North Carolina 301 +13
29 SMU 302 +14
30 Tulsa 303 +15

Start Finish Player Team Scores
- 1 Lottie Woad Florida State 65 -7
- 2 Isabella Rawl Clemson 66 -6
- T3 Louisa Carlbom San Jose State 68 -4
- T3 Maddison Hinson-Tolchard Oklahoma State 68 -4
- T3 Sophie Linder Ole Miss 68 -4
- T3 Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio Texas A&M 68 -4
- T3 Adela Cernousek Texas A&M 68 -4
- T8 Annabelle Pancake Clemson 69 -3
- T8 Louise Rydqvist South Carolina 69 -3
- T8 Caroline Canales UCLA 69 -3
- T8 Phoebe Brinker Duke 69 -3
- T8 Anna Davis Auburn 69 -3
- T13 Surapa Janthamunee Mississippi State 70 -2
- T13 Casey Weidenfeld Auburn 70 -2
- T13 Paula Martin Sampedro Stanford 70 -2
- T13 Paula Schulz-Hanssen Arizona State 70 -2
- T13 Ashley Menne Arizona State 70 -2
- T18 Melena Barrientos Clemson 71 -1
- T18 Virginie Ding Vanderbilt 71 -1
- T18 Julia Lopez Ramirez Mississippi State 71 -1
- T18 Amanda Sambach Virginia 71 -1
- T18 Rebecca Gyllner San Jose State 71 -1
- T18 Kayla Smith North Carolina 71 -1
- T18 Kajsa Arwefjall San Jose State 71 -1
- T18 Ashleen Kaur Baylor 71 -1
- T18 Leila Raines Michigan State 71 -1
- T18 Rachel Heck Stanford 71 -1
- T18 Carla Tejedo Mulet LSU 71 -1
- T18 Latanna Stone LSU 71 -1
- T18 Megan Schofill Auburn 71 -1
- T18 Hsin Chun Liao Texas 71 -1
- T18 Ashley Yun Northwestern 71 -1
- T18 Miriam Ayora Arkansas 71 -1
- T18 Ching-Tzu Chen Oregon 71 -1
- T18 Jieni Li Northwestern 71 -1
- T18 Emma McMyler Duke 71 -1
- T18 Jennifer Cai Northwestern 71 -1
- T38 Chiara Horder Mississippi State 72 E
- T38 Yingzhi Zhu Pepperdine 72 E
- T38 Alice Hodge Florida State 72 E
- T38 Lauren Gomez Pepperdine 72 E
- T38 Brooke Biermann Michigan State 72 E
- T38 Paula Balanzategui Michigan State 72 E
- T38 Momo Sugiyama Purdue 72 E
- T38 Thitaporn Saithip Oklahoma State 72 E
- T38 Chayse Gomez Oregon State 72 E
- T38 Marta Silchenko Oklahoma State 72 E
- T38 Maylis Lamoure South Carolina 72 E
- T38 Mimi Rhodes Wake Forest 72 E
- T38 Kelly Xu Stanford 72 E
- T38 Megha Ganne Stanford 72 E
- T38 Rachel Kuehn Wake Forest 72 E
- T38 Jiayi Wang Northwestern 72 E
- T38 Kendall Todd Arkansas 72 E
- T38 Maria Jose Marin Arkansas 72 E
- T38 Zoe Slaughter Texas A&M 72 E
- T38 Lauren Beaudreau * Notre Dame 72 E
- T58 Lion Higo Pepperdine 73 +1
- T58 Natasha Kiel Purdue 73 +1
- T58 Mackenzie Lee SMU 73 +1
- T58 Katie Lu Michigan State 73 +1
- T58 Jasmine Leovao * Long Beach State 73 +1
- T58 Sydney Seigel Tulsa 73 +1
- T58 Sadie Englemann Stanford 73 +1
- T58 Ingrid Lindblad LSU 73 +1
- T58 Amari Avery Southern California 73 +1
- T58 Anne Chen Duke 73 +1
- T58 Katie Li Duke 73 +1
- T58 Karen Tsuru Oregon 73 +1
- T58 Catherine Park Southern California 73 +1
- T58 Blanca Fernandez Garcia-Poggio Texas A&M 73 +1
- T58 Kajal Mistry Arkansas 73 +1
- T58 Patience Rhodes Arizona State 73 +1
- T58 Beth Coulter Arizona State 73 +1
- T75 Sydney Roberts Clemson 74 +2
- T75 Kaleiya Romero Pepperdine 74 +2
- T75 Avery Weed Mississippi State 74 +2
- T75 Shannon Kennedy Michigan State 74 +2
- T75 BaiMai Seema Baylor 74 +2
- T75 Ashley Kozlowski Purdue 74 +2
- T75 Brooke Rivers Wake Forest 74 +2
- T75 Natalie Vo UCLA 74 +2
- T75 Kate Villegas UCLA 74 +2
- T75 Aine Donegan LSU 74 +2
- T75 Zoe Campos UCLA 74 +2
- T75 Isabella McCauley * Minnesota 74 +2
- T87 Celina Sattelkau Vanderbilt 75 +3
- T87 Mirabel Ting Florida State 75 +3
- T87 Charlotte Heath Florida State 75 +3
- T87 Madde Sund Oregon State 75 +3
- T87 Ellie Bushnell Oklahoma State 75 +3
- T87 Lovisa Gunnar Tulsa 75 +3
- T87 Veronika Kedronova * Kent State 75 +3
- T87 Anna Foster Auburn 75 +3
- T87 Meghan Royal UCLA 75 +3
- T87 Brianna Navarrosa Southern California 75 +3
- T87 Minori Nagano Oregon 75 +3
- T87 Kiara Romero Oregon 75 +3
- T99 Celeste Valinho Virginia 76 +4
- T99 Ashley Chow SMU 76 +4
- T99 Ing Iadpluem North Carolina 76 +4
- T99 Emily Odwin SMU 76 +4
- T99 Jocelyn Bruch Purdue 76 +4
- T99 Lucia Lopez-Ortega San Jose State 76 +4
- T99 Megan Streicher North Carolina 76 +4
- T99 Kyra Ly Oregon State 76 +4
- T99 Grace Kilcrease Tulsa 76 +4
- T99 Raya Nakao Oregon State 76 +4
- T99 Farah O'Keefe Texas 76 +4
- T99 Lauren Kim Texas 76 +4
- T99 Huai-Chien Hsu Texas 76 +4
- T99 Justine Fournand Ole Miss 76 +4
- T99 Ting-Hsuan Huang Oregon 76 +4
- T99 Carla Bernat * Kansas State 76 +4
- T99 Natacha Husted Ole Miss 76 +4
- T116 Lynn Lim Vanderbilt 77 +5
- T116 Rebecca Skoler Virginia 77 +5
- T116 Tillie Claggett Vanderbilt 77 +5
- T116 Jaclyn LaHa Virginia 77 +5
- T116 Moa Andersson San Jose State 77 +5
- T116 Tess Davenport SMU 77 +5
- T116 Jasmine Kahler Purdue 77 +5
- T116 Ellie Szeryk SMU 77 +5
- T116 Sera Hasegawa Baylor 77 +5
- T116 Bailey Davis * Tennessee 77 +5
- T116 Mia Sandtorv Lussand South Carolina 77 +5
- T116 Taylor Riley LSU 77 +5
- T116 Katie Cranston Auburn 77 +5
- T116 Macy Pate Wake Forest 77 +5
- T116 Andie Smith Duke 77 +5
- T116 Lauryn Nguyen Northwestern 77 +5
- T132 Megan Propeck Virginia 78 +6
- T132 Izzy Pellot Mississippi State 78 +6
- T132 Jeneath Wong Pepperdine 78 +6
- T132 Inez Ng North Carolina 78 +6
- T132 Rosie Belsham Baylor 78 +6
- T132 Angelica Pfefferkorn Oklahoma State 78 +6
- T132 Carolina Lopez-Chacarra Wake Forest 78 +6
- T132 Vairana Heck South Carolina 78 +6
- T132 Angela Heo Texas 78 +6
- T132 Cindy Kou Southern California 78 +6
- T132 Reagan Zibilski Arkansas 78 +6
- T132 Bailey Shoemaker Southern California 78 +6
- T144 Allyn Stephens Tulsa 79 +7
- T144 Rebecca Kim Oregon State 79 +7
- T144 Nicole Gal Ole Miss 79 +7
- T144 Jennie Park Texas A&M 79 +7
- T149 Jenni Roller Tulsa 80 +8
- T149 Grace Summerhays Arizona State 80 +8
- T149 Caitlyn Macnab Ole Miss 80 +8
- T152 Katherine Cook Florida State 81 +9
- T152 Chloe Holder Clemson 81 +9
- T144 Sara Im Vanderbilt 79 +7
- T154 Crista Izuzquiza North Carolina 82 +10
- T154 Silje Ohma Baylor 82 +10
- 156 Hannah Darling South Carolina 84 +12