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2022-23 Women's Golf Roster
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Megan Furtney
- Position:
- Player
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- St. Charles, Ill.
Bio
Career Honors:
WGCA Scholar All-American (2022, 2021, 2020)
All-ACC Academic Team (2023)
ACC Honor Roll (2022, 2021, 2020)
2022-23:
All-ACC Academic Team ... saw action in six tournaments as a senior ... all four of her even or under par rounds came in the postseason ... in the ACC Championship and NCAA Palm Beach Gardens Regional, collected a 73.83 stroke average ... during those six rounds, turned in her third career top-20 finish at the ACC Championship with rounds of 72, 70 and 77 for a 219, which was tied for 15th ... totaled her sixth and seventh career rounds of even or under par ... her round of 2-under, 70, was the lowest 18-hole score since her 69 as a sophomore at the Valspar Augusta Invitational ... Furtney’s 13 birdies in the ACCs were ranked tied for fourth-most in the field ... in the ACCs and NCAA Regional, she averaged 3.3 birdies, 12.6 greens, 9.0 fairways and 32.7 putts ... helped lead Duke to second-place finishes at the NCAA Regional and ACC Championship ... opened the NCAA Championship with a 1-under-par, 71, in Scottsdale.
Summer of 2022:
Won the Illinois State Women’s Amateur Championship with a 2UP victory over Grace Curran ... advanced to match play at the Women’s Western Amateur, before falling in the round of 32.
2021-22:
WGCA Scholar All-American ... competed in nine tournaments ... collected a round of 75 at the East Lake Cup stroke play action to finish tied for 13th ... in match play at the East Lake Cup, defeated Andrea Lignell, 3&2, of Mississippi to help send the Blue Devils into the championship match ... counted at least one round in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, Northrop Grumman Challenge and the ACC Championship ... totaled rounds of 73 and 75 at the Northrop Grumman Challenge to close action ... in the Wolfpack Match Play, won two of her three matches against Florida State and Notre Dame.
Summer of 2021:
Advanced to the finals of match play at the Illinois State Women’s Amateur Championship, before falling to Grace Curran, 2&1 ... missed the cut at the Pinehurst North & South Women’s Amateur with rounds of 78 and 75.
2021:
WGCA Scholar All-American ... competed in three stroke play tournaments … turned in a season-best finish at the Palmetto Intercollegiate with a tied for 28th placement … collected a career-best opening at the Valspar Augusta Invitational with back-to-back under-par rounds with a 71 and 69, while finishing tied for 34th … went 2-1 in the Cavalier Match Play helping Duke claim the team title.
Fall of 2020:
Placed tied for fifth at the Golfweek Hoosier Amateur with rounds of 77, 74 and 74 for a 225 ... tied for sixth at the Golfweek Purdue Amateur with rounds of 71, 70 and 76 for a one-under-par, 217 ... turned in a tied for seventh finish at the Golfweek Caledonia Amateur with rounds of 69, 70 and 72 for a two-under-par, 211.
January of 2021:
With rounds of 71, 72 and 75, placed tied for 13th at the Women’s Orlando International Amateur as she posted a two-over-par, 218.
Summer of 2020:
Tied for third in stroke play qualifying of the North & South Women’s Amateur with rounds of 70 and 71 for a three-under, 141 … earned the No. 4 seed in match play, but lost in the round of 32 to Lauren Beaudreau (3&2) … carded rounds of 74 and 77 at the U.S. Women’s Amateur and missed the cut by one stroke.
2019-20:
WGCA Scholar All-American ... saw action in three tournaments on the season ... turned in a career-best tied for 12th finish at the stacked Northrop Grumman Challenge with three straight rounds of 71 ... her even-par, 213, tied for 12th against a field that included nine top 10 teams ... notched three rounds of even or under par ... carded 29 birdies in only three tournaments.
Summer of 2019:
In her first appearance in the U.S. Women’s Open, missed the cut by three strokes with rounds of 73 and 75 for a six-over, 148 … tied for 25th at the Rolex Girls Junior Championship with rounds of 71, 73, 74 and 74 for a six-over, 294 … one of four medalists at the U.S. Girls’ Junior qualifier, after shooting a one-under, 71.
High School/Prep:
Won her first USGA Championship at the 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship along with Erica Shepherd ... totaled three AJGA titles -- 2018 Bass Pro Shops/Payne Stewart Junior Championship, 2018 Lockton Kansas City Junior and 2016 AJGA Junior at The Legends ... collected 17 career AJGA top 10 finishes along with 28 top 25 placements ... competed in four AJGA events in 2019 and finished in the top 11 of two and no lower than 25th ... 2018 and 2016 AJGA Honorable Mention All-America ... posted 11 rounds in the 60s on the AJGA ... two of her AJGA victories came in back-to-back tournaments as she turned in four rounds in the 60s ... as of Aug. 1 of 2019, ranked No. 19 in the AJGA and No. 21 in the Golfweek class of 2019 rankings ... missed the 2017 summer season due to injury ... advanced to the semifinals of the 2018 Women’s Four-Ball Championship alongside Shepherd ... an All-Conference, All-State, MVP and Kane County Player of the Year in each of her four high-school seasons with St. Charles North High School ... as a senior, boasted an 18-hole average of 67.7 ... closed her high school career by winning her fourth consecutive conference championship with a five-under, 67, and helped her squad to the 2018 Illinois State Championship ... selected to the 2016 AJGA Junior All-Star Team ... qualified for both the USGA Girls’ Junior and the PGA Girls Junior Championship at the age of 13.
Personal:
Full name is Megan Marie Furtney ... born September 4, 2000 in Fort Wayne, Ind. ... daughter of Craig & Stacy Furtney ... has two brothers, Ben (20) and Jake (17) ... Ben will be a junior at Purdue in 2022-23 ... her mother, Stacy, played basketball at Minnesota (1989-93) ... her father, Craig, played football at Southwest State University (1988-90) ... her cousins, Steffi Neisen (Nebraska) and Kenzie Neisen (Oklahoma State) played women’s golf ... Academic All-Conference at St. Charles North in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 ... maintained a 5.3/5.0 GPA and earning AP Scholar distinctions ... an ACC Honor Roll selection as a freshman, sophomore and junior ... graduated from Duke in May of 2023 with a psychology degree along with an environmental science and policy minor.
2022-23
Windy City Collegiate** (79-82-79=240, 75, +24)
Nexus Collegiate Invite** (82-81-85=248, T57, +32)
Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (81-81-78=240, T86, +27)
ACC Championship (72-70-77=219, T15, +3)
NCAA Palm Beach Regional (72-75-77=224, T28, +8)
NCAA Championship (71-77-83=231, T125, +15)
2021-22
Windy City Collegiate (79-79-75=233, T53, +17)
Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invite (83-76-80=239, 95, +23)
East Lake Cup (75=75, T13, 3)
Moon Golf Inviational (81-80-79=240, 83, +24)
Darius Rucker Intercollegiate (90-90-75=255, 88, +42)
Northrop Grumman Challenge (82-73-75=230, T67, +17)
Chattanooga Classic** (77-78-74=229, T55, +13)
ACC Championship (79-75-81=235, T49, +19)
NCAA Franklin Regional (74-76-77=227, T45, +11)
2021
Palmetto Intercollegiate (78-76-77=231, T28, +15)
Gamecock Intercollegiate (74-74-75=223, T40, +7)
Valspar Augusta Invitational (71-69-79=219, T34, +3)
2019-20
Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invite (75-70-78=223, T57, +7)
Northrop Grumman Challenge (71-71-71=213, T12, E)
Darius Rucker Intercollegiate** (77-85-101=263, 90, +50)
LPGA
2019 U.S. Open (73-75=148, MC, +6)
Anna Grzebien Hall of Fame Feature
Saturday, November 02
Duke Athletics: A Tour of Campus
Saturday, October 19
Welcome to Duke
Saturday, October 19
2019 Duke Women's Golf National Championship Feature
Friday, October 11
