Trojans Finish Seventh at NCAA Women's Golf Championships
June 21, 1999 | Women's Golf
May 22, 1999
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Duke was awarded its first NCAA Women's Golf Championship on Saturday when lightning and heavy rain washed out the final round of the tournament and a comeback attempt by Arizona State.
When play at Tulsa Country Club was canceled, Duke was clinging to a two-shot lead over two-time defending champion Arizona State, which had cut six shots off the third-round lead before the storms began.
"Obviously we're hugely disappointed," Arizona State coach Linda Vollstedt said. "We were playing very well, had momentum on our side and I and all our players feel strongly we were going to win the tournament."
Duke coach Dan Brooks said he wouldn't have wanted to be in Arizona State's position.
"At first I felt a little funny about winning it this way," Brooks said. "But realizing all that we had done this year and that we were still leading at the end, I'm all right with it. I'm sure Arizona State is very disappointed, but Linda and the players were very gracious."
Vollstedt unsuccessfully appealed to Dianne Dailey, chair of the NCAA Women's Golf Committee, to waive the rule against playing on Sunday. Dailey said the organization decided last year not to extend the tournament because of bad weather because some teams have policies against playing on Sunday.
Duke won with an official 54-hole tally of 43-over 895. Georgia and Arizona State tied for second at 51-over 903, followed by Arizona at 904. The rest of the top 10 were Pepperdine, 911, Tulsa, 913, Southern California, 914, Stanford, 916, Texas, 921, and LSU, 923.
Grace Park of Arizona State won the individual title with a 1-under 212 total for 54 holes, one shot ahead of Duke freshman Candy Hannemann. Through 11 holes Saturday, Park still had the one-shot lead over Hannemann as both were 3 over.
Because of the team loss, a tearful Park had a hard time celebrating her individual crown.
"I wasn't playing great, but I could feel it coming together," she said. "I was starting to play well and get that feeling and when that happens I never lose. This is not the way I wanted to win it."
Golfers were pulled off the course at 3:40 p.m. and the decision to cancel was made at 5:45 p.m. By then, the course resembled a lake, lightning was still visible and marble-sized hailstones were falling.
Shauna Estes of Georgia finished third in the individual race at 3 over. Defending champion Jennifer Rosales of USC and Tamie Durdin of Pepperdine tied for fourth at 8 over.
Duke players said they would have preferred to finish the round and win the team title over the full 72 holes.
"We all wanted to finish," senior leader Jenny Chuasiriporn said. "But there's nothing we can do about the weather. We were still ahead through 66 holes, so we can be proud of it."
Hannemann, an 18-year-old Brazilian, seemed unfazed that she didn't get to conclude her battle with Park for the individual title.
"Who knows what would have happened?" she said. "I'm just here for the team and I'm very happy to have helped us win the team title."
Duke was 12 over through the partial round Saturday but Arizona State was 6 over. Arizona was 11 over and Georgia, playing in the final pairing, was 14 over for the day and 10 shots behind overall.
Arizona coach Todd McCorkle said he felt his team had a shot to win.
"A few bogeys here or there and we would be the national champions. We were in the best position of anybody," he said.
NCAA representatives said they would consider all proposals to build more flexibility into future events to prevent the shortening of the championships. This was the first time any round of the women's tournament had been rained out since its inception in 1982.
Results
School Scores Duke 288-309-298-895 Georgia 301-303-299-903 Arizona State 300-309-294-903 Arizona 305-307-292-904 Pepperdine 302-301-308-911 Tulsa 313-300-300-913 Southern California 305-302-307-914 Stanford 304-304-308-916 Texas 309-298-314-921 Louisiana State 303-314-306-923 Ohio State 311-314-311-936 Oklahoma State 319-318-301-938 Florida State 307-310-323-940 South Carolina 313-313-315-941 Auburn 318-312-314-944 Furman 311-319-314-944 TCU 317-314-315-946 San Jose State 317-306-323-946 New Mexico State 314-316-331-961Individual Scores Grace Park, ASU 69-73-70-212 Candy Hannemann, Duke 71-72-70-213 Shauna Estes, Georgia 77-70-69-216 Jennifer Rosales, USC 75-71-75-221 Tamie Durdin, Pepperdine 71-75-75-221 Kristin Dufour, Texas 74-75-73-222 Jenna Daniels, Arizona 76-76-72-224 Krissie Register, Arizona 76-74-74-224 Reilley Rankin, Georgia 75-76-74-225 Angie Yoon, Nevada 76-72-77-225 Randi Meadows, Texas 74-70-81-225 Maria Boden, Okla. St. 76-78-72-226 Stacy Prammanasudh, Tulsa 76-77-73-226 Kalen Anderson, Duke 73-76-77-226 Robin Cook, Auburn 78-76-73-227 Beth Bauer, Duke 72-82-73-227 Stacy Rambin, Tulsa 78-74-75-227 Stephanie Keever, Stanford 76-76-75-227 Lindsay Smith, Furman 75-75-77-227 Hilary Homeyer, Stanford 75-74-78-227 Christina Monteiro, Arizona 76-80-72-228 Julie Dunn, Stanford 76-77-75-228 Jenny Glasgow, Pepperdine 75-74-79-228 Lisa Strom, Ohio State 76-80-73-229 Tui Selvaratnam, ASU 76-79-74-229 Meredith Duncan, LSU 75-77-77-229 Courtney Swaim, Auburn 75-76-78-229 Jenny Chuasiriporn, Duke 72-79-78-229 Angela Stanford, TCU 82-75-73-230 Summerset Lovett, Ohio State 81-75-74-230 Niina Laitinen, Tulsa 79-76-75-230 Lisa Chang, Pepperdine 79-72-79-230 Nicole Dalkas, USC 73-78-79-230 Gwladys Nocera, N. Mex. St 75-75-80-230 Leila Chartrand, USC 81-76-74-231 Jody Niemann, ASU 80-76-75-231 Lisette Lee, LSU 75-80-76-231 Cecilia Ekelundh, S Carolina 78-76-77-231 Jill Gomric, Arizona 77-77-77-231 Laura Henderson, Georgia 75-79-77-231 Amber Amstutz, Ohio State 74-77-80-231 Amy Bond, Florida St 75-75-81-231 Nadina Taylor, Pepperdine 77-80-75-232 Katy Wilkinson, LSU 76-80-76-232 Kelly Lagedrost, So Florida 79-75-78-232 Angela Jerman, Georgia 75-78-79-232 Cristina Baena, Arizona 79-80-74-233 Kathleen Takaishi, Oregon St. 80-78-76-234 Erika Iding, Florida St 78-79-77-234 Jennifer Patterson, TCU 78-78-78-234 Michelle Sperry, Stanford 77-77-80-234 Caroline Laurens, ASU 79-81-75-235 Georgina Simpson, San Jose St 79-80-76-235 Keri Cornelius, ASU 76-81-78-235 Laura Blessey, Texas 77-79-79-235 Summer Sirmons, Georgia 76-79-80-235 Emma Zackrisson, Okla. St. 82-78-76-236 Eva-Lotta Stromlid, Okla. St. 79-81-76-236 Leslie McClurg, LSU 77-82-77-236 Filippa Helmersson, Tulsa 83-73-80-236 Emma Lofgren, S Carolina 79-77-80-236 Rebecka Heinmert, San Jose St 81-74-81-236 Mallory Crosland, Vanderbilt 78-80-79-237 Tina Howard, LSU 79-77-81-237 Louise Wright, Florida St 76-79-82-237 Apryl Arrants, S Carolina 76-78-83-237 Stacey Burnett, Furman 82-80-76-238 Jennifer Perri, Furman 73-84-81-238 Linda Ishii, USC 83-77-79-239 Susan Horton, TCU 77-81-81-239 Ramie Takahashi, Pepperdine 79-80-81-240 Amy Spooner, Florida St 78-78-84-240 Jessica Krantz, San Jose St 77-79-84-240 Jo Jo Robertson, Okla. St. 82-82-77-241 Kami Smith, Auburn 84-77-80-241 Stacy Sewell, Texas 84-75-82-241 Lotte Moeller, S Carolina 80-82-80-242 Rachel Duncan, N. Mex. St 78-83-81-242 Sarah Capie, Florida St 81-78-83-242 Sasha Medina, N. Mex. St 81-77-84-242 Helle Gram, San Jose St 80-75-87-242 Dani Mallon, Tulsa 80-86-77-243 Jae Jean Ro, Stanford 84-78-81-243 Johanna Josefsson, USC 76-82-85-243 Stefanie Reynolds, S Carolina 82-84-78-244 Leigh Turner, Furman 84-80-80-244 Brenda Anderson, TCU 81-80-83-244 Natasha Rowe, Okla. St. 83-81-82-246 Shannon Fisher, TCU 81-81-84-246 Natalie Mosher, Ohio State 80-82-84-246 Lisa Dernick, Texas 88-78-81-247 Molly Greenblatt, San Jose St 87-78-82-247 Filippa Hansson, Duke 81-82-84-247 Jenny Jones, N. Mex. St 80-82-86-248 Marty Goldthorp, Auburn 81-86-83-250 Kate Dunn, N. Mex. St 82-82-86-250 Audrey Fisher, Auburn 84-83-87-254 Dara Broadus, Furman 81-84-89-254 Tatiana Belham, Ohio State 82-84-90-256
