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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Purdue women's golf team wrapped up play at the 2019 NCAA Championships Tuesday, tying for ninth place overall with a 54-hole score of 312-294-311=917 (+41) at The Blessings Golf Club. The Boilermakers' ninth-place effort is their best team performance at the national championships since 2013, but fell two strokes shy of advancing to match play.
Freshman Danielle du Toit put the finishing touches on an outstanding rookie season, shooting one-under 72 in the final round and finishing tied for 19th in the individual standings. She dropped two birdies and an eagle in her last 18 despite play being suspended due to darkness while Du Toit had just one hole left on the course Monday. Her return Tuesday morning was triumphant, dropping the eagle on No. 9 to finish her NCAA Championships and try and mount a late rally for her team. She and sophomore teammate Inez Wanamarta erased four strokes from a six-shot deficit to Auburn in just three holes Tuesday, jumping from 11th to ninth in the team standings.
Du Toit wraps up the year with a freshman record 17 rounds of par or better, including two at the national championships, and her total is also tied for fifth-most all-time by a Boilermaker. Her season stroke average of 73.64 is the third-best ever for a Purdue freshman, trailing only Wanamarta and Maude-Aimee Leblanc in the record books.
Wanamarta finished tied for 23rd in the individual standings but struggled in her final round with a nine-over par, 82. She made birdie on two of her last four, including the ninth and final hole, but it would not prove enough to get the Boilermakers back on the right side of the cut line. Senior Ida Ayu Indira Melati Putri finished her round at five-over 78, sinking a pair of birdies, and finished 10-over par for the championships, tying for 36th individually.
Junior Micaela Farah finished six-over par, 79, putting together a solid start on the back nine, but struggling on the front after a weather delay emptied the course midway through her round. A birdie on No. 13 got her to one-over par and then she made five straight pars to finish the side. Unfortunately, she went on to bogey five of her next six before carding pars on the final three holes.
Texas topped stroke play at seven-over par, including a round of five-under 287 on the final 18. Joining the Longhorns in match play is Duke, USC, Arkansas, Wake Forest, Arizona, Stanford and Auburn. Arkansas' Maria Fassi ran away with medalist honors on her home course, shooting five-under 68 in the final round and winning the individual national title by four strokes over Florida's Sierra Brooks.
Purdue has now finished in the top-10 in 10 of its 17 team appearances at the NCAA Championships, all coming under head coach Devon Brouse. The Boilermakers matched Illinois for the top team showing from the Big Ten, tying the Fighting Illini in ninth, while Northwestern finished 13th at 49-over par and Indiana was 21st at 68-over par. Du Toit and Illinois' Kornkamol Sukaree tied for the top individual placing from the Big Ten at six-over par.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Purdue women's golf team wrapped up play at the 2019 NCAA Championships Tuesday, tying for ninth place overall with a 54-hole score of 312-294-311=917 (+41) at The Blessings Golf Club. The Boilermakers' ninth-place effort is their best team performance at the national championships since 2013, but fell two strokes shy of advancing to match play.
Freshman Danielle du Toit put the finishing touches on an outstanding rookie season, shooting one-under 72 in the final round and finishing tied for 19th in the individual standings. She dropped two birdies and an eagle in her last 18 despite play being suspended due to darkness while Du Toit had just one hole left on the course Monday. Her return Tuesday morning was triumphant, dropping the eagle on No. 9 to finish her NCAA Championships and try and mount a late rally for her team. She and sophomore teammate Inez Wanamarta erased four strokes from a six-shot deficit to Auburn in just three holes Tuesday, jumping from 11th to ninth in the team standings.
Du Toit wraps up the year with a freshman record 17 rounds of par or better, including two at the national championships, and her total is also tied for fifth-most all-time by a Boilermaker. Her season stroke average of 73.64 is the third-best ever for a Purdue freshman, trailing only Wanamarta and Maude-Aimee Leblanc in the record books.
Wanamarta finished tied for 23rd in the individual standings but struggled in her final round with a nine-over par, 82. She made birdie on two of her last four, including the ninth and final hole, but it would not prove enough to get the Boilermakers back on the right side of the cut line. Senior Ida Ayu Indira Melati Putri finished her round at five-over 78, sinking a pair of birdies, and finished 10-over par for the championships, tying for 36th individually.
Junior Micaela Farah finished six-over par, 79, putting together a solid start on the back nine, but struggling on the front after a weather delay emptied the course midway through her round. A birdie on No. 13 got her to one-over par and then she made five straight pars to finish the side. Unfortunately, she went on to bogey five of her next six before carding pars on the final three holes.
Texas topped stroke play at seven-over par, including a round of five-under 287 on the final 18. Joining the Longhorns in match play is Duke, USC, Arkansas, Wake Forest, Arizona, Stanford and Auburn. Arkansas' Maria Fassi ran away with medalist honors on her home course, shooting five-under 68 in the final round and winning the individual national title by four strokes over Florida's Sierra Brooks.
Purdue has now finished in the top-10 in 10 of its 17 team appearances at the NCAA Championships, all coming under head coach Devon Brouse. The Boilermakers matched Illinois for the top team showing from the Big Ten, tying the Fighting Illini in ninth, while Northwestern finished 13th at 49-over par and Indiana was 21st at 68-over par. Du Toit and Illinois' Kornkamol Sukaree tied for the top individual placing from the Big Ten at six-over par.