Northwestern stuns Stanford to capture first NCAA title in women’s golf

CARLSBAD Calif AP Northwestern captured its first NCAA Women s golf title Wednesday when Dianna Lee holed a -foot par putt on the th hole to beat Andrea Revuelta for a - win over top-seeded Stanford to end a final hour of high tension Stanford advanced through stroke play with a record figure to win by shots and was poised to win its third NCAA title in four years and become the first crew to win back-to-back since the move to match play in Instead the Wildcats were screaming with delight at at La Costa when Lee who had twice before missed putts that would have won it delivered the biggest putt of her life More than doing what people didn t think you could is this group believing what it thought it could do Northwestern coach Emily Fletcher revealed Stanford junior Megha Ganne had a -and- win in the lead match while Hsin Tai Lin of Northwestern scored a -and- conquest Laura Nguyen put the Wildcats on the verge of the title with a -foot birdie putt for a -up domination over Paula Martin Sampedro That left Northwestern needing only one more point from either Dianne Lee who was -up with five holes to play or Elise Lee who had taken her first lead over Stanford s Kelly Xu on the th hole Stanford didn t go down without a might fight Xu who missed a -foot putt to fall behind for the first time all match answered with a -foot birdie on the par- th and a wedge to feet for birdie on the th to regain control They halved the th hole giving Xu a -up supremacy and squad sum at -all It came down to the final match that Dianna Lee once had firmly in her grasp Revuelta bogeyed the th and th holes to fall down with five holes to play But she won the th with a par and holed a -foot birdie putt on the th to get within one Lee was in a back bunker blasted out to feet and missed her par putt on the th Revuelta however pulled her -foot par putt to stay down On the next hole Lee had a -foot birdie putt to win the match and pulled it running it nearly feet by Miss that and the match was all square She holed it to stay up going to the th The par- closing hole amounts to a wedge contest with a stream guarding the green Both players had about feet Lee s uphill putt spun hard off the left lip and rolled feet by Revuelta left her downhill putt short setting up Lee with feet for the win This time she made it and the celebration was on for Northwestern which had reached the final once before in before losing to Arizona State AP golf https apnews com hub golf Source