Hall of Fame coach Dan Brooks took the Duke women’s golf team to the NCAA national championship tournament last month for the 29th time in his 35 years, capping off a rare spring season in which the Blue Devils had not won a team title.
Not that Brooks was even mildly concerned about that aspect of his squad’s ledger. With a couple of runner-up showings early and a pair of third-place finishes at the ACC tournament and NCAA regionals to go along with a No. 1 ranking at one point, Duke had crafted a solid body of work on its path to nationals.