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Duke's Leona Maguire wins ANNIKA Award after freshman season

Monday, May 25, 2015

BRADENTON, Fla. – Leona Maguire won the 2012 Irish Girls Stroke Play Championship, but it was her sister Lisa’s name that was engraved on the trophy.

“I was super happy about that,” said Lisa, who found out about it when the next year’s winner sent her a congratulatory text.

Mixups with these Irish twins are commonplace.

When they sat together with Golfweek for an interview at the NCAA Championship, the Duke freshmen wore matching uniforms, right down to their pink and white hats. Even the Celtic crosses that hung around their necks looked the same.