Kim Wins Medalist Honors as Duke Finishes Runner-Up at Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – In a subject that featured 9 top-30 applications and 4 of the nation’s top-five ranked golfers, Duke junior Bryan Kim captured particular person medalist honors because the No. 29 Blue Devils earned their second consecutive runner-up end of the season on the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate on Sunday on the Lakeside Course.

Duke completed with a 9-under-par crew complete of 855 (277-283-295), edging No. 26 USC (857) for second place and topping No. 14 Pepperdine and No. 18 Georgia Tech (each at 859). Top-ranked Virginia gained the occasion with a 24-under 840.

Kim, a local of Brookeville, Maryland, carded rounds of 65, 69 and 71 for an 11-under 205 to safe his second particular person title of the autumn season. He clinched the victory with back-to-back birdies over his remaining two holes to complete two strokes away from Pepperdine’s Mahanth Chirravuri and three forward of Virginia’s Ben James, the No. 1-ranked collegiate golfer within the nation.

NOTES

• Duke’s opening-round 277 (-11) was its finest rating relative to par this season and stood because the second-best crew spherical of the event.
• Bryan Kim‘s 7-under 65 on day one included seven birdies and an eagle, inserting him atop the person leaderboard.
• Kim recorded his tenth spherical within the 60s this fall with a second-round 69 and closed with a 71 on Sunday.
• He led the sphere with 18 birdies, tied for the event lead on par-3 scoring (-2), and now has a team-best 70 birdies this season.
• Daniel Choi fired a 3-under 69 in spherical two and tied for twenty first at even-par 216, ending fifth in par-5 scoring (-7).
• Ethan Evans tied for second in par-4 scoring (-4).
• Duke tied Virginia for the event lead with 62 birdies as a crew.
• The Blue Devils have earned particular person medalist honors in back-to-back years on the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate, with Kim following Evans’ 2024 title.
• After successful the season-opening Rod Myers Invitational, Duke has now posted consecutive runner-up finishes.

DUKE RESULTS

• 1. Bryan Kim – 205 (-11) – 65, 69, 71
• T21. Daniel Choi – 216 (E) – 71, 69, 76
• 38. William Love – 220 (+4) – 78, 72, 70
• T47. Ethan Evans – 223 (+7) – 68, 77, 78
• T54. Sam Mukherjee – 224 (+8) – 73, 73, 78

UP NEXT

• The Blue Devils are idle till Feb. 2-3, after they open their spring schedule on the Battle at Briar’s Creek in Johns Island, South Carolina.

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