LAKE ELMO, Minn. – The Duke women's golf tandem of Erica Shepherd and Gina Kim combined to shoot 6-under-par Monday in the 2021-22 season opener at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate to pace the Blue Devils to a solid opening day. As a team, second-ranked Duke carded a 3-under-par, 285, on its way to being in second place with 36 holes remaining at the 6,410-yard, par-72 Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn.
Shepherd, a junior from Greenwood, Ind., enters day two in a tie for third, while Kim, a senior out of Durham, N.