Wake Forest freshman Rachel Kuehn failed to qualify for the Demon Deacons’ season opener last week at the Cougar Classic. But she earned her way into the lineup for the team’s second event, the Annika Intercollegiate – and she won.
The Asheville, N.C., native shot 3-under 69 Wednesday to put the finishing touches on a wire-to-wire, five-shot victory at Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn. Kuehn finished the 54-hole event, which featured six of last year’s NCAA quarterfinalists, at a program-freshman-record 13 under to lead Wake, last year’s national runner-up, to the team title.
Kuehn is the first player in school history to win in her first start, and she also joined her mother, former Wake All-American Corrie Kuehn, as the Demon Deacons’ first mother-daughter winning duo.