Leona Maguire of Duke was selected as winner of the 2015 Annika Award, given to the most outstanding Division I women’s golfer.
Maguire, a freshman from Ireland, won three times this season, including in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate, the ACC championship and the South Bend Regional.
“To win golf tournaments is one thing, but to win an award that’s voted on by your peers and the coaches and the media, that’s another level,” Maguire said.
In 10 tournaments for the Blue Devils, Maguire finished outside the top seven only once.
Maguire, who is the top-ranked women’s amateur in the world, also finished second in the NCAA Division I individual championship and was runner-up in the Annika Intercollegiate.
She was third in the Tar Heel Invitational, the Liz Murphy Collegiate Classic and the Arizona State Invitational.
Alison Lee of UCLA won the first Annika Award last year.
The award is named for Annika Sorenstam, who was the 1991 NCAA individual champion at Arizona before going on to a Hall of Fame career on the LPGA Tour.
