![]() ![]() She won her third straight individual ACC championship in Daytona Beach, Florida, and finished fifth at the NCAA championships at Albuquerque. She was named the ACC Player of the Year for the third consecutive year, and had 30 career top 10 finishes. She set a school-record 71.00 stroke average, and tied an NCAA record with a 63 (−9) at the NCAA East Regionals.īlumenherst won her second consecutive Honda Sports Award for golf as the best collegiate female golfer, which put her in the running for the Honda-Broderick Cup award as the collegiate Female Athlete of the Year. She won the Golfstat Cup to join Lorena Ochoa as the only two-time winners. She set a Blue Devil freshman record with a 54-hole total of 208 at the Mason Rudolph Championship.īlumenherst was named the NGCA National Player of the Year for the second year in a row. She had the lowest stroke average by a Duke freshman, 71.62, and was the second freshman at Duke to win her first collegiate golf tournament. Amateur career College 2005–06 (Freshman) Īt Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Blumenherst was named the National Freshman of the Year by numerous publications. Maybe I'll decide in a couple years to come back, and this will just be a little break, you never know." The couple had a son, William David, in November 2014. She said: "I don't want to say I'm retiring, because you never know what will happen. In August 2013, she announced that she would take a leave from professional golf at the end of the year to spend more time with her husband. It's nerve-wracking, but a lot of fun," he said. I'm adding up all of the numbers, and I better be right. I don't choose the clubs, but I have to give her the yardage. įreiman has caddied for her seven times at LPGA tournaments. The two were Duke's ACC Senior Male and Female Athletes of the Year in 2009. He holds Duke University's career home run record, and the school's second-highest all-time batting average. ![]() She held Arizona's 5A High School Girls' Golf State Tournament record with a score of 69–66=135 (−9).īlumenherst married Oakland A's baseball player Nate Freiman in December 2012. She led Xavier College Prep to the 5A state championships for four straight years. She attended high school at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, where she was a four-time Rolex All-American and was the third-ranked national recruit as a senior. She began playing golf at the age of four. In 2013, she announced that she would take a leave from professional golf to spend more time with her husband, major league baseball player Nate Freiman.īlumenherst was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, the daughter of Amy (McClure) and David Blumenherst. She was a three-time National Player of the Year at Duke University and won the U.S. Amanda Blumenherst (born November 4, 1986) is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. ![]()
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