If any Duke fans tune in to the women’s golf competition at the 2024 Olympic Games this summer, they’ll have three former Blue Devils to cheer for.
Leona Maguire, Celine Boutier, and Ana Belac each met the world ranking qualifications for the Olympics last week.
The two highest-ranked players from each country (unless one country has more than two within the top 15 of the Rolex Rankings) earned their way in until the field of 60 was filled out.
Boutier will play for the hosting country of France while Maguire and Belac will represent Ireland and Slovenia, respectively.
One of the most successful professional athletes in school history, Boutier already has six LPGA Tour wins at the age of 30. She won four times in 2023, including her first major at the Evian Championship last July.
Maguire put together one of the most decorated collegiate golf careers in NCAA history. She became the first golfer to win the ANNIKA Award as the nation’s best player twice, taking it home in 2015 and 2017, and her 135 weeks atop the Women’s Amateur Golf Rankings held as a record for five years until Stanford’s Rose Zhang torched every mark.
She’s won two LPGA Tour events during her professional career thus far.
Belac earned her way onto the LPGA Tour after a Player of the Year campaign on the Symetra Tour in 2020. She has two career top-10s in LPGA events.