Inside Irish Golf: Sensation Leona Maguire blazing trail at Duke

Stephanie Meadow and Graeme McDowell both won nine times during their US college careers but Leona Maguire could blow their records out of the water after a sensational start to life at Duke University in North Carolina.

The 20-year star from Ballydonnell in Co Cavan arrived at the Durham campus with her twin sister Lisa last August unsure what lay in store.

Fast forward nine months and she is ranked No 1 in the Women's Collegiate Individual Rankings by Golfweek magazine following a whirlwind start to the 2014-15 season that brought her second individual title on Saturday evening. Sister Lisa is also doing well, moving into the top 400 players in the entire USA.