FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Trailing in four of five matches on the back nine, Duke knew there was plenty of time in what became the longest day in the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship.

Duke sent three of those matches to extra holes, won two of them and walked away with a seventh NCAA title.

Miranda Wang won the decisive match on the 20th hole when Letizia Bagnoli of Wake Forest tried to hit a fade around a tree with a fairway metal and pulled it into a creek. A final hour of nail-biting moments ended when Bagnoli quietly reached down to pick up Wang’s ball and concede par.

“All of us know this course, you need a lot of patience,” Wang said. “We’ve been through a lot. We know things turn around.”

They turned in Duke’s favor, denying Wake Forest its first NCAA title and Jennifer Kupcho a storybook ending to her decorated career.

Kupcho, who won the NCAA individual title last year and the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur last month, had never trailed in any of her three matches until Duke sophomore Jaravee Boonchat made a 12-foot birdie on the 17th hole for her first lead of the match.

Boonchat nearly threw it away with a clunker of an approach that led to bogey on the 18th to go overtime. But on the first hole, Kupcho pulled her tee shot into a hazard, hacked out and Boonchat didn’t let her escape by making par to win in 19 holes.

“We’ve been working hard all year and it paid off,” Boonchat said.

In the other match that went extra holes, Siyun Liu of Wake Forest made birdie to give the Demon Deacons their second match.

It was the first time three matches went extra holes in the championship round since the NCAA switched to this format in 2015. Making the final day even longer was a six-hour rain delay Tuesday at Blessings Golf Club that forced the semifinals and championship match to be played Wednesday.