Tech Wins 19th ACC Golf Championship – Men’s Golf – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Pinehurst, NC – After finishing first in five games this year, Georgia Tech finally won Monday as the Yellow Jackets beat Wake Forest 3-2 in the 69 championship game.^Th Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship at North Carolina Country Club.

Senior anchor Ross Stillman In a 3&2 victory over the Demon Deacons, Andrew McLauchlan sank a 27-foot birdie putt from a downhill tee on No. 16 to seal the title for the Yellow Jackets.

The victory, which came 24 hours after Georgia Tech trailed by 16 strokes in the stroke play, gave the Yellow Jackets 11 ACC men’s golf titles in the last 17 seasons and 19 titles overall – tying Wake Forest for the most in league history. After the Yellow Jackets fell to the Demon Deacons in last year’s title game in Panama City, Fla. Tech has won all 54 medal games to become the first team to win a playoff championship in the current championship. Format.

Christo Lamprecht The first point of the day for Georgia Tech was a 6&5 win over ACCC medalist Michael Brennan and Bartley Forster Edge Mark Power on 2&1 points.

But Wake Forest tied things 2-2 with wins from Boyd Owens, Connor Howe (2&1) and Scotty Keenen, Hiroshi Tai (3&2), setting up Steelman’s clutch putt and thrilling finish.

The Yellow Jackets earned automatic qualification to the NCAA Tournament with the championship and now await their berth in one of the six regional spots to be announced on May 3.

Competition information – The ACC Championship was held at North Carolina State for the first time since 2019, when Georgia Tech most recently hosted the championship 22 times at the old North State Club in New London, NC. This is the eighth time Pinehurst has played for the ACC Men’s Golf Championship at North Carolina Country Club, which first hosted it in 1966. Last year’s event was held at the Shark’s Tooth Golf Course at the Watersound Club in Panama City. , Fla., earlier in the 2021 championship at Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course in Milton, Ga. Next year’s championship will be held at the Charlotte (NC) Country Club.

This is the third time the ACC Championship has been held in a combined stroke play/playoff format. The Championship used the traditional 54-hole, stroke play format from 1980 to 2019 (the Championship was not held in 2020 due to Covid-19). All 12 competing teams (Miami, Pittsburgh and Syracuse do not sponsor men’s golf) play 54 strokes, 36 holes on Friday and 18 holes on Saturday, with a standard minimum of four individual rounds per round counting for the team’s daily score. After 54 holes, the top four teams are seeded into a playoff bracket, with semifinal matches on Sunday and championship matches on Monday. The format is similar to how the NCAA Championship has been played every year since 2009.

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