ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The nationally-ranked Wake Forest men’s golf team is scheduled to complete their fall season on Friday, traveling to Atlanta for the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate.
The reigning ACC Champions and NCAA Regional Champions will be led by junior Michael Brennan who has four career individual victories with a pair of wins in each of his two seasons in Winston-Salem.
Freshman Andrew McLauchlan continues to have an impressive start to his career at Wake Forest. McLauchlan was one of just six golfers in the Old Town Club Collegiate field to card a round of par or better in each of his three rounds.
After tying for sixth at the Maui Jim Individual earlier in September, McLauchlan bested that effort this week, claiming a tie for fourth which was the highest by any Wake Forest player. He performed well again, tying for 27th at the Ben Hogan Collegiate, the highest for any Demon Deacon on the individual leaderboard.
Fellow freshman Boyd Owens will also anchor the top of the lineup with him in the No. 2 spot for the Deacs. Owens, who recorded the lowest debut round in program history, finished as the Deacs top player in the Maui Jim Intercollegiate, tying for 13th individually in the first event of the season.
Tomorrow’s first round is scheduled for a 9:20 a.m. (ET) start as Wake Forest tees off between holes No. 10. The Demon Deacons will be paired with East Tennessee State and Individuals on the opening day of play.
THE DEACS’ LINEUP
Brennan, who has now risen to No. 15 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, made his PGA Tour debut at the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in February. That Monday, he earned a spot in the field as the only amateur, setting a Collegiate Showcase record Monday, shooting a five-under-par 66. He will look to claim potentially his fifth individual title, trying to join elite company in Wake Forest history. He was named a watch list member for the Fred Haskins Award to start the season.
Owens plays in the lineup for the Demon Deacons for the third time in his freshman year. As a junior, he ranked as high as No. 9 nationally in the AJGA standings. In March, he qualified for the Chitimacha Louisiana Open presented on the Korn Ferry Tour as a Monday qualifier. Additionally, he reached the Round of 32 at the 2022 North and South Amateur Championship and is the…
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