GREENSBORO, N.C. – Since the 2017 ACC Women’s Golf Championship at The Reserve at Pawley’s Island in South Carolina, Florida State has been the most consistent team in the ACC Championship with five consecutive second place finishes. Florida State’s current run is nearing the success of only Duke’s unprecedented run of 13 straight ACC championships (1996-08) and Wake Forest’s string of six straight second place finishes in conference championship play (2000-05).
Florida State Head Coach Amy Bond, the winningest coach in school history, enters the 2023 ACC Championship at the Sedgefield Country Club with the hope breaking the streak, and finishing as the team champion.
Bond and her Seminoles begin play Thursday looking to win the first ACC championship and starting the most memorable postseason run in school history.
“We have had a lot of really great players who have been disappointed walking off of the 18th green in the last five years,” said Bond. “The players in our program have established a standard of excellence, and winning the ACC Championship would allow us to show the country the excellent program we have at Florida State.”
No. 11 ranked Florida State is the second-highest ranked team in the nation’s best conference for women’s golf. The Seminoles will compete against six teams in the nation’s top 50 — No. 2 Wake Forest, No. 24 Virginia, No. 26 Clemson, No. 30 Duke, No. 47 Notre Dame, No. 50 North Carolina – along with Virginia Tech, Louisville, Notre Dame, Miami and Boston College.
“The conference tournament annually brings out the best in every team,” said Bond. “Except for Boston College, we’ve seen every team in the ACC at least once this year. We have the ability to beat each team, and each team has the ability to play great golf on any given day. We have to play well during the stroke play rounds, to get to the match play rounds. We have a very confident group; a group that has the confidence to play throughout the weekend at Sedgefield.”
The Seminoles tee off on Thursday beginning at 8:50 a.m. with a veteran lineup that consists of fifth-year senior Amelia Williamson, juniors Charlotte Heath and Alice Hodge, sophomore Kaylah Williams, and freshman Lottie Woad.
The Seminoles’ lineup at the ACC Championship is the same group that won the Florida State Match Up in March by 25 strokes, earned a second place finish at the Collegiate Invitational in February,…
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