CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 16 Virginia men’s golf team competes at the ACC Championships starting Friday at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, N.C. The tournament format includes 54 holes of stroke play on Friday (36 holes) and Saturday (18 holes) before match play starts on Sunday. Friday’s play begins at 7:30 a.m. and Saturday’s third round is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. The top four teams following stroke play will advance to match play semifinals on Sunday (9 a.m.) with the finals contested on Monday (9 a.m.).
The semifinals and finals of the ACC Men’s Golf Championship match play will be televised live on ACC Network Extra from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Ryan Burr (play-by-play) and Steve Scott (analyst) will provide the call. A championship recap show will air May 1 at 9 p.m. on ACCN.
The Cavaliers’ stroke play lineup includes freshmen Ben James and Bryan Lee, juniors George Duangmanee and Chris Fosdick and senior Pietro Bovari. James leads the Cavaliers with a 69.30 stroke average and has picked up four first-place finishes this season, including UVA’s last outing, the Hoos’ own Lewis Chitengwa Memorial tournament. James ranks No. 10 in the current Golfstat standings. That is the highest ranking of any freshman.
Virginia is paired with Wake Forest and Louisville during the opening round. Those teams will tee off starting from the 1st tee at 7:30 a.m.
Live scoring for the ACC Championships will be available online at Golfstat.com.
ACC Championships get going this weekend. Coach Sargent breaks it down and also provides a recap of the team’s play at the Lewis Chitengwa Memorial event. pic.twitter.com/SlzkDbG1az
— Virginia Men’s Golf (@UVAMensGolf) April 20, 2023
The Field (with Golfstat rankings)
Seven ACC teams are ranked among the top 50 in the current Golfweek rankings – No. 2 North Carolina, No. 6 Florida State, No. 12 Georgia Tech, No. 16 Virginia, No. 27, Louisville, No. 28 Wake Forest and No. 34 Duke.
Tournament History
Virginia has never won the team championship, but the 2019 runner-up finish by the Cavaliers was the fifth in program history. UVA also placed second in 1958, 1996, 2010 and 2012. Virginia has had four individual champions. Pete Arend won the individual title in 1955, Ben Rusch won it in 2012, Jimmy Stanger took the crown in 2017 (winning a one-hole, four-player playoff) and Thomas Walsh was medalist in 2018.
This will mark the eighth time that Pinehurst has played host to the ACC…
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