Pinehurst, N.C. – Saturday’s third and final round of stroke play at the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship was suspended due to inclement weather in the vicinity, with play scheduled to resume at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at the Country Club of North Carolina.
The third round will be completed, and the top four teams on the leaderboard will advance to the match play portion of the competition. Semifinal matches will commence following the conclusion of stroke play, with the two winners facing off in the championship match Monday morning at 9 a.m. as originally scheduled. The ACC individual champion will still be crowned at the conclusion of the third round of stroke play.
Duke, Virginia and Louisville, who began the round in fourth, fifth and sixth place, respectively, as well as the No. 7-8-9 teams North Carolina, NC State and Notre Dame, had begun their rounds when play was halted at 8:28 a.m. Those golfers will resume their rounds from the point play was halted.
Tech, Wake Forest and Florida State, the top three teams paired together for round 3, as well as the bottom three teams Clemson, Boston College and Virginia Tech, were minutes from teeing off when play was stopped. Those teams will begin their rounds at 7:30 a.m. from the first and 10th tees.
Match play semifinals will now have a split-tee format with the No. 1 versus No. 4 match starting on the first hole, with No. 2 versus No. 3 going off simultaneously, starting on hole No. 10.
At the time of suspension Saturday, the Yellow Jackets (-13) remained two strokes ahead of Wake Forest (-11), followed by Duke (-5) and Florida State (-4) as the top four teams. Virginia (-2), Louisville (+1) and North Carolina (+2) are all within six strokes of fourth place.
Michael Brennan of Wake Forest (-9), Jiri Zuska of Louisville (-6) and Hiroshi Tai of Georgia Tech hold the top three positions in the race for medalist honors.
Under the stroke-play/match-play format, Tech has finished fifth and second, respectively, the last two years. The Jackets won their semifinal match over Florida State in 2022 and lost, 3-2, to Wake Forest in the championship match.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The ACC Championship is being contested in the state of North Carolina for the first time since 2019, when Georgia Tech won its most recent title at the Old North State Club in New London, N.C., which has hosted the championship 22 times. This is the eighth time that Pinehurst has played host to the ACC…
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