Pinehurst, N.C. – After finishing as runner-up in five tournaments this year, Georgia Tech finally came away winners Monday when the Yellow Jackets downed Wake Forest, 3-2, in the championship match of the 69th Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship at the Country Club of North Carolina.
Senior anchor Ross Steelman secured the title for the Yellow Jackets by sinking a bending, downhill 27-foot birdie putt on No. 16 for a match-clinching 3&2 win over the Demon Deacons’ Andrew McLauchlan.
The win, which came 24 hours after Georgia Tech ran away with the stroke play competition by 16 shots, gave the Yellow Jackets 11 ACC men’s golf titles over the past 17 seasons and 19 overall – tying Wake Forest for the most in league history. The Yellow Jackets also turned the tables after falling to the Demon Deacons in last year’s title match in Panama City, Fla. Tech became the first team to win the 54 holes of medal play and go on to win the match play championship under the current championship format.
Christo Lamprecht earned the first point of the day for Georgia Tech with an impressive 6&5 victory over ACC medalist Michael Brennan, and Bartley Forrester edged Mark Power by a 2&1 score.
But Wake Forest countered with wins by Boyd Owens over Connor Howe (2&1) and Scotty Kennon over Hiroshi Tai (3&2) to tie things up at 2-2, setting up Steelman’s clutch putt and the exciting finish.
The Yellow Jackets earned automatic qualification into the NCAA Tournament with the championship, and now await their destination at one of six regional sites to be announced on May 3.
Ross Steelman watches his 27-foot putt roll toward the hole at the 16th green. The putt dropped to clinch the match for Georgia Tech and set off a celebration.
Georgia Tech’s golf team is presented the 2023 ACC Championship trophy, the 19th in program history.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The ACC Championship was 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 Men’s Golf Championship and the second time at the Country Club of North Carolina, which first hosted in 1966. Last year’s event was held at Shark’s Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club in Panama City, Fla., preceded by the 2021 championship at the Capital City Club’s Crabapple…
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