THE FLATS – In search of the 20th conference championship in program history, Georgia Tech’s golf team begins post-season competition this weekend with the 70th Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship, which will be conducted Friday through Monday (April 19-22) at Charlotte Country Club in Charlotte, N.C.
The Yellow Jackets have captured 11 of the last 17 championships, most recently winning the 2023 title at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, N.C. It was the 19th in program history, tying Wake Forest for the most in conference annals. The Yellow Jackets defeated the Demon Deacons, 3-2, in the finals, one year after Wake had downed Tech by the same score to capture its 19th all-time title.
At No. 16 in the current Scoreboard NCAA Golf national rankings, Georgia Tech sits behind North Carolina (No. 3), Florida State (No. 6) and Virginia (No. 13) and is the No. 4 seed in the championship, which begins with 18 holes of stroke play on Friday. Duke (No. 24) is the only other ACC team in the top 25 of the current Golfstat rankings, while Wake Forest (No. 29) and Notre Dame (No. 31) reside inside the top 50.
The Yellow Jackets are paired with the No. 5-seed Blue Devils and the No. 6-seed Demon Deacons for the first round on Friday, which begins at 9 a.m., utilizing split tees with continuous play through 54 holes of golf. Stroke play continues at 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, after which the top four teams on the leaderboard will be seeded for match play beginning Monday morning..
In last year’s ACC Championship, Tech cruised to a 16-shot victory in the stroke-play portion of the championship, with freshman Hiroshi Tai (Singapore) finishing runner-up for medalist honors after a playoff with Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan. The Yellow Jackets defeated Duke, 3-1-1, in the match play semifinals, and outlasted the Demon Deacons, 3-2, in the final.
Three starters are back from the Yellow Jackets team that captured the ACC Championship last year. (photo by Andy Mead)
TEAM UPDATE – Tech has been ranked as high as No. 10 this spring in the Scoreboard NCAA Rankings heading into the spring schedule, and currently sit No. 16 after posting a runner-up finish at the Watersound Invitational, fourth-place finishes at the RE Lamkin Invitational, Linger Longer Invitational and the Calusa Cup, a fifth-place at The Goodwin and sixth-place at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate.
Three of the five starters who teed it up for Tech in last year’s…
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