Charlotte, N.C. – Seniors Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Ga.), with a 5-under-par 66, and Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa), with a 4-under-par 67, led the way for Georgia Tech Friday as the 16th-ranked Yellow Jackets shot 6-under-par 284 to take third place after the opening round of the 70th Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship.
Forrester posted his best-ever round in an ACC Championship and is tied for the lead with Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan, last year’s medalist.
Tech sits seven shots behind Wake Forest, its opening round playing partner. The Demon Deacons posted a 13-under-par total of 271 and have a four-stroke lead over North Carolina, the top seeded and highest-ranked team in the championship. 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.
Tech is paired with Wake Forest and North Carolina for tomorrow’s second round, with the first groups set to tee off at 10 a.m.
The Yellow Jackets and Demon Deacons are tied for the most ACC championships all-time, with 19 each. Tech won last year’s title with a 3-2 victory over Wake in the championship match, and the Deacons won the 2022 title over the Jackets by the same score.
First-round highlights from Bartley Forrester’s round of 68
TECH LINEUP – Forrester had little trouble traversing the 7,396-yard layout at Charlotte Country Club Friday, posting only one bogey after three-putting the par-4 eighth. The fifth-year senior started with birdies on four of his first seven holes, then added two more at 9 and 10 en route to his best career round in the ACC Championship.
Lamprecht opened his round by driving the green on the first hole and making his putt for eagle, then added birdies at 9 and 13 and played a bogey-free round of 71. The world-No. 1 amateur is tied for third place with Clemson’s Jonathan Nielsen and North Carolina’s Peter Fountain.
Sophomore Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), who was runner-up for medalist honors as a freshman, added an even-par 71, and freshman Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) opened with a 3-over-par 74 to contribute to the Jackets’ opening-round score. Freshman Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) did not count after carding a 4-over-par 75.
Bartley Forrester talks about his opening round of 68
TEAM LEADERBOARD – Four Wake Forest players broke 70 in the opening round to lead the Demon Deacons to 13-under-par total of 271…
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