Jackets Advance to Match Play at ACC Golf Championship – Men’s Golf — Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Charlotte, N.C. – For the third straight year, Georgia Tech has advanced to match play at the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship. The Yellow Jackets, who entered the 70^th championship as the third seed, shot a final-round 4-over-par 288 Sunday and finished in a three-way tie for second place after 54 holes of stroke play.

Tech drew the No. 3 seed after the tie was broken using aggregate drop score, and will face No. 2 seed Florida State in one semifinal match at 7:30 a.m. Monday at Charlotte Country Club. Top seed North Carolina, which won the stroke play title by six shots, will take on No. 4 Wake Forest in the other semifinal. The Tar Heels finished stroke play at 10-under-par 842, while the other three teams tied at 4-under-pr 848.

Meanwhile, Christo Lamprecht came up one stroke shy of participating in a playoff for medalist honors, making bogey at the final hole after working himself into a tie for the lead on the back nine. The senior from George, South Africa finished the tournament at 6-under-par 207 and tied for third place, matching his career-best showing from 2022.

The winners of the morning semifinals will return to the course 60 minutes after the conclusion of those contests for the championship match. Both the semifinals and the finals will be streamed live on ACC Network Extra, available online at WatchESPN and on the ESPN app, with coverage beginning at 9 a.m.

All five players from each team will be involved in the matches. Each team match consists of five singles matches, with the winner of each counting a point for his team. The first team to score three points wins.

Tech and FSU will meet in a semifinal match for the second time in three years. The Yellow Jackets outlasted the Seminoles, 3-2, in the 2022 championship in Panama City Beach, Fla., before falling to the Demon Deacons, 3-2, in the championship match.

TECH LINEUP – Tech was led Sunday by sophomore Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), who was the only Yellow Jacket to break par after carding a 3-under-par 69. He finished in a tie for 12^th place at even-par 213.

Lamprecht, who started the day tied for third and had played bogey-free golf for 36 holes, shook off a poor start in which he made bogey at 2 and a double-bogey at 5. He steadied himself with three birdies and nine pars over his next 12 holes before carding the bogey at 18.

He and senior Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Ga.) came up big for…