2025 ACC Men’s Golf Championship Set for Thursday

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – For the first time in conference history, the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship will be held in the Bluegrass State. The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky, will host the 71st edition of the championship, beginning Thursday, April 24, with stroke play and concluding with the match-play final on Monday, April 28.

Expanding to 15 teams for the first time in Championship history, the field will play three consecutive days of 18 holes beginning on Thursday with the top eight teams advancing to match play. The match-play quarterfinals will begin on Sunday, April 27, followed immediately by the semifinals for a 36-hole day. The match-play final is set for Monday, as both the semifinals and final will broadcast live on ACC Network Extra.

The ACC boasts five teams in the top 25 of the latest Scoreboard rankings (April 22), led by Florida State at No. 9. North Carolina (No. 10) and Virginia (No. 11) round out the top 15, while Duke ranks No. 16 and Georgia Tech sits at No. 22. Louisville, Notre Dame, and SMU are also receiving votes.

Individually, the ACC has three of the top five players in the latest Scoreboard rankings, headlined by North Carolina’s David Ford who has posted a nation-best five tournament victories in 2024-25. Florida State’s Luke Clanton and Louisville’s Sebastian Moss rank No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, as each player has registered three wins this season.

Admission is free for all spectators at the 2025 ACC Men’s Golf Championship all five days. The tournament is not a ticketed event.

ACC Notes

• The 15 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf teams will tee off at the 2025 ACC Men’s Golf Championship on Thursday, April 24, and will run through Monday, April 28, with the match-play final at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
  
   
• With the additions of California, SMU and Stanford, the match-play format was revised to allow eight teams to advance, up from four in previous years.
  
   
• The first round of the championship will start on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET, with both the second and third rounds on Friday and Saturday to start at 10 a.m. ET as well. The match play quarterfinals on Sunday will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, with the semifinal set for later that day at approximately 2:30 p.m. ET. Sunday’s match-play…