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Tech Clinches Match Play Berth at ACC Golf
Panama Metropolis, Fla. – Christo Lamprecht fired a 4-under-par 68 and Ross Steelman a 3-under-par 69 Saturday, lifting Georgia Tech to a 7-under-par 281 within the closing spherical of stroke play and a berth within the match play semifinals on the 68th Atlantic Coast Convention Males’s Golf Championship.
The 11th-ranked Yellow Jackets completed the 54 holes of stroke play at 26-under-par 838, 9 pictures behind 7th-ranked North Carolina (829, -35), which cruised to victory in stroke play for the second straight yr. No. 24 Florida State (845, -19) earned the third seed and a date towards the Jackets within the semifinals. No. 17 Wake Forest (847, -17) grabbed the fourth seed with a birdie on the ultimate gap Saturday and can face the Tar Heels within the different semifinal match.
Tech and FSU will start their match at 9 a.m. Sunday morning, with North Carolina and Wake Forest following at 10 a.m. The winners will face one another within the championship match at 9 a.m. Monday.
Looking for the 19th convention championship in program historical past, Georgia Tech held its 36-hole place with wonderful golf from its 4 counting gamers, counting a 71 from Bartley Forrester and a 73 from Benjamin Reuter.
The Yellow Jackets have captured 10 of the final 15 championships, most not too long ago successful the 2019 title on the Previous North State Membership in New London, N.C. It was the 18th in program historical past, tying Wake Forest for essentially the most in convention annals. The championship was not held in 2020 because of COVID-19. Tech completed fifth final yr, the primary ACC Championship performed underneath the brand new stroke play/match play format. The Yellow Jackets fell one stroke shy of advancing to match play on the Capital Metropolis Membership Crabapple Course in Milton, Ga.
Christo Lamprecht (-11) tied for third place individually after firing a 4-under-par 68 Saturday.
TECH LINEUP – Lamprecht, who started the day in a tie for fourth place, made a run at medalist honors, making birdie at holes 9, 10, 11 and 12 in succession to get to 5-under-par for the day. However the sophomore from George, South Africa made bogey at 15 and completed in a tie for third place at 11-under-par 205.
Steelman was wonderful start-to-finish, carding a 69 every spherical of the event to complete alone in sixth place at 9-under-par 207. The junior from Columbia, Mo., tied for second place on the identical golf course towards the identical ACC discipline in February, posting a 6-under-par 210 with two rounds within the 60s.
Reuter, a freshman from Naarden, The Netherlands, shot rounds of 71-70-73 to tie for 22nd at 214 (-2). Forrester, a junior from Gainesville, Ga., shot 74-69-71 to reach on the identical rating and place on the leaderboard.
Junior Connor Howe (Ogden, Utah) tied for 37th place at 219 (+3).
TEAM LEADERBOARD –North Carolina held on to the general lead and completed -35, simply two strokes off the 54-hole scoring file on a par 72 course. The Tar Heels are the highest seed in Sunday’s match play semifinals and can face No. 4 seed Wake Forest (-17). Georgia Tech (-26) completed second and can tackle third seed Florida State within the first semifinal. Each matches will tee off on gap No. 1 with stay protection on choose holes on ACC Community Additional from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. ET.
The Demon Deacons began the day in sixth place, however rallied on Saturday to assert the fourth and closing match play spot behind the spectacular shot-making of sophomore Michael Brennan, who birdied the ultimate gap to present his staff the fourth spot. The Leesburg, Virginia, native birdied the ultimate two holes (No. 8 & No. 9) to push the Deacs forward of Notre Dame (-16) for the ultimate place.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD – Clemson senior Jacob Bridgeman made a seven-foot birdie putt on the second playoff gap to win the ACC particular person title over North Carolina’s Peter Fountain, who received medalist honors final yr as a freshman. The 2 tied at 13-under-par 203 after 54 holes. Lamprecht tied for third place with Wake Forest’s Brennan and Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson at 11-under-par 205.
LEADERBOARD AND SEMIFINAL PAIRINGS
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The ACC Championship is being performed the state of Florida for simply the second time, and first time since 2001, when it was held at Disney’s Magnolia Course in Lake Buena Vista Fla. It’s being held outdoors the state of North Carolina for simply the eighth time in convention historical past. Since 1995, the event has been held at Previous North State Membership in New London, N.C., 22 occasions, with Georgia Tech successful the championship 12 occasions at that venue.
The par-72 Shark’s Tooth Golf Course measures 7,246 yards for the ACC Championship, which is being performed for the second time underneath a brand new stroke play/match play format Friday by way of Monday. The championship used the standard 54-hole, stroke-play format from 1980 to 2019 (the championship was not held in 2020 because of COVID-19). All 12 competing groups (Miami, Pittsburgh and Syracuse don’t sponsor males’s golf) competed at 54 holes of stroke play, 36 holes Friday and 18 holes Saturday, with the usual low 4 rounds counting towards the staff’s day by day rating every spherical. The highest 4 groups after 54 holes are seeded in a match play bracket. Every match shall be 18 holes and contain all 5 gamers from every staff. The format is just like the best way the NCAA Championship has been performed yearly since 2009.
The ACC Championship discipline consists of seven of the highest 30 groups within the nation, together with No. 7 North Carolina, No. 11 Georgia Tech, No. 13 Notre Dame, No. 15 Wake Forest, No. 23 Clemson, No. 24 Florida State and No. 26 NC State.
“I’m actually happy with our guys and the best way they dealt with all the pieces. It is a nice expertise for our guys, not the match play itself a lot however the strain of ending within the prime 4 so you may advance. It’s nice preparation for the regionals and the NCAAs in case you get there. Christo’s enjoying at a really excessive degree for us proper now, Ross very persistently and is placing very properly, and I’m happy with the best way Benjamin performed these two days. We’re excited to get again on the market tomorrow and compete towards Florida State.”
Head coach Bruce Heppler
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