Men's Golf
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The 12 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf teams will tee off at the 2024 ACC Men’s Golf Championship on Friday, April 19, and will run through Monday, April 22, with the semifinals and finals of match play at the Charlotte Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The format for this season includes three rounds of stroke play, one round each on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday before match play begins on Monday. The top four teams following stroke play will advance to the match play semifinals on Monday morning, with the finals of match play to follow with the top two teams on Monday afternoon.
The first round of the championship will start on Friday at 9 a.m., with both the second and third rounds on Saturday and Sunday to start at 9 a.m. as well. The match play semifinals on Monday will begin at 7:30 a.m., with the match-play championship tee times set for approximately 60 minutes following the conclusion of match-play semifinals.
Spectators are allowed at the 2024 ACC Men’s Golf Championship. The tournament is not a ticketed event.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, April 19
9-10:48 a.m. – First Round Stroke Play Tee Times (Split Tees)
- 9:00 – 9:48 AM: #9 Clemson, #8 Louisville, #7 Notre Dame (starting on Hole #10)
- 9:00 – 9:48 AM: #6 Wake Forest, #5 Duke, #4 Georgia Tech (starting on Hole #1)
- 10:00 – 10:48 AM:#12 Boston College, #11 Virginia Tech, #10 NC State (starting on Hole #10)
- 10:00 – 10:48 AM:#3 Virginia, #2 Florida State, #1 North Carolina (starting on Hole #1)
Saturday, April 20
9-10:48 a.m. – Second Round Stroke Play Tee Times (Split Tees)
Sunday, April 21
9-10:48 a.m. - Third Round Stroke Play Tee Times (Split Tees)
• Individual Champion Awards Ceremony & Match Play Presentation
Monday, April 22 (Live on ACC Network Extra)
7:30 a.m. - Semifinal Match Play
• Championship Team Match Play Lineup Announcements at the 18th green following the conclusion of semifinals play.
Monday, April 22 (Live on ACC Network Extra)
60 minutes following the conclusion of semifinals play - Championship Match Play Tee Times
• Team Champion Awards Ceremony following the conclusion of play.
ACC Notes
- In the latest edition of the Bushnell/Golfweek Division I Coaches Poll, released on April 12, five ACC teams are in the top 25, as North Carolina leads the way at No. 2. Florida State is No. 6, Virginia is No. 15, Georgia Tech is No. 16 and Duke is No. 25. Louisville, Notre Dame and Wake Forest are receiving votes.
- In the latest National Collegiate Golf team rankings according to Scoreboard powered by Clippd, five ACC teams are in the top 25 with North Carolina leading the way at No. 4. Florida State is No. 6, Virginia is No. 12, Georgia Tech is No. 16 and Duke is No. 24. Wake Forest (No. 29) and Notre Dame (No. 31) are just outside the top 25.
- In the latest National Collegiate Golf individual rankings, two ACC players rank in the top 10, as Florida State’s Luke Clanton is No. 2, while Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht is No. 5. The UNC tandem of David Ford and Maxwell Ford are No. 16 and No. 17, respectively. UVA’s Ben James cracked into the top 25 at No. 23, while North Carolina’s Austin Greaser is just outside at No. 27.
- In the latest PGA TOUR University rankings, seven ACC players are in the top 25, including three in the top 10. Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht leads the way at No. 2, while North Carolina’s Austin Greaser and Dylan Menante are No. 5 and No. 8, respectively. Florida State’s Frederik Kjettrup is No. 14, Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan is No. 17, FSU’s Cole Anderson and Brett Roberts round out the rankings at No. 21 and No. 23, respectively.
- ACC teams have won eight tournaments this spring season, capped off by NC State’s win at the Stitch Intercollegiate. North Carolina has earned three team wins, while Clemson, FSU, Louisville, NC State and Notre Dame also have claimed team titles this spring.
- Headlined by a pair of individual titles, Florida State sophom*ore Luke Clanton was named the ACC Men’s Golfer of the Month for March. Clanton became the first ACC player to win back-to-back individual titles during the spring season and the first from FSU since 2021.
- Georgia Tech's Christo Lamprecht is one of the three finalists for the 2024 Byron Nelson Award, which recognizes the outstandingDivision I, II, III, or NAIA scholar-athlete of the year.The winner will be announced on May 1 at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson Luncheon at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas.
- A nation-best four ACC players were named semifinalists for the 2024 Ben Hogan Award presented by PNC Bank. The list includes Luke Clanton (Florida State), David Ford (North Carolina), Ben James (Virginia) and Christo Lamprecht (Georgia Tech). This is the second time Ford and Lamprecht have been named semifinalists. The three finalists selected from this list of 10 golfers will be named on Tuesday, May 7.
- The Final Fall Watch List for the Fred Haskins Award saw four ACC golfers honored: David Ford (North Carolina), Maxwell Ford (North Carolina), Christo Lamprecht (Georgia Tech) and Sebastian Moss (Louisville).
- Georgia Tech claimed the 2023 ACC Men’s Golf Championship, a season ago, downing Wake Forest 3-2 in the match play final. Senior anchor Ross Steelman secured the title for the Yellow Jackets by sinking a 25-foot birdie putt on No. 16 for a match-clinching 3&2 win over the Demons Deacons' Andrew McLauchlan.
- Wake Forest junior Michael Brennan nailed down a hard-fought individual title at the 2023 ACC Men’s Golf Championship. Brennan birdied the third playoff hole, slipping past Georgia Tech’s Hiroshi Tai after the players battled to a tie at the conclusion of 54 holes of stroke play competition.
- Nine ACC teams earned bids to the 2023 NCAA Regionals, with five – Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia – advancing to the NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona. It marked the 16th time in the last 17 years of NCAA competition that at least eight ACC teams earned a regional bid.
- ACC teams formed half the field for the eight-team match play semifinal at the NCAA Championship, with Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia all advancing. Georgia Tech won the lone head-to-head matchup – defeating nationally second-ranked North Carolina 3-2 in the semifinal, before falling 3-2 to Florida in the national championship match.
- North Carolina had led the stroke play competition leading into match play. The Tar Heels’ four-day total of 1,114 broke the UNC record for the lowest 72-hole total in an NCAA Championship by 20 strokes (1,134 in 2022). Georgia Tech placed fifth in the NCAA stroke-play finals, while Florida State was sixth and Virginia seventh.
