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April 19, 2007
Charlottesville, VA – The Virginia men’s golf team will play in the 54th annual Atlantic Coast Conference Championship April 20-22 at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point in New London, N.C. This marks the sixth consecutive year the tournament has been contested at the Old North State Club. The 54-hole event will start at 8:30 a.m. each morning.
Virginia is paired with Virginia Tech during Friday’s opening round. The UVa golfers will have Virginia Tech logos to wear or place on their golf bags in memory of the students and staff members who were killed earlier in the week on the Blacksburg campus. The Cavaliers will also wear ribbons to pay tribute to former Duke head coach Rod Myers who passed away March 30 after a battle with an acute form of leukemia.
Last year the Cavaliers placed 10th overall with a team score of 878. Virginia posted rounds of 293, 299 and 308. North Carolina took home the ACC title with a three-day total of 833. Carter Henderson was Virginia’s top finisher in 28th place with a score of 1-over 217. Brad Tilley was 32nd at 218, Andre Signor was 42nd at 223, Conrad Von Borsig was 44th at 224 and Eamonn McLoughlin was 45th at 226.
Von Borsig and McLoughlin are back in the Cavaliers’ lineup for this year’s championship. They will be joined by Greg Carlin, Daniel Kefale and Kyle Stough. That group of five has comprised the UVa lineup throughout the spring season. Von Borsig leads UVa with a 73.88 stroke average followed by Kefale at 74.75. Kefale was the team’s top finisher at last weekend’s Courtyard by Marriott Intercollegiate hosted by NC State. He was ninth overall at 215.
Five conference teams enter this weekend’s championship ranked in the top-25 of the latest Golfweek standings. Clemson tops that list in 11th place while Georgia Tech is 12th, Wake Forest is ranked 20th, North Carolina is 23rd and Duke is 25th.
Wake Forest has won the tournament 18 times, the most of any ACC school. Virginia has never won the event but was the runner-up in 1958 and 1996. Pete Arend became the only Cavalier to win the individual title at the 1955 championship.
Live scoring of the tournament will be on Golfstat.com.
ACC select will broadcast on-demand video streams of the championship for the first time. Fans can watch live beginning at 1 p.m. on during Sunday’s final round. ACC Select’s exclusive coverage will include a recap of the first and second rounds of competition, live final round coverage and the awards ceremony. The event will also be available for fans to watch on an on-demand replay basis. Viewers can watch the Championship live or on-demand with an All Event Pass ($9.99 per month) or on a per-event basis ($3.99 per event).
ACC Select is a broadband network that gives fans exclusive video access to the sports they love, the teams they care about and the games not available anywhere else. With full-screen video delivered right to the computer, ACC Select provides front row access to events whenever fans want–live or on-demand replay. Fans can go to www.accselect.com for complete details and see their sports in a whole new way.