ACC Championships Up Next for UVa Men's Golfers
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April 24, 2014
| 2014 ACC Championships |
Dates April 25-27 Location New London, N.C. | Old North State Club
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Charlottesville, Va. – The No. 8 Virginia men’s golf team will play in the 61st annual Atlantic Coast Conference Championships April 25-27 at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point in New London, N.C. This marks the 13th 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 enters the tournament ranked No. 8 by Golfstat and No. 9 by Golfweek. The only higher ranked ACC team is Georgia Tech, which is No. 5 in the Golfstat poll and No. 2 in the Golfweek rankings.
Virginia is paired with the Yellow Jackets and Virginia Tech during Friday’s opening round. Those teams are set to tee off at 11:10 a.m. in the day’s final wave. Virginia’s lineup includes Denny McCarthy, Derek Bard, Ji Soo Park, David Pastore and Ben Rusch. Rusch was the 2012 ACC Individual Champion, but did not participate in last year’s tournament while redshirting the season.
McCarthy leads Virginia with a 70.76 stroke average. He is ranked No. 16 by Golfstat while Pastore is No. 60, Rusch is No. 69 and Bard is the fourth-highest ranked freshman player in the nation at No. 73.
The Cavaliers enter the event after winning back-to-back tournaments in their last two outings. UVa captured the Jim West Intercollegiate by shooting a school record 45-under 819 and took top honors last weekend at the rain-shortened Wolfpack Spring Open in Raleigh.
Duke enters as the defending champion and will try to repeat against a field that features four teams ranked in the top 20 nationally: Joining UVa and Georgia Tech in the Golfstat top-50 rankings are No. 12 Virginia Tech, No. 19 Florida State, No. 32 Clemson and No. 45 Wake Forest.
Heading into this year’s event, Wake Forest leads all schools with 18 league titles and 22 individual champions. Georgia Tech, which has won 12 outright ACC Championships and shared two more, has produced nine individual medalists, including Anders Albertson, last year’s winner. North Carolina is third with 11 titles (10 outright), followed by Clemson with nine (eight outright).
Virginia has never won the event, but was the runner-up in 1958, 1996, 2010 and 2012. Pete Arend is the only Cavalier besides Rusch to win the individual title. He finished first at the1955 championship.
Saturday and Sunday action will be streamed live by the ACC Digital Network starting at 2 p.m. each day. For more information, please visit the ACC Men’s Golf Championship website at: http://theacc.co/MGolfchamp.
ACC Men’s Golf Championship – First Round Pairings
8:30 – 9:10 a.m. = Boston College, Maryland, Notre Dame
9:20 – 10:00 a.m. = NC State, North Carolina, Duke
10:20 – 11:00 a.m. = Wake Forest, Clemson, Florida State
11:10 – 11:50 a.m. = Virginia Tech, Virginia, Georgia Tech