PANAMA CITY, FLA. – No. 2 Virginia turned in a 3-over, 291 in the first round of competition at the ACC Men’s Golf Championship played at Shark’s Tooth Golf Course. The top eight teams after the three-day, 54-hole stroke play competition advance to match play.
Senior Ben James was the only Cavalier under par on the day and posted a 2-under 70. He was 2-under on the front nine before his only bogey of the day on the 11th hole. He rolled in another birdie on No. 17 to get back to 2-under and finished the first day in a tie for ninth on the individual leaderboard.
James is four strokes behind the 18-hole leader, William Sides (SMU), who was a co-medalist with UVA’s Paul Chang at the Lewis Chitengwa Memorial earlier this month. James was one of 20 players in the 75-man field that was under par on day one.
With two co-medalist finishes in the final two regular season tournaments, Chang began his postseason with birdies in two of the first three holes but his card featured a total of four bogeys. The graduate student was 1-over after the first 18 holes with a 73. His streaks of five-straight rounds in the 60s and 10 consecutive rounds of par or better came to an end.
Freshman Michael Lee and junior Josh Duangmanee carded 2-over 74s on Day one to round out the Cavalier scoring.
UP NEXT
Round two of the 54-hole stroke play competition is slated to begin on Friday (April 24) at 9 a.m. ET. Michael Lee will be the first Cavalier to tee off at 10:50 a.m. and will start on the 10th hole.
LEADERBOARD
|
PL. |
TEAM |
RD 1 |
TO PAR |
|
1. |
Stanford |
275 |
-13 |
|
2. |
Wake Forest |
285 |
-3 |
|
3. |
North Carolina |
286 |
-2 |
|
4. |
Georgia Tech |
287 |
-1 |
|
5. |
SMU |
288 |
E |
|
6. |
NC State |
289 |
+1 |
|
7. |
Louisville |
290 |
+2 |
|
T8. |
Clemson |
291 |
+3 |
|
T8. |
Virginia |
291 |
+3 |
|
T8. |
Florida State |
291 |
+3 |
|
11. |
California |
294 |
+6 |
|
12 |
Duke |
296 |
+8 |
|
13. |
Notre Dame |
299 |
+11 |
|
14. |
Virginia Tech |
305 |
+17 |
|
15. |
Boston College |
310 |
+22 |
VIRGINIA
|
PL. |
PLAYER |
RD 1 |
TO PAR |
|
T9. |
70 |
-2 |
|
|
T27. |
73 |
+1 |
|
|
T35. |
73 |
+2 |
|
|
T35. |
74 |
+2 |
|
|
T60. |
77 |
+5 |