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Friday, April 27, 2018

Georgia Tech has to go really low to capture ACC Championship


   If seeing birdies and eagles being made is your idea of fun at a golf tournament, the place to be last weekend was the ACC Championship at the Old North State Club in New London, N.C.
   Georgia Tech, No. 5 in the latest Golfstat rankings, won the ACC team title for the 17th time and for the 12th time under Bruce Heppler with a whopping 29-under-par total over the 7,102-yard, par-72 Old North State Club layout. Georgia Tech has had a particular affinity for the Old North State Club, taking 11 of the 17 ACC Championships staged there.
   And the Yellow Jackets accomplished that without having an individual finisher in the top 10. How can that happen? Because just about everybody in the talented field of ACC players was making birdies in bunches.
   Georgia Tech opened up with a 12-under 276 last Friday, added an 11-under 277 and “cooled off” with a 6-under 282 in Sunday's final round for its 29-under 835 total. It was the ninth ACC crown in 13 years for a Georgia Tech program that has been as close to being down as Georgia Tech gets the last couple of years.
   No. 15 Clemson, with reigning U.S. Amateur champion Doc Redman, a sophomore from Raleigh, N.C., earning runnerup honors in the individual standings, closed with a 10-under 278 to finish second behind the Yellow Jackets at 27-under 837.
   No. 25 Wake Forest closed with the best team round of the championship, a remarkable 14-under 274, but could do no better than third at 26-under 838. No. 47 Virginia, led by individual champion Thomas Walsh, a junior from High Point, N.C., was another two shots behind the Demon Deacons in fourth at 24-under 840. Virginia went 10-under 278 in each of its last two rounds.
   Defending ACC champion Duke, ranked 28th, was four shots behind the Cavaliers in fifth at 20-under 844. No. 17 North Carolina and No. 64 Notre Dame, which got off to a sizzling start with an opening round of 11-under 277, shared sixth place at 19-under. You shoot 19-under and you’re tied for sixth. Unbelievable.
   Georgia Tech was led by Tyler Strafaci, a sophomore from Davie, Fla., and sophomore Luke Schniederjans, the talented younger brother of Georgia Tech alum and PGA Tour member Ollie from Powder Springs, Ga., both of whom finished in the group tied for 12th at 8-under 208.
   Strafaci added a final-round 68 to a pair of 70s. Schniederjans opened with a sizzling 7-under 65, fell back with a 2-over 74 and finished up with a 69.
   Chris Petefish, a senior from Danville, Calif., finished in the group tied for 17th at 7-under 209 after closing with an even-par 72. Andy Ogletree, a sophomore from Little Rock, Miss., finished among the group tied for 24th at 3-under 213 after a final round of 1-over 73.
   Freshman phenom Noah Norton of Chico, Calif. came into the ACC Championship as the Yellow Jackets’ No. 1 player and finished among the group tied for 48th at 5-over 221. But, like all the good teams do, Norton’s teammates picked him up and he did grind out a 1-under 71 in the second round that offset the 74 posted by Schniederjans.
   Virginia’s Walsh put the pedal down with an opening round of 5-under 67 and never took his foot off the gas, adding a 7-under 65 in Saturday’s second round and finishing up with a 4-under 68 for a 16-under 200 total. He is the second straight Virginia player to claim the ACC individual title, following in the footsteps of Jimmy Stanger, who won a four-man playoff at Musgrove Mill Golf Club a year ago.
   Redman, a member of the winning United States team in last summer’s Walker Cup Match at Los Angeles Country Club, paced Clemson’s closing surge with a 6-under 66, but he couldn’t quite catch Walsh as he settled for second place at 14-under 202, two shots behind Walsh.
   Walsh’s teammate, Danny Walker, a sophomore from Bradenton, Fla., was a shot behind Redman in third at 13-under 203. Walker matched Schniederjans’ opening-round 65 and then added a pair of 3-under 69s.
   Wake Forest’s Paul McBride, a senior from Ireland, sandwiched an even-par 72 with a pair of 66s to finish alone in fourth at 12-under. McBride, a member of the Great Britain & Ireland team that fell to Redman and the Americans in the Walker Cup Match, was one of the participants in the playoff for the title ultimately won by Stanger a year ago.
   North Carolina’s Ben Griffin, a senior home boy from Chapel Hill, N.C., finished fifth at 11-under 205. Griffin had three rounds in the 60s, following up an opening-round 67 with a pair of 69s.
   North Carolina State’s Stephen Franken, a junior from Raleigh, N.C., and Louisville’s Nicolas Platret, a senior from France, finished in a tie for sixth at 10-under 206. Franken finished up strong with a 5-under 67 while Platret, who opened with a 67, closed with a 2-under 70.
   I’m sure the ACC will be well-represented when the NCAA regional bids are announced, but I doubt if the teams will find scoring conditions at their respective regional sites as friendly as they were last weekend at the Old North State Club.



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