Wake Forest Athletics
Men's Golf Ready For ACC Championship This Weekend
4/19/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
The Wake Forest men's golf team will conclude the regular season this weekend when it heads to Uwharrie Point, N.C. for the 59th ACC Championship.
Tournament Website:
ACC Championship Central
Course:
Old North State Golf Club
Field (Golfstat Rank):
Boston College (237), Clemson (21), Duke (17), Florida State (24), Georgia Tech (11), Maryland (112), North Carolina (79), NC State (54), Virginia (20), Virginia Tech (50), Wake Forest (51)
Tee Times:
Tee times starting at 8:30 a.m. all three days
Live Scoring:
Golfstat
Wake Forest Lineup:
1. Lee Bedford
2. Charlie Harrison
3. Thomas Birdsey
4. Cyrus Stewart
5. Evan Beck
Wake Forest Tournament History:
- This will be the 59th ACC Men's Golf Championship and the Demon Deacons have participate in each of the previous 58 championships.
- The Demon Deacons have won 18 team titles, the most of any school in the conference. Georgia Tech is the next closest with 11 titles.
- Wake Forest won 10-consecutive ACC titles from 1967-76, which is an ACC record.
- In 1973, the Deacons dusted the field, winning by 44 shots, which is the largest margin of victory in championship history.
- The Deacons last title came in 1989.
- Wake Forest has had 22 individual ACC Champions, which is eight-more than any other school.
- The last individual winner was Webb Simpson in 2008. He won that year with an ACC record score of 14-under par 202.
- Arnold Palmer won the inaugural ACC crown in 1954 with a score of 71 at The Old Town Club in Winston-Salem.
- Wake Forest legendary head coach Jesse Haddock won the ACC Championship 15 times, which is more than double the amount of titles for any other coach in the conference.
- Lee Bedford currently leads the team with an average of 72.7 and has the lowest individual round of the year with a 67. He earned his fifth top-10 finish of the season at the Gary Koch Invitational.
- Wake Forest had its best performance of the season at the Seahawk Invitational, in which the team finished runner-up. Four of Wake's players placed in the top-20, including Cyrus Stewart, Thomas Birdsey, Lee Bedford, and Charlie Harrison.
- Cyrus Stewart placed 2nd at the Seahawk Invitational with 5-under and a score of 211.
- Thomas Birdsey achieved his fourth top-20 finish of the year at the Morris Williams Intercollegiate with a score of 219.
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