Wake Forest Athletics
Men's Golf Preview: ACC Championship
4/25/2013 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
April 25, 2013
Tournament:
ACC Championship
Tournament Website:
ACC Championship Central
Course:
Old North State Golf Club
Dates:
April 26-28, 2013
Field (Golfstat Rank):
Boston College (166)
Clemson (27)
Duke (10)
Florida State (14)
Georgia Tech (8)
Maryland (111)
North Carolina (45)
NC State (36)
Virginia (68)
Virginia Tech (30)
Wake Forest (31)
Tee Times:
Tee times starting at 8:30 a.m. all three days
Live Scoring:
Golfstat
Wake Forest Lineup:
1. Evan Beck
2. John Varol
3. Davis Womble
4. Thomas Birdsey
5. Charlie Harrison
Wake Forest Tournament History:
- This will be the 60th ACC Men's Golf Championship and the Demon Deacons have participate in each of the previous 59 championships.
- The Demon Deacons have won 18 team titles, the most of any school in the conference. Georgia Tech is the next closest with 12 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 nine-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.
Wake Forest Notes:
- The Deacons have had a solid spring, notching four top-5 finishes.
- Evan Beck led the Deacons to a tied for third at the Navy Spring Invitational last weekend.
- Beck finished runner-up at the Navy Spring Inv., which was his third runner-up finish of the season.
- For the year, Beck leads the team with a 71.9 scoring average, seven top-10 finishes in eight events and a three of runner-ups.
- Beck is also one of five finalists for the Byron Nelson Award, which honors the top senior male golfer in the country.
- Junior Thomas Birdsey led the team at the season-opening Carpet Capital, finishing tied for 14th at even-par.
- Birdsey is second on the team with a 73.8 scoring average and has a pair of top-10 finishes.
- Wake's best finish in four fall events was a runner-up finish at the Golfweek Conference Challenge.
- Freshman Davis Womble, who made his collegiate debut at the Golfweek Conference Challenge, carded a 3-under 69 in the second round for his lowest round of the season.
- Senior Charlie Harrison tied for 9th at the Navy Spring Invitational for the fifth top-10 finish of her career and the second of his season.
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