Deacons Head To ACC Championship This Weekend

April 23, 2014

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Tournament:
ACC Championship

Tournament Website:
ACC Championship Central

Course:
Old North State Golf Club

Dates:
April 25-27, 2014

Field (Golfstat Rank):
Boston College (213)
Clemson (32)
Duke (83)
Florida State (19)
Georgia Tech (5)
Maryland (143)
North Carolina (93)
NC State (101)
Notre Dame (104)
Virginia (8)
Virginia Tech (12)
Wake Forest (45)

Tee Times:
Tee times starting at 8:30 a.m. all three days

Wake Forest Lineup:
1. Thomas Birdsey
2. Clancy Waugh
3. Davis Womble
4. Cyrus Stewart
5. Danny Guise

Wake Forest Tournament History:

This will be the 61st ACC Men's Golf Championship and the Demon Deacons have participated in each of the previous 60 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:

Freshman Danny Guise, who has played in every event this season, is second on the team with a 72.50 scoring average and four top-10 finishes.
Senior Thomas Birdsey has three top-10 finishes and is tops on the squad with a 72.44 average.
Freshman Clancy Waugh led the team at the Irish Creek Collegiate as he finished tied for fifth at 2-under par. It was Waugh's second top-5 finish and his second under-par tournament of the season. The team finished third in the event.
Wake opened The Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate with a 6-under 282, which was the lowest opening round of the season for the team. The Deacs went on to finish fifth in the event behind Guise' second-straight top-10 finish.
The Deacons finished third at the Lamkin Grips San Diego Classic at 2-under par. Guise finished a season-best tied for third in the event after a final round 67.
At the San Diego Classic, all five Demon Deacons finished in the top-25. That was just the second time under head coach Jerry Haas and just the fourth time since 1986 that all five members of the team finished in the top-25.
In the first event of the spring, Clancy Waugh fired rounds of 68-74-68 (-6) and won the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate. That was the first win of his career and he became just the 11th Demon Deacons freshman to win an event.
Wake Forest finished the fall with its best tournament of the season, a third-place showing at the US Collegiate.
Freshman Danny Guise finished fourth overall and Thomas Birdsey finished tenth.
That followed a fifth place finish at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate after finishing with a pair of 5-under 283s.
Birdsey had a career tournament at the BOT, finishing runner-up at 11-under par.
The 11-under 205 score for Birdsey at the BOT bested his previous 54-hole low by eight shots.
Birdsey was the first Demon Deacon to shoot 11-under for a 54-hole tournament since Brendan Gielow in 2008.
The Deacs defeated SMU at the Payne Stewart Invitational at Pinehurst No. 2, winning both the stroke play and match play portions of the event.
Wake Forest started three freshmen at the season-opening Carpet Capital in Clancy Waugh, Danny Guise and Woody Woodward.
That was the first time since 1999 that three Demon Deacon freshmen started the first event.

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