Wake Forest University
NCAA Myrtle Beach Regional
Top-Seeded Deacs Ready for NCAA Myrtle Beach Regional
5/11/2019 9:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
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| Dates | May 13-15, 2019 |
| Coverage | GolfStat Scoring |
| Location | Murrells Inlet, S.C. (TPC Myrtle Beach) - Course Info | Weather |
| Information | @WakeMGolf  | Tournament Notes |
DEACON LINEUP
1. Cameron Young
2. Eric Bae
3. Eugenio Chacarra
4. Alex Fitzpatrick
5. Lee Detmer
Alt. Parker Gillam
TOURNAMENT FORMAT
• 54 holes (18 on Monday, 18 on Tuesday, 18 on Wednesday)
• Top five teams advance to the NCAA Championships (May 24-29 in Fayetteville, Ark.)
NCAA REGIONAL HISTORY
• Wake Forest is making its 30th appearence at a NCAA Regional
• The Demon Deacons have advanced from a regional to the NCAA Championships in 16 of their 29 previous appearances
• Wake Forest has three victories at NCAA Regionals: 2005 (East), 2006 (East), 2008 (Central)
• Bill Haas won the individual title at the 2004 NCAA East Regional at Yale
MYRTLE BEACH HISTORY
• Wake Forest is making its second trip to Myrtle Beach this season, having finished runner-up at the General Hackler Championship at the Dunes Club in March, where Cameron Young was the medalist
• The Deacs won the 2017 General Hackler Championship at the Dunes Club
• Wake Forest won the 2008 and 2009 General Hackler Championships at TPC Myrtle Beach
IN THE RANKINGS
• Wake Forest is a season-high No. 3 in the GolfStat rankings and No. 4 in the GolfWeek rankings
• The No. 3 national rank is the Deacs' highest entering the regionals since 2003, when they were also ranked No. 3 nationally
• Five Deacs are ranked in the top 100 of the GolfStat individual rankings, tied with Oklahoma State and Arizona State for the national lead
ALL WE DO IS WIN, WIN, WIN...
• Wake Forest was won five of its last seven tournaments
• The Deacs rank third in the nation in wins, trailing only Oklahoma State and Georgia Tech (six each)
• The last time Wake Forest won five events was 1983-84, head coach Jerry Haas' junior season
• The Deacs won three straight events in March-April, their longest win streak since 1975-76
• Wake Forest has three different individual winners this season (Cameron Young, Eric Bae, Parker Gillam), the first time three different Deacs have won in a season since 1983-84
SHOOTING LOW
• Wake Forest is on pace to set the school record for team scoring average, entering the NCAA Regional at 280.00, over four shots better than the existing record of 284.31 set in 2014-15
• If the season ended now, four of the 10 best individual season scoring averages in program history would be set this season (Cameron Young, Eric Bae, Kengo Aoshima, Eugenio Chacarra)
• Cameron Young and Eric Bae are both averaging under 70 a round, looking to join Bill Haas as the only player in program history to accomplish the feat (Haas shot 68.93 as a senior in 2003-04)
• The Deacs' 36-under performance to win the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational was the fourth lowest 54-hole score in program history and the team's 19-under first round in Augusta tied the program record for lowest single round
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