Four Deacs Selected to 2024 All-ACC Academic Men’s Golf Team
6/17/2024 3:00:00 PM | Men's Golf
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Four members of the Wake Forest men's golf team were named to the 2024 All-ACC Academic Team, the conference office announced on Monday. 2024 Wake Forest graduate Michael Brennan was honored by the league for the fourth consecutive year, while rising senior Collin Adams and rising sophomores Tom Haberer and Kyle Haas were honored for the first time.
In addition to on-course success, to be eligible for consideration for the All-ACC Academic team, a student-athlete, regardless of classification, must have earned a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.0 cumulative average during his academic career.
During this season, this group helped Wake Forest to seven top-5 finishes and 13 top-10 finishes while advancing to the NCAA Championship.
The program was paced this season by Michael Brennan, who led the team with a scoring average of a 71.46, fourth best in program history. Brennan was also named a 2024 All-American by the Golf Coaches Association of America earlier this month.
He also became the 24th ACC Individual Championship winner from Wake Forest. In the 70 ACC Championships that have been held, the Deacs have accounted for over a third of the individual titles, the most in conference history and 10 more than the next closest conference member.
After a five-hole playoff, Brennan captured his second ACC Individual Championship, as he is now tied with Curtis Strange in holding eight individual titles as a Demon Deacon, the third highest total in program history.
Wake Forest Individual Titles
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Bill Haas (10)
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Gary Hallberg (9)
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Curtis Strange (8)
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Michael Brennan (8)
Additionally, this is the first time a student-athlete claimed back-to-back titles since Louisville's Robin Sciot-Siegrist in 2015 and 2016, and only the fifth time in ACC history that someone has gone back to back with Wake Forest golfers accomplishing the feat three of those times (Ronnie Thomas, 1959 and 1960; Scott Hoch, 1977 and 1978).
Junior Collin Adams had his best career finish at the Wake Forest Invitational, tying for sixth. Adams carded 54-hole scores of 213 (+3). Adams got hot in round two, finishing three-under (67) and tallying the Deacs only eagle of the tournament on hole No. 10. In his first appearance of the 2024 season, Collin Adams made six birdies on the back nine of round one at the Invitational at the Ford, and finished T33. The junior from Charlotte went on a tear during the second round at the Highlands Invitational. During round two, the Charlotte native notched six birdies en route to shooting five under-par. In his outing at the Austin Regional, Collin Adams finished tied for 25th.
Tom Haberer secured the highest finish of his career and his second-straight top-25 finish at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate this past fall. The Bad Salzdetfurth, German native finished tied for fifth shooting 4-under-par over the entire tournament.In the ACC Championship semifinal, freshman Tom Haberer fought hard in his match all day against the No. 47 amateur in the world. After a near hole-in-one on hole No. 17, Haberer made birdie and had the opportunity to tie the match on the final hole of the competition. Maxwell Ford of North Carolina won the match by one stroke, ultimately advancing the Tar Heels to the championship. In his most recent outing and his first NCAA Championship appearance, Haberer tied as the top Deac on the individual leaderboard, ending T40 alongside Michael Brennan.
Freshman Kyle Haas made eight appearances this 2023-24 season. Haas had his best showing of his career at the Invitational at the Ford, ending tied for third. Haas shot his best in round one, 68 (-4), and had some key moments including the Deacs' lone eagle of the tournament on the par-5 11th.
The Winston-Salem native claimed his second highest finish tied for 12th in his third collegiate appearance at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate. Haas ended the tournament shooting 2-under-par.
