The ACC Women's Golf Tourney starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday @ Sedgefield CC in Greensboro.
Different format this year: a) starts with 3 rounds of stroke play; b) top 4 teams advance to match play.
Here are some fun facts from the ACC on the event:
• Five ACC teams are ranked in the most recent Golfstat rankings (April 7), including three in the top five. No. 2 Duke leads the way and is followed by No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 5 Florida State, No. 12 Virginia and No. 15 Virginia Tech.
• Florida State’s Beatrice Wallin is ranked No. 3 by Golfstat and is joined in the top 25 by No. 11 Charlotte Heath of Florida State, No. 12 Lauren Walsh of Wake Forest, No. 13 Erica Shepherd and No. 15 Phoebe Brinker of Duke, No. 20 Rachel Kuehn of Wake Forest and No. 21 Nataliya Guseva of Miami.
• Wake Forest’s Emilia Migliaccio, the defending ACC medalist from 2019, finished second at the 2021 Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Migliaccio was tied for the lead after three rounds of competition, but lost in the first hole of the playoff. Florida State’s Beatrice Wallin tied for 10th, while Duke teammates Gina Kim (13th) and Erica Shepherd (16th) finished among the top 30. A total of 10 ACC golfers from five schools competed in the event.
• Duke has won 21 of the 31 ACC Women’s Golf Championship, including three times at Sedgefield Country Club (2012-14). Duke’s Dan Brooks has been the head coach for 20 of those titles.
• The 2021 ACC Championship includes three coaches - Duke’s Dan Brooks, North Carolina’s Jan Mann and Wake Forest’s Kim Lewellen - who have won at least one conference title. Lewellen won two titles as head coach at Virginia (2015, 2016), one as head coach at Wake Forest (2019) and one as a player at North Carolina (1992).
• With NCAA Championships canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Duke is still the defending national champion. Duke won the 2019 NCAA Championship by defeating fellow ACC member Wake Forest in match play, 3-2. It was the eighth national championship won by an ACC team and seventh for the Blue Devils in program history.
• Highlighted by the top-two individual finishers, Wake Forest won the most recent ACC Women’s Golf Championship in 2019 at Sedgefield Country Club. The Demon Deacons carded a team score of 850 to finish the championship 14-under-par, winning the championship by eight strokes. It was Wake Forest’s sixth ACC Championship in program history and first since 2010. Migliaccio put together an outstanding performance to claim the individual title at 11-under-par 205, the best individual score at Sedgefield and one stroke shy of the individual record for an ACC Championship.
Link to story:
https://theacc.com/news/2021/4/13/acc-womens-golf-championship-set-for-april-15-18.aspx