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Wake Golf 2024 - WF Women Struggling In Moon Golf Invitational

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Watching that back nine for everyone, it reminded me of how magical Kupcho's was.
 
Playoffs at Augusta have not been kind to Wake current/former golfers.
 
Lots of good Kupcho mentions on the Drive, Chip, and Putt broadcast on Golf Channel this morning.
 
Lots of good Kupcho mentions on the Drive, Chip, and Putt broadcast on Golf Channel this morning.

And Cheyenne Woods doing some announcing. It’s been a Wake weekend at Augusta.
 
Men are DFL out of 9 teams in Florida, 13 shots off of the lead. Ugh.
 
Watching that back nine for everyone, it reminded me of how magical Kupcho's was.

I still have goosebumps thinking about it. I walked the whole round with the Kupcho/Fassi pairing. It was spectacular.
 
My comment was directed at one bad, no, one VERY BAD round coming off of what was at best a mediocre result last time out.
Today's round was better, 4th best on the day. Will still take a very good effort tomorrow to end in the top 5 in the field.

This team borders on being excellent, perhaps top 5 nationally, but really needs one more player to step up. At the beginning of the year I hoped Bae would be back to form. Unfortunately, that has not been the case; he is not playing in the current tournament.
 
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
 
I don’t like the new format. Wake/Duke are developing a nice rivalry in golf. Wake beat them at the Big Four last time out.
 
About 2/3s of the way through Round 2, Duke (1st) and WF (2nd) have separated themselves from the the rest of the ACC field. Since the top 4 make the match play round, the primary goal is to: a) finish in the top 4; b) preferably not play Duke in the semis. WF is on track to meet both goals. Rachel Kuehn is 4th in the individual standings.
 
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Sedgefield is a good course to host the championship. Played it for the first time about 6 months ago. You need to be real tidy off the tee and there are quite a few hazards you can't see from the box. The big thing that stood out to me at Sedgefield are the greens. If you've played a Ross course in NC before the speed, breaks, falloffs, etc. aren't surprising. What got me was the size of the greens. You're dealing with greens that aren't terribly dissimilar from a course like No. 2, but they're a lot bigger with multiple levels that will punish a poorly placed approach shot more so than just missing the green in some cases. Your irons really need to be dialed in if you're trying to score.

Looks like we'll definitely avoid Duke in the semis, but Duke and us are clearly the best two teams in the field.
 
Deacs holding a 3 shot lead over Duke. Looking like the top 4 moving on to match play will be:

#3 WF
#2 Duke
#5 FSU
#12 UVA
 
Deacs holding a 3 shot lead over Duke. Looking like the top 4 moving on to match play will be:

#3 WF
#2 Duke
#5 FSU
#12 UVA

Hoping this holds. Would much prefer UVA in the first round of match play since FSU has a few players capable of lighting it up. UVA is consistently meh across the board whereas with FSU you could be looking at one player going off to determine the match.
 
Deacs faded down the stretch. Duke won the stroke play portion of the ACC Championship. WF finished 2nd, FSU 3rd and UVA 4th. WF plays FSU in matchplay tomorrow for a spot in the finals.
 
Wake out. This format was ridiculous but whatever. Good shot at the NCAAs but I know this sounds crazy but Migliacco has to play better. Augusta was by far her best tournament this season. She has probably been the #4 all year to be honest. She has some really excellent players ahead of her on this team but she has certainly proven she is capable of more. Go Deacs!!
 
Jan Mann resigns as UNC head women’s golf coach. Kim is a UNC grad and I believe can keep Wake a top 10 program and compete for championships every year. I would absolutely hate to lose her and hope there’s no chance she would leave. Having said that UNC should make her their first call.
 
ACC Men's tourney starts tomorrow at the Crabapple Golf Course in Milton, GA.

Stroke play tomorrow (two rounds) and Saturday. Four teams advance to match-play semis on Sunday and finals on Monday. The finals will be on the ACCN starting at 3 pm. The earlier rounds are available on ACCN+.

Here are fun facts from the ACC about the event:

• The ACC has had an impressive showing this spring and currently features 10 of its 12 teams in Golfstat’s top 36 rankings, including six teams in the top 25. No. 2 Florida State leads the way and is followed by No. 4 Clemson, No. 6 Wake Forest, No. 8 NC State, No. 16 North Carolina and No. 25 Notre Dame. The ACC leads all conferences with four teams in the top 10, and its six teams in the top 25 ranks second.

• ACC teams have combined for 16 team tournament titles this spring. NC State leads the way and enters the ACC Championship having won each of its last four tournaments. Clemson and Florida State each have three tournament victories, followed by North Carolina and Wake Forest with two and Boston College and Georgia Tech with one.
• Florida State’s John Pak is ranked No. 1 by Golfstat and is joined in the top 30 by No. 5 Alex Fitzpatrick of Wake Forest, No. 9 Jacob Bridgeman and No. 17 Turk Pettit of Clemson, No. 21 Vincent Norrman of Florida State and No. 27 Benjamin Shipp of NC State.

• Four student-athletes from the ACC are on the 2021 Fred Haskins Award Watch List presented by Stifel. The Haskins Award honors the player of the year in college men’s golf, as selected by college golfers, coaches and members of the college golf media. Clemson’s Jacob Bridgeman, Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan and Florida State teammates Michael Norrman and John Pak are the four golfers from the ACC on the Watch List.

• Georgia Tech and Wake Forest have each won 18 ACC Championships to lead the conference. The Yellow Jackets have won eight of the last 11 titles, while the Demon Deacons are seeking their first championship since 1989. Barf. Absolutely unthinkable that with the tradition and the golfers that have represented WF that the Deacs have not won an ACC title in 32 years.

• Clemson head coach Larry Penley announced his retirement effective at the end of the season. Penley recorded his ACC-record 82nd career win with the Tigers’ victory at The Collegiate Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama, earlier this month. Wake Forest legend Jesse Haddock had 74 tournament wins and current Georgia Tech coach Bruce Heppler has 65. Penley, who has nine ACC titles, led Clemson to the ACC Championship the last time the event was held in Georgia in 1997.

• Georgia Tech is the defending champion after claiming the 2019 ACC Championship at Old North State Club in New London, North Carolina with a tournament-record 37-under par 827. The Yellow Jackets posted a final round 281 (-7) to win their 18th title in program history and 10th in the last 14 years. The 2020 championship was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Florida State’s Pak is the defending individual champion. He captured the 2019 individual title with a three-round total of 203 (-13) to edge Georgia Tech’s Andy Ogletree (-12).
 
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