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ACC Men's Golf Championship Set for April 24-25

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ACC Men's Golf Championship Set for April 22-25

• The ACC Men’s Golf Championship is set for April 22-25 at Shark’s Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club in Panama City, Florida. North Carolina is the top seed. The format includes three rounds of stroke play on Friday and Saturday followed by match play semifinals on Sunday and match play finals on Monday. Clemson is the defending champion.

• The first round Friday begins at 7:30 a.m. with continuous play throughout the day for the second round. The third round on Saturday begins at 9 a.m. Match play semifinals on Sunday and finals on Monday begin at 9 a.m. Spectators are allowed at the ACC Men’s Golf Championship and it is not a ticketed event.

• The semifinals and finals of the ACC Men’s Golf Championship match play will be televised live on ACC Network Extra from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Will Haskett (play-by-play) and Steve Scott (analyst) will provide the call. A championship recap show will air May 2 at 7 p.m. on ACCN. Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC Network (ACCN) and its digital platform ACCNX is a 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports that launched on August 22, 2019. 

• Six ACC teams are ranked in the Golfstat Top 25 rankings – No. 5 North Carolina, No. 11 Georgia Tech, No. 13 Notre Dame, No. 17 Wake Forest, No. 23 Clemson and No. 24 Florida State. NC State is just outside the top 25 at No. 26.

• Six ACC teams are ranked in the current Golfweek/Sagarin rankings - No. 6 North Carolina, No. 10 Georgia Tech, No. 14 Notre Dame, No. 18 Wake Forest, No. 19 Florida State and No. 23 Clemson.

• The Haskins Award Watch List includes Florida State's Frederik Kjettrup, North Carolina’s Ryan Gerard and Austin Greaser, Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson and Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan. The Haskins Award is presented annually to the nation’s top collegiate golfer. Last year, Florida State’s John Pak won the award.

• Six ACC players are on the Hogan Award Watch List – Clemson’s Jacob Bridgeman, North Carolina’s Ryan Gerard and Austin Greaser, Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson and Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan and Alex Fitzpatrick of Wake Forest. The Ben Hogan Award presented by PNC Bank annually awards the top men’s college golfer based on all collegiate, amateur and professional events over the previous 12 months. North Carolina and Wake Forest are two of seven schools with multiple players on the watch list.

• No. 6 Jacob Bridgeman of Clemson and No. 9 Alex Fitzpatrick of Wake Forest are ranked in the top 10 of the most recent Velocity Global PGA University Rankings. The Velocity Global Ranking is designed to identify the best college golfers based on winning, competitiveness and season-long performance.

• Clemson claimed the 2021 ACC Men’s Golf Championship at Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course with a dramatic 3-2 come-from-behind win over Florida State. It was the Tigers’ 11th overall men’s golf title, 10th under head coach Larry Penley and first since 2016. Clemson never led until Zack Gordon’s 20-foot birdie putt dropped on the 21st overall hole (No. 3) to win the championship.

• North Carolina’s Peter Fountain fired a third-round 66 to become the 10th freshman in league history to claim the individual title and first since Georgia Tech’s Cameron Tringale in 2006. Fountain, who trailed by two entering the final round, carded a three-day total of 200 to tie for the lowest 54-hole mark in ACC Championship history with Virginia’s Thomas Walsh (2018). Fountain held off NC State’s Benjamin Shipp, who shot a 1-under par 69 for a 201 total (-9).

• A league record-tying 10 ACC teams earned bids to the 2021 NCAA Regionals. Clemson, Florida State and Wake Forest earned three of the six No. 1 regional seeds and were joined in the competition by Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame and Virginia. A league-record seven of those teams – the most of any conference – advanced from regional play to compete at the NCAA Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest all finished in the top five of their respective NCAA Regional to earn a spot in the national championship field. The previous record for ACC teams in the NCAA Championship was six, which occurred on five occasions, most recently in 2019. 

• Florida State and North Carolina finished among the top eight in stroke play at the NCAA Championships to advance to match play before falling in the quarterfinals.

• Clemson’s Turk Pettit posted a four-day total of 273 (-7) to capture the 2021 NCAA Men’s Golf Individual Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club by one shot over Bo Jin of Oklahoma State. Pettit’s title was the 10th men’s golf individual national championship in ACC history and the first since Matt Hill of NC State in 2009. 

• 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.

2022 ACC Men’s Golf Championship Schedule of Events
April 22-25, Panama City Beach, Florida
Shark's Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club

Friday, April 22, 2022
7:30 a.m. - 9:18 a.m. First Round Stroke Play Tee Times (Split Tees) 
Second Round Stroke Play (Split Tees) 
Continuous play from first round. No re-pairing between rounds. 

Saturday, April 23, 2022 
9:00 a.m. - 10:48 a.m. Third Round Stroke Play Tee Times (Split Tees) 
Individual Champion Awards Ceremony at Conclusion of Play
Semifinal Team Match Play Lineup Announcements 

Sunday, April 24, 2022 
9:00 a.m. - 10:48 a.m. Semifinal Match Play Tee Times (All off #1) 
Championship Team Match Play Lineup Announcements at Conclusion of Play

Monday, April 25, 2022 
9:00 a.m. - 9:48 a.m. Championship Match Play Tee Times (All off #1) 
Team Champion Awards Ceremony at Conclusion of Play