GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Five Atlantic Coast Conference men’s golf teams advanced from NCAA Regional play and will compete at the NCAA Championship, May 26-May 31 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia each finished in the top five of their respective NCAA Regional to earn a spot in the national championship field. 

ACC champion Georgia Tech delivered a record-setting performance in winning the Salem Regional, while North Carolina placed third to join the Yellow Jackets in qualifying. Virginia posted a third-place finish at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, and Florida State took third in Morgan Hill, California. Duke rallied for a fifth-place finish in Norman, Oklahoma to secure its spot.
 
The ACC nearly placed a sixth team in the Championship, but the Tigers lost a playoff to Texas A&M for the fifth spot in Salem.
 
The national championship format consists of 30 teams and 10 individuals competing in stroke play competition beginning Friday, May 26. The top eight teams advance to match play with quarterfinals and semifinals on Tuesday, May 30, and the national championship match on Wednesday, May 31. 

Please see below for more from each of the five advancing schools.
 
Georgia Tech
Connor Howe and Hiroshi Tai set the tone with twin 6-under-par 66 scores Wednesday, and 11^th-ranked Georgia Tech shattered a pair of school 54-hole scoring records after posting a 21-under-par round of 267 Wednesday to win the NCAA Salem Regional.
After setting a program record for 18-hole scoring in an NCAA post-season round Tuesday (266, -22), the No. 2-seed Yellow Jackets nearly beat that record Wednesday. Tech came up one stroke short of duplicating the 18-hole mark, but instead established a team 54-hole scoring record for an NCAA regional at 53-under-par 811. The Jackets won the Salem Regional by eight shots over Arkansas after starting the day seven shots behind the Razorbacks.
Tech’s 54-hole total of 811 at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls was the fourth-lowest score in program history for any tournament, and the 53-under-par mark was its third-best ever.
 
North Carolina
Ryan Burnett won the individual title by two strokes and the University of North Carolina advanced to the 2023 NCAA Men's Golf Championship by finishing third in a 14-team field Wednesday in the NCAA Salem (S.C.) Regional at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls.
 The Tar Heels are advancing out of regional play to the NCAA Championship for the sixth consecutive post-season (no NCAA Tournament was held in 2020 due to the pandemic). That is the fifth-longest streak in the country behind only Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona State and Vanderbilt.
 Carolina shot 18-under-par 270 today to finish third at 43-under 821 behind Georgia Tech (-53) and Arkansas (-45).
 
Florida State
Freshman Luke Clanton took medalist honors with a 6-under score of 210 to lead the Seminoles to a third-place finish at Morgan Hills.
Clanton became the first FSU freshman to win a regional as he was a model of consistency, shooting 70-70-70 across the three-day event.
The Seminoles will be making their 27th all-time appearance at the NCAA Championship. FSU shot 7-over as a team to place eight shots behind regional winner Mississippi State and three shots behind second-place Brigham Young.
 
Virginia
No. 16 Virginia posted a third-place finish at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional to advance to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2017. UVA’s place finish was the best ever by a Cavalier team at a regional competition.
Freshman Ben James shared medalist honors with San Francisco’s Matthew Anderson. That duo finished at 20-under 196. James shot 7-under 65 during the final round after posting scores of 65 and 66 on the event’s opening two days. James is the first Cavalier to win a NCAA Regional.
Virginia’s team score was the lowest ever recorded by a Cavalier squad at a regional site. 
 
Duke
With another late rally in postseason play, the Duke men's golf team stormed back from as many as 10 shots back from the cut line to advance out of the Norman Regional on Wednesday afternoon.
Duke finished the 54-hole event, held at the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, with a team score of 21-under, 843. The score to par and total score sets program records for an NCAA regional held at a par-72 course, with the 21-under just one shy of the program record for any NCAA regional (-22, 2018).
The Blue Devils were led by Kelly Chinn and William Love in the final round, as they both posted a 5-under 67.