University of Louisville
ACC Championships
Cards Ready to Compete at ACC Golf Championship
April 18, 2024 | Men's Golf
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In search of its first Atlantic Coast Conference title, the University of Louisville men's golf team begins post-season competition this weekend with the 70th Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Golf Championship, which will be conducted Friday through Monday (April 19-22) at Charlotte Country Club in Charlotte, N.C.have
The format for this season includes three rounds of stroke play, one round each on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday before match play begins on Monday. The top four teams following stroke play will advance to the match play semifinals on Monday morning, with the finals of match play to follow with the top two teams on Monday afternoon.
The first round of the championship will start on Friday at 9 a.m., with both the second and third rounds on Saturday and Sunday to start at 9 a.m. as well. The match play semifinals on Monday will begin at 7:30 a.m., with the match-play championship tee times set for approximately 60 minutes following the conclusion of match-play semifinals.
Louisville begins play on Friday at 9 a.m., pairing with Clemson and Notre Dame.
The Cardinals are looking for their first ACC championship since joining the league and have an opportunity behind the duo of Sebastian Moss and Max Kennedy. Moss owns the team's top stroke average at 71/96 and owns two wins this year, with Kennedy second on the team with a 72.10 average. He also picked up a win recently at the General Hackler Championship.
Cooper Claycomb, Easton Johnson and Clay Pendergrass will also compete for the Cardinals this weekend.
As a team, the Cardinals own six top five finishes, including a win at the General Hackler this spring.
North Carolina (No. 3) is the top seed followed by Florida State (No. 6) Virginia (No. 13) and Georgia Tech.. Duke (No. 24) is the only other ACC team in the top 25 of the current Golfstat rankings, while Wake Forest (No. 29) and Notre Dame (No. 31) reside inside the top 50.
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The ACC Championship is in the state of North Carolina for the second straight year, at Charlotte (N.C.) Country Club, completing a four-year rotation to different sites within the ACC footprint. Last year's championship was contested at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, N.C., following the 2023 championship at Shark's Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club in Panama City, Fla., and the 2021 championship at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course in Milton, Ga.
The Donald Ross-designed course measures 6,808 yards for the ACC Championship, which is being conducted for the fourth time under a combination stroke play/match play format Friday through Monday. The championship used the traditional 54-hole, stroke-play format from 1980 to 2019 (the championship was not held in 2020 due to COVID-19). All 12 competing teams (Miami, Pittsburgh and Syracuse do not sponsor men's golf) will play 54 holes of stroke play, 18 holes each Friday, Saturday and Sunday, starting at 9 a.m., with the standard low four individual rounds counting toward the team's daily score each round.
The top four teams after 54 holes are seeded in a match play bracket, with the semi-final matches and the championship match to take place Monday. Each match will be 18 holes and involve all five players from each team. The format is similar to the way the NCAA Championship has been conducted every year since 2009. Semifinal matches begin at 7:30 a.m. Monday, followed by the championship match at 1:30 p.m.
BROADCAST INFORMATION – Semifinal matches and the championship match will be streamed live on the ACC Network Extra platform, available on the ESPN app.
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