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The No. 22 Virginia women’s golf team competes at the ACC Championships starting Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. Virginia enters the tournament as the No. 3 seed in the 12-team field.
Virginia’s freshman phenom Ben James turned in a final-round, 6-under 65 (11-under 202 for the tournament), to tie FSU’s Cole Anderson for the event’s medalist honors.
Ben James fought from behind in Tuesday’s final round of the 54-hole event with a 6-under-par 65 to tie Florida State’s Cole Anderson for medalist honors.
Virginia men’s golf coach Bowen Sargent hopes his No. 21-ranked Cavaliers can string together a strong, finishing third round in Tuesday’s second Lewis Chitengwa Memorial at Birdwood Golf Course and use it as a springboard into postseason play.
The event honors the former Cavalier standout who lettered at UVA from 1995 to 1998. The tournament is free to the public.
The third-seeded Cavaliers downed the eighth-seeded Cardinals, 3-2.
Virginia’s Natasha Subhash was named ACC Women’s Tennis Co-Player of the Week, while freshman Ben James was named ACC Golfer of the Month, and UVA Rowing’s Varsity Eight was named the ACC Crew of the Week.
The third-seeded Cavaliers fell 3-2 to sixth-seeded North Carolina and 3-1-1 to second-seed Florida State.
Led by another top-five finish from freshman Ben James, the No. 22 Virginia men’s golf team finished third in the 15-team Augusta Haskins Award Invitational on Sunday.
Virginia sophomore golfer Amanda Sambach advanced to the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur following Thursday’s 36-hole cut.
Virginia women’s golfers Jennifer Cleary and Amanda Sambach open play at the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Wednesday.
No. 19 Virginia finished tied for sixth based on its standing after two rounds of competition with a score of 10-over 586.
Amanda Sambach posted her second-consecutive round of 1-under 71 to top UVA. She enters Sunday’s final round in fifth place at 2-under 142. She closed her day with two birdies over her final three holes.
The Cavaliers shot 7-over 295 during Tuesday’s final round of play for a three-day total of 29-over 893.
The Cavaliers shot 1-under 287 and are four shots behind co-leaders Alabama and Georgia. Top-ranked Vanderbilt is one shot ahead of UVA on the leaderboard.
The Cavaliers shot 18-over 298 during the final round for a 54-hole total of 22-over 862. Freshmen Ben James and Bryan Lee tied for second place at even-par 210.
The No. 15 Virginia men’s golf team shares the lead after the opening two rounds of play at the Wake Forest Invitational at Pinehurst No. 2.
Freshmen Ben James shot 5-under 67 during the final round of the Dorado Beach Collegiate in Puerto Rico to help No. 12 UVA to a fifth-place finish in the 14-team field.
The Cavaliers posted a second-round score of 4-under 284 and enter Tuesday’s final round in fifth place at 12-under 564.
The No. 13 Virginia women’s golf team opened play at the 11th Annual Darius Rucker Intercollegiate on Monday. The Cavaliers shot 23-over 307 and are tied for 15th place.