Courtesy UVA Media Relations
No. 2 Virginia turned in a 3-over, 291 in the first round of competition at the ACC Men’s Golf Championship played at Shark’s Tooth Golf Course in Panama City, Fla. The top eight teams after the three-day, 54-hole stroke play competition advance to match play.
Senior Ben James was the only Cavalier under par on the day and posted a 2-under 70. He was 2-under on the front nine before his only bogey of the day on the 11th hole. He rolled in another birdie on No. 17 to get back to 2-under and finished the first day in a tie for ninth on the individual leaderboard.
James is four strokes behind the 18-hole leader, William Sides (SMU), who was a co-medalist with UVA’s Paul Chang at the Lewis Chitengwa Memorial earlier this month. James was one of 20 players in the 75-man field that was under par on day one.
With two co-medalist finishes in the final two regular season tournaments, Chang began his postseason with birdies in two of the first three holes but his card featured a total of four bogeys.
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The graduate student was 1-over after the first 18 holes with a 73. His streaks of five-straight rounds in the 60s and 10 consecutive rounds of par or better came to an end.
Freshman Michael Lee and junior Josh Duangmanee carded 2-over 74s on Day one to round out the Cavalier scoring.
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Round two of the 54-hole stroke play competition is slated to begin on Friday at 9 a.m. ET. Michael Lee will be the first Cavalier to tee off at 10:50 a.m. and will start on the 10th hole.
LEADERBOARD
| PL. | TEAM | RD 1 | TO PAR |
| 1. | Stanford | 275 | -13 |
| 2. | Wake Forest | 285 | -3 |
| 3. | North Carolina | 286 | -2 |
| 4. | Georgia Tech | 287 | -1 |
| 5. | SMU | 288 | E |
| 6. | NC State | 289 | +1 |
| 7. | Louisville | 290 | +2 |
| T8. | Clemson | 291 | +3 |
| T8. | Virginia | 291 | +3 |
| T8. | Florida State | 291 | +3 |
| 11. | California | 294 | +6 |
| 12 | Duke | 296 | +8 |
| 13. | Notre Dame | 299 | +11 |
| 14. | Virginia Tech | 305 | +17 |
| 15. | Boston College | 310 | +22 |
VIRGINIA
| PL. | PLAYER | RD 1 | TO PAR |
| T9. | Ben James | 70 | -2 |
| T27. | Paul Chang | 73 | +1 |
| T35. | Michael Lee | 73 | +2 |
| T35. | Josh Duangmanee | 74 | +2 |
| T60. | Bryan Lee | 77 | +5 |
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