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Clemson, SC—Sophomore Thomas Higgins shot a career best tying 65 on Saturday to lead the Clemson men’s golf team to a 282 team score and a tie for sixth place standing after two rounds of the ACC Men’s Golf Championship at Charlotte Country Club in Charlotte, NC. Clemson is in sixth place with a team score of four-under-par 564, but Jordan Byrd’s team is just two shots off the fourth-place cutline to qualify for the match play championship on Monday. The 12 teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference play 54 holes of stroke play between Friday and Sunday to determine the four teams that will advance to the match play championship. Those four teams will play the semifinals and finals of the match play tournament to determine the champion. North Carolina has the team lead after two rounds with a 552 score, 16-under par. Florida State is second with a 555 total (-13), while Georgia Tech is third at 560. Duke is fourth at 562, but is just one shot ahead of fifth-place Wake Forest (563) and just two shots ahead of Virginia, Clemson and Louisville who are all tied for sixth at 564. Higgins round on Saturday included seven birdies and just one bogey. He played his final 11 holes six-under- par, including a 31 on the back nine. His 65 tied for the second best round in an ACC Tournament by a Clemson golfer and was the best since David May shot a 65 in the second round in 2006. The only ACC round better than Higgins performance on Saturday was a 63 by Brad Clark in the second round in 1985. Higgins shot a 74 in the first round then improved 36 places with his 65 on Saturday, the biggest improvement by any golfer in the second round. The native of Ireland stands in 12th place after 36 holes, best among Clemson golfers. Higgins was the only Clemson golfer to shoot par or better on Saturday, but Clemson’s other four golfers all shot between 72 and 74. Andrew Swanson had 16 pars in his first round on Friday, but had more of a wild ride on Saturday with five bogeys and four birdies on the way to a 72. His 143 total through 36 holes is tied for 28th place. Calahan Keever also had a 72 on Saturday and stands in 41st place with a 145 total through 36 holes. Alberto Dominguez had a second round 73 and is in a tie for 34th place with a 144 total. Jonathan Nielsen, Clemson’s top golfer for the year with a 70.82 stroke average, shot 67 in the first round, but had a 74 in the second round. He did play the last seven holes in one under par. Third round play begins on Sunday at 8 a.m. Live scoring will be available on clemsontigers.com.
VirginiaUnited-statesNorth-carolinaCharlotte-country-clubIrelandFloridaWake-forestGeorgiaAlberto-dominguezCalahan-keeverDavid-mayJonathan-nielsenClemson, SC—Jonathan Nielsen fired a final round 67 on Saturday to finish third in the individual race and lead the Clemson Tigers to an 11th place finish out of 31 teams at The Goodwin Collegiate In San Francisco, California. The 54-hole tournament that features the largest field in college golf was played at the famed TPC Harding Park Course, the site of the 2020 PGA Championship. With Clemson’s 11th place finish the Tigers posted a record of 20-10 against the field and moved over the .500 mark for the season (69-60-1), above the important cutline to be selected for the NCAA Tournament. Clemson now has a 53-23-1 record against the field in the spring. Nielsen finished third with a 207 total, three-under-par on the par 70 course that measured 7,193 yards. He was especially good in the clutch as he played his last 12 holes at five-under-par. It was Nielsen’s fifth top eight finish of the year and he lowered his season stroke average to a team best 70.80. Nielsen was outstanding on the par four holes during the tournament, posting a 3.86 average, second best in the field of 168 players. He led the Tigers in birdies with 11. Nielsen’s 207 score was just two shots behind medalist Braxton Watts of Utah and just one behind the 206 of Stanford’s Michael Thorbjornsen. Thorbjornsen is the #1 ranked player in the nation in the PGA University ratings, and the #3 player in the nation according to Spikemark. Among the players Nielsen beat was Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, the #2 player in the PGA University Rankings. Clemson was in 17th place through six holes on Saturday, but played the last 12 holes at four-under as a team to improve to 11th place at the end of the round. The improvement was most important because a 17th place finish would have left the Tigers with a 14-16 record for the week instead of the 20-10 record for the 11th place finish. A major contributor to the performance on Saturday was Andrew Swanson, who shot a two-under par 68. He finished with three birdies and just one bogey. The native of Bluffton, SC shot a 218 for the 54 holes, second best on the Clemson team. He improved his score every round, going from an opening round 78 that was the non-counter, to a 72 in the second round to his final round 68. Sophomore Austin Scott shot a 72 in the final round, his best round as a Clemson Tiger, the third best round of the day for Clemson. Scott played the final nine holes at even par, including a birdie on the par four seventh hole. It was the first time Scott was playing in the Clemson lineup, as he had only played as an individual previously. Alberto Dominguez was Clemson’s fourth counter in the final round with a 75. He also played well down the stretch, playing the final nine holes in one-over-par. Thomas Higgins was Clemson’s non-counter on Saturday with a 77, but he had shot a team best 69 in the second round. Clemson will play its last regular season tournament April 8-9 at the University of Virginia in the Lewis Chitengwa Invitational. The ACC Championship is April 19-22 at Charlotte Country Club.
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