For the second straight weekend, the Virginia women’s golf team will travel south to North Carolina. This week, however, the stakes are a little higher.
The Cavaliers will compete Friday through Sunday in the ACC Championships on the par-71, 6,355-yard course at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro. Currently ranked No. 3 in the country and No. 1 in the conference, Virginia hopes to dethrone Duke from its longtime perch at the top of the ACC. The Blue Devils have won every ACC Championship since 1996, compiling 16 conference titles. Last year, Duke edged Virginia by one shot to claim the victory after the two teams were tied for first place going into the final day of play.
Virginia is coming off a second-place finish at the 18-team Bryan National Collegiate at Brown Summit. The team shot a one-under 287 during the final round, becoming the only team to shoot a round under par in the tournament. Sophomore Calle Nielson tied the school’s single-round scoring record with a final round 67, the second time she has done so this spring. The score tied her with senior teammate Jennie Arseneault — who racked up her 10th top-10 career finish — for sixth place.
The weekend lineup will consist of Nielson, Arseneault, junior Whitney Neuhauser, senior Lene Krog and senior Kristen Simpson. Neuhauser leads the team with an ACC-best 72.76 stroke average. Nielson, who has either led or tied as Virginia’s scoring leader in the team’s last four tournaments, will look to continue her impressive play and build off her third-place finish at last year’s ACC Championship.
—compiled by Nick Eilerson
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