VIRGINIA TECH Golf Guide | 2018 Edition

47 The Atlantic Coast Conference will hold its annual Men’s Golf Championship April 20-22 at Old North State Club in Badin Lake, N.C. The winner of the event will earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Division I Golf Championship. Virginia Tech is in its 14th season as a proud member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Arguably the best conference in collegiate golf, the ACC offers the Hokies a grand platform in their quest to become one of the nation’s elite programs. The Hokies won the 2007 ACC Golf Championship, their first since joining the league in 2004. The Tradition Consistency is the mark of true excellence in any endeavor. In today’s intercollegiate athletics, however, competition has become so balanced and so competitive that it is virtually impossible to maintain a high level of consistency. Yet the Atlantic Coast Conference has defied the odds. Now in its 65th year of competition, the ACC has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate conferences in the nation. And that is not mere conjecture, the numbers support it. Since the league’s inception in 1953, ACC schools have captured 150 national championships, including 75 in men’s competition, 74 in women’s competition and one in men’s and women’s fencing. In addition, NCAA individual titles have gone to ACC student-athletes 169 times in men’s competition and 134 times in women’s action. Virginia Tech captured the ACC Golf Championship at the Old North State Club on April 22, 2007. THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE