On Thursday morning, the Notre Dame men’s golf team teed off at the 2025 ACC Championships, held at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Irish are competing among the conference tournament’s first 15-team field and will battle for an ACC crown through Monday, April 28.
According to the updated Scoreboard rankings, this year’s ACC Championships field features six teams ranked inside the national top 25. Florida State leads the way at No. 9, with No. 10 North Carolina and No. 11 Virginia following not far behind. Duke checks in at No. 19, while Louisville ranks 23rd, and Georgia Tech occupies the No. 24 spot. Also within the national top 75 are Wake Forest (No. 44), California (No. 54), Clemson (No. 55) and NC State (No. 61).
Notre Dame comes in at 39th in the country and has finished top five in each of its last three competitions. The Irish tied for fourth at the Schenkel Invitational and the Haskins Award Invitational in Georgia before tying for fifth last weekend at the Boilermaker Spring Invitational in nearby West Lafayette, Indiana. As a team, Notre Dame has scored better with each passing event since the spring season began in February, rising from seven over par at the Watersound Invitational to nine under par in this past week’s opportunity.
Expect star sophomore Jacob Modleski to lead the Irish this week in Bowling Green. The Nashville native has swung it well in the spring, delivering top-five finishes in three of his last four outings. Though Modleski placed outside the top 20 at 23rd in the Boilermaker Spring Invitational, another young Irish golfer stepped up and could turn some heads at the ACC Championships. Chinese freshman Mike Qiu, after shooting a top-10 score at the Haskins Award Invitational, was Notre Dame’s best finisher at 18th in West Lafayette. He delivered a season-low score of five under par to pace the Irish. Sophomore Rocco Salvitti could make some noise as well after tying Modleski for 23rd at Purdue.
Last season, Notre Dame finished seventh with a score of nine over par at the ACC Championships, as North Carolina took the team victory. Modleski paced the Irish in 11th place, while Salvitti ended up in a tie for 37th. As a team, Notre Dame hasn’t finished inside an ACC Championships top five since 2022.
The Club at Olde Stone, designed by Arthur Hills, opened in 2006 and spans 7,324 yards as a par 72. It sprawls across the southeastern outskirts of Bowling Green, featuring a 160-foot elevation change provided by the rolling hills of southern Kentucky.
