Austin Greaser (2024) - Patterson Medal Winners - University of North Carolina Athletics

Austin Greaser

Induction:
2024
Class:
2024

2024— Austin Greaser: Men's Golf (Vandalia, Ohio)
Represented the United States in several international competitions, including the 2023 Walker Cup, won two NCAA regionals and led the men’s golf team to the best four-year span in program history. He contributed to 19 tournament team victories, the most by any Tar Heel, including wins against top national fields at the Stephens Cup, East Lake Cup, Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational, Valspar Collegiate Invitational, Calusa Cup, Amer Ari Invitational, Hayt Collegiate, Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational and the 2024 ACC Championship.

He finished his career averaging 71.04 strokes per round over 52 tournaments, the second-lowest average in UNC history among players with 100 or more rounds. He shot a combined 34 strokes below par in 156 rounds, one of only two Tar Heels to shoot below par in at least 100 rounds.

He was runner-up in the 2021 U.S. Amateur, won the 2022 Western Amateur (one of the amateur majors), and was a three-time collegiate medalist, twice making birdies on the final hole to win, including a 30-foot birdie to win the 2024 NCAA Chapel Hill Regional. He also had 14 top-five and 21 top-10 collegiate finishes.

Greaser led UNC to top-five finishes (T5, T5, T3 and T5) in each of the last four NCAA Championships, something no other program in the nation accomplished, and the first time an ACC team did that since 1971. He earned second-team All-America honors in 2024, was a Haskins Award finalist for National Player of the Year this spring and joined Dustin Bray as the only Tar Heels to earn All-ACC accolades four times.