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University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heel Golf Notes
April 20, 2000 | Men's Golf
April 20, 2000
CAROLINA IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT: North Carolina will be going after its 11th ACC victory when the 47th annual ACC Tournament begins this Friday and continues through Sunday at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point in Badin Lake, N.C. This is the fifth year the 54-hole event has been held at the Old North State Club, which features a par 72, 7,102-yard layout. The conference championship was also played there in 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999. Carolina won the team title in 1995 and 1996 and Tar Heel Mark Wilson was the individual medalist in '96. Carolina has won the conference championship, which began in 1954, 10 times. The Tar Heels have come away victorious in 1996, 1995, 1986, 1984, 1983, 1981, 1977, 1965, 1960 and 1956.
Tee times begin at 8:30 a.m. each day. On Friday, the first wave of teams will be North Carolina, Wake Forest and Maryland. The second wave of teams which will begin teeing off at 9:30 is N.C. State, Duke and Florida State and the third wave of teams which begin play at 10:30 is Clemson, Georgia Tech and Virginia.
TAR HEEL INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION: Eleven Tar Heel golfers have captured the individual ACC Championship in the 46 years of the tournament's existence. Mark Wilson was the 1996 individual medalist which was also played at the Old North State Club, winning the tournament with a six-under-par 210 total and posting a two-stroke victory over George McNeill of Florida State. Other Tar Heel champions include Greg Parker in 1987, John Hughes in 1986, Davis Love in 1984, John Inman in 1982, John Spelman in 1981, Marty West in 1971, John Baldwin in 1965, Pete Green in 1961, Bill Thornton in 1958 and Pryde Basinger in 1956.
CAROLINA LOOKING FOR RIGHT COMBINATION: North Carolina is still searching for all the right pieces and its first win of the 1999-2000 campaign. The Tar Heels began the fall season with a fifth-place finish at The Ridges Intercollegiate. They followed that with a 16th-place finish at the Ping/Golfweek Preview, a 12th-place finish at the Carpet Capital Classic, an 11th-place finish at the Iron Duke Classic and a tie for 11th at the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Collegiate.
This spring, Carolina posted an eighth-place finish at the San Juan Shoot-Out, tied for 10th place at the Las Vegas Intercollegiate, finished 10th at the Schenkel E-Z-GO Invitational and finished ninth at The Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs.
HARRIS ENJOYING STELLAR SENIOR CAMPAIGN: Max Harris, a senior from Worthing, England, is leading the way for the Tar Heels this year. He picked up his second collegiate championship this year as he captured the team title at The Ridges Intercollegiate, the first tournament of the fall campaign. Harris fired a five-under par 211 total to take the title finishing two strokes ahead of Arizona's Patrick Norris.
Harris has posted five top 10 and six top 20 finishes this year. In addition to his win at the Ridges Intercollegiate, he was the runner-up at the Schenkel E-Z-GO Invitational this spring, tied for seventh place at the Las Vegas Interollegiate, tied for ninth place at The Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs and tied for eighth place at the Carpet Capital Classic. Harris also tied for 11th place at the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Collegiate.
Harris was selected third-team All-America in 1999 and was chosen second-team All-America in '98. He was named to both the 1998 and 1999 All-ACC squads. In addition to his win at The Ridges Intercollegiate last fall, his other collegiate victory came in the fall of '97 when he won the Black & Decker Duke Golf Classic. Harris was chosen to participate in the Savane College All-America Golf Classic last fall in El Paso, Texas, where he posted a 20th-place finish.
DANIEL TOP UNC PERFORMER AT LAST YEAR'S ACCs: Paul Daniel, a senior from Burlington, N.C., was the low Tar Heel in last year's ACC Tournament and looks to better that performance this year. Last spring, Daniel tied for seventh place with a one-over-par 217 total after rounds of 73-71-73.
This year Daniel has posted three top 20 finishes. He tied for 11th place at The Ridges Intercollegiate, the first event of the fall season. He tied for 19th place at the Iron Duke Classic last fall and tied for 18th place at this spring's San Juan Shoot-Out where he was low scorer for Carolina.
SIMMONS TWO-YEAR STARTER FOR TAR HEELS: Junior Rob Simmons, from Walterboro, S.C., has posted three top 25 finishes this year. He tied for 11th place at the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Collegiate last fall. He started off the spring campaign with a tie for 18th place at the San Juan Shoot-Out and he tied for 24th place at The Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs.
HYLER AND MEARES ROUND OUT LINEUP: Brad Hyler, a senior from Raleigh, N.C., and Whitten Meares, a sophomore from Fair Bluff, N.C., round out Carolina's lineup for the ACC Championship this weekend.
Hyler has played in three tournaments this year and his top finish was a tie for 50th place at The Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs which was played just last weekend.
Meares has played in two B-team tournaments and competed in The Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs as an individual. In the first round of The Intercollegiate, he carded a double eagle on the par five, 560-yard ninth hole where he holed out his second shot. Meares' top finish this year came last fall where he tied for fourth place at the Johnny Palmer/Old North State Invitational, a B-team event for the Tar Heels. That tournament was also played at the Old North State Club.
THE TAR HEELS IN THE POLLS: Carolina is ranked 31st in this week's Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings and ranked 42nd in the MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rankings. Senior Max Harris is ranked 11th individually in both polls.
LAST YEAR'S ACC TOURNAMENT: Carolina tied for runner-up honors in last year's ACC Championship, also played at the Old North State Club, carding an 873 total with rounds of 287-292-294. Georgia Tech won the team title with an 863 total while Duke tied with the Tar Heels for second place and Clemson finished fourth at 876. Matt Krauss of Duke won the individual title with a four-under-par 212 total. Paul Daniel was the low Tar Heel tying for seventh place with a 217 total. Max Harris and Rob Simmons tied for 12th place with 220 totals while Don Hill and Brad Hyler tied for 18th at 222.
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