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University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Men's Golf Team Heads To NCAA East Regional
May 16, 2007 | Men's Golf
May 16, 2007
TAR HEEL GOLF NOTES
•CAROLINA IN THE EAST REGIONAL:
This year marks Carolina's 19th straight trip to the NCAA Regionals. The Tar Heels will be making their 17th appearance in the East Regional. Carolina's other two appearances have been in the Central Regional (2001 and 2003). Carolina has received a bid to the NCAA Regionals each year since the regional format was instituted in 1989 and has advanced on to the NCAAs 16 times (each year except 2001 and 2005). This year's 54-hole East Regional will be played at The Golf Club of Georgia, Lakeside Course, which features a par 72, 7,017-yard layout. Twenty-seven teams and six individuals will be on hand to compete for the chance to advance on to the NCAA Championship as the top 10 teams and top two individuals not on those 10 teams earn the right to move on to the NCAAs to be played May 30-June 2 at the Golden Horseshoe, Gold Course, in Williamsburg, Va. Carolina's highest finish in the regionals came in 1993 and 1995 when they were runners-up.•LAST YEAR IN THE EAST REGIONAL: North Carolina finished in fourth place at last year's NCAA East Regional played at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club in Orlando, Fla., advancing on to the NCAA Championship. The Tar Heels posted a three-day 874 total after carding rounds of 294-291-289. Wake Forest won the team title with an even-par 864 total and Kevin Chappell of UCLA claimed the individual title with a five-under 211 total.
Jonathan Jackson was the low Tar Heel, tying for 11th place with a 217 total. Robert Riesen tied for 14th with a 218 total while Martin Ureta and Ted Smith tied for 36th at 222, and Chase MacFarland tied for 82nd with a 229 total.
•CAROLINA IN THE NCAA: This year marks Carolina's 43rd trip to the NCAAs since 1949. The Tar Heels have 34 top-20 finishes and 18 top-10 finishes in NCAA competition. Carolina has had 17 players finish in the top-10 of the individual race 18 times and 30 players finish in the top-20 individually 36 times. Prior to this year, the Tar Heels made trips to the NCAAs in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The only years the Tar Heels did not advance out of the regionals were 2001 and 2005.
•CAROLINA'S TWO CHAMPS: Two Tar Heels, John Inman and Harvie Ward, have won NCAA Individual Championships. On his way to the title in 1949, Ward defeated Oklahoma's Bo Winninger, LSU's Gardner Dickinson and Notre Dame's Tommy Veech before dispatching Texas' Morris Williams Jr. in the 36-hole final, five and four. Thirty-five years later in 1984, Inman captured the title with a 17-under-par score, breaking Ben Crenshaw's NCAA record by two strokes. That record, set at Houston's Bear Creek Golf World, was broken in 2000 by Charles Howell of Oklahoma State who fired a 23-under-par score of 266.
•CAROLINA THIS SPRING: North Carolina has been the runner-up in two tournaments so far this spring - the Seminole Intercollegiate and the Administaff Augusta State Invitational. Martin Ureta tied for third at the Seminole Intercollegiate with a six-under-par 210 total while Robert Riesen finished one stroke back at 211 in a tie for eighth place. In the Administaff Augusta State Invitational where Carolina finished just one stroke behind Coastal Carolina, three Tar Heels carded top-12 finishes - Reed Darsie tied for runner-up honors at six-under 210, Ureta tied for fifth at 211 and Riesen tallied a 215 total to tie for 12th place. Carolina finished sixth at the ACC Championship with an 869 total and Ureta tied for fifth place at three-under 213. The Tar Heels tied for seventh at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Invitational where Ureta tied for fourth place; and Carolina carded 12th-place finishes at the Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational, the Courtyard By Marriott Intercollegiate and the Linger Longer Invitational.
•CAROLINA IN THE FALL: Last fall, the Tar Heels carded top-three finishes in three of their four tournaments. Carolina captured the team championship at the International Collegiate played in St. Andrews, Scotland where Martin Ureta tied for third place at six-under-par 210 and Robert Riesen was one shot back at 211 in a tie for eighth. Carolina was the runner-up at the Coca-Cola Duke Golf Classic where David Holzworth was the runner-up in the individual race in just his second start as a Tar Heel, firing an eight-under 208 total. Ureta placed 10th at even-par 216. Carolina finished in third place at the Bank of Tennessee at The Ridges Intercollegiate as three Tar Heels posted top-15 finishes. Riesen tied for fifth place while Reed Darsie and Barden Berry tied for 13th. In their other fall event, the Tar Heels tied for eighth place at the Isleworth-UCF Collegiate Invitational. Riesen and Berry were low for the Heels as both tied for 25th place with 224 totals.
•URETA NAMED ALL-ACC: Tar Heel senior Martin Ureta was selected to the 2007 All-Atlantic Coast Conference team as selected by the league's 11 head coaches. This year marks Ureta's third consecutive appearance on the 12-man All-ACC squad as he ws also named all-conference in 2005 and 2006. Ureta, from Santiago, Chile, has carded nine top-20 finishes this year. Ureta boasts a 72.18 stroke average this year.
•THE TAR HEELS IN THE POLLS: Carolina is ranked 23rd in this week's Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings and 22nd in the Golf World/Nike Golf Coaches' Poll.
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