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University of North Carolina Athletics
The UNC Men's Golf Team Wins Maryland Intercollegiate
September 13, 2009 | Men's Golf
Sept. 13, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, MD. -
The University of North Carolina men's golf team came from seven strokes down after the second round to edge out Virginia Commonwealth by a single stroke for the championship of the Maryland Intercollegiate. Carolina fired a one-under-par 283 in the final round to finish with a three-under 849 total. The Tar Heels were led by Henry Zaytoun III who fired a three-under-par 68 in the final round to jump from fourth place to a tie for individual medalist honors with a seven-under 206 total.
"I was proud of the way we hung in there," said Tar Heel head coach John Inman. "The other teams started out well and we didn't, but we hung in there and played a lot of the hard holes well and gave ourselves a chance to win on the last hole."
Zaytoun, a junior from Raleigh, N.C. who picked up his first collegiate win, was tied for fourth going into the final round, but fired a three-under 68 on Sunday to finish at seven-under 206 as a co-champion with Ben Kohles of Virginia. Three other Tar Heels finished in the top 20 of the individual race as Michael McGowan tied for fifth place, Kevin O'Connell tied for 11th and Jack Fields tied for 18th. McGowan, a freshman from Southern Pines, N.C., fired a one-under 70 in the final round and finished at one-under 212; O'Connell, a junior from Cary, N.C., finished at two-over 215 and Fields, a sophomore from Southern Pines, N.C., carded a six-over 219 total. Senior David Holzworth, from Chapel Hill, posted a 224 total to tie for 40th place.
Carolina's 849 total was one stroke better than VCU''s 850 as the Rams carded a seven-over 291 on Sunday. NC State finished in third place at six-over 858 while Virginia finished fourth at 862, Kent State placed fifth at 865 and host Maryland was sixth at 875.
Carolina's Zaytoun and Virginia's Kohles were named co-champions and posted a four-stroke win over VCU's Rafael Campos who finished with a three-under 210 total. Lanto Griffin of VCU finished alone in fourth place at two-under 211 while four players tied for fifth place at one-under 212 - Carolina's McGowan, NC State's Brad Revell and Mitch Sutton and Kent State's Brett Cairns.
The 54-hole event was played at River Marsh Golf Club which features a par 71, 6,766-yard layout. The second round concluded Sunday morning, after being halted by darkness on Saturday, and the final round followed. The Tar Heels' next action comes Oct. 3-4 at the Gary Koch Intercollegiate in Tampa, Fla.
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