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University of North Carolina Athletics
NC Golf Amateur Tees Off Thursday
June 18, 2015 | Men's Golf
The 55th annual North Carolina Golf Amateur Championship gets underway tomorrow at the Country Club of Landfall's Jack Nicklaus Course in Wilmington, and seven players with ties to the University of North Carolina men's golf team are in the field.
Incoming freshman Joshua Martin of Pinehurst is the defending champion. He won the 2014 state amateur title with a 14-under 270 that was the second-best score in the tournament's history. Martin was the youngest NC amateur champion in history.
Rising UNC juniors Davis Bateman (Charlotte), Carter Jenkins (Raleigh) and Zachary Martin (Pinehurst), former Tar Heels Philip Chauncey (Durham) and Jonathan Jackson (Chapel Hill) and incoming UNC freshman Preyer Fountain (Raleigh) are also among the 142 participants in the event that runs from June 18-21.
The championship is conducted at 72 holes of stroke play. After 36 holes, there will be a cut to the low 60 scores and ties.
Entry is open to any male amateur golfer who has reached his 13th birthday by June 18, 2015, is a legal resident of North Carolina, is a member in good standing of a club which is a member of the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA) and has an active GHIN USGA Handicap Index at a CGA member club that does not exceed 5.4.
Fountain and Chauncey tee off at 9:20 a.m., Bateman at 12:45 p.m., Zachary Martin at 1:05, Jackson at 1:15 and Jenkins and Joshua Martin are paired in the same group that tees off at 2:05.
Jenkins tied for third in the 2014 NC Amateur, following Joshua Martin and Bailey Patrick, a senior at UNC this spring.
UNC rising sophomores Ben Griffin (Chapel Hill) and William Register (Burlington) began play today at the Sunnehanna Amateur in Johnstown, Pa.
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