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University of North Carolina Athletics
Men's Golf A No. 1 Seed In NCAA Yale Regional
May 4, 2022 | Men's Golf
Tar Heels Looking To Advance To Fifth Straight NCAA Championship
The University of North Carolina men's golf team is the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Yale Regional, which will be played May 16-18 at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven, Conn.
Yale is one of six NCAA regional sites. The top five teams and best individual finisher not on one of those five teams will advance to the NCAA Championship, which begins May 27 at the Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Tar Heels are ranked No. 5 in the country by Golfstat and No. 7 by Golfweek.
Joining UNC in the 14-team Yale Regional are No. 2 seed Texas Tech, No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 NC State, No. 6 Charlotte, No. 7 North Florida, No. 8 Georgia Southern, No. 9 Mississippi State, No. 10 Virginia, No. 11 UCF, No. 12. Seton Hall, No. 13 Yale and No. 14 Sacred Heart.
"I'm proud of our guys for what they've accomplished to this point in earning a No. 1 seed," says UNC head coach Andrew DiBitetto. "But we all know the fun part about this time of year is everybody gets a clean slate. It doesn't really matter if you're a one seed, a seven or 13 seed, everybody has the same opportunity."
Carolina will be playing in a regional for the 29th time since the NCAA went to this tournament format in 1989. This is the seventh consecutive NCAA Tournament the Tar Heels are playing in a regional.
This is the fourth time the Tar Heels are playing in a regional at Yale. UNC advanced to the NCAA Championship in each of its previous three regionals in New Haven, including 1991, 1995 and 2004.
Carolina currently has the eighth-longest streak in the nation of advancing out of regional play to the NCAA Championship, something the Tar Heels have done in the last four regionals (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021). Only Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Oklahoma State, Vanderbilt, Arizona State and Clemson have longer active streaks of advancing to the NCAA Championship.
In 2019 and 2021 Carolina tied for second in the Stanford and Noblesville, Ind., regionals, respectively. No tournament was held in 2020 when the entire NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the pandemic. The Tar Heels were fifth in 2017 at Stanford and fourth in 2018 in Kissimmee, Fla.
Four of Carolina's current starters competed in the 2021 Noblesville Regional, including Peter Fountain and Austin Greaser, who tied for 10th at 3-under 213; Ryan Burnett, who tied for 18th at 1 under; and Ryan Gerard, who tied for 23rd at even par.
UNC shot 15-under 849 to tie Tennessee for second place, five strokes behind Texas.
"We love this time of year because it's the most fun," says DiBitetto. "It's the most exciting, there's pressure and we love pressure. For us the recipe is always pretty simple, which is we focus on ourselves and the golf course. We figure out how to prepare for the golf course and how we can shoot the lowest score on that golf course."
The Tar Heels will be competing for the first time since April 22-24 at the ACC Championship in Panama City Beach, Fla.
UNC finished first after three rounds of stroke play, shooting 35-under 829, the second-best total score and score to par on a par-72 course in ACC Championship history. Fountain tied for first place in stroke play (lost on the second hole of a playoff for medalist) at 13 under par, the lowest score to par by a Tar Heel in ACC Championship history.
Freshman David Ford and Gerard tied for eighth place and Burnett tied for 10th.
In the semifinals, Ford handily won his match 4&3, but Wake Forest narrowly edged Carolina 3-1-1, as the Deacons won a pair of matches by a single hole.
Yale is one of six NCAA regional sites. The top five teams and best individual finisher not on one of those five teams will advance to the NCAA Championship, which begins May 27 at the Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Tar Heels are ranked No. 5 in the country by Golfstat and No. 7 by Golfweek.
Joining UNC in the 14-team Yale Regional are No. 2 seed Texas Tech, No. 3 Wake Forest, No. 4 Illinois, No. 5 NC State, No. 6 Charlotte, No. 7 North Florida, No. 8 Georgia Southern, No. 9 Mississippi State, No. 10 Virginia, No. 11 UCF, No. 12. Seton Hall, No. 13 Yale and No. 14 Sacred Heart.
"I'm proud of our guys for what they've accomplished to this point in earning a No. 1 seed," says UNC head coach Andrew DiBitetto. "But we all know the fun part about this time of year is everybody gets a clean slate. It doesn't really matter if you're a one seed, a seven or 13 seed, everybody has the same opportunity."
Carolina will be playing in a regional for the 29th time since the NCAA went to this tournament format in 1989. This is the seventh consecutive NCAA Tournament the Tar Heels are playing in a regional.
This is the fourth time the Tar Heels are playing in a regional at Yale. UNC advanced to the NCAA Championship in each of its previous three regionals in New Haven, including 1991, 1995 and 2004.
Carolina currently has the eighth-longest streak in the nation of advancing out of regional play to the NCAA Championship, something the Tar Heels have done in the last four regionals (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021). Only Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Oklahoma State, Vanderbilt, Arizona State and Clemson have longer active streaks of advancing to the NCAA Championship.
In 2019 and 2021 Carolina tied for second in the Stanford and Noblesville, Ind., regionals, respectively. No tournament was held in 2020 when the entire NCAA Tournament was canceled due to the pandemic. The Tar Heels were fifth in 2017 at Stanford and fourth in 2018 in Kissimmee, Fla.
Four of Carolina's current starters competed in the 2021 Noblesville Regional, including Peter Fountain and Austin Greaser, who tied for 10th at 3-under 213; Ryan Burnett, who tied for 18th at 1 under; and Ryan Gerard, who tied for 23rd at even par.
UNC shot 15-under 849 to tie Tennessee for second place, five strokes behind Texas.
"We love this time of year because it's the most fun," says DiBitetto. "It's the most exciting, there's pressure and we love pressure. For us the recipe is always pretty simple, which is we focus on ourselves and the golf course. We figure out how to prepare for the golf course and how we can shoot the lowest score on that golf course."
The Tar Heels will be competing for the first time since April 22-24 at the ACC Championship in Panama City Beach, Fla.
UNC finished first after three rounds of stroke play, shooting 35-under 829, the second-best total score and score to par on a par-72 course in ACC Championship history. Fountain tied for first place in stroke play (lost on the second hole of a playoff for medalist) at 13 under par, the lowest score to par by a Tar Heel in ACC Championship history.
Freshman David Ford and Gerard tied for eighth place and Burnett tied for 10th.
In the semifinals, Ford handily won his match 4&3, but Wake Forest narrowly edged Carolina 3-1-1, as the Deacons won a pair of matches by a single hole.
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