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Greaser Wins, UNC Advances At NCAA Chapel Hill Regional
May 15, 2024 | Men's Golf
NCAA Chapel Hill Regional
Third Round
May 15, 2024
CLEMSON TAKES TEAM TITLE, UNC'S GREASER MEDALIST AT CHAPEL HILL REGIONAL
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Austin Greaser curled in a downhill 30-foot putt for birdie on the final hole to win the individual title and the University of North Carolina finished third to advance to the NCAA Championship Wednesday in the Chapel Hill Regional at UNC's Finley Golf Club.
Tenth-seeded Clemson (25-under 815) won the team title by one stroke over East Tennessee State. Those two teams plus UNC, Georgia Tech and Baylor advance to the 2024 NCAA Championship, which will be contested May 24-29 at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
NC State's Nick Mathews also advanced as the low individual not on one of the five advancing teams.
The Chapel Hill Regional is Greaser's third collegiate win and second in an NCAA regional. He also won the 2022 NCAA Yale Regional. Greaser shot 66-65-66 for 13-under 197. The 197 matches the UNC 54-hole record with Ben Griffin in the 2017 Tar Heel Intercollegiate.
He is the first Tar Heel to shoot 66 or better in all three rounds in any tournament and his 197 total is the best ever in an NCAA regional by a Tar Heel.
Greaser is a combined 36 under par in four NCAA regionals. He previously shot 71-70-72 to tie for 10th in 2021 in Noblesville, Ind., shot 68-63-69 (10-under 210) at Yale in 2022 and shot 67-70-69 (13-under 206) to tie for 11th in 2023 in Salem, S.C.
"It's pretty freaking cool to win the home event," says Greaser, only the second UNC player to earn four All-ACC honors. "We had awesome support with the Tar Heel fans out here. As a team we got done what we needed to do, which was advancing, and we gave ourselves tee times next week in San Diego and that's what we prepared for all year."
It was the second time the Vandalia, Ohio, native won a college tournament on his final stroke. In 2021, he holed out from the fairway on the last hole to win the Olympia Fields Fighting Illini Invitational.
"I just try to give myself chances," says Greaser. "When I was reading the putt I knew it was a tough one but that's why I put in all the practice, why I spend the extra hours to give myself a chance to make one like that. Coach D (DiBitetto) and I had a good read, he liked the line when I showed him so he said, 'Okay, put a good stroke on it and see what happens. To have a ton of friends and family here to see that is pretty cool."
Carolina's Maxwell Ford (69-68-69) tied for 18th at 4-under 206; Peter Fountain (68-72-68) tied for 21st at 2-under 208; Dylan Menante (68-73-70) tied for 32nd at 1-over 211; and David Ford (2-over 212) tied for 34th at 2-over 212.
"I'm really happy for Austin," says Tar Heel head coach Andrew DiBitetto. "He's been knocking on the door the last four or five times out so for him to get it done at home in front of so many fans and his friends is absolutely amazing. Collectively, we were average to good this week, not great. We will do what we always do after a tournament and look at what we have to do to get better and get ready for nationals."The Tar Heels shot 271-276-273 for 20-under 820 in the first tournament at newly-renovated Finley Golf Club, which Davis Love III and Love Golf Design re-built last year.
Clemson trailed East Tennessee State by two strokes heading into the final round, which began yesterday before rain postponed the majority of the play to today. The Tigers shot 274 today, three shots better than the Buccaneers, to win by one.
The team title came down to the final hole with ETSU at 25 under, one ahead of Clemson. The Tigers' Calahan Keever made birdie and ETSU bogeyed the 18th hole for a two-shot swing to give Clemson its eighth regional title and first since 2004.
Clemson (-25), ETSU (-24), UNC (-20), Georgia Tech (-17) and Baylor (-15) earned the five bids to the NCAA Championship. Alabama finished one shot out of advancing at 14 under with Long Beach State another stroke back at -13.
VCU shot the best team round of the final round at 13-under 267 to finish eighth at 9 under par.
Mathews (67-66-65) closed with a final-round 65 to tie Baylor's Johnny Keefer for second at 12-under 198 to advance as the low individual.
Loyola Marymount's Trevor Algya made an ace on the 159-yard par-3 12th hole. It was the first hole-in-one at the new course. Algya shot 1-under 69 in the round.
Third Round
May 15, 2024
CLEMSON TAKES TEAM TITLE, UNC'S GREASER MEDALIST AT CHAPEL HILL REGIONAL
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Austin Greaser curled in a downhill 30-foot putt for birdie on the final hole to win the individual title and the University of North Carolina finished third to advance to the NCAA Championship Wednesday in the Chapel Hill Regional at UNC's Finley Golf Club.
Tenth-seeded Clemson (25-under 815) won the team title by one stroke over East Tennessee State. Those two teams plus UNC, Georgia Tech and Baylor advance to the 2024 NCAA Championship, which will be contested May 24-29 at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
NC State's Nick Mathews also advanced as the low individual not on one of the five advancing teams.
The Chapel Hill Regional is Greaser's third collegiate win and second in an NCAA regional. He also won the 2022 NCAA Yale Regional. Greaser shot 66-65-66 for 13-under 197. The 197 matches the UNC 54-hole record with Ben Griffin in the 2017 Tar Heel Intercollegiate.
He is the first Tar Heel to shoot 66 or better in all three rounds in any tournament and his 197 total is the best ever in an NCAA regional by a Tar Heel.
Greaser is a combined 36 under par in four NCAA regionals. He previously shot 71-70-72 to tie for 10th in 2021 in Noblesville, Ind., shot 68-63-69 (10-under 210) at Yale in 2022 and shot 67-70-69 (13-under 206) to tie for 11th in 2023 in Salem, S.C.
"It's pretty freaking cool to win the home event," says Greaser, only the second UNC player to earn four All-ACC honors. "We had awesome support with the Tar Heel fans out here. As a team we got done what we needed to do, which was advancing, and we gave ourselves tee times next week in San Diego and that's what we prepared for all year."
It was the second time the Vandalia, Ohio, native won a college tournament on his final stroke. In 2021, he holed out from the fairway on the last hole to win the Olympia Fields Fighting Illini Invitational.
"I just try to give myself chances," says Greaser. "When I was reading the putt I knew it was a tough one but that's why I put in all the practice, why I spend the extra hours to give myself a chance to make one like that. Coach D (DiBitetto) and I had a good read, he liked the line when I showed him so he said, 'Okay, put a good stroke on it and see what happens. To have a ton of friends and family here to see that is pretty cool."
Carolina's Maxwell Ford (69-68-69) tied for 18th at 4-under 206; Peter Fountain (68-72-68) tied for 21st at 2-under 208; Dylan Menante (68-73-70) tied for 32nd at 1-over 211; and David Ford (2-over 212) tied for 34th at 2-over 212.
"I'm really happy for Austin," says Tar Heel head coach Andrew DiBitetto. "He's been knocking on the door the last four or five times out so for him to get it done at home in front of so many fans and his friends is absolutely amazing. Collectively, we were average to good this week, not great. We will do what we always do after a tournament and look at what we have to do to get better and get ready for nationals."The Tar Heels shot 271-276-273 for 20-under 820 in the first tournament at newly-renovated Finley Golf Club, which Davis Love III and Love Golf Design re-built last year.
Clemson trailed East Tennessee State by two strokes heading into the final round, which began yesterday before rain postponed the majority of the play to today. The Tigers shot 274 today, three shots better than the Buccaneers, to win by one.
The team title came down to the final hole with ETSU at 25 under, one ahead of Clemson. The Tigers' Calahan Keever made birdie and ETSU bogeyed the 18th hole for a two-shot swing to give Clemson its eighth regional title and first since 2004.
Clemson (-25), ETSU (-24), UNC (-20), Georgia Tech (-17) and Baylor (-15) earned the five bids to the NCAA Championship. Alabama finished one shot out of advancing at 14 under with Long Beach State another stroke back at -13.
VCU shot the best team round of the final round at 13-under 267 to finish eighth at 9 under par.
Mathews (67-66-65) closed with a final-round 65 to tie Baylor's Johnny Keefer for second at 12-under 198 to advance as the low individual.
Loyola Marymount's Trevor Algya made an ace on the 159-yard par-3 12th hole. It was the first hole-in-one at the new course. Algya shot 1-under 69 in the round.
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