University of North Carolina Athletics
2025-26 Men's Golf Roster
Carson Bertagnole
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Pinehurst, N.C.
- High School:
- Pinecrest High School
Scoring Average: 70.19 in 37 rounds
Best Finish (full field): 1 (playoff), Fighting Irish Classic, Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.
Match Play Record: 1-2
Low Round: 64, 2nd rd, Fighting Irish Classic; 3rd round, Amer Ari Invitational; 3rd round, Augusta Haskins Award Invitational
Low Round to Par: -9, 3rd round, Augusta Haskins Award Invitational
Low 54 Holes (strokes): 203, Augusta Haskins Award Invitational
Low 54 Holes (to par): 13-under 203, Augusta Haskins Award Invitational
2025-26: One of five players named to the GCAA’s Freshman All-America team • Averaged 70.19, the fifth-best in UNC history and the second-best by a Tar Heel freshman (Peter Fountain) • Earned PING All-East Region honors • Final NCAA ranking of No. 30, the seventh-highest by an ACC player • No. 2-ranked freshman in the country • Became the fourth Tar Heel to shoot par or better in all four rounds in an NCAA Championship (John Inman in 1984, when he won the NCAA title, Ben Griffin in 2017 and Dylan Menante in 2023) • Birdied the 72nd hole of the NCAA Championship to put Carolina in a four-way playoff for the final two team spots in match play • Rounds of 69-72-72-71 for 4-under 284 in the NCAA Championship • The 4-under finish tied Davis Love III for the fifth-best score to par by a Tar Heel in an NCAA Championship • Combined 40 under par in 37 rounds, the sixth-best score to par per round (-1.08) in Carolina history • Finished below par in eight of 12 tournaments, including the last five • Was 5 over par through the first five tournaments and 45 under over the last seven • Won the Fighting Irish Classic in a three-man playoff against Iowa’s Maxwell Tjoa and Tennessee’s Lance Simpson at Notre Dame’s Warren Golf Course • Rounds of 67-64-73 for a 6-under 204 to join the playoff, which he won with a 35-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole • His second-round 64 at Notre Dame was one of three season-low 64s (also in the final rounds at the Amer Ari Invitational and Augusta Haskins Award Invitational) • Shot in the 60s six times in final rounds • Averaged 68.1 in the final round in the last seven tournaments • Four top 10s – the win at Notre Dame, fifth in the NCAA Bryan Regional (10-under 206), fifth in the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational (13-under 203) and seventh in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate • Defeated PGA TOURU winner Ben James of Virginia 2&1 in the ACC semifinals • Started in 12 of UNC’s 13 tournaments, missing only The Hayt in March, when he was competing in the PGA TOUR’s Puerto Rico Classic • Shot 1-under 71 in the first round in Puerto Rico, finished 3 over and beat 13 pro players • Earned an exemption to the PGA event by finishing second in December 2025 in the White Sands Bahamas Invitational in December.
Prep/Amateur: Played for Coach Rich Wainwright at Pinecrest High School in Pinehurst, N.C. • Helped lead Pinecrest to two state championships • Top golf achievement is earning first-team AJGA All-America honors in 2024 • Recipient of a Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Award in 2025 • The award recognizes achievements in tournament play, as well as excellence in academics, character and community service • Honorable mention AJGA All-America in 2023 • Conference player of the year 2021-25 • First-team all-state 2020-25 • The 4A high school state champion in 2024 at 8-under 136 (including an ace in the first round) • Shot 65 in the first round of the 2025 Western Amateur • Finished fifth in 2025 The Junior Invitational at Sage Valley and ninth in the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship at Carlton Woods • Co-medalist in the 2025 North Carolina High School Mid-East Regional • In 2024, won the AJGA Team TaylorMade Invitational and was eighth in the Wyndham Invitational • In 2023, placed second in the Jones Cup Junior and sixth in the Rolex Tournament of Champions • North Carolina Junior Player of the Year in 2022 after winning the HV3 Invitational, TYGA Wedgewood Shootout and AJGA Junior at 12 Oaks • Low round is 63 at Innisbrook’s South Course in the 2019 Canadian Junior Worlds.
Personal: Born Carson Bryan Bertagnole on Nov. 21, 2006, in Casper, Wyo. • Son of Bryan and Amber Bertagnole • His brothers, Caden (Southern Virginia) and Iszac (NC Central) play collegiate golf.
Favorite course is Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, N.C. • Favorite player is Jordan Spieth • Always wears long pants and uses the same ball mark • Go-to club under pressure is his driver • Best shot was a final-round ace with an 8 iron on the 167-yard third hole at the Miami Beach Golf Club in the South Beach International Amateur • Dream round includes Spieth, Justin Thomas and Scottie Scheffler • Enjoys playing basketball and fishing • Favorite food is crepes • Listens to country music • Favorite non-golfer athlete is Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix.
