University of North Carolina Athletics
Women's Golf
- Title:
- Bobby Galloway Head Coach
- Email:
- coachneff@unc.edu
The 2026-27 season is Aimee Neff’s sixth as UNC’s Bobby Galloway Women’s Golf Head Coach (the director of women’s golf title was renamed to honor Galloway, a former captain of the UNC men’s golf team).
Neff rejoined the Tar Heels in 2021 after three seasons (2018-21) as head coach at Florida Atlantic University. She was the associate head coach at Carolina in 2017-18.
Carolina has won eight tournaments in Neff’s first five seasons and individual players have won five titles. UNC had won six times in the previous 12 years and had four medalists in the previous 11 seasons.
Last year, Carolina advanced to the semifinals of the ACC Championship with a match-play victory over Wake Forest, finished second in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional and 15th in the NCAA Championship. The Tar Heels were 12th in the final Scoreboard powered by Clippd national rankings, Carolina’s highest end-of-season ranking since 2012.
UNC won two team titles, the Landfall Tradition and Chevron Collegiate, where Carolina shot 18 under par, and finished in the top five nine times in 12 tournaments.
Senior Megan Streicher earned honorable mention All-America honors for the second time and became the fourth Tar Heel to make the All-ACC team at least three times. No Tar Heel had accomplished either of those feats in more than 10 years.
Junior Ing Iadpluem became the first Tar Heel to shoot three rounds under par in one NCAA Championship. Iadpluem’s 2-under-par 290 finish was the best by a Tar Heel in NCAA Championship play.
Streicher broke her own single-season stroke average record (71.32), and combined with Reagan Southerland (71.85), Marie Prats-Rigual (72.15), Helen Yeung (72.45) and Iadpluem (72.48) to post five of the eight-lowest scoring averages in UNC history.
Streicher concluded her brilliant college career holding UNC records for 18 holes, single-season and career (72.14) scoring. She earned her Epson Tour card, joining former UNC teammate Kayla Smith on the professional circuit.
Five Tar Heels earned Academic All-ACC honors and four were selected All-America Scholars.
In 2024-25, the Tar Heels won twice and ended the season ranked 13th in the nation.
UNC shot a school-record 830 in winning the Cavalier Regional Preview and set another UNC record in winning the Yale Invitational West at Greg Norman’s PGA West Course at 31 under par. The Tar Heels had seven top-five finishes in 10 events.
Inez Ng shot a UNC-record 12 under par in winning in Charlottesville, five Tar Heels made the Academic All-ACC team and four were All-America Scholars. Streicher, Ing Iadpluem and Helen Yeung finished the season with the second-, fourth- and eighth-lowest stroke averages in UNC history. Yeung set the freshman scoring record, toppling the mark Streicher set in Neff’s second season as head coach.
In 2023-24, the Tar Heels won three tournaments, advanced to match play in the ACC Championship and qualified out of the Auburn Regional to compete in the NCAA Championship.
Carolina won the St Andrews Links Collegiate at the Jubilee and The Old Course, defeating Vanderbilt, 4-2, in medal match play to win the team title. The Tar Heels also won the UCF Challenge and swept three matches to claim the NC State Match Play Invitational. UNC finished third at Auburn, qualifying for the NCAA Championship for the first time since 2017.
It was the first time Carolina won three tournaments in a season since 2012-13.
Smith was medalist at St Andrews, made the cut to play all four rounds in the NCAA Championship and concluded her career with three of the five-lowest single-season scoring averages and the second-best career average in UNC history. Streicher earned All-ACC honors, broke the single-season scoring record and moved into No. 1 in career scoring by a Tar Heel.
Other highlights from Neff’s five seasons as head coach include:
• six players have established the 10-best single-season scoring averages in UNC history;
• Streicher, Yeung, Smith, Iadpluem, Southerland, Ng and Krista Junkkari, have seven of the 10-lowest career stroke averages in UNC history;
• Streicher (64), Junkkari (65) and Smith (65) have set UNC’s 18-hole scoring records;
• five Tar Heels have shot the eight-lowest rounds in UNC history in the last five seasons;
• Carolina has shot the 10-lowest team rounds in school history;
• in 2024-25, UNC set its 18-hole stroke record (13-under 271 in the Cavalier Regional Preview); the 18-hole score-to-par record (14 under at PGA West); the 54-hole stroke record (830 at Virginia); and the 54-hole score-to-par record (31-under-par in winning the Yale Invitational West).
• Junkkari tied the 54-hole UNC record with a 12-under 204 in the 2021 Cougar Classic, and Ng broke that mark with a 12-under 201 in 2024-25 in the Cavalier Regional Preview;
• Streicher shot 65 in the first round of the 2026 NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, the lowest ever by a Tar Heel in an NCAA regional;
• Carolina's 274 in the first round of the Chapel Hill Regional was the program's best in a regional and its 846 54-hole total was the best in program history in an NCAA regional;
• Smith and Junkkari won individual titles in 2022-23, the first time two Tar Heels were medalists in the same season since Meaghan Francella and Ashley Prange in 2003-04;
• Iadpluem shot back-to-back 68s as a freshman at St Andrews, including one round at The Old Course, which was the low round of the day in the St Andrews Links Collegiate;
• Streicher and Inez Ng represented South Africa and Singapore, respectively, in the World Amateur Team Championships;
• Yeung shot 67 in the 2025 ACC Championship, the lowest score ever by a Tar Heel freshman in the tournament;
• Crista Izuzquiza shot 66 in round three in the 2023 ACC Championship, which tied the lowest round ever by a Tar Heel in an ACC Championship;
• Streicher shot 7-under 209 in the 2023 NCAA Pullman Regional, which tied the best score and score to par by a Tar Heel in a regional;
Neff, a member of the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Board of Directors from 2019-24, is the sixth head coach in Carolina women’s golf history, joining Jean Eller (1973-74), Dr. Pam Robinson (1974-75), Dot Gunnells (1974-93), Sally Austin (1993-2009) and Jan Mann (2009-21).
At FAU, Neff helped the Owls improve their Golfweek ranking from No. 189 when she was named head coach prior to the 2018-19 season to No. 94 in the nation in 2020-21. In her three seasons in Boca Raton, FAU won two team tournaments and four individual events and improved its scoring average by more than 12 strokes per round.
Prior to becoming the head coach at FAU, Neff served as the associate head coach at Carolina in 2017-18. The Tar Heels won the Briar’s Creek Invitational with the second-lowest 54-hole score in Carolina history and played in the NCAA TPC Harding Park Regional in San Francisco. Kelly Whaley set the school single-season stroke average record and became the first Tar Heel to ever shoot three rounds in the 60s in a tournament, when she set the 54-hole UNC record at 12-under 204. Freshman Ava Bergner also set the Tar Heels’ 18-hole scoring record with a 6-under 66.
Neff was an assistant for three seasons at her alma mater, Michigan State, from 2013-16 and for one season at Vanderbilt in 2016-17.The Spartans were Big Ten Champions in 2014, played in two NCAA regionals and advanced to the 2014 NCAA Championship.
Neff’s student-athletes have succeeded academically at each of her four coaching stops, earning 40 All-America Scholar Awards.
She attended Michigan State from 2007-11 and became the third MSU women’s golfer to earn All-Big Ten honors four times. She had 13 top-10 finishes, led the Spartans to the Big Ten championship as a senior and won the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor in 2011. She was an All-America Scholar and member of the Academic All-Big Ten team three times.
Neff won the Illinois Women’s Open in 2008 and 2009 and the Indiana Women’s Open in 2009 and 2010. She played in the 2012 U.S. Open in Kohler, Wis., and on the Symetra Tour from 2011-14, competing in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
She holds Titleist Performance Institute Certification in Levels I and II and is certified in AimPoint Express and Trackman University.
The Carmel, Ind., native is pursuing a master’s degree as a part of UNC’s Masters of Applied Professional Studies with a focus on institutions, power and professional development. She ran the Indianapolis Marathon in 2014 and the 2026 New York Marathon and is training for another marathon in 2027.
