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Greaser Medalist, Tar Heels 2nd To Advance In Men's Golf Regional

May 18, 2022 | Men's Golf

UNC Secures Fifth Straight NCAA Championship Appearance

University of North Carolina junior Austin Greaser shot a 1-under 69 to win medalist honors and lead the Tar Heels to a second-place finish at the 2022 NCAA Yale Regionals Wednesday at the Yale Golf Course in New Haven, Conn.
 
By finishing second Carolina advances to the 2022 NCAA Men's Golf Championship, which begins May 27 at the Grayhawk Golf Course in Scottsdale, Ariz. The top five teams in the 14-team field advance to Scottsdale.
 
The Tar Heels are qualifying out of regionals to the NCAA Championship for the fifth straight tournament (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022; no tournament was played in 2020 due to the pandemic).
 
This is the third straight regional Carolina has finished in second place. That ties the best-ever finish in a regional in school history (second in 1993 and 1995, also tied for second in 2019 and 2021).
 
The Tar Heels shot 1-over 281 today to finish the 54-hole event at 19-under 821, seven strokes behind regional champion Wake Forest. Texas Tech and North Florida tied for third at 16 under and Georgia Southern was fifth at 6 under. Virginia and Illinois tied for sixth at 2 under but did not advance.
 
Greaser, Ryan Gerard, David Ford, Ryan Burnett and Peter Fountain combined to set the UNC record for fewest strokes in an NCAA regional at 821 (previous was 829 in 2019) and posted the second-lowest score to par by a Tar Heel team in a regional at 19 under (the record is 21 under in 2018).
 
The 821 total is a season low and tied the third-fewest strokes in any tournament in UNC history.
 
Greaser followed a second-round 63, his career low round, with his third straight round in the 60s today to finish the regional with a 10-under-par 200. The 10-under-par finish ties the best in a regional ever by a Tar Heel (with Austin Hitt in 2018) and his 200 total is the lowest of his collegiate career (by five strokes) and the best ever by a Tar Heel in a regional (previous 203 by Ryan Burnett in 2019).
 
The Vandalia, Ohio, native won his second tournament of the season and second of his career. He won in September at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. Greaser is the first Tar Heel to ever win an NCAA regional. Bob Cherry was second in 2002, Ross Bain tied for second in 1996 and Burnett tied for second as a freshman in 2019.
 
Gerard and Wake Forest's Alex Fitzpatrick tied for second place a stroke behind Greaser. Gerard shot 1-over 71 today to close at 9-under 201, his second-lowest stroke total in 52 career tournaments.
 
This was the second straight year two Tar Heels finished in the top 10 in an NCAA regional and the first time a pair finished in the top five.
 
Ford shot a 1-under 69 today to finish even-par 210 and tie for 25th place. Burnett closed with a 72 and Fountain with a 76.