Each of the top-five ranked teams in the Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches preseason poll, including the No. 4-ranked Tar Heels, are competing September 17-19 at the Olympia Fields Country Club's North Course. The club has hosted numerous championship events, including U.S. Opens in 1928 and 2003, PGA Championships in 1925 and 1961 and the 2015 U.S. Amateur.
Defending NCAA champion and No. 1-ranked Pepperdine, No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Arizona State, No. 4 UNC and No. 5 Texas headline the field, which also includes five other ranked programs. Alabama, No. 22 Arizona, Baylor, California, No. 17 Florida, No. 12 Florida State, No. 10 Illinois, Indiana, Purdue and No. 15 Stanford join the top-five ranked teams in what should be one of the strongest lineups in college golf this fall.
Six of the eight teams that advanced to match play in the 2021 NCAA Championship in Scottsdale, Ariz., are playing in Olympia Fields, including the Tar Heels.
"We love competing in this event," says Andrew DiBitetto, whose Tar Heels won a tournament last weekend for the eighth time in his five seasons as head coach. "This tournament features a major championship golf course, major championship conditions and one of the very best fields in college golf. It's everything we want and get excited about."
Carolina won last Sunday at Duke, shooting 27 under par in beating NC State by three shots and the host Blue Devils by 19. UNC led by six strokes after round one and by eight after 36 holes, but slipped behind the Wolfpack by a pair of shots midway through the final round.
The Tar Heels soon regained the lead on the back nine, then closed out the win by shooting 4 under over the final three holes.
Fifth-year senior Ryan Gerard was medalist for the first time in a collegiate tournament after shooting 67-66-68 to finish 15-under 201. He birdied the 17th and 18th holes for a two-stroke win.
In shooting 201, Gerard lowered his career stroke average to 71.92, the second-lowest average in Carolina men's golf history.
Freshman David Ford was seventh at 5-under 211, 2021 first-team All-America Peter Fountain tied for eighth at 212 and U.S. Amateur finalist Austin Greaser tied for 13th at 213. Fountain had a pair of birdies late in Sunday's final round and Greaser sank a 40-footer on the 18th hole to help secure the victory.
Joining Gerard, Ford, Fountain and Greaser in the UNC lineup this week is senior Dougie Ergood, who shot 66 in the second round at Duke and tied for 16th place at 2-under 214 as an individual entry.
The Tar Heels finished fourth at Olympia Fields in September 2019. Austin Hitt tied for seventh place. Greaser and Gerard also were in the lineup for Carolina. Greaser shot 69 in the first round and finished 6-over 216 in a tie for 27th; Gerard shot 69-71 over the final 36 holes to tie for 30th at 7 over.
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