Austin Greaser, David Ford and Dylan Menante finished in the top eight to lead the University of North Carolina to a nine-stroke victory over six top-10 ranked teams in the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational Tuesday at the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.
This is the Tar Heels’ first team title of the season and the 11th under sixth-year head coach Andrew DiBitetto and associate head coach Matt Clark.
Carolina shot under par in all three rounds, including a 5-under 275 in today’s third and final round. UNC was tied for the lead with Georgia Tech after Monday’s first round (278), led Stanford by four after Monday’s second round (272) and finished the 54-hole event with a 15-under-par total of 825.
Texas Tech was second at 6-under 834. Pepperdine and Arizona State tied for third at 5 under, Vanderbilt was fifth at -1, Oklahoma State was sixth (+4), Stanford was seventh (+5), defending NCAA champion Texas was eighth (+8), and Florida, Oregon and TCU tied for ninth at 11 over.
Greaser (70-66-68) tied for third at 6-under 204, two shots behind medalist Gustav Frimodt of TCU, who shot 66-65 over the final two rounds.
Ford (70-66-70) tied for sixth at 4-under 206, Menante (69-70-68) tied for eighth at 3-under 207, Ryan Burnett (69-70-70) tied for 15th at 1-under 209 and Peter Fountain (71-72-69) tied for 27th at 2-over 212.
Greaser and Menante shared UNC scoring honors in the final round with 68s and Fountain added a 69.
This was Greaser’s eighth top-five finish in a college tournament. Ford and Menante posted top-10 performances for the eighth and 15th times, respectively.
The Tar Heels return to competition Oct. 10-12 at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Fla., in the Jackson T. Stephens Cup.
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