Ford ACC Player Of The Year, 4 Earn All-ACC Honors

For the first time in program history four North Carolina men’s golfers have earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors and David Ford is the first Tar Heel named ACC Player of the Year, the conference announced today.
 
UNC head coach Andrew DiBitetto is the ACC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season.
 
Ford, Austin Greaser, Ryan Burnett and Dylan Menante each earned spots on the 15-player All-ACC team. Golfstat ranks all four Tar Heels and 12 of this year’s 15 All-ACC selections in the top 50 in the country, including Ford, who is No. 5.
 
Ford is the first sophomore to win ACC Player-of-the Year honors since 2010 when Florida State’s Brooks Koepka and Virginia’s Ben Kohles both won the award as sophomores. The conference began awarding an ACC Player of the Year in 1992.
 
The Peachtree Corners, Ga., native leads the Tar Heels in stroke average at 69.67 and is 46 under par in 30 rounds, both of which are the best figures in UNC single-season history. He also is UNC’s career leader in stroke average (70.15) and scores to par (74 under). He won the Jackson T. Stephens Cup at Seminole Golf Club and was second at the Fighting Irish Classic, Williams Cup and Valspar Collegiate Invitational among his eight top-10 finishes in 10 tournaments this season.
 
Ford and Greaser are both candidates for the Ben Hogan Award and Haskins Trophy and were named to the 2023 Palmer Cup team for the United States.
 
Greaser, a senior from Vandalia, Ohio, also earned All-ACC honors in 2021 and 2022 and is Carolina’s first three-time recipient since Dustin Bray, who was a four-time honoree from 2001-04.
 
Second in UNC history in scoring average (71.32), Greaser is the ninth Tar Heel to make the All-ACC team at least three times, joining Bray, John McGough, Frank Fuhrer, John Inman, Davis Love III, Tee Burton, Pat Moore and Max Harris.  
 
Burnett has earned a spot on the All-ACC team for the first time, although he would have likely made the team in 2020, when he was named second-team All-America, but no All-ACC teams were chosen due to the pandemic. The fifth-year senior from Lafayette, Calif., is second on the team this season in stroke average at 70.97 and won his second collegiate title when he was medalist at the Calusa Cup, ranked the fourth-toughest tournament of the season, in Naples in early April. Burnett is third…