Ninth-ranked North Carolina is the No. 2 seed in the 2026 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, which begins Thursday, April 23, at Shark’s Tooth Golf Club in Panama City, Beach, Fla.
The Tar Heels enter the ACC Championship following back-to-back team and individual victories in the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational and the Tar Heel Intercollegiate.
First, Carolina shot 54 under par to beat runner-up Oklahoma State by 15 strokes and sophomore Sihan Sandhu was medalist in a playoff in Augusta. A week later, junior Niall Sheils Donegan and Grant Roscich finished one-two in leading UNC to a 20-stroke win over Duke.
UNC ended the fall portion of its five-event schedule No. 14 in the NCAA’s Scoreboard/Clippd rankings. The Tar Heels dropped to 17th on March 25 before climbing eight spots to ninth following its most recent victories. Carolina has three wins this season and 27 in Andrew DiBitetto‘s nine seasons as head coach.
The lineup for the ACC Championship includes Sheils Donegan, Roscich, freshman Carson Bertagnole, senior Keaton Vo and Sandhu. Grad transfer Andrew Riley is the alternate (substitutions are allowed in the tournament).
Sheils Donegan has finished 10th, third and first in the last three tournaments. The 2025 U.S. Amateur semifinalist and member of the European Walker Cup team, leads the Tar Heels in scoring average at 69.04 and is a combined 50 under par in 24 rounds this season. Both are the second-best figures in UNC single-season history behind the records set a year ago by National Player of the Year David Ford.
Roscich, a sophomore who is one of four underclassmen in the lineup, shot a career-best 10-under-par 200 in placing second in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate. Roscich has shot in red figures in five straight tournaments and is a combined 35 below par in those events. He was ninth at The Hayt, 14th in Augusta and second in Chapel Hill.
Sheils Donegan (12th), Bertagnole (48) and Roscich (77) enter the tournament ranked in the top 100 in the NCAA. Sheils Donegan is also 31st and Bertagnole is No. 77 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
All 15 teams in the field will play 18 holes of stroke play on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The top eight teams will advance to match play with quarterfinal and semifinal rounds set for Sunday beginning at 8:30 a.m. and approximately 2 p.m. Eastern (Panama City Beach is in the Central Time Zone).
The championship match is Monday, April 27, at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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The Tar Heels enter the ACC Championship following back-to-back team and individual victories in the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational and the Tar Heel Intercollegiate.
First, Carolina shot 54 under par to beat runner-up Oklahoma State by 15 strokes and sophomore Sihan Sandhu was medalist in a playoff in Augusta. A week later, junior Niall Sheils Donegan and Grant Roscich finished one-two in leading UNC to a 20-stroke win over Duke.
UNC ended the fall portion of its five-event schedule No. 14 in the NCAA’s Scoreboard/Clippd rankings. The Tar Heels dropped to 17th on March 25 before climbing eight spots to ninth following its most recent victories. Carolina has three wins this season and 27 in Andrew DiBitetto‘s nine seasons as head coach.
The lineup for the ACC Championship includes Sheils Donegan, Roscich, freshman Carson Bertagnole, senior Keaton Vo and Sandhu. Grad transfer Andrew Riley is the alternate (substitutions are allowed in the tournament).
Sheils Donegan has finished 10th, third and first in the last three tournaments. The 2025 U.S. Amateur semifinalist and member of the European Walker Cup team, leads the Tar Heels in scoring average at 69.04 and is a combined 50 under par in 24 rounds this season. Both are the second-best figures in UNC single-season history behind the records set a year ago by National Player of the Year David Ford.
Roscich, a sophomore who is one of four underclassmen in the lineup, shot a career-best 10-under-par 200 in placing second in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate. Roscich has shot in red figures in five straight tournaments and is a combined 35 below par in those events. He was ninth at The Hayt, 14th in Augusta and second in Chapel Hill.
Sheils Donegan (12th), Bertagnole (48) and Roscich (77) enter the tournament ranked in the top 100 in the NCAA. Sheils Donegan is also 31st and Bertagnole is No. 77 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
All 15 teams in the field will play 18 holes of stroke play on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The top eight teams will advance to match play with quarterfinal and semifinal rounds set for Sunday beginning at 8:30 a.m. and approximately 2 p.m. Eastern (Panama City Beach is in the Central Time Zone).
The championship match is Monday, April 27, at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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