Men’s Golf: Year in Review

• Carolina tied for third in the 2023 NCAA Championship, the Tar Heels’ highest finish since placing third in 1993.

• This was the third straight top-five finish for the Tar Heels (tied for fifth in 2021 and 2022). UNC did not have consecutive top-five finishes prior to 2022.

• Carolina, Arizona State, Oklahoma, Texas and Vanderbilt are the only teams to advance out of regionals to the NCAA Championship in each of the last six NCAA Tournaments (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023).

• Carolina, Arizona State and Pepperdine are the only teams to advance to match play and finish in the top five in each of the last three NCAA Championships.

• Carolina is the first ACC team to finish in the top five in three straight NCAA Championships since Clemson in 2001-03.

• Carolina finished first in stroke play at the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. UNC won stroke play outright in 2023 by four strokes over Illinois and Florida. In 2022, the Tar Heels tied Oklahoma and Vanderbilt for first place after four rounds and 72 holes of stroke play.

• Carolina is the first team to finish first in stroke play in consecutive NCAA Championships since Viktor Hovland’s and Matthew Wolff’s Oklahoma State teams in 2018 and 2019.

• Four Tar Heels earned All-America honors from the Golf Coaches Association of America – David Ford (first team), Ryan Burnett (third team), Austin Greaser (third team) and Dylan Menante (third team). It is the third time in ACC history and the first time since 1975-76 an ACC team had four All-Americas on the first, second and third teams.

• Dylan Menante tied for fourth in stroke play at the NCAA Championships with a 5-under-par 275 (68-70-67-70). It was the second consecutive year a Tar Heel placed in the top five in the NCAA Championship. 

• Menante and David Ford both went 2-0 in match play in the NCAA quarterfinals and semifinals. Menante won 14 of his 28 holes (lost just three holes); Ford came from 2 down to win both matches, including the Arizona State match when he won the 15th, 16th and 17th holes to win 1 up. Menante won six holes in a row against Georgia Tech’s first-team All-America Christo Lamprecht, winning 6&5.

• Menante was 4-0 in match play this season. He helped Carolina beat Florida State, 3-2, in the championship match in the Stephens Cup at Seminole Golf Club.

• Menante’s teams have finished in the top three in each of the last three NCAA Championships. He played for Pepperdine when…