An 18-under par third round helped the No. 2 UNC men’s golf team claim sole possession of third place in its NCAA regional in Salem, S.C. on Wednesday and clinch a spot in the upcoming NCAA Championship, which begins May 26 in Arizona.

In addition, UNC fifth-year senior Ryan Burnett claimed the medalist honors in Salem, winning the individual title at 17-under par. It’s the lowest score to par ever by a Tar Heel at a NCAA regional. Burnett led wire-to-wire and was the only golfer in the field to finish the three rounds under 200 strokes, tying a career-low with a 63 in the first round and following that up with back-to-back 68s in the second and third. Burnett is the only Tar Heel in program history with two 54-hole totals under 200.

This is the second consecutive year a Tar Heel has won medalist honors in a regional, with Austin Greaser doing so in 2022. Greaser tied for 11th in the individual competition, while Dylan Menante rocketed up the leaderboard to sixth after finishing the second round outside the top 20. Menante shot an 8-under 64 on Wednesday after carding back-to-back 70s in the first and second rounds.

On the team leaderboard, Carolina found itself among a highly competitive group of teams, two strokes behind second-place Arkansas and 10 strokes behind regional winners and reigning ACC champions Georgia Tech. Fourth-place New Mexico and fifth-place Texas A&M rounded out the five teams headed for Arizona. The top five finishers in each regional qualify for the NCAA Championship.

This is the sixth consecutive tournament in which Carolina has advanced out of its regional and into the championship. The Tar Heels are looking to improve upon their finish in each of the last two seasons, when they advanced to the match play portion of the championship but lost in the national quarterfinals.

 

Featured image via UNC Men’s Golf on Twitter

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