The UNC men’s golf team will undergo a major face lift entering next season, as the university announced Friday that head coach Andrew Sapp will not be retained after six seasons at the helm.

Sapp played at UNC from 1990-93, and previously served as the head coach at Michigan for nine seasons prior to taking over in Chapel Hill before the 2011-12 campaign.

The Tar Heels qualified for their first NCAA Championship Tournament since 2007 this past season, and won a total of seven tournaments under Sapp’s leadership.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Andrew and the first-class manner in which he conducted himself as head coach, but I believe it is necessary to make a change at this time,” UNC Director of Athletics Bubba Cunningham said, in a statement released by the university. “We are better as a program than when Andrew began six years ago.”

Associate head coach Andrew DiBitetto will serve as the interim head coach until a permanent replacement for Sapp is hired.

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