Former UNC golfer Ryan Gerard flew to Africa to qualify for the Masters. It paid off

Posted Apr 12, 2026
Former UNC All-American golfer Ryan Gerard is explaining how he earned an invitation to his first Masters, when out comes a sentence that sounds like a Mad Lib. “We were in Abu Dhabi at a pro-am party talking to a Bahrain. He was saying a bunch of cool countries around that the DP World Tour plays at.” One of them sounded made up: Mauritius. (MSN.com)

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