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UNC Men's Golf Adds Transfers Andrew Riley, Niall Sheils Donegan

Graduate student Andrew Riley and junior Niall Sheils Donegan are joining the UNC men's golf team, coach Andrew DiBitetto announced. Riley played two seasons at Palm Beach Atlantic and one at North Florida. The St. Johns, Fla., native won the Division II NCAA championship in 2023. Sheils Donegan played the last two seasons at Northwestern. (GoHeels.com)

Get to know Ryan Gerard, the former UNC golfer who just won on the PGA Tour

It's been a great year for North Carolina golfers, especially for Raleigh native Ryan Gerard, who is coming off the first victory of his career at the Barracuda Championship earlier this month. It's also a banner year for the University of North Carolina golf team, which now boasts three alums on tour with Gerard, Ben Griffin and rookie David Ford. (Axios Raleigh)

THT Newsletter: Luka Bogavac Progress, Cole Cloer Visit, Football Begins, Multiple Commits, and More

A HUGE thank you to the more than 200 readers who subscribed to the Tar Heel Times newsletter over the weekend! This week's edition includes numerous football and basketball (men's and women's) recruiting updates, football practice coverage, the latest on UNC Basketball commit Luka Bogavac and Ivan Matlekovic, Olympic sports news, and more. (Tar Heel Times Newsletter)

Ford, Vázquez Montaño, Strand, Wolfe Named 2024-25 Patterson Medal Winners

A 4-time NCAA champion diver, men's golf National Player of the Year, and two national champion track stars are 2024-25 recipients of the Patterson Medal, UNC's most prestigious individual athletics award. This year's medalists include men's golf's David Ford, diver Aranza Vázquez Montaño, and men's track and field's Ethan Strand and Parker Wolfe. (GoHeels.com)

Former UNC golfer Ryan Gerard earns first PGA Tour victory at the Barracuda Championship

Ryan Gerard had two seven-point, birdie-eagle bursts and overcame five bogeys to win the Barracuda Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory. The 25-year-old former University of North Carolina player had a 13-point round to finish with 47 points for a three-point victory over 2021 winner Erik van Rooyen of South Africa. (Associated Press)

David Ford Named ACC Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete Of The Year

UNC's David Ford, the 2025 ACC and National Player of the Year, is the ACC's Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Ford is the fifth individual to win both ACC Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year in the same season. Joining Ford on the Academic All-ACC Team are UNC's Maxwell Ford, Keaton Vo, Hampton Roberts, Grant Roscich, and Sihan Sandhu. (GoHeels.com)

UNC Golf: The many accolades of David Ford

A couple weeks ago, we wrote about North Carolina golfer David Ford, and how he won the right to go straight from the college ranks to the PGA Tour. He did that by topping the PGA Tour University rankings that the organization runs for up and coming college players. As it turned out, that would be far from the only accolade Ford came away with. (Tar Heel Blog)

David Ford Named ACC Men's Golfer Of The Year For Second Time

David Ford is the 2025 ACC Men's Golfer of the Year, becoming the first individual to win the award in multiple seasons in a decade. Ford, who has won three National Player of the Year awards this season, also was named the ACC Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2023, becoming the first Tar Heel to win the award, which was first introduced in 1992. (GoHeels.com)

David Ford Named National Player of the Year by Golfweek

David Ford is Golfweek's National Player of the Year, adding to the North Carolina senior's haul of post-season awards, which include the 2025 Fred Haskins and Jack Nicklaus Player-of-the-Year Awards. Ford is the first Tar Heel to win Golfweek's National Player of the Year Award, which has been presented to the top college golfer beginning in 1999. (GoHeels.com)

UNC's Megan Streicher Earns Women's Golf All-America Honors

Golfweek has named Megan Streicher an honorable mention All-America, UNC's first All-America women's golfer in five seasons. Streicher is Carolina's single-round, single-season, and career scoring average leader. She averaged 72.1 strokes per round this season, the second-best in UNC history behind the record 71.83 she averaged as a sophomore. (GoHeels.com)

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