The No. 20 North Carolina men’s golf team finished fifth place at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational. The event took place at the Isleworth Golf and Country Club — one of the most challenging courses the Tar Heels will face all season — against a crop of teams that included No. 1 Illinois.
What happened?
After a steady but unspectacular first day, in which first-year Austin Hitt led the way with a 1-under-par (71), the Tar Heels sat in 7th place.
However, the following day the team climbed to 4th thanks to a spectacular 6-under-par (66) by junior William Register, who tied for the second lowest round of the week. It is also the lowest round by a UNC player this season, surpassing the 4-under-par (68) by Henry Do in the first round of the Tar Heel Intercollegiate earlier this month.
Register stayed hot on the final day, firing a 1-under-par (71) in difficult conditions to post North Carolina’s lowest individual round for the second day in a row.
Despite his solid play, the Tar Heels couldn't climb up the leaderboard on the final day. Five costly double bogeys by the team on the back nine meant that UNC slipped to 5th place to finish the tournament, with a collective total score of 870, or 6-over-par, on the week.
There were some positives to be taken away for UNC this week, most notably the fact that they finished eight strokes ahead of Illinois, who entered as the No. 1 team in the country.
Who stood out?
William Register was undoubtedly the Tar Heels’ best player on the week, finishing at 6-under-par as an individual, good enough to tie for fourth place in a field of 75 players.
