North Carolina Men's Golf Team (East Lake Cup Photo)
North Carolina held off Florida State in the men’s final, 3-1-1, and won the East Lake Cup for the first time in program history. North Carolina graduate student
Austin Greaser clinched the East Lake Cup with a birdie on the par-3 17th and a 2&1 win over Florida State senior
Gray Albright.
The Tar Heels also earned a point from junior
David Ford, who defeated FSU senior
Frederik Kjettrup 4&3. In the anchor match, North Carolina senior
Peter Fountain never trailed during his 4&3 win over Seminole freshman
Brett Roberts notched a 3&2 triumph over Tar Heel grad student
Kenan Poole. Florida State sophomore
Maxwell Ford moments after Greaser’s clinching birdie, which brought the final tally to 3-1-1.
“It's been amazing,” North Carolina head coach Andrew DiBitetto said. “I've said it a couple of times, but for Golf Channel to put this on, for the East Lake Cup to have us, the East Lake Foundation, the Atlanta Athletic Club, you know, it's great for the game of college golf, but it's also great for the young men and women. It's the match-play format, but it's also the galleries, and it's the TV.
“This is helping them develop… if they want to play professional golf, this is helping them significantly to that path because just the experience and the opportunity, so it's been amazing.”
Georgia Tech left Atlanta Athletic Club as the men’s consolation match winner with a 2-1-2 victory over reigning national champion Florida.
Georgia Tech and Florida halved the first pairing between Tech fifth-year
Bartley Forrester and Florida sophomore
Matthew Kress. The next two points went to Yellow Jackets sophomore
Hiroshi Tai and senior
Christo Lamprecht, who claimed 2&1 and 4&2 victories, respectively.
Freshman
Carson Kim sealed the consolation match win for Georgia Tech with a tie against sophomore Gator
Parker Bell. Red-shirt Freshman
Luke Poulter earned the lone point for Florida in the anchor match 2&1 over Tech freshman and Monday’s medalist on the men’s side
Kale Fontenot.
“I think they showed up after the disappointment from yesterday,” said Georgia Tech head coach Bruce Heppler. “It was a long day. Had a chance to win that match and play for the title today, but they all kind of geared themselves up as the last day of the fall. I was happy with how everybody played.”
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East Lake Cup
Started in 2015 and hosted by the historic
East
Lake Golf Club Atlanta, this collegiate, three-day
match
play competition features the top-performing
teams
from the previous year's NCAA Men’s
Golf Championships. There is an individual award for
the low 18-hole scorer
in the seeding round.
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