Thursday, June 9, 1977 The Tar Heel 15
Carolina Golfers hit the big-time
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By RICK SCOPPE
Staff Writer
UNCs men's golf team opened competition Wednesday in
the 72-hole, stroke-play NCAA championships at Colgate
University in New York buoyed by a very optimistic Head
Coach Mike McLeod. It is UNCs first trip to the NCAAs
since 1965.
Coach McLeod was very confident of UNCs chances in the
NCAAs and said that he was looking for the team "to finish in
the top five, with a realistic goal being third but anywhere in
the top ten would be excellent."
Leading UNCs assault on New York is Bill Sibbick, who,
two weeks ago, was UNCs medalist in the Southern
Intercollegiate golf tournament in Athens, Ga.
Carolina, as a team, finished seventh in the tournament,
their last regular season competition, 30 strokes behind
winner Georgia, who also will be taking part in the NCAA
championships.
Going with Sibbick to Colgate are teammates Scott
H umrickhouse, John McGough, Bill Buttnerand Kevin King.
Sibbick, along with being UNCs medalist in the Southern
Intercollegiate tournament, also was UNCs leading golfer in
the Big Four tournament. King led UNC in three
tournaments, the Pinehurst Intercollegiate, the Bing Crosby
and the Furman Intercollegiate. Buttner and McGough both
led UNC in the Palmetto Classic.
King achieved notoriety earlier this week by becoming the
only amateur in the Charlotte sectional to qualify for the U.S.
Open, to be held next week in Tulsa, Okla. King shot 144,
which was the cut off score. The qualifying caused him to miss
most of the practice rounds at Colgate.
The tournament itself runs through Saturday. Both
Monday and Tuesday of this week were devoted to practice
rounds while also on Tuesday there was an East-West Best
Ball tournament where the golfers got to know one another.
Among the top teams listed by Coach McLeod at the
championships were Oklahoma State (winners last year),
Brigham Young, Georgia and Houston. Coach McLeod also
listed UNC in the top contenders.
Individually, Coach McLeod hopes to have at least one of
his golfers finish in the top 15, thereby almost guarantying the
golfer All-American recognition.
Coach McLeod said.that any of his five golfers were capable
of finishing in the top 15 and it all depended on who was
playing his game.
Every one of UNCs golfers have been medalist at least once
this year, though Sibbick appears to be at the top of his game
going into the championships. Coach McLeod said that "if he
(Sibbick) can avoid his one bad round that he always seems to
have then he may do it (finish in the top 15)."
Coach McLeod cautioned, saying the players "were really
psyched up and might be too high. They have been looking
toward the NCAAs and now that they are there I'm just
tinkled pink."
The course, Coach McLeod stated, is "extremely difficult
and is very flat and tight with a lot of little creeks running
through it." With all of that water cutting across the course
Coach McLeod said the tendency is to raise golf scores since
"golf balls don't float." The course is so difficult that only
three golfers have broken 70 there in the last three years.
... while women pack their bags for AIA Ws in Hawaii
By WILL WILSON
Sports Editor
"We'd really like to play well this year,
because the nationals are going to he in
Haw aii next June. If w e f inish in the top 20, 1
think w e'll get to go. Just think, w ouldn't it
be great?"
- Dot Gunnells, UNC women's golf coach
Sept. 7, 1976
Next June has arrived, and the UNC
women's golf team, having achieved its goal,
will be winging its way out of Raleigh
Durham Saturday morning on the way to
the 1977 Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women Collegiate
Championship in Kahuku, Hawaii.
And while Coach Dot Gunnells has been
saying "Aloha" and practicing her hula since
her team took the state championship last
fall, she was still not sure the team would be
selected until the word came in mid-May.
Selection was based on the lowest 10 18
hole tournament rounds of the season. The
low 20 teams were selected, plus several
individuals from non-qualifying schools.
No other North Carolina school made the
field, but Debby Stewart of Duke and Nina
Foust of Appalachian State were invited
individually. Gunnells felt that several of her
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Susan Cary
team members would have been invited had
not the team qualified, but they would not
have accepted.
"They voted not to go individually if the
team didn't make it," Gunnells said. "That
shows what kind of team spirit we have."
The makeup of the team is rather unusual,
possibly contributing to the spirit. Two,
seniors and three freshmen make up the
contingent heading to Hawaii.
Sally Austin and Mindy Moore, the two
who graduated last month, have seen the
team grow up from its infancy three years
ago. They've always been the backbone of
the team, and when they got players the
caliber of freshmen Stephanie Kornegay,
Susan Cary and Janet Haire to join them this
season, the team was set to become a
national contender.
Austin led the team in stroke average, with
a 78.3, followed by Kornegay at 78. 6, Cary at
78.8, Moore at 80 and Haire at 82.
All team members except Haire are
finishing play today in the Eastern Amateur
at Southern Pines. The four will spend
tonight in Chapel Hill and play a practice
round at Finley Golf Course Friday. Haire
will meet the team at a stopover in Atlanta
Saturday, and the team will spend that night
in Los Angeles.
Sunday, they will fly on to Kahuku, on the
island of Oahu. Practice rounds are
scheduled Monday and Tuesday on the
tournament's course, the Kuilma Hyatt
Resort Hotel and Country Club, and the 72
hole event will get underway Wednesday and
last four days.
Gunnells said she didn't know if the team
would have much time for sightseeing.
They're going to enjoy the trip, but she has
set a goal of a top 10 finish. If the team's
success at achieving the earlier goal is any
indication, they should make this one with
ease.
IMs play, too
The first annual Carolina Faculty-Staff
Golf Classic will be played Friday, June 17.
at Finley Golf Course.
Entries for the 18-hold medal-play classic
will be taken until 5 p.m. June 15 for an
number of golfers from a department or unit.
Graduates and undergraduates will be
divided into separate divisions.
The top three scores gross and net will
count as the team score. Tee times will begin
at 12 noon Friday.
Eight awards will be given to the faculty
staff division and two to the graduate
undergraduate division. Those for the
faculty-staff division are: first place unit or
department team gross and team net;
individual low gross; individual low net:
longest drive; closest to the pin; fewest putts:
and most honest golfer.
The two awards for the graduate
undergraduate division are first place unit or
department team net and individual low net.
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