Spring Sports '92The Daily Tar HeelWednesday,Februaiy 26, 19927
Men's golf goes West in quest for NCAA championship
By Dave Hriser
Staff Writer
It wasn't nearly as bad as it seemed
Granted, the North Carolina men's
golf team, which finished second in the
country last spring, placed no higher
than second in its four fall tournaments.
But just consider this:
Junior Tom Scherrer, an honorable
mention AU-American last spring who
tied for fourth in last season's NCAA
Championships, did not participate this
past fall. Instead, he sat out to compete
on the U.S. Walker Cup Team and to
play in the British Amateur.
Junior Bill Smith, winner of last
spring's PingAmerican Intercollegiate
tournament, missed several fall rounds
because of a nagging back injury.
Couple the return of these two key
individuals with the experience others
on the already strong team gained while
Scherrer and Smith were out, and you
have the makings of another potential
national championship team.
So who held the team together while
these two were out? Without a doubt, it
was senior Pat Moore. A second-team
All-American from Bismarck, N.D.,
Moore has won six collegiate tourna
ments since coming to UNC. He won
two this past fall and held the team's
lowest stroke average (72.10).
Moore sees himself as a team leader,
but said the sport of golf was not condu
cive to a leadership position.
"You can't be out there being a cheer-
leader like you can in football or la
crosse," he said. "I try to lead by ex-
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Senior Pat Moore hopes to lift UNC to a national title after a second-place finish in '91
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ample more than anything. I try to be the
first one out there practicing every day.
I try to work the hardest out of every
body, and if somebody can pick that up
and see that I'm working hard, maybe
they'll work hard too."
Moore also indicated that a sense of
family on the team aided leadership.
"I think we just try to be as close as
we can. Friendship is basically where
leadership comes from."
Obviously, UNC head coach Devon
Brouse has been pleased with Moore's
play. But he has perhaps been more
See MEN'S GOLF, page 14
Men's Golf
HeadCoach: Devon Brouse (Purdue 1 971 )
B rouse's Career Record: Eight top-1 0 and
1 2 top-20 finishes; four ACC titles and five
ACC individual champions (15th year)
Brouse's Record at UNC: same
Assistant Coach: Billy Willifprd
1991 Record: ACC 2nd; NCAA 2nd
Starters ReturningLost. 32
Top Returners: Pat Moore (Sr.), David
Wood (Sr.), Steve Albright (Jr.), Hunter
Grove Or.), Lance Reid (Jr.), Tom Scherrer
Or.), Bill Smith Or.)
Top Newcomer Brian Brown (Rocky
Mount), Robert Murray (Harrisburg, Pa.),
Richard Son (Fullerton, Calif.)
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par 72, 6,685 yards)
Did You Know? Wood and Reid recorded
back-to-back holes-in-one in the Carpet
Capital Classic last fall at The Farm in
Dalton, Ca. The odds of the feat occurring
are estimated at 320 million to 1 .
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