dont forget about the people who had to finish their 2nd rounds today and are just gettin started. one guy is at even par total, but 2 under today through 4 so he could catch up and win.

5/28/2009 5:02:35 PM

WINNAR!
should be atleast....knock on wood

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM. Reason : .]

5/28/2009 5:08:55 PM

Finished at 6 under. I hope that's enough.

5/28/2009 5:09:05 PM

one guy has to shoot 8 under
the other would have to shoot 9 under on the day to win

5/28/2009 5:14:03 PM

WINNER

Nobody is going to catch him... the lowest score I can find is a 66 (5 under) in the whole tourney.

5/28/2009 5:17:55 PM

nah, it looks like ziegler could shoot a five six under for the day and tie.

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 5:19 PM. Reason : il]

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM. Reason : .]

5/28/2009 5:19:17 PM

looking damn good though... damn good. shot a 69 69 69

5/28/2009 5:27:09 PM

ziegler, horshcel and langely have a shot, but they'll have to have phenomenal days. i looked at horshcel's score card and he had 4 birdies in a row. but the day before he had like 4-5 bogeys in a row.

i saw this one kid near the bottom, talk about inconsistency,

he shot a 77, then a 67, then an 80.

5/28/2009 5:29:34 PM

CONGRATS!

5/28/2009 5:32:54 PM

^^haha, nerves, didn't care, nerves

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM. Reason : a]

5/28/2009 5:33:59 PM

ziegler just bogeyed to fall back to even after 5. Looking damn good for Matt Hill and the National Championship

5/28/2009 6:24:00 PM

NATIONAL CHAMPION, COMMENCE CELEBRATION

5/28/2009 7:44:36 PM

winner winner chicken dinner

5/28/2009 7:47:32 PM

BRING IT HOME!




Some girl needs to be ready to suck him off once he gets back.



note: I know it's the soccer championship trophy, but I couldn't find a good one of the golf trophy.

5/28/2009 8:23:59 PM

Congrats to Matt. Now win the Masters and US Open. Thx.

5/28/2009 8:47:57 PM

Canadian too!

5/28/2009 10:54:16 PM

Pretty good accomplishment. Already beat Tim Clark's school record for tournament wins as a sophomore and Clark has had a great run in the pros. He has the game to play well for many years to come. GG Matt Hill.

5/28/2009 11:30:07 PM

nevermind

congrats Matt!

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 11:49 PM. Reason : .]

5/28/2009 11:48:13 PM

I hope this guy has a successful career. I would like someone to root for other than Tiger.

5/29/2009 7:51:52 AM

^Carl Pettersson and Tim Clark

sadly golf is one of the professional sports that State guys actually do decent in (that and the decent amount of NFL guys)

Pettersson has won on tour a few times and Clark always puts up a good fight and has gone down to the wire a couple of times and beaten Tiger once at the match play. I would say golf is second after football with how our guys are fairing professionally at the moment.

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM. Reason : .]

5/29/2009 8:34:29 AM

I forgot about Pettersson. Isn't he from Sweden? Thanks for the reminder.

^You realize there is the potential to have a Wolfpack player on both teams in the NBA finals right?

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM. Reason : df]

5/29/2009 8:37:32 AM

^^And why did you preface that with "sadly?" While it isn't as widely popular as other pro sports, it's still a high-profile, highly publicized sport. The PGA is also one of the most (if not THE most) charitable professional sports organizations. I for one am quite proud to have NCSU grads on the leaderboards. Give me the PGA over the NBA anytime.

5/29/2009 9:09:09 AM

^^The two guys on the tour will make more money than Hickson and Powell this year, and no one will be drafted this year. NC State is more of a golf school than a BBall school now, haha.

5/29/2009 9:49:44 AM

^^^ yes Pettersson is swedish

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 9:50 AM. Reason : ;]

5/29/2009 9:50:06 AM

good shit mang.

5/29/2009 10:17:26 AM

Marc Turnesa is also on the PGA Tour. Clark/Petterson are top 50 world players. Not many schools can boast those kind of numbers.

5/29/2009 10:53:26 AM

I guess we can tell UNC fans to wait til Golf season now.

5/29/2009 11:15:12 AM

Quote :

"According to Golfweek Magazine, Hill is the second player in NCAA history - Tiger Woods for Stanford in 1996 was the other - to win his conference tournament, an NCAA regional and the NCAA Championship tournament en route to the national title since the NCAA started the regional play format."

5/29/2009 3:25:54 PM

wow thats some pretty elite company right there

5/29/2009 4:19:33 PM

If he dropped out of school today, he'd probably have a 1/4 million dollar bonus from manufacturers by this time next Friday, just based on hype.

5/29/2009 4:47:28 PM

Quote :

"^^And why did you preface that with "sadly?" While it isn't as widely popular as other pro sports, it's still a high-profile, highly publicized sport. The PGA is also one of the most (if not THE most) charitable professional sports organizations. I for one am quite proud to have NCSU grads on the leaderboards. Give me the PGA over the NBA anytime. "

I completely agree with you. Golf was one of my favorite sports growing up and the sport I played the most after age 14 or 15 probably. I guess I put sadly in there because I know most people would rather us have a ton of players in the NBA or NFL since those are the two most high profile sports in the U.S.

Pettersson is a great guy too. For any of you in the RDU area, he shot a 59 at Treyburn Country Club in Durham from the very back of every tee about a year or maybe now two years ago. That course, from their gold tees, is over 7000 yards and he played from the very back of all those tees. It is fully private but I got to play it twice in high school golf matches and a few other times with employees that I knew that could get on the course. It is not easy and it really made me appreciate how good those guys are when I read about the round he had out there.

5/30/2009 6:29:48 AM

http://www.gopack.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&ATCLID=3747669

Quote :

"Capping off what might be remembered as the greatest single-season performance in the history of college golf, NC State sophomore Matt Hill won the Jack Nicklaus Award Sunday."

Quote :

"Hill was recently elevated to the world’s No. 4 ranked amateur, according to The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, golf’s international governing body."

Quote :

"Monday, Hill tees off at 7 a.m. with PGA Tour veteran Brett Quigley in his U.S. Open Sectional tournament, a 36-hole qualifying tournament for the U.S. Open, which begin next weekend at Bethpage (Black) Golf Club in New York."

Quote :

"Hill says he intends to return to NC State for his final two years of college, to fulfill a promise he made to his parents to get his degree."

Would love to watch Hill play in the US Open. GG Matt. Keep it up.

6/7/2009 8:35:45 PM

^^^ u scared the shit outta me. I read ur post quickly and thought you said he left school today.

Any chance of him not returning next year????

6/7/2009 8:46:35 PM

^last quote above. Said he promised his parents he's getting his degree. 2 more national titles would be sweet. Move over Tiger!

6/7/2009 8:48:59 PM

While looking through the Local Qualifying results from the open (which Hill won) I found this:

Quote :

"05/18/09 PINEHURST, N.C. - PINEWILD COUNTRY CLUB DAVID SANCHEZ - PINEHURST, N.C. 70 GRAYSON MURRAY(a) - RALEIGH, N.C. 71 DUSTIN BRAY - CHARLESTON, S.C. 72 JACK FIELDS(a) - SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. 72 MATT HENDRIX - GREENVILLE, S.C. 72 SCOTT USHER - BENNETTSVILLE, S.C. 72 A - ANDY BARE - WEST END, N.C. 72 A - MATT DAVIDSON - CHAPEL HILL, N.C. 72"

So here is a pretty good little article on this kid. Apparently he is 15 and has won his age group for the third consecutive time at the junior World Golf Championships.
http://www.worldgolf.com/newswire/browse/56732-Raleigh-Teen-Golfing-Sensation-Has-Tiger-His-Sights
Maybe you guys have heard of him, but I thought it was pretty impressive, regardless of where he is from.

[Edited on June 8, 2009 at 7:56 AM. Reason : .]

6/8/2009 7:43:51 AM

my buddy Jerry is in Memphis right now playing in the US Open Qualifier. he was #1 at NCState and All-ACC 2006.

i'll let yall know how he shoots

6/8/2009 8:51:04 AM

Good luck to Matt this week, and ^your buddy Jerry. But most of all, good luck to Phil Mickelson and Rocco Mediate. I need one of them to win so I can get my free driver from Golfsmith!

6/8/2009 9:20:48 AM

Jerry is paired with Kirk Triplett and tee'd off at 8:20am.

John Daly tees off later as he tries to make his return to the PGA! haha

other notables in the qualifier today are:

James Driscoll
Scott ver Plank
Brendan de Jonge
Tim Petrovic

6/8/2009 9:57:26 AM

any idea where we can get results form the qualifiers???

6/8/2009 6:58:17 PM

Did a lot of googling, couldn't find any results for the Roslyn US Open qualifier yet. (the one he is in)

6/8/2009 7:12:41 PM

Hill didn't qualify - http://www.tsn.ca/golf/story/?id=281308

6/9/2009 7:45:09 AM

^^ He was at the Columbus Qualifier.

Shot a 143 when he needed a 136 or better to do it.

Matt Hill Canada 73-70-143

However he is not listed with the (a) amateur symbol. What gives?

http://usga.usopen.com/2009/qualifying/columbus.html

6/9/2009 2:02:44 PM

Jerry shot a 69 and a 71 in the 36 holes and missed the cut by 2 strokes. He did beat John Daly and Kirk Tripplett though.

Jerry Richardson Jr Burlington, N.C. 69-71-140
Kirk Triplett Scottsdale, Ariz. 74-68-142
John Daly Memphis, Tenn. 73-70-143

only a matter of time until he gets on the tour.

[Edited on June 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM. Reason : .]

6/9/2009 4:50:11 PM

Matt's playin in the British Amateur starting today.

Quote :

"The tournament, which concludes Saturday, will have a field of 288 golfers. The participants will play 18 holes today at Formby and 18 on Tuesday at West Lancashire Golf Club in Lancashire, England. The golfers with the 64 lowest scores will advance to the match-play portion of the tournament at Formby. Each match consists of 18 holes, except for the 36-hole final."

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1569366.html

6/15/2009 1:50:12 PM

^Hill finished 4 over, 11 back, tied at 108.

Mark McMillan just won the NC Ameteur, though:
[link]http:// http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/ncsu/story/1569320.html[/link]

6/15/2009 2:15:55 PM

Matt made the cut at the ATT open ...

Sitting at +5, tied for 63rd, and was even heading into the day today ...

Hes currently ahead of a pretty nice list of golfers

http://espn.go.com/golf/leaderboard?tournamentId=566

7/5/2009 1:02:12 AM

A) Did he turn pro? There's no Amateur listed on him

B) Why is his flag a US Flag when he is from Canada?

7/5/2009 2:28:26 AM

good questions ...

So, if he finishes in 68, where he currently is, he will make about 12k for the weekend...

Never looked at the full purse distributions before, but it does not seem like there is alot of money coming from these purses ... difference between 50th and 70th is only like 3k...

7/5/2009 12:24:37 PM

^ this event is mostly for charity thus the purses are small. If the purses were larger u'd see more big names there.

7/5/2009 7:23:50 PM