Camp Directors

Andrew DiBitetto
Head Coach

2023-24: The 2024-25 season is DiBitetto’s eighth as Carolina’s head coach and 14th with the Tar Heel men’s golf program. Coach DiBitetto has led the Tar Heels to top-five finishes in each of the last four NCAA Championships, just the second time ever and the first time in more than 50 years an ACC team accomplished the feat. Carolina has finished tied for fifth, tied for fifth, tied for third and tied for fifth from 2021-24 in the NCAA Championship, the first time UNC has ever finished in the top five in more than two consecutive seasons. As a result, DiBitetto has earned ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors by a vote of his peers in each of the last three seasons. It is just the second time in ACC history and first time since 1998 a coach won the award in three consecutive seasons.

Andrew DiBitetto has led the Tar Heels to three consecutive top-five finishes in the NCAA Championship and was named Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year in each of the last two seasons.

Under his direction the Tar Heels have emerged as one of the top programs in the nation, joining perennial powers Arizona State, Oklahoma, Texas and Vanderbilt as the only teams to advance out of regionals to the NCAA Championship in each of the last six NCAA Tournaments and Arizona State and Pepperdine as the only three teams to advance to match play in the last three NCAA Championships.

Carolina has finished tied for fifth, tied for fifth and tied for third from 2021-23 in the NCAA Championship, the first time UNC has ever finished in the top five in three straight seasons. UNC tied Oklahoma and Vanderbilt for first place in stroke play in 2022 and led the entire 30-team field in stroke play in 2023.

Three current Tar Heels – David Ford, Austin Greaser and Dylan Menante – made the 2023 United States Walker Cup team. UNC is the first college to have three players on a U.S. Walker Cup team since Alabama and California in 2013.

2022-23: The 2022-23 season was one of the most accomplished in Carolina history. The Tar Heels won five tournaments, including four of the highest-rated fields in all of college golf, beat the hometown Sun Devils in the NCAA quarterfinals in match play, was ranked second or third in the final polls, produced Carolina’s first-ever ACC Player of the Year (David Ford) and four All-Americas and All-ACC players.

Carolina’s five wins tied the third most in school history and were the most since winning six times in 1985-86. Carolina’s wins included the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational, Jackson T. Stephens Cup, Williams Cup, Valspar Collegiate Invitational and Calusa Cup.

Tar Heels were individual medalists at three events – Ford in the Stephens Cup and fifth-year senior Ryan Burnett in The Calusa Cup and NCAA Salem Regional. Menante tied for fourth in stroke play in the NCAA Championship, the second straight year a Tar Heel placed in the top five. Menante became the first Tar Heel ever to finish in the top 10 in the ACC Championship, NCAA regional and NCAA Championship.

Ford teamed with Greaser on the U.S. squad that won the Palmer Cup in June 2023. Ford averaged 69.89, second-best in UNC single-season history, and was a combined 46 under par in 12 tournaments. He was a first-team All-America and became the first sophomore to win ACC Player of the Year in 13 seasons.

Greaser earned his third straight All-ACC award and was joined on the GCAA and Golfweek All-America third teams by Burnett and Menante. It was the first time in UNC history and first time an ACC team had four All-Americas on the first-, second- or third-teams since Wake Forest in 1975.

For the fourth consecutive season, the Tar Heels set school records for stroke average (280.08) and score to par (-4.46). Ford (No. 2), Burnett (No. 6), Menante (No. 7) and Greaser (No. 8) established four of the eight-lowest scoring averages in a season in UNC history.

DiBitetto (pronounced DEE-bih-TET-toe) became the fourth individual and first Tar Heel to repeat as ACC Coach of the Year.

In addition to the Walker Cup and Palmer Cup, the Tar Heels were a force on the amateur golf scene, with at one point three players holding four of the top titles in the country. Ford won both the 2022 Southern Amateur and 2023 Jones Cup, Menante won his second straight Northeast Amateur and Greaser won the Western Amateur. Greaser finished third in the individual standings and led Team USA to a third-place finish in the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship in France.

All four of Carolina’s 2023 All-Americas were ranked in the top 50 in the end-of-season World Amateur Golf Rankings, including Ford, Greaser and Menante, who were in the top 15.

UNC Head Coach, 2017-present: In DiBitetto’s six seasons as head coach, the Tar Heels have re-written the legacy and record book of Carolina golf:

• finished 15th, 19th, T5th, T5th and T3rd in the NCAA Championship (no tournament in 2020 due to the pandemic).

• first in stroke play twice in the NCAA Championship (shared in 2022, outright in 2023) and twice in the ACC Championship (2021 and 2022).

• won 15 tournament team titles, including victories at Pasotiempo, Olympia Fields North, the Norman Course at PGA West, Eagle Point, Colonial Country Club, Seminole Golf Club and the Floridian National Golf Club.

• a dozen medalists, including two NCAA regionals, an ACC Championship, and wins at Olympia Fields North and Seminole.

• produced an ACC Player of the Year, two first-team All-Americas (including Peter Fountain, the first UNC freshman to earn first-team All-America honors), two second-team All-Americas, four third-team All-Americas and six honorable mention All-Americas.

• seven different Tar Heels earned 12 All-ACC awards, including three in 2021 and 2022 and a school-record four in 2023.

• Carolina has shot 10 of the 13-lowest team rounds and all 10 of the best 54-hole scores in UNC history.

• individuals have produced seven of the 10-lowest rounds and nine of the 10-best 54-hole totals in UNC history.

• individuals have nine of the 10-best career scoring averages and nine of the 10-best single-season scoring averages in UNC history.

• the Tar Heels have scored a perfect 1000 in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates in each season, the longest streak by any of UNC’s men’s teams.

• produced two PGA Tour players (Ben Griffin and Ryan Gerard) and two Korn Ferry Tour players (Carter Jenkins and Austin Hitt).

“Andrew has brought a renewed excitement to the golf program,” says three-time Tar Heel All-America, PGA champion and Hall of Famer Davis Love III. “His passion, commitment, and vision for the future has the Tar Heel family engaged in supporting the team any way possible.”

2021-22: The Tar Heels tied Oklahoma and Vanderbilt for first place in stroke play and tied for fifth after match play in the NCAA Championship. Carolina won three tournaments, finished first in stroke play for the second year in a row in the ACC Championship, was ranked No. 1 in the country for one week in the fall, finished second in an NCAA regional for the third straight year, had four All-Americas (one second team, one third team and two honorable mentions) for the second time in program history, three All-ACC players for the second consecutive year, the ACC Coach and Freshman of the Year and four different players were medalists in five events.

Not only did Carolina post back-to-back top-five finishes in the NCAA Championship for the first time, two Tar Heels placed in the top five in the same NCAA Championship for the first time in program history. Burnett shared the individual lead after 72 holes and competed in a four-man playoff, where he tied for second, and Ford tied for fifth as a freshman.

The Tar Heels led the ACC in stroke average and shot 35 under par at the ACC Championships (nine strokes better than any other team). DiBitetto was named ACC Coach of the Year, UNC’s first recipient since 1995.

Ryan Gerard won at Duke, was second in the NCAA Yale Regional, led UNC in scoring average and earned second-team All-America honors. He was co-medalist in his first professional tournament at a U.S. Open qualifier and played in the 2022 U.S. Open at Brookline.

Greaser won at Olympia Fields and the NCAA Yale Regional, becoming the first Tar Heel to win an NCAA regional. He played in the 2022 Masters and made the cut in the U.S. Open, tournaments he earned invitations to by finishing second in the 2021 U.S. Amateur. That was the best finish in the U.S. Amateur by a Tar Heel in 29 seasons.

Peter Fountain tied for first in stroke play in the ACC Championship, setting a UNC record for that tournament at 13 under par.

2020-21: Carolina’s fifth-place finish in the NCAA Championship was the program’s best in 28 seasons and UNC won the stroke play portion of the ACC Championship for the first time in 15 years. Peter Fountain became the first Tar Heel since 2003 to earn first-team All-America honors and became the first Tar Heel to earn first-team All-America honors as a freshman. Fountain was medalist at the ACC Championship, the ACC Freshman of the Year, made the All-Nicklaus team and set UNC’s single-season stroke average record at 69.68.

Carolina won the stroke play portion of the 2021 ACC Championship in record-breaking fashion, setting the all-time tournament record with a 26-under-par 814.

2019-20: Tar Heels won two tournaments and were ranked as high as No. 13 in the national polls when the pandemic ended the season. Burnett (70.21) and Gerard (71.08) set two of the lowest single-season scoring averages in Carolina history and earned All-America and all-region honors.

2018-19: The Tar Heels finished second in the NCAA Stanford Regional and 19th at the NCAA Championship. Austin Hitt earned honorable mention All-America and All-ACC honors and was joined on the all-region team by Gerard, who set UNC’s 18-hole scoring record when he shot a 61 at Notre Dame. Burnett shot a 63 as a freshman in the NCAA Stanford Regional, the best round ever by a Tar Heel in NCAA play (which Greaser equaled in 2022 and Burnett matched in 2023), and advanced to the fourth round of stroke play at the NCAA Championship.

2017-18: In his first season as head coach, Carolina won the Tar Heel Intercollegiate and beat a national field at the Western Intercollegiate at Pasotiempo, UNC’s first-ever win on the west coast. The Tar Heels were fourth in the NCAA Kissimmee Regional and finished 15th at the NCAA Championship, the program’s highest national finish since 2003. Joshua Martin earned honorable mention All-America honors and seniors Ben Griffin, Jose Montaño and William Register made the PING East Region team.

Griffin finished his career with the lowest stroke average in UNC history, earned All-ACC honors for the second time, set 54-hole UNC records in winning the Tar Heel Intercollegiate with a 19-under-197 and became the first Tar Heel to shoot three rounds in the 60s in an ACC Tournament; Hitt posted the lowest score to par by a Tar Heel in an NCAA regional; UNC won the Tar Heel Intercollegiate shooting the lowest 54-hole score (815) and finishing the best to par (-49) in school history. It was the second-best score to par in ACC history.

UNC Assistant Coach, 2011-17: DiBitetto served as assistant coach at UNC from 2011-14 and the associate head coach from 2014-17. UNC won seven team titles and six players were medalists eight times in the six seasons. The Tar Heels played in four NCAA regionals and returned to the NCAA Championship in 2017 for the first time as a program in a decade.

A few of the notable players he recruited and/or developed as an assistant include Michael McGowan, Bailey Patrick, Andy Sajevic, Henry Do, Griffin, Register, Jenkins, Hitt, Martin and Montaño.

He won the prestigious Jan Strickland Award in 2016, which is presented to the assistant coach who has excelled in working with their student-athletes both on the course and in the classroom. DiBitetto served as an assistant coach on the United States’ team that defeated Team Europe in the 2017 Palmer Cup.

Charlotte: The Rochester, N.Y., native was an All-America at Charlotte, where he led the 49ers to unprecedented success at the NCAA Championships.

As a junior in 2007, he earned honorable mention GCAA/PING All-America honors after finishing ninth and leading Charlotte to a tie for third place at the NCAA Championships, the school’s highest finish in history. His ninth-place finish was the highest to date by a 49er.

As a senior, Charlotte was ranked consensus No. 1, won the A-10 Championship and tied for eighth at the NCAA Championships. It was the first time in school history men’s golf posted back-to-back top 10s at NCAAs.  He set records for most tournaments and most consecutive tournaments played (50).

DiBitetto was second at the 2007 A-10 Championships and fifth in 2006.  He led the 49ers to A-10 Championships in 2006.

In 2018, Charlotte honored DiBitetto at a home football weekend for his outstanding playing career.

DiBitetto excelled in the classroom, winning Atlantic 10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in 2007. He was an All-America Scholar in 2007 and 2008 and Academic All-Atlantic 10 in 2006 and 2007.

DiBitetto graduated with honors with a degree in business management and played professionally for a short time.  He returned to Charlotte as assistant coach in 2009 and was named the interim head coach for the 49ers in December 2010.

DiBitetto played or coached on six consecutive Atlantic 10 championship teams. Charlotte qualified for the NCAA regionals in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and the 49ers had six players selected to the All-Atlantic 10 team. Five players were named GCAA Scholar All-Americas, three players were selected to the GCAA/PING All-Region team and two players earned A-10 Student-Athlete of the Year honors.  Corey Nagy was a two-time All-America, earning honorable mention in 2009 and second-team honors in 2010.

Family: DiBitetto was born on Jan. 17, 1986. He and his wife, Laree, have three sons, Levi, Luxen and Lucah.