{"id":728095,"date":"2026-06-10T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728095\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:05:10","slug":"sheils-donegan-bertagnole-earn-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728095\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheils Donegan, Bertagnole Earn All-America Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PING (Golf Coaches Association of America) and Golfweek have both selected a pair of University of North Carolina men&#8217;s golfers \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/carson-bertagnole\/27350\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27350\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Bertagnole<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/niall-sheils-donegan\/27352\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27352\" target=\"_blank\">Niall Sheils Donegan<\/a> \u2013 to their 2026 All-America teams.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSheils Donegan, a junior from Mill Valley, Calif., earned second-team honors, while Bertagnole, a freshman from Pinehurst, N.C., made the third teams.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis is the fourth time in the last five seasons two or more Tar Heels earned at least third-team All-America honors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSheils Donegan led Carolina in scoring at 69.91, the fourth-best stroke average in UNC single-season history. He was a combined 48 strokes under par and his score to per round (-1.45) was the second-best ever by a Tar Heel, trailing only National Player of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/david-ford\/27343\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27343\" target=\"_blank\">David Ford&#8217;s<\/a> record-setting standard (-2.47) set last season. Sheils Donegan finished the year ranked No. 16 in the country. He won the Tar Heel Intercollegiate, had four top-five results and led the team with 14 rounds in the 60s.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBertagnole averaged 70.19, the fifth-lowest stroke average in Tar Heel history. He was named one of five players on the GCAA&#8217;s Freshman All-America team. He finished the year ranked No. 30 overall, the second-highest ranked freshman in the country. He won the Fighting Irish Classic at Notre Dame, shot in the 60s six times in the final rounds and made his PGA TOUR debut in the Puerto Rico Classic.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBertagnole is the fifth Carolina men&#8217;s golfer to earn at least third-team All-America honors as a freshman, joining Ford (third team in 2022), Peter Fountain (first team in 2021), Kevin O&#8217;Connell (third team in 2008) and Davis Love III (third team in 1983).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PING (Golf Coaches Association of America) and Golfweek have both selected a pair of University of North Carolina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-728095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}