University of North Carolina sophomore David Ford is one of 11 players to earn first-team All-America honors, the Golf Coaches Association of America and PING announced today.
Ford led the Tar Heels to a tie for third at the 2023 NCAA Championship. Carolina led the 30-team field after four rounds of stroke play and defeated Arizona State in the quarterfinals before being ousted in the semifinals by Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels won five team tournaments this season and finished the year ranked No. 2 in the nation.
Ford became the first Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Year honors, the first sophomore to accomplish that feat since 2010 and the first to win ACC Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year in consecutive seasons since Florida State's Brooks Koepka in 2010-11.