A pair of University of North Carolina men's golfers, junior Ryan Gerard of Raleigh and senior Austin Hitt of Longwood, Fla., are tied for ninth after 36 holes of stroke play at the U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst and advanced to match play in the round of 64.
UNC is the only college program in the country to have two current or former players qualify in the top 10 in stroke play in this year's U.S. Amateur.
Second-round play was suspended several times Tuesday, once for a weather delay late in the afternoon while Gerard was still on the course, and again at 8 p.