Official Site of the Tar Heels · Jul 12, 2023
Ford Makes PGA Tour Debut
Tar Heel Junior Playing At The Barbasol Championship
David Ford, the 2023 ACC Player of the Year and a first-team All-America, is making his PGA Tour debut this week at The Barbasol Championship in Nicholasville, Ky.
Ford, a rising junior at the University of North Carolina, will be competing on a sponsor's exemption at Barbasol, which will be contested at the Champions Course at the Keene Trace Golf Club.
The Peachtree Corners, Ga., native is an automatic qualifier for the 2023 Walker Cup team that will represent the United States against Great Britain and Ireland at the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland on September 2-3.