30th Tar Heel Cup Ends in 6-6 Tie as Professionals Retain Cup
WALLACE, N.C. (April 8, 2025) – Final results from the 30th Tar Heel Cup Matches held at River Landing Country Club’s Landing Course in Wallace, N.C.
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For the second consecutive year, the North Carolina PGA Professionals rallied in the Singles matches to pull even with the amateurs and retain the Tar Heel Cup. With the final score tied at 6-6, the Professionals held onto the Cup for the third year in a row, needing only 6 points as the defending champions.
The Tar Heel Cup Matches are an annual friendly competition featuring eight of the top PGA Professionals, selected by the Carolinas PGA Section, and eight of the top amateur golfers, selected by the Carolinas Golf Association, in North Carolina. The format includes one day of Four-Ball matches followed by one day of Singles matches, with one point awarded for each match won. A total of 6½ points is required to win the Cup.
This year, the amateurs edged the Professionals in the Four-Ball matches once again, earning 3.5 points to the Pros’ 2.5. But it wasn’t enough to reclaim the Cup, as the Professionals' strong performance in Singles proved just enough to fend off the amateurs.
This is the second consecutive year that the Tar Heel Cup has ended in a tie. Of the 30 years the Cup has been contested, the amateurs have won nine times. The last amateur victory came in 2022, when they earned the Cup with a 7.5–4.5 win.
This year's Professional roster was made up of Thomas Redding, Luke Lovell, Robert Gamble, Steve Bogdanoff, Dalton Rich, Adam McLaughlin, Chris Haarlow, and Leslie Cloots.
This year's Amateur roster consisted of Paul Huber, Jackson Spires, Sam Davidson, Jacob Golliday, Stephen Lavenets, Paul Fitzgerald, Peter Bowie, and Alex Heffner.
The Carolinas Golf Association would like to extend sincere thanks to the members and staff of River Landing, and to Director of Golf Larry George, for their continued support in hosting this event every year since 2015.
About the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA)
The CGA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational organization that was founded in 1909 to promote and to protect the game of golf in the Carolinas by providing competitions, education, support and benefits to golf clubs and golfers. The CGA is the second largest golf association in the country with over 700 member clubs represented by nearly 150,000 individuals.
The CGA annually conducts 48 championships and five team match competitions for men, women, juniors, and seniors. It also runs over 150 One-Day (net and gross) events as well as qualifying for USGA national championships. The CGA serves golf in the Carolinas with numerous programs such as: the USGA Handicap System; tournament management software and support; course measuring and course/slope ratings; agronomy consultation; answers about the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status, and Handicapping; Carolinas Golf Magazine; Interclub series; Tarheel Youth Golf Association; Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame; expense assistance for USGA Junior and Girls' Junior qualifiers from the Carolinas; and the Carolinas Golf Foundation (CGF). The CGF has distributed nearly $2,000,000 since 1977 to benefit Carolinas' golf initiatives including junior and women's programs.
For more information about the CGA, visit our website.
About the Carolinas PGA Section
Since its inception in 1923, the Carolinas PGA Section has been committed to nurturing and improving the quality of the game for the thousands of golfers using its member facilities. Now the largest of the PGA’s forty-one sections, the Carolinas PGA Section of the Professional Golfers’ Association boasts nearly 2,000 professional members and represents more than 800 golf facilities within North and South Carolina as well as portions of southern Virginia.
PGA professionals are responsible for conducting a variety of golf-related functions which include human resource management, golf shop merchandising, golf instruction, tournament operations, junior golf programs, growth of the game initiatives, golf club repair, administering the rules, public relations and much more.