Scoring Average: 72.61 in 57 rounds
Best Finish: 2nd in playoff, 2024-25 Amer Ari Invitational, Mauna Lani Resort North Course, Waimea, Hawai’i
Low Round (strokes): 61, 2nd round 2024-25 Amer Ari Invitational (tied UNC record)
Low Round (to par): -11, 2nd round, 2024-25 Amer Ari Invitational (UNC record)
Low UNC 54 Holes (strokes): 195, 2024-25 Amer Ari Invitational (ties UNC record)
Low UNC 54 Holes (to par): -21, 2024-25 Amer Ari Invitational (UNC record)
Career: Averaged 72.61 in 20 tournaments in three seasons as a Tar Heel...tied for the 18th-best average in UNC history...best finish was second place in a playoff as a sophomore in the 2024 Amer Ari Invitational in Hawai’i...shot rounds of 67-61-67 for 21-under 195, tying UNC’s 18-hole record for strokes (61) and score to par (-11) and setting 54-hole school records for total strokes and score to par...three-time member of the ACC Honor Roll.
2025-26: Averaged 72.50 in 14 rounds over five tournaments...four-straight rounds in the 60s, including 67-68-69 for 6-under 204 total to finish sixth in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate.
2024-25: All-America Scholar, Academic All-ACC honoree and member of the ACC Honor Roll...averaged 72.33 in 10 tournaments, eight of which came as a starter...four top-20 finishes...shot at or below par nine times with six rounds in the 60s...shot 11-under-par 61 in the second round of the Amer Ari Invitational at the Mauna Lani Resort North Course in Waimea, Hawai’i...the 61 tied the all-time 18-hole UNC record and 11 under par set a UNC record • Shot 67-61-67 for 21-under 195...the 21 under score to par broke Ben Griffin’s previous UNC record (-19) and 195 strokes broke Griffin’s and Austin Greaser’s UNC-record 197...lost to Texas’ Tommy Morrisson in the playoff at Amer Ari...tied the UNC record twice for fewest strokes in consecutive rounds (128), a record later broken by one shot by David Ford at Valspar...shot a final-round 68 as UNC won the Williams Cup at Eagle Point in Wilmington, N.C. ...second-round 66 at Olympia Fields, Carolina’s low round in that tournament.
2023-24: Averaged 73.38 over 13 rounds in five tournaments...season-low 67 in the opening round of the Amer Ari Invitational in Waimea, Hawai’i...also shot 68 in the final round on the Mauna Lani North Course and finished 7-under 209...shot 1-over 141 (70-71) to tie for 17th at the Jubilee Course in the St Andrews Links Collegiate.
Prep/Amateur: Three rounds in the 60s to tie for 18th in the 2025 Monroe Invitational...attended Panther Creek High School in Cary, N.C. ...finished second with an 11-under 273 in the 2023 Azalea Invitational...won a 2023 U.S. Open local qualifier...won the 2021 North Carolina Junior Match Play, holing out his second shot on the par-5 16th hole to win the title...runner-up in 2021 at the Bobby Chapman Junior Invitational and finished in the top 32 in the U.S. Junior Amateur...placed eighth in the 2022 Beth Daniel Junior Azalea and had additional top-10 finishes in the Southern Junior, Carolina’s Junior, Hope Valley Junior Invitational, North and South Junior, The Elite Invitational and North Carolina Amateur Match Play.
Personal: Born Hampton Keppler Roberts on Sept. 14, 2004, in Sanford, N.C. ...son of Lee and Abby Roberts...favorite course is Grove XXIII in Hobe Sound, Fla. ...go-to clubs under pressure are his 60-degree wedge or putter...best shot was holing out for an albatross with a hybrid from 220 yards to win the 2021 NC Junior Match Play at Roaring Gap...dream round includes Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and his dad...likes to play basketball and bass fishing...recently taken up fly fishing...favorite vacation spot is the mountains...listens to worship or country music...helped raise nearly $10,000 through the AJGA Leadership Links program for the Nicklaus Children’s Healthcare Foundation.