2025-26 Men's Golf Roster
Hampton Roberts
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Cary, N.C.
- High School:
- Panther Creek
Best Finish: 2nd in playoff, 2024-25 Amer Ari Invitational
Low Round: 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 72.65 in 15 tournaments over his two seasons as a Tar Heel • Best finish was second place in a playoff as a sophomore in the Amer Ari Invitational in Hawai’i • Set numerous UNC records in the Amer Ari Invitational (detailed in 2024-25) • Three-time member of the ACC Honor Roll.
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.
