2016-17 Men's Golf Roster
Chad Cox
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Charlotte, N.C.
- High School:
- Hickory Grove Baptist Christian
- Weight:
- null
2016-17 (Redshirt Senior): ACC Honor Roll ... Competed in five tournaments and 14 official rounds during his senior season at NC State … Averaged 75.0 strokes per round … Earned two top-10 finishes throughout the year … Tied for ninth at both the Heel/Pack Individual Tournament and the Barton Intercollegiate … In a full-team tournament, his best performance was a T27 finish at the Bridgestone Intercollegiate in Greensboro (214, -2) … Finishes his career with 22 tournaments 58 rounds, a stroke average of 78.89 per round, and seven top-20 finishes with three top-10 results.
Redshirt Junior (2015-16): Played in five tournaments and 13 rounds throughout the season … Averaged 77.2 strokes per 18 holes … Finished within the top 20 of a tournament field on one occasion, tying for 18th at the Wolfpack Fall Intercollegiate with a two-round score of 145 (+3) … Tied for 21st at the Duke-UNC Indy with a two-round score of 158 (+14) … Best single round of the season (72) was achieved at the Wolfpack Fall Intercollegiate … Best three-round score of the season (228) was achieved at the Hootie at Bulls Bay.
2014-15: Redshirted and did not play in any official tournaments during the 2014-15 season.
2013-14: Played in five tournaments and 13 rounds throughout the season ... Averaged 75.9 strokes per 18 holes ... Recorded one top 10 and two top 20 finishes during the season ... His best round of the season was a 70, which was achieved at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate in September ... Earned the best finish of his career at the Wolfpack Spring Open, tying for eighth with a one-over par 73 ... Three of his seven rounds (42.8 percent) counted towards the team's scores throughout the season.
2012-13: Finished first year with NC State with a 76.7 scoring average ... Was in the starting lineup in four events ... Best finish was a T13 at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate at 2-over 218 ... Also finished T17 at the Palmetto Intercollegiate at 8-over 218 ... His opening round 2-under 68 at the Palmetto was his low number of the season ... Also had a 3-under 69 during the Wolfpack Intercollegiate.
Prep: Considered the top junior golfer in the state of North Carolina, and consistently ranked among the top-20 nationally in his class by both the American Junior Golf Association and Junior Golf Scoreboard ... Won the 2011 North & South Junior championship at Pinehurst ... Won the 2010 AJGA AccuSport Championship ... Two-time high school state champion in 2009 and 2010 ... Finished second in 2011 and tied for third in 2012 ... Selected for the prestigious Wyndham Cup, a national East-versus-West team match play competition featuring 10 of the top boys from East and West of the Mississippi River ... Tied for 12th (1-over 214) at the 2012 North & South Men's Amateur, but lost in a playoff to advance to match play.