The third round of the NCAA Regional at Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill was suspended by rain on Tuesday with the leading teams playing five holes or less.
Host North Carolina did manage to pull within four shots of leader East Tennessee with a 6-under-par start. The Tar Heels are 19-under for the 54-hole tournament. Clemson is in second, one shot ahead of UNC. The teams played almost two full rounds Monday in anticipation of Tuesday’s foul weather.
N.C. State’s Nick Mathews of Mebane, playing as an individual, did not start. Mathews would have a one-stroke lead on the single individual qualifying spot for the NCAA Championship If Georgia Tech and Baylor hold on to the other two team slots. Long Beach and Alabama are within four shots of Baylor.
Mathews did complete the last few holes of his second-round 66 for 7-under 133 early Tuesday morning.
