By William Fowler Ryan Wilson is the new CEO of the First Tee – Central Carolina, the organization where he started his professional career in 2011. Wilson, who played golf at High Point Central High and High Point University, worked with the local First Tee organization from 2011 until 2015. “I’m so thankful to be…
By BRAD KING When Wake Forest golf coach Jerry Haas captured the Carolinas PGA section championship last fall he knew the victory would translate into a reunion of sorts with former Demon Deacon players now earning their keep on the PGA Tour — guys like his nephew, 2011 FedEx Cup champion Bill Haas, 2012 U.S.…
By Brad King The First Tee has steadily blossomed into a robust national organization that has impacted, influenced and inspired more than 9 million young golfers. Locally, however, when Mike Barber took the reigns as The First Tee of the Triad President and CEO in October 2011, the organization was represented at just three locations with…
McConnell Golf, LLC has announced the purchase of its seventh premier golf club in the Carolinas, Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., a renowned Donald Ross design and site of PGA TOUR’s Wyndham Championship. Sedgefield CC’s membership debated the possible sale throughout most of 2010, and after considering all options decided that the sale to…
By Bob Sutton When Wyndham Championship tournament director Mark Brazil began a congratulatory announcement at the 2010 trophy presentation for champion Arjun Atwal, he commented on “what a week it had been.” In this case, it could have served as a literal assessment of Atwal’s journey that ended with a par putt…
By DAVID DROSCHAK In a generation when star golfers like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson make more money off the course than on the green grass, Ryan Moore chose an interesting corporate path in 2009 – to say the least. No telling how much cash Moore left on the table when he accepted his…