2010 North Carolina All State Boys Team West End, NC—30 boys have been named to the 2010 N.C. Boys’ All-State Golf Teams by the Carolinas Golf Association and the Tarheel Youth Golf Association honoring those junior golfers who have had the most success in amateur and junior golf events at the local, state, regional and…
N.C. junior golf’s best honored by the Carolinas Golf Association and the Tarheel Youth Golf Association West End, NC—Sarah Bae of Cary and Davis Womble of High Point have been named the 2010 N.C. Junior Players of the Year by the Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA) and the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA). The N.C. Junior…
By STEVE HANF Read about NCHSAA 1A/2A/3A (Updated 11/23/2010….Kristi Ingram verbally commits to Elon University) PINEHURST – Kristi Ingram gave up basketball her sophomore year to focus on golf. The senior from Winston-Salem’s Mount Tabor High School enjoyed net gains from that decision in early November. Ingram recorded rounds of 73 and 71 on Pinehurst…
By BOB SUTTON Quarry Hills Country Club has gone through countless changes in the past few years, not to mention a rebirth under the Tri-G Group. Yet co-owner Geoff Gulick says he’s far from finished. “Every year there will be a change people are going to notice,” he said. Gulick and his group celebrated the…
By EDDIE HUFFMAN After summer heat that did a number on a lot of North Carolina golf courses, a couple of Alamance County courses, Indian Valley and Mill Creek, are looking to the future with brand new greens. “Like everybody else we were totally burnt,” said Derek Cobb, director of golf at Indian…
By STEVE WILLIAMS It was a record-breaking weekend at Forest Oaks Country Club when UNC Greensboro played host to the sixth annual UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate Oct. 23-24. North Carolina rolled to a seven-shot win in the 14-team event and shaved 10 strokes off the previous tournament record for the lowest 54-hole score, posting 833…
Colin McKenna, one of the key players in Northern Guilford High School’s march to the 3-A state championship last May, claimed his biggest individual win of the year in October when he captured the Precision Golf Junior Championship. Playing at Bryan Park’s Players Course, McKenna fired a 2-under-par 70 on Oct. 23 to open a…
PGA Professional Robert Linville, of Greensboro, NC, won the 2010 Bermuda Run CPGA Senior Open, held at Bermuda Run Country Club (East Course) in Advance, NC. Linville, Director of Instruction for Precision Golf School in Greensboro, NC, had two solid rounds of 74-72 for a total of 146 (+2). After Steve Forrest, PGA, of…
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By David Droschak Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway wouldn’t be complete without paying homage to one of the truly great public golf courses in the state of North Carolina. Mount Mitchell Golf Club in Yancey County is just a five-minute drive from the National Scenic Byway, sitting in a “valley” at…