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 first…
By David Droschak There’s something special about a son following in his father’s footsteps, or in the case of the Maples family its love affair with a special Virginia mountain retreat that now runs three generations deep. Dan Maples remembers vividly his first job after graduating from the University of Georgia in landscape architecture,…
VSGA Junior Match Play SUFFOLK, Va. • June 22-25 – Dylan Jensen of Ridgeway won the 20th Virginia State Golf Association Match Play Championship at Nansemond River Golf Club. Jensen qualified for the 16-player bracket with 69-76, earning the No. 15 seed in a playoff after five players had tied for the final two…
Aspiring young golfers from the Triad will be the beneficiaries of the newly created Mike Goodes Scholarship. The Triad Youth Golf Foundation, the community non-profit junior program started by Precision Golf School, announced the scholarship and noted it will help a range of juniors, including advanced players headed to college as well as novices who…
By STUART HALL Patrick Reed has played Pinehurst No. 2, the Olympic Club and even a couple of rounds at Augusta National. Not surprising, those courses left favorable impressions on the 19-year-old. And so did Bryan Park Golf and Conference Center, recent host of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. “Easily the best public course…
If you want to shoot lower scores you must first learn to be “OK” while outside your comfort zone. Wikipedia defines the comfort zone as a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of…
Young High Point golfer remembered for spirit, courage By STEVE HANF HIGH POINT – When Glenn Heer learned in the spring that a bone marrow donor had been found and he’d be on his way to a normal life following a transplant, he cut short his freshman year of college to prepare for the procedure.…