Summer Escape: Olde Mill’s generational restoration a winning combination

          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,…

Junior Golf Notebook

        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…

Bryan Park a winner in APL Championship

        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…

Mental Minute

        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…