By STEVE HANF Golf changed Lori Beth Adams’ life. She was 7 years old when her dad, Steve, took her to Indian Valley Golf Course in Burlington to hit some shots for the first time. “After I hit that first ball, I said, ‘This is what I want to do,’ ” Adams recalled. “It was…
By STEVE HANF Lecture halls and a pair of exams awaited Payne McLeod on the UNC Wilmington campus. On this late-September school day, though, McLeod soaked up the scenery from the ferry deck. The Hilton Head lighthouse looming over Harbour Town Golf Links. Dolphins frolicking in the distance. A golf course teeming with some of…
By MARC PRUITT To listen to Bermuda Run’s Zach Brown tell you how he recently won “just another tournament,” you can hear the humility that one of his coaches, John Buczek, boasts about. When you’ve won 80 or so tournaments during your career, maybe it was “just another tournament.” But it wasn’t. Brown won the…
By STEVE WILLIAMS There was no surprise last year when Ledford and Salisbury won their second consecutive state championships. And no one will be surprised if those two schools make it three in a row this fall. Ledford, competing in the 3-A class, lost one of its fantastic foursome to graduation but the beat has…
BY JOHN DELL Coach Terrance Stewart of UNC Greensboro finds it hard to believe that the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate at Grandover Resort is in its ninth year. “Has it been that many?” he said. “Well, it’s a good that it’s lasted this long, and we feel like we have a good, competitive tournament each year.”…