By CHRISTIAN WORSTELL With a 103-stroke blowout victory for The Elon School, the North Carolina Independent School Association’s 1-A state championship was never much in doubt. The individual title was another story. Elon teammates Nick Davenport and Dexter Blank finished the 36-hole tournament deadlocked at 158 and squared off in a sudden death playoff at…
By MARC PRUITT Jay Hunt had a hunch that his 5-foot putt for bogey meant something. Standing over the ball on the 18th green during the final round of the NCISAA 3-A state championship at Bryan Park’s Champions Course, it was a situation the Forsyth Country Day junior had rehearsed time and time again. “I’m…
By EDDIE SOUTHARDS Salisbury golf coach Dale Snyder knew his team had a target on its back at the state 2-A golf championship this year. The Hornets were the two-time defending champions and had suffered heavy graduation losses. Making it three titles in a row would be difficult. “We had talked about a three-peat, but…
By STEVE WILLIAMS Burlington Williams has won seven North Carolina high school championships in its proud golf history and there have been a lot of close calls along the way. The Bulldogs had to settle for second this year at Foxfire Golf and Country Club as there was no stopping a veteran, loaded Gastonia Forestview…
BY MICHAEL LINDSAY Westchester Country Day didn’t like finishing second last year. It was determined to not let it happen again in 2013. The Wildcats, who won consecutive state titles in 2010 and 2011, shot 308-299 – 607 to capture the North Carolina independent 2-A state championship by eight shots over second-place St. David’s of…
By STEVE HANF Bishop McGuinness’ players praised coach Pearse Mahon for his easygoing attitude. The jokes he cracks on the course and the Irish music he plays for the team keeps the mood light. The Villains may not have won another championship, however, without Mahon showing a stern side to his young players toward the…
By MARC PRUITT The Heather Hills Golf Course is taking a mulligan. After closing and sitting dormant for nearly five years, a new ownership group is breathing fresh life into the executive course that sits just off Ebert Road in Winston-Salem. The course re-opened for play April 25, and the new owners are in the…
By MICHAEL GRAFF And now, they’ll be side-by-side. For the past five years, golf course superintendents in the Triad have faced a difficult decision: Join the movement toward hot-weather bermudagrass greens or stick with the old-favorite, cold-weather bentgrass. Greensboro’s most well-known public golf facility will try both. On June 17, Bryan Park will close its…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Why would Ted Robinson leave a perfectly good job he held for 13 years at a private club in the Philadelphia suburbs? To pursue his dream, that’s why. Robinson, 50, had been looking at investing in a golf course over a five-year period when an ad for an ownership/lease option at Deercroft…
By Brad King The year 1925 had barely dawned on the day a handful of Winston-Salem’s most prominent businessmen — names like Hanes, Reynolds and Gray — gathered at the downtown law office of Manly, Hendren & Womble. Led by Hugh Chatham, the group would finalize long-bandied plans to develop a private vacation community in the…