By STEVE HANF In the Triad, Lanny Wadkins is best remembered for his 1983 victory in the Greater Greensboro Open and endless trips around Forest Oaks Country Club. What many local golf fans may have forgotten is that Wadkins played his first six Greensboro PGA Tour events at Sedgefield Country Club, including his very first…
By BRAD KING From a quick glance at his Friday afternoon attire – yellow, logoed polo shirt tailored with sleek performance thread, grey checkered shorts, stylishly wide, white belt, Adidas Adizero Tour shoes and Oakley sunglasses – it is immediately apparent Vince Lima lives and breathes the game of golf. On this day, he has…
By MARC PRUITT The director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Winston-Salem likes to remind people he isn’t a scientist despite all of the knowledge he has developed about climate and turf management at Winston Lake and Reynolds Park golf courses during his tenure. Particularly alarming to Tim Grant were the deteriorating…
By STEVE WILLIAMS HIGH POINT • June 28-29 – Isaac Spencer tied the competitive course record at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek course and went on to a 10-shot victory in the inaugural Triad Amateur. Spencer’s record-tying 8-under-par 64 in the first round opened a six-shot lead and there was no let-up on…
By ALEX PODLOGAR It was the fight that made it special. Burlington’s Lori Beth Adams finally won her first collegiate tournament this season as a senior at UNC Wilmington. She has made runs at the Women’s North & South Amateur Championship in Pinehurst before — enough to lament she always felt that the championship…
By HUGH QUINN Tanglewood Park is marking the 40th anniversary of one of only two PGA Championships ever played in North Carolina. The layout, back then known as Tanglewood’s West Course, is now simply referred to as the Championship Course. It was the first venue in the state to play host to the PGA Championship…