By John Brasier Tot Hill Farm Golf Club has reopened with new greens, upgraded cart paths and a new clubhouse, fittingly in a restored old farmhouse. Since opening in 2000, Tot Hill Farm has received acclaim. Golf Digest has named its third hole the best No. 3 hole in the nation, and just last year,…
By John Brasier Byron Development’s fifth-annual First Responders of the Triad (FROT) benefit tournament at Greensboro National Golf Club, an event that provides funds for equipment and services for local police, fire and ambulance teams, has a new format this year focusing on amateur participants. This year, a field of 36 four-player, all-amateur teams will take…
By John Brasier The 2023 Wyndham Championship will go down as one of the most memorable PGA Tour events of the year. Not just to those of us in the Triad, who look forward to our annual tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. But also, to millions of pro golf fans throughout the world. We can…
By John Brasier Get to Sedgefield Country Club early Thursday if you want to see Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry, Jason Dufner, Stewart Cink and Jimmy Walker play in Thursday’s opening round of the Wyndham Championship. They should be finished about the time most of us are eating lunch. Thomas (7:45 a.m.), Lowry (7:45), Dufner (7:01)…
By John Brasier Though the list of elite and marketable players is modest, the field for this week’s Wyndham Championship can probably thank the PGA Tour’s cut to 70 for the upcoming FedExCup Playoffs for strengthening the field at Sedgefield Country Club. Two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas, who has struggled this year, will be here,…
By John Brasier Could Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry come to Greensboro in an attempt to qualify for the $56-million FedExCup? Depending on what happens at this weekend’s British Open — and next week’s 3M Open in Minnesota — there could be a very good chance. Which pro golf stars will enter the Wyndham Championship?…
By John Brasier Mebane’s Emily Mathews, one of four Triad players in the field at the U.S. Girls’ Junior championship, will get a quick look at how her game stacks up in the qualifying rounds Monday and Tuesday for stroke play at the U.S. Air Force Academy Eisenhower Golf Club Blue Course in Colorado Springs.…
As a freshman at Reagan High, Anna Howerton wasn’t sure she wanted to play on the high school golf team. But her father gave her a nudge. “My dad wanted me to play,” Howerton recalled. As it turned out, Howerton’s dad probably saved himself a lot of money. His daughter has earned a scholarship to…
By John Brasier For decades known best for hillbilly theme park Silver Dollar City, country music theaters, bass fishing and as the home of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” Branson has a new upscale vibe, thanks in large part, to Johnny Morris, the founder of Bass Pro Shops. A regional family and fishing destination in the Ozark…
The cofounder and operator of Golf Gem, Jonathan Dudley has taken a unique role at Forest Oaks Country Club and steered in perhaps, a surprising direction. A former GolfTec manager and head professional at Mill Creek and The Valley (formerly Indian Valley), Dudley wanted to return his focus to golf instruction. Dudley, who moved from…