May is my favorite month for Triad golf.
It’s a great time to play. The weather is mild. The threat of cold weather is gone, even in the N.C. mountains. Extreme heat and humidity haven’t arrived.
The fairways are lush. The greens are smooth. Daylight savings makes it possible to play 18 holes after work. There’s no dread that the end is near. Golf weather is here for at least six more months.
And May 2024 may be one of the best Mays ever.
As Triad Golf reported last Monday, many of the Triad’s best public-access courses have recovered and are in peak condition. Plus, we avoided any winter burn that sometimes ruins spring fairways.
Pinehurst, the Triad’s top day-trip destination for golfers, has a new super course, Pinehurst No. 10, a course designed by Tom Doak, will officially open on the site of a former quarry. We’ll provide a first-hand account next month. And the United States Golf Association’s public museum and new World Golf Hall of Hall location is due to open. And there’s still time to buy tickets to the U.S. Open in June at Pinehurst No. 2.
But we won’t have to wait until June to watch many of the world’s greatest players. The Wells Fargo Championship, one of the PGA Tour’s enhanced-purse, limited-field tournaments returns to Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club on May 9-12. On that same weekend, the PGA Tour’s inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic will be played at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. So Triad golf fans have a choice in convenient road trips: watch the top stars in Charlotte or enjoy a little golf with a beach vacation.
In our cover story, we profile the growing Triad-based Dail Golf company, which has its owns ties to the PGA Tour. Five years ago, Greensboro native Geoff Dail was pondering a handful of job offers.
Dail, the superintendent at Forest Oaks Country Club when it was host to the Wyndham Championship, chose to accept them all, forming his own company. Dail Golf has its fingers in just about every facet of the golf course business.
Dail Golf, which had managed maintenance at Tot Hill Farm, handled extensive renovations at the spectacular Asheboro course and still has a consulting role there. The company also handles agronomical duties at Caswell Farms, Meadowbrook and Draper Valley, a course just over the Virginia border. Dail Golf is also in charge of the course at Oak Valley, where Dail is a partner in the ownership. The company also handles construction projects at multiple courses as far away as Indiana.
At Siler City Country Club, Dail Golf has a full management contract, including the pro shop, restaurant and swimming pool. With thousands of megasite jobs coming to locations within 15 minutes away, the club is preparing for opportunities to improve and grow.
Also near Pinehurst, Woodlake Country Club’s reopened course is drawing rave reviews after a “resurrection” by Greensboro architect Kris Spence. We’ve got a report on the transformation.
In this edition, we also have features ranging from a high school and college standouts to the story of two octogenarians who made aces on the same hole while playing in the same foursome at a Triad course.
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