Vargas wins AJGA at Sedgefield; Pilot Mountain’s Badgett ties for fifth

Asher Vargas of Spring Texas won the AJGA Wyndham Invitational at Sedgefield Country Club on Thursday, finishing with a 6-under-par 204 total for 54 holes. Mason Howell of Thomasville, Georgia, and Ronin Banerjee of Irvine, California, tied for second at 206. Pennson Badgett (pictured above) of Pilot Mountain, who shot 70 in his first two…

Burlington’s Kayla Smith wins N.C. Women’s Amateur

Burlington native Kayla Smith birdied three of the final six holes Thursday at Mooresville Golf Club to cap a 4-under-par 68 and win The Carolinas Golf Association North Carolina Women’s Amateur by three strokes over Winston-Salem’s Macy Pate. Smith, who recently finished her fifth season at the University of North Carolina with the school’s No.…