Mallory Fobes, who recently concluded her collegiate career at UNC Wilmington, won the CGA Women’s Match Play on Aug. 3 at Mill Creek Golf Club. Fobes beat Grace Holcomb of Wilmington 4 and 3 in the championship match. Fobes, who also won the tournament in 2021, won all six of her matches at Mill Creek.…
Lexington Golf Club reopened on July 19 with new Champion Bermuda greens after a renovation project that lasted only seven weeks. The approximately $200,000 project also included the removal of hundreds of trees for maintenance and playability purposes. Golf pro Dylan Dawson said the greens, which had gotten 20% smaller over the past two decades…
College football teams are often known by their stadiums, basketball teams by their arenas. In golf, the course is the playing field and facility. Having a great course with modern practice facilities is a major asset in recruiting as well as a great way to provide another opportunity for alumni and boosters to stay connected…
While golf might not be the primary focus, the Outer Banks offers a great variety of beach courses open to public play in a setting far more relaxed than those in Myrtle Beach, Charleston and Hilton Head Island and the Brunswick islands. From links style courses along Currituck Sound to wetlands-filled layouts reminiscent of the…
Not many sites have been home to three golf course designs by the likes of George Cobb, Tom Fazio and Davis Love III. But that’s the history of the University of North Carolina’s Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill. Same property, same name, three different designs with different routing. The third version opened last fall…
N.C. State’s Lonnie Poole Golf Course may be the toughest place to get a tee time in the Raleigh area. And there are at least three major reasons why. First, there’s the layout, a signature product of the Arnold Palmer Design Co., which offers a broad-shouldered challenge, with pristine fairways winding over hills and through…
The Duke University Golf Club has a different feel than most of today’s college golf courses. It’s traditional. If you didn’t know the university owned and managed it, you’d think you were at a private country club. The layout has a club-style refinement — no over-the-top landscaping or ornamentation, just neatly maintained tees, lush fairways…
A die-hard University of North Carolina sports fan since she was a young girl, Kayla Smith always dreamed of competing in sports for the Tar Heels, maybe in soccer or basketball. When she decided to concentrate on golf at Williams High School in Burlington, Smith was told her game wasn’t good enough to play at…
With the Olympics providing a week off for all but an elite segment of the PGA Tour, this week’s Wyndham Championship is shaping up to have its best list of names in years coming to Sedgefield Country Club. But there’s one name the Tour and Wyndham organizers don’t want to attend — Tropical Storm Debby.…