Rich Wills of Cramerton, a rising junior at Clemson, won the North Carolina Amateur Championship Saturday at Bermuda Run’s East Course. Wills shot 6-under-par 66 in the final round for an 12-under 276 total, two shots in front of UNC Charlotte’s Daniel Boone of Fuquay Varina, University of Richmond’s Jack LaPiana of Charlotte and University…
Anna Howerton of Winston-Salem finished second Thursday in the Carolinas Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship at Statesville Country Club. Howerton, who plays for High Point University, shot rounds of 74, 69 and 70 to finish 3-under-par 213, three strokes behind winner Jenna Kim of Raleigh. Kim earned an exemption into the U.S. Women’s Amateur at…
It’s not Alex Smalley or Cameron Young. But there are golfers with Triad connections within striking range after two rounds at the U.S. Open. Wake Forest native Akshay Bhatia and former Wake Forest golfer Alex Fitzgerald are two of only 21 players to match or break par at the halfway point at windy Shinnecock Hills.…