Jamestown Park pro Marcy Newton finished second Tuesday in the 36-hole Carolinas PGA Women’s Professional Championship at Bulls Bay Golf Club near Charleston. The 48-year-old Newton, a former UNC standout, USGA Girls’ and Women’s Amateur champion and 13-year veteran of the LPGA Tour, shot rounds of 69 and 73 to finish at 2-under-par 142, one…
Sweltering temperatures. Steamy humidity. Sizzing sun and afternoon thunderstorms. It didn’t matter this past weekend at one Triad golf course. On Saturday, 260 players teed off on reopening day at Salem Glen Country Club. On Sunday, 247 more filled the course. Members of the semi-private Clemmons layout, a product of Nicklaus Design, were anxious to…
In a way, Mark Kriston turned back time at the 79th Forsyth Amateur Championship. Twenty years, to be exact. Kriston seized control Sunday on the front nine at Old Town Club and survived a late triple-bogey to win by three strokes over second-round leader Fisher Kennedy. The 42-year-old Kriston shot 2-under-par 68 in the final…
Pinehurst native and UNC standout Carson Bertagnole advanced through stroke play and the first round of match play before dropping his match in the Round of 32 at the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club. Teammate Hampton Roberts of Cary, a former Panther Creek High standout, also qualified for match play before losing in the…
Furman University golfer Fisher Kennedy shot 7-under-par 65 Saturday at Maple Chase Country Club to take the lead into Sunday’s final-round of the Forsyth Amateur Championship. With a 9-under 133 total, including 2-under 68 Friday at Tanglewood Championship, Kennedy leads first-round leader Mark Kriston of Clemmons, who shot 67 Saturday, by one stroke. Defending champion…
Mark Kriston of Clemmons shot 4-under-par 67 Friday at Tanglewood’s Championship course to take the first-round lead in the Forsyth Amateur Championship. Fisher Kennedy of Winston-Salem, a senior at Furman University, was second and Tom Coleman and Stephen Holt were tied for third at 69 with defending champion Brett Barry at 70. The tournament resumes…
Alex Smalley got off to a great start, but made a wobbly finish to his second round Friday at the St. Jude Championship. The Jamestown golfer and Duke graduate birdied three of his first four holes and added a fourth at No. 9 to shoot up near the top of the leaderboard, only to drop…
Clemmons native Brandon Einstein made a bogey this week in defense of his title at the North Carolina Open. But that bogey Tuesday — his only blemish in 108 holes in the past two State Opens — isn’t what cost him another victory. Symon Balbin just made too many birdies. Balbin, a 24-year-old former UNC…
The leaderboard is filled with players with Triad connections entering Thursday’s final round of the North Carolina Open. Former UNC Greensboro standout Symon Balbin, now an assistant pro at Pinewild Country Club in Pinehurst, shot 6-under-par 66 Wednesday at Forest Oaks Country Club to take a one-stroke lead at 10-under 134 over defending champion and…
It’s official. The PGA Tour will remain in Greensboro as one of the Tour’s premier tournaments. The Tour, Raymond James and tournament operator and host Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation announced a multi-year agreement with Raymond James to sponsor the tournament held at Sedgefield Country Club. The tournament will be known as GO by Raymond James,…