Greensboro native Leah Edwards and Western Kentucky University teammate Reagan Ramage shot 70 then won a playoff Nov. 18 at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee, to claim the site’s second and final qualifying spot for the 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship. Two Triad players earned alternate status earlier in the fall at Wilson…
Old Town Club continued its climb in the 2025-2026 Golf Magazine Top 100 Courses in the World rankings released this week. The Winston-Salem course, designed by Perry Maxwell, was up four spots to No. 80 in voting by the magazine’s 126 panelists from 16 nations. Pine Valley remained No. 1, followed by Cypress Point and…
Changes are nothing new at Wild Dunes Resort’s Harbor Course. But the latest changes in a $9.5 million renovation project are intentional and positive. Forty years after Harbor’s original completion on Isle of Palms, near Charleston, Fazio Design returned for the extensive update. The course reopened Nov. 13. The result was a more playable layout, especially…
North Carolina will have a new PGA Tour event beginning in 2026. The Biltmore Championship will be played Sept. 17-20 at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, near Asheville. Biltmore Estate and the Explore Asheville tourism non-profit will be co-title sponsors. Though Asheville has not played host to a major pro golf championship in more than…
Two high school teammates made strong showings at the last major Carolinas Golf Association junior event of the year. Andrew Jenkins, a freshman at Forsyth Country Day tied for fifth and junior Griffin Huckabee tied for 15th at the Jimmy Anderson Boys Invitational, Oct. 25-26, at Greenville Country Club. Jenkins finished with 2-under-par 208 for…
A Triad golfer was named to the American Junior Golf Association 2025 Rolex Junior All-America Second Team. Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain, who has committed to play at Tennessee for next fall, topped the AJGA list released Wednesday. Badgett made the first team in 2024, when he played a full junior schedule. Badgett, a senior…
On Netflix, Lake of the Ozarks became famous to the nation as the hideout for a drug money-laundering operation run by a financial advisor played by Jason Bateman. What the series didn’t show was that the central Missouri lake is also an affordable golf destination with quality courses and an assortment of lakeside accommodations and…
A few college women’s highlights as the fall season comes to a conclusion: Macie Burcham of Greensboro finished in a tie for eighth for East Carolina at 7-over-par 220 in a 77-player field at Edisto Island’s Plantation Course. The Pirates finished third as a team at the South Carolina event, behind winner College of Charleston…
Heavy rain, brisk winds and cold temperatures Tuesday either marred or wiped out the final rounds of the North Carolina high school girls’ state championships. The final round was canceled in four of the seven size classifications. Only Class 7A played a full second round, and conditions were abominable at Sapona Club, as shown by…
Ellie Acrey shot 5-over 76 Monday at Sapona to lead Reagan into the runner-up spot entering Tuesday’s final round of the N.C. 7A Girls’ Championship. The Raiders posted 42-over 255, 10 stroked behind Marvin Ridge and 11 better than D.H. Conley and Lake Norman, the teams tied for third. Acrey, a senior, stands third as…