The dramatic ascents and cascades from tee to green combined with the spectacular vistas of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains from the Olde Beau Golf Club consistently leave visitors in awe with one overriding question. Check that. Two overriding questions. How did Billy Satterfield manage to craft such an outstanding – and playable — golf…
Wake Forest won the Bryan National Collegiate Sunday by 25 strokes at Bryan Park Champions Course. Wake’s Nicholas Prieto, who transferred this summer from Arizona State, won the event by two strokes with 13-under-par 203. The Demon Deacons shot 24-under 840 for 54 holes. Wofford finished second in the 14-team tournament. UNC Greensboro placed fifth…
The Triad has a handful of players on Division I men’s teams this fall as the season kicks off locally at Bryan Park with the Bryan National Collegiate, hosted by UNC Greensboro on Saturday and Sunday. Kyle Haas, a junior who played at Forsyth Day, was a regular in the Wake lineup last season. The…
Several Triad women fill the rosters on NCAA Division I teams entering the fall season. Macy Pate will start her junior year as the top returner at Wake Forest. She’ll be joined by former Reagan High teammate Morgan Ketchum, a three-year standout at Virginia Tech who will finish her career as a graduate student. Pate…
Kris Spence’s work at Starmount Forest Country Club is nearing completion, and the Greensboro-based architect is gearing up on a few new in-state projects. Though heavy summer rain – 15 inches in July – caused delays, Spence now expects the Greensboro course to be ready to open by sometime in October. Rain, including several “pop-up”…
When he arrived at Hound Ears Club only a few days after Hurricane Helene flooding wreaked havoc on the High Country, Kris Spence was astonished at what he saw. Just getting to the club was difficult. Roads and bridges were demolished. Trees and homes were leveled. Power lines were down. Debris was everywhere. Many residents…
We now know whether Cameron Young will be on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. The former Wake Forest standout was selected as a captain’s pick. Captain Keegan Bradley, who made the announcement Wednesday morning, will not play. Bradley chose Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Ben Griffin, Patrick Cantlay, Sam Burns and Cameron Young with his six…
After nine holes in Sunday’s final round of the Tour Championship, Keegan Bradley seemed to have a needed scenario for picking himself to play in the Ryder Cup with little or no controversy. That would have decreased the odds for former Wake Forest star Cameron Young, who was not only outside the top 6 for…
A popular High Country public golf course has 13 holes open with four more expected to open soon. Work continues on restoration — and improvements — at Sugar Mountain Golf Course, hit hard with flooding by Hurricane Helene last September. Widely considered one of the nation’s top “executive” courses, the par-64 Sugar Mountain layout is…
Wake Forest coach Jerry Haas showed he can still play a little bit Tuesday in the final round of the Carolinas PGA Senior Professional Championship at Catawba Country Club in Newton. Haas shot 5-under-par 67 to finish the 36-hole tournament at 5-under 139 in second place behind Gus Ulrich of Pinewild Country Club in Pinehurst,…