Welcome to “What’s New in Triad Golf?”, a new feature to run every Monday for subscribers to the coming soon TriadGolf.com newsletter. Let’s start with the good news: A lighted six-hole, par-3 course is under construction at Colin Creek in Mocksville. Crews were visible and light stands are up on open land on the east…
A prominent Pinehurst-area golf ownership group has more than doubled its portfolio. A corporation controlled by the Miller and McGowan families, including daughters of the late Warren and Peggy Kirk Bell, and partner Haresh Tharani, bought golf courses at Country Club of Whispering Pines and Foxfire Resort. The properties each have 36 holes. Whispering Pines’…
Greensboro players at different stages in their junior careers are among the 156 players entering Monday’s first-round of stroke play at the U.S. Girls’ Junior at Atlanta Athletic Club. Leah Edwards, a two-time Class 4A state individual champion at Western Guilford High, will attempt to finish her junior career on a high note before heading…
With only three weeks left before the Wyndham Championship, let’s look at which PGA Tour starts are most likely to come to Sedgefield Country Club. How about U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, who won a few weeks ago in Connecticut and ranks No. 8 on the PGA Tour money list and No. 9 in…
The Dugan Aycock Davidson County Amateur is accepting registrations for the July 26-27 tournament at Lexington Golf Club. The 36-hole stroke-play tournament is open to all amateurs 16 and over. The field will be flighted after the first round. Tee times begin at 7:30 a.m. each day off the first tee. Players do not have…
The newest addition to the Wake Forest women’s golf team showed good form this week. Winston-Salem native Morgan Ketchum, who transferred to Wake Forest this summer after three seasons at Virginia Tech, finished third in the Carolinas Women’s Amateur Championship at The Cliffs at Keowee Falls in Salem, South Carolina. Ketchum shot 71 with two…
If you want to play the best public golf courses in North Carolina, Golfweek would advise you to go to Pinehurst. The top eight public courses in the state are in the Pinehurst area, according to a Golfweek list released Friday. The top 10, in order: Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst No. 10, Pinehurst No. 4,…
Southern Methodist golfer Mackenzie Lee of North Little Rock, Arkansas, won the North & South Women’s Amateur on Saturday at Pinehurst No. 2. Lee beat Australian Jazy Roberts 2-up in the championship match. Winston-Salem golfer Macy Pate, a rising junior at Wake Forest, claimed a share of medalist honors for the second straight year. Pate…
Neither an iron to the head in the conference tournament nor a “monsoon” in the state tournament could prevent senior Brandon Bowman from leading Mt. Airy High to the Class 1A boys’ state championship. Bowman’s final postseason adventures began at Roaring Gap Club with the Northwest 1A Conference tourney. Standing in high grass “15 yards”…
North Carolina A&T announced on Tuesday that it had hired Mesha Levister as its new director of golf over the school’s men’s and women’s golf programs. Levister, a standout player at North Carolina Central, won the 2004 Virginia Women’s Amateur and played on the Epson Tour. She was the women’s coach at Prairie View (Texas)…