Bill Haas cooled off after a hot start in Myrtle Beach, but fellow Wake Forest alumnus Cameron Young moved up on the leaderboard Saturday at the Truist Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club. Young shot 68 to pull into a 10-way tie for 16th that includes Hickory native J.T. Poston at 6-under-par 204, eight strokes behind…
Former Wake Forest star and 2011 FedExCup winner Bill Haas made his first PGA Tour cut of the year Friday at the Myrtle Beach Classic, a $-4 million event played opposite of the Truist Championship signature event. Haas posted even-par 71 in the second round for a 3-under 139 total, making the cut by a…
A former Wake Forest golfer with strong ties to the Triad got off to a great start Thursday at the Myrtle Beach Classic, the PGA Tour’s secondary event this weekend. Bill Haas, a former Wake star and the nephew of coach Jerry Haas, was 4-under-par through his first 10 holes in the first round at…
Virgina Tech, with two Triad golfers, finished ninth Wednesday in the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional. Morgan Ketchum of Winston-Salem shot 5-over-par 221 for the Arizona tournament to finish in a tie for 20th. Emily Mathews of Mebane posted 231. Virginia Tech missed qualifying for the NCAA Championship by 15 strokes.
Lincoln Newton shot 67 Tuesday to share medalist honors and Aidan Wilson shot 68 to lead Oak Grove to the Class 3A Midwest Regional team title at Monroe Country Club. Talan Harrison of Northwest Cabarras also shot 67. With a 293 total, the Grizzlies won by a whopping 24 strokes over Lake Norman Charter. Piedmont…
Pennson Badgett won medalist honors Tuesday, East Surry to a berth in the 2A state championship at Pilot Knob Park and Cameron Harvey of Northwest Guilford shared medalist at Stonebridge Golf Club in Monroe in the 4A Midwest Regional. Brandon Bowman led Mt. Airy to the 1A Midwest Regional title by winning medalist honors with…
Carolina Chacarra shot 7-under-par 209 to win medalist honors at the NCAA Regional in the Rawls Course at Texas Tech in Lubbock. With a 2-under team total, the Demon Deacons beat Texas by four shots. Chloe Kovelesky finished third for Wake at 2-under; Anne-Sterre Den Dunnen tied for eighth at 2-over; and Macy Pate tied…
Dustin Johnson received a special invitation to play in the PGA Championship next week at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, according to the field released Tuesday by the PGA of America. Johnson, a Columbia, South Carolina native, plays on the LIV Tour and does not meet any of the criteria for entry. Johnson’s five-year exemption for…
The courses at one of the Triad’s top public golf facilities will receive some changes this summer. Sand bunkers will be replaced with grass on a few holes at Bryan Park’s Champions and Players courses. Changes are already visible at No. 11 on the Champions course, where sand that had guarded the dogleg right on…
The Wake Forest women’s golf team is seeded No. 2 behind Texas in the May 5-7 NCAA Regional in Lubbock, Texas, in assignments announced by the NCAA. Julia McLaughlin of High Point University, the individual champion of the Big South Conference tournament, will play in Lubbock as an individual. The top five teams and the…