The golf cart accident that killed John Elway’s agent Jeff Sperbeck over the weekend was a tragic fluke. But it should serve as a reminder that golf carts can be dangerous if driver and passenger are not careful. As someone who spent eight hours in an emergency room with a broken nose and ripped rotator…
Wake Forest, Elon, North Carolina, N.C. State, Duke and UNC Charlotte each received bids Wednesdayto the NCAA Men’s Regionals. The six regionals will be held May 12-14 with the top five teams and top individuals advancing to the NCAA Championship. Wake, the seventh-ranked team in its regional led by LSU, and UNC Greensboro’s Colin Dutton,…
The course commonly regarded as the second-best layout at Pinehurst Resort will close for the summer. Pinehurst announced Tuesday that the resort’s No. 4 course, reopened in 2018 after a redesign by Gil Hanse, will close beginning May 19 for greens restoration. The expected reopening date is Aug. 7. The resort said No. 4’s Ultradwarf…
Registration is open for the 2025 Triad Amateur Golf Classic. High Point Country Club golf pro Jim Brotherton announced that the annual tournament will be played July 26 and 27 at HPCC’s Willow Creek Course. The tournament is open to a maximum of 96 amateurs ages 16 and older. Players will compete in Open and…
Virginia rallied down the stretch to beat North Carolina 3-2 Monday afternoon to win the ACC Match Play Championship at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Virginia’s Bryan Lee rallied from a two-hole deficit to win four of the last five holes and beat Maxwell Ford in the deciding match. David Ford…
Mebane native Nick Mathews, a senior at N.C. State, finished fifth in the ACC Stroke Play Championship over the weekend at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mathews shot rounds of 70, 68 and 72 for 6-under-par 210, three shots behind medalist Jacob Modleski of Notre Dame. Marshall Meisel of Wake Forest…
Colin Dutton on UNC Greensboro was the medalist Tuesday at the Southern Conference Championship at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia, earning an automatic bid into the NCAA Regionals. Dutton, who grew up in the Pinehurst area and transferred to UNCG after three seasons at Wingate University, shot 69, 66 and 71 for a 10-under-par 206…
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw will design Pinehurst No. 11 adjacent to the No. 10 course, Pinehurst Resort announced in a Monday release. Construction is scheduled to begin later this year with opening expected in 2027. The course will sit on a 900-acre site along N.C. 5, about 10 minutes south of Pinehurst’s first five…
UNC Greensboro took the lead Sunday after the first round of the 54-hole Southern Conference men’s tournament at The Oconee Course in Greensboro, Georgia. Jake Lewis shot 4-under-par 68, two shots off the lead, for the Spartans, whose five players each shot 70 or better. Colin Dutton shot 69 and Kelvin Hernandez, Jack Marcotte and…
Macy Pate beat Sophia Fullbrook 4 and 3, but it wasn’t enough for Wake Forest, which lost to Florida State 3-2 Saturday in the championship round of the ACC Championship match play competition. Pate, a standout at Reagan High, shot 30 on the front nine at Sedgefield Country Club, closing out Fullbrook with a 3-foot…