Macy Pate beat Meja Ortengren 2-up in the final pairing Friday afternoon to give ninth-ranked Wake Forest a victory over Stanford, the nation’s No. 1 ranked team and a berth in the championship match of the ACC Women’s Championship Match Play at Sedgefield Country Club. Pate won the final two holes to break a tie…
Macy Pate and Carolina Lopez-Chacarra led the way as Wake Forest claimed a fourth-place finish Thursday in stroke play at the ACC Women’s Championship at Sedgefield Country Club. Chacarra shot a bogey-free, 4-under-par 68 and Pate fired 69 and second-round substitute Sarah Lydic, 3-under for 36 holes, shot 71 for the Demon Deacons, who shot…
Wes Bryan, one of the most popular players at the Wyndham Championship, may not be able to play in this summer’s event at Sedgefield Country Club. Bryan, a Columbia, South Carolina native, known best for his trick shots and YouTube presence, announced Wednesday night that he has been suspended from PGA Tour events because he…
Wake Forest’s Macy Pate and Virginia Tech’s Morgan Ketchum, former teammates at Reagan High, are tied for 13th entering the final round of the ACC Women’s Championship at Sedgefield Country Club. Pate shot 71 and 75 Wednesday while Ketchum shot 72 and 74 to join three other players at 2-over-par 146, 12 shots behind the…
Just imagine, a young Rory McIlroy winning the Atlantic Sun Conference championship and playing on North Carolina courses against the likes of Tar Heel teams from Belmont, Campbell and Gardner-Webb. Though rarely mentioned in the media, McIlroy did sign a letter of intent to play at East Tennessee State in Johnson City back in 2004.…
While Rory McIlroy was winning his first Masters title Sunday, the nation’s top-ranked college golfer, David May of North Carolina, won another tournament. May overcame an opening-round 72 to finish at 7-under-par 203 to win the Tar Heel Intercollegiate and lead the Tar Heels to a one-shot victory over Elon in the team competition at…
Rory McIlroy paid the price twice in Thursday’s opening round of the Masters. On Friday, former Wake Forest star Cameron Young did the same. You can’t let one mistake lead to another. With McIlroy, it was a chip into the pond at No. 15 that led to a double-bogey and a frustration that seemed to…
North Carolina resident Akshay Bhatia made only six pars Thursday in the first round of the Masters — about as many as an 18-handicapper might hope to make on the long Augusta National course and its treacherous greens. It wasn’t the standard recipe for pulling into contention for a Green Jacket. Unless, of course, he…
Sometime late Friday afternoon, one of the golf world’s legendary figures probably will finish his final round of competitive golf in the Masters. That’s when 67-year-old Bernhard Langer, accompanied by Wake Forest alum Will Zalatoris and 20-year-old amateur Noah Kent, will be greeted with a lengthy applause by the Masters faithful while walking up the…
The Wake Forest men’s team finished fifth in the nine-team Calusa Cup on Tuesday in Naples, Florida. Wake shot 16-over-par 880, 33 shots behind Florida, which edged Louisville by one stroke for the team victory. Marshall Meisel led Wake with 1-over 217 to tie for 14th place.