By Steve Hanf After winning the biggest prize of her junior career, Emily Hawkins celebrated the only way she knows how — competing in the next tournament, just a few days later. “It has just been a ton of fun, really. I’ve put in a ton of work, and to see that start to pay…
By David Droschak As part of a family that has played in some 2,000 professional tournaments, Bill Haas certainly knows his way around the golf course. His great uncle Bob Goalby won the 1968 Masters, his father Jay was a three-time Ryder Cup member and uncle Jerry coached Bill to All-American status at Wake Forest.…
By Robert Kimball You certainly don’t have to be a golf course architecture geek to understand. If you can’t tell the difference between a Redan hole and a Biarritz, that’s fine. However, if you are passionate about the game of golf – especially in the state of North Carolina – you have to know the…
Carolinas Womens Match Play Cecily Overbey, a rising N.C. State University junior from High Point, captured the 19th Carolinas Women’s Match Play Championship with a 5-and-3 victory over Maddisen Cox of Easley, S.C. Overbey rolled in a 60-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole at Bermuda Run’s West Course and followed up with another birdie…
Former University of North Carolina-Greensboro professor Dr. Nancy Vacc has made a planned gift in the amount of $725,000 to establish the Vacc Women’s Golf Scholarship Endowment for the women’s golf program at the Greensboro school. As the largest planned gift ever received by UNCG athletics, the Vacc Women’s Golf Endowment will provide a full…
By Steve Huffman Rowan County’s Nick Lyerly has won his share of tournaments, but his biggest victory to date came in mid-June when he captured the North Carolina Amateur. “My main goal was to put together four solid rounds of golf,” Lyerly said. “I just wanted to go out and play the best I was…
Former NW Guilford star captures N.C. Junior Championship By Steve Huffman Grant Powell got an early introduction to the game of golf. He was 1 when he started picking up clubs and swinging them as he toddled along. When Powell was just 7, he won the first-ever tournament he entered, shooting a 41 on nine…
By DAVID DROSCHAK As Primland Resort executives and golf architect Donald Steel settled on a piece of land for a new golf course on top of the mountain of the 12,000-acre property, there was what now seems like a silly concern. Especially since most golfers who have logged a round at the award-winning Highland Course…
By Robert Kimball It’s impossible to miss it. The statue out front of the Arnold Palmer Golf Facility at Wake Forest University captures the famous Demon Deacon in a full, powerful follow-through that is classic Arnie. But even The King has to share space with a legend. Wake Forest’s new Haddock House, which opened in…
By Steve Hanf In the business world, employers expect at least two weeks’ notice before letting someone walk away from their job. Tom Thorpe won’t have it so easy when the time comes to leave the Carolinas Golf Association. “I did tell him one time, ‘I’m gonna need a two-year notice from you before you…