By Jay Allred Most golfers walk into a golf shop, pick up a putter and start trying to see if they can make a few putts from 10 feet to decide if the flat stick fits their game. In a few months they are in search of another putter, but Edel Golf is trying to…
By SEVE HANF Bill Harvey spent a lifetime playing golf in some of the nation’s biggest tournaments. Harvey also spent a lifetime sharing his love of the game with countless others. The last tournament in which Harvey played – in fact, the last time he played golf at all – was in 2006 at a…
By MARC PRUITT Ryan Sullivan has one less thing to worry about. Between booking flights and making hotel arrangements in foreign countries for upcoming tournaments and figuring out where he left his passport from his last trip, Sullivan’s whirlwind season of success that began when he played in the U.S Open at Merion in June…
By STEVE HANF Golf changed Lori Beth Adams’ life. She was 7 years old when her dad, Steve, took her to Indian Valley Golf Course in Burlington to hit some shots for the first time. “After I hit that first ball, I said, ‘This is what I want to do,’ ” Adams recalled. “It was…
By STEVE HANF Lecture halls and a pair of exams awaited Payne McLeod on the UNC Wilmington campus. On this late-September school day, though, McLeod soaked up the scenery from the ferry deck. The Hilton Head lighthouse looming over Harbour Town Golf Links. Dolphins frolicking in the distance. A golf course teeming with some of…
By MARC PRUITT To listen to Bermuda Run’s Zach Brown tell you how he recently won “just another tournament,” you can hear the humility that one of his coaches, John Buczek, boasts about. When you’ve won 80 or so tournaments during your career, maybe it was “just another tournament.” But it wasn’t. Brown won the…
By STEVE WILLIAMS There was no surprise last year when Ledford and Salisbury won their second consecutive state championships. And no one will be surprised if those two schools make it three in a row this fall. Ledford, competing in the 3-A class, lost one of its fantastic foursome to graduation but the beat has…
BY JOHN DELL Coach Terrance Stewart of UNC Greensboro finds it hard to believe that the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate at Grandover Resort is in its ninth year. “Has it been that many?” he said. “Well, it’s a good that it’s lasted this long, and we feel like we have a good, competitive tournament each year.”…
Former caddy for Payne Stewart shifting golf careers By DAVID DROSCHAK Mike Hicks has read thousands of left-to-right putts on the PGA Tour during his 33 years as a caddy, toted the bag for major champions Payne Stewart and Justin Leonard, traveled the globe, and witnessed professional golf’s psychological pressures up close and personal. A…
By BOB SUTTON Three courses in the region could re-open to full capacity within a matter of weeks of each other as greens projects take shape. Country Hills Golf Course set an Aug. 28 date for new greens to be used. Course manager Melody Bryant said the 18-hole facility in Gibsonville avoided closing during the…