Bishop McGuinness maintains perch atop 1-A ranks

        By STEVE HANF Bishop McGuinness’ players praised coach Pearse Mahon for his easygoing attitude. The jokes he cracks on the course and the Irish music he plays for the team keeps the mood light. The Villains may not have won another championship, however, without Mahon showing a stern side to his young players toward the…

Bryan Park’s Champions Course readies for bermudagrass

        By MICHAEL GRAFF And now, they’ll be side-by-side. For the past five years, golf course superintendents in the Triad have faced a difficult decision: Join the movement toward hot-weather bermudagrass greens or stick with the old-favorite, cold-weather bentgrass. Greensboro’s most well-known public golf facility will try both. On June 17, Bryan Park will close its…

Deercroft Golf Club on road to recovery

        By DAVID DROSCHAK Why would Ted Robinson leave a perfectly good job he held for 13 years at a private club in the Philadelphia suburbs? To pursue his dream, that’s why. Robinson, 50, had been looking at investing in a golf course over a five-year period when an ad for an ownership/lease option at Deercroft…

Uncovering Donald Ross

         By Brad King The year 1925 had barely dawned on the day a handful of Winston-Salem’s most prominent businessmen — names like Hanes, Reynolds and Gray — gathered at the downtown law office of Manly, Hendren & Womble. Led by Hugh Chatham, the group would finalize long-bandied plans to develop a private vacation community in…