By STEVE WILLIAMS It was a record-breaking weekend at Forest Oaks Country Club when UNC Greensboro played host to the sixth annual UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate Oct. 23-24. North Carolina rolled to a seven-shot win in the 14-team event and shaved 10 strokes off the previous tournament record for the lowest 54-hole score, posting 833…
Colin McKenna, one of the key players in Northern Guilford High School’s march to the 3-A state championship last May, claimed his biggest individual win of the year in October when he captured the Precision Golf Junior Championship. Playing at Bryan Park’s Players Course, McKenna fired a 2-under-par 70 on Oct. 23 to open a…
PGA Professional Robert Linville, of Greensboro, NC, won the 2010 Bermuda Run CPGA Senior Open, held at Bermuda Run Country Club (East Course) in Advance, NC. Linville, Director of Instruction for Precision Golf School in Greensboro, NC, had two solid rounds of 74-72 for a total of 146 (+2). After Steve Forrest, PGA, of…
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By David Droschak Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway wouldn’t be complete without paying homage to one of the truly great public golf courses in the state of North Carolina. Mount Mitchell Golf Club in Yancey County is just a five-minute drive from the National Scenic Byway, sitting in a “valley” at…
By MICHAEL GRAFF In mid-September, still five weeks before hosting one of the premier college golf tournaments in the country, UNC Greensboro coach Terrance Stewart spent a Friday morning putting together gift packages for sponsors. It’s the little things that have made the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate such a big success. Scheduled for Oct. 23-24 at…
By STEVE WILLIAMS Greensboro College has begun the season at the top of the list and the Pride is having a blast in the middle of the national spotlight. A wire-to-wire victory in the Golfweek Division III Fall Invitational in Haines City, Fla., earned Greensboro quite a bit of notoriety. In Golfstat’s first national ranking…
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. • Sept. 4-6 – Stanhope Johnson of Greensboro fired rounds of 69, 70 and 73 and finished second in the American Junior Golf Association’s Woodward Video Junior at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. Johnson, a junior at Bishop McGuinness, held the lead after two rounds but was passed by Brendan…
With the days getting shorter and the golf season coming to a close, now is the perfect time to reflect on this year and plan for 2011. What worked well this year? What did not? And what is your game plan to work on your mental and emotional game during the offseason? Good golf shots…
Greensboro, NC. – August, 2010 – The Mike Goodes and Friends Charity Classic Pro Am is scheduled for Monday, September 27th. Building on the momentum of eight Champions Tour players joining the Charity Classic Pro Am this year, corporate sponsors have signed on to help the Triad Youth Golf Foundation. Premium event sponsors of…