By MARC PRUITT A little bit of luck while playing golf can often make or break a round. The same can be said for golf course managers and owners – especially when it involves potentially shutting down your operation. That was the case recently for Luke Lambeth, the general manager of Pleasant Ridge Golf Course…
By STEVE WILLIAMS In long-drive competition, they round off the blasts to the closest yard. Who needs the inches when the balls are rolling out to well in excess of 400 yards? But in the Re/Max World Long Drive Championship on a windy night in Las Vegas in early November, officials had to get out…
Bassett Country Club, closed since Sept. 30, reopened with a new name on Nov. 15. Heritage Golf Club is the new name for the course which has been part of the Martinsville/Bassett community since 1926. Mike Cochran, a native of Martinsville and a fixture at the nine-hole course as superintendent and head professional since 2005,…
By STEVE HANF Scott Harvey is just about ready to put his clubs in the closet for a month and take a much-needed break from golf. He’ll have plenty of memories to tide him over during his break – and plenty to look forward to when it ends – thanks to last month’s victory in…
By STEVE HANF Twenty-five years later, Robert Linville’s Precision Golf School continues celebrating one success story after another, from golfers at the highest level to the rawest of newcomers. Linville continues working with Mike Goodes, who has earned more than $4 million since qualifying for the Champions Tour in 2007. Linville earned high praise from…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Tom Pashley has seemingly done it all at Pinehurst, from cooking omelets to raking bunkers to working the overnight shift as part of the audit team during his stint in the mid 1990s as part of the resort’s first-ever Manager in Development Program. So, even though some of the names have changed…
By BOB SUTTON The transformation of the newly named The Club at Stoney Creek has come in various phases, but there’s no question the ultimate goal appears within reach to those overseeing the changes. The 18-hole facility is trending toward becoming private, with the accelerator pushed on that objective. “There has been a lot going…
By MARC PRUITT Missing a cut and being severely jet-lagged never felt so good for Matthew Guo and Mark Johnston. Guo, a rising sophomore at West Forsyth in Clemmons, and Johnston, a rising senior for the Titans, both played in the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach September 22-27 as representatives of the…
William Register began his freshman season at North Carolina in solid fashion, notching a tie for 18th at the Carpet Capital Collegiate followed by a sixth-place finish in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate. But the former Burlington Williams High School star took it to another level at the Primland Collegiate Invitational when the Tar Heels closed…
There seems to be no letup for the girls golf teams at Ledford and Salisbury. Both schools will be trying to make it four straight state championships this month despite suffering key graduation losses from the three-peat teams of 2013. Two of Ledford’s big three from last year’s 3A championship are now playing college golf,…