The Duke University Golf Club has a different feel than most of today’s college golf courses. It’s traditional. If you didn’t know the university owned and managed it, you’d think you were at a private country club. The layout has a club-style refinement — no over-the-top landscaping or ornamentation, just neatly maintained tees, lush fairways…
Not many sites have been home to three golf course designs by the likes of George Cobb, Tom Fazio and Davis Love III. But that’s the history of the University of North Carolina’s Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill. Same property, same name, three different designs with different routing. The third version opened last fall…
Lexington Golf Club reopened on July 19 with new Champion Bermuda greens after a renovation project that lasted only seven weeks. The approximately $200,000 project also included the removal of hundreds of trees for maintenance and playability purposes. Golf pro Dylan Dawson said the greens, which had gotten 20% smaller over the past two decades…
N.C. State’s Lonnie Poole Golf Course may be the toughest place to get a tee time in the Raleigh area. And there are at least three major reasons why. First, there’s the layout, a signature product of the Arnold Palmer Design Co., which offers a broad-shouldered challenge, with pristine fairways winding over hills and through…
With the Olympics providing a week off for all but an elite segment of the PGA Tour, this week’s Wyndham Championship is shaping up to have its best list of names in years coming to Sedgefield Country Club. But there’s one name the Tour and Wyndham organizers don’t want to attend — Tropical Storm Debby.…
Mallory Fobes, who recently concluded her collegiate career at UNC Wilmington, won the CGA Women’s Match Play on Aug. 3 at Mill Creek Golf Club. Fobes beat Grace Holcomb of Wilmington 4 and 3 in the championship match. Fobes, who also won the tournament in 2021, won all six of her matches at Mill Creek.…
Thanks to the Olympics, the upcoming Wyndham Championship is shaping up to have the strongest field in several years. Several of the world’s best players, idle this week due to the limited-field Olympic competition in Paris, have committed to play at Sedgefield Country Club in the Aug. 8-11 Wyndham. According to tournament officials, the list…
Lincoln Newton claimed bragging rights over three family members and the rest of the field while winning the Triad Amateur on Sunday afternoon at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek Course. Newton, a rising junior at Oak Grove High who turned 17 this summer, shot 5-under-par 67 in the final round to post a 7-under-par…
Macy Pate (pictured) advanced to the quarterfinals of match play at the Women’s Western Amateur at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, with Thursday victories over Sydney Roberts of Chesnee, South Carolina, and Kaitlyn Schroeder of Jacksonville, Florida. Pate, who lives in Winston-Salem and plays for Wake Forest, beat Roberts, a Clemson golfer, 2 and…
Macy Pate (pictured) of Winston-Salem, a rising sophomore at Wake Forest, coasted into match play competition with a 1-over-par 73 Wednesday in the second round of stroke play at the Women’s Western Amateur at Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. Pate, who shot 68 Tuesday, tied for fifth as the top 32 players advanced to…