The much-anticipated completions of projects at a few high-profile Triangle golf facilities are on the horizon. The new No. 2 hole at N.C. State’s Lonnie Poole Golf Course and the new driving range and practice area at Raleigh Golf Association are almost ready for public play. “It is growing in now and our plan is…
Macy Pate of Winston-Salem shot 69 Sunday to climb to second place and help Wake Forest to finish second in the team standings at the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington. Pate, who birdied the final two holes at Landfall’s Dye Course, finished nine strokes behind runaway medalist Rianne Malixi, who led sixth-ranked Duke to the team…
Pennson Badgett (pictured) captured his first collegiate victory. Tanner Cadieux played a major role in helping his team win the team championship. Badgett, a Pilot Mountain native and freshman at Tennessee, shot 5-under-par 67 including a birdie on the 18th hole Wednesday, to win medalist honors at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at Blackthorn Club…
High Point University sophomore Makayla Grubb (pictured) earned medalist honors for the third time this fall. Grubb, a Stafford, Virginia, native, shot 2-under-par 69 Tuesday to win medalist honors and lead High Point University to a share of the team championship at the Edisto Island Invitational. The Wildcats were awarded the winners’ trophy based on…
Valentine Delon of Virginia Tech shot 5-under-par 66 Sunday to win the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitation at Finley Golf Club with a 10-under 203 total. Duke won the team title at 11-under, beating second-place Virginia Tech by 13 strokes. N.C. State was third at 6-over and top-ranked Wake Forest was fourth with 9-over. Host…
Ellie Hildreth shot 5-under-par 66 Friday to lead the N.C. State women into first place after the first round of the 54-hole Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational at UNC’s Finley Golf Club. With Hildreth taking the medalist lead, the Wolfpack shot 6-under 278 to lead Boston College and Virginia Tech by one stroke. Benedicte Brent-Peterson…
Wake Forest’s Tom Haberer held on to win the Elon Phoenix Invitational on Tuesday at Alamance Country Club. Haberer, 13-under through his final 27 holes Monday, was 4-under through his first 14 holes Tuesday and cruising to an apparent victory before a late challenge by Campbell’s Benjamin Killingstad, who birdied Nos. 15 and 17 to…
A player without a team is leading the Elon Invitational entering Tuesday’s final round at Alamance Country Club. Tom Haberer of Wake Forest, competing as an individual, shot 13 under par over his final 27 holes, while shooting 66 and 62 Monday for a 14-under 128 total and a three-shot lead over Benjamin Killingstad of…
Banzai! The latest Wake Forest University standout on the PGA Tour won his second tournament of the year Sunday at the Baycurrent Classic in Japan. Michael Brennan, who won the Wyndham Championship in August, birdied Nos. 11 and 12 and followed with six consecutive pars to hang on for a one-shot victory over Jacob Bridgeman…
Austin Hitt had to win Sunday. There was no other way he could be assured of earning a promotion to the PGA Tour. And with his Tar Heels pride showing for all to see on his shot book as well as his mother’s rain attire, Hill went out and did it. The 28-year-old UNC alum…