A die-hard University of North Carolina sports fan since she was a young girl, Kayla Smith always dreamed of competing in sports for the Tar Heels, maybe in soccer or basketball. When she decided to concentrate on golf at Williams High School in Burlington, Smith was told her game wasn’t good enough to play at…
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…
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…
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…
Macy Pate’s dominance at the Women’s North and South Amateur came to a quick halt in Saturday afternoon’s championship match at Pinehurst No. 2. The Winston-Salem resident and Wake Forest standout, who claimed medalist honors in stroke play and followed with four straight match play victories lost 4 and 3 to Catie Craig, a Georgia…
Macy Pate continued her march through the North and South Amateur Championship bracket with two hard-fought victories at Pinehurst No. 2, earning her a berth in Saturday morning’s semifinals. The Winston-Salem resident and rising sophomore at Wake Forest took the lead with a par on the 17th hole and made another par at 18 to…
Kelvin Hernandez thrived as an outsider in his first season at UNC Greensboro. The freshman from Puerto Rico (pictured at the NCAA Championship in Carlsbad, California) came to Greensboro as not only the Spartans’ only player from outside of the state, but also as the team’s only player from outside North Carolina. At the conclusion…
Nick Mathews is healthy, and so his golf game. The Mebane native (pictured above playing in the NCAA regional at Finley Golf Course) concluded an outstanding year at N.C. State by finishing in a tie for 15th at the NCAA Championship at La Costa North in Carlsbad, California. Coming back from a slump of more…