As a name, The Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech pretty much says it all about the home course of the Hokies golf teams. The famous – or infamous — Pete Dye was the designer and the course is vintage Dye with a diversity of holes and greens complexes, including pot bunkers, that have…
There’s only one reason Old Town Club, home course of the Wake Forest University golf teams since the campus relocated to Winston-Salem almost seven decades ago, isn’t “officially” regarded as the nation’s top collegiate golf course. Though the club has several ties to the university, dating back to the ownership of the property, Old Town…
Kelvin Hernandez took medalist honors as UNC Greensboro won the Bryan National Collegiate tournament Tuesday at Bryan Park Champions course. Hernandez, a sophomore, shot rounds of 68, 69 and 71 to finish at 8-under-par 208. The Spartans, who also won the event last year, shot 10-under 854 to beat Delaware by two strokes. Boston College…
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…