By David Droschak We all need a little bit of a push every now and then, but when that extra nudge comes via a professional golfer it can be a game changer. That’s the case with Carrie Catherine Ganim, known affectionately to her family and friends as C.C. Ganim was the co-captain of the Greensboro…
N.C. A&T bringing MEAC Championship to Bryan Park By STEVE WILLIAMS In its next to last year in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, North Carolina A&T will serve as host to the league golf championships. The Aggies, in only their fourth year of fielding a golf program, will entertain their conference foes at Bryan Park’s Champions…
By Brad King Robert Linville knows the highs and lows of competitive golf better than most. An All-American golfer at Guilford College, where he won All-Carolinas Conference recognition four times and All-NAIA District 26 honors three times, Linville moved to Florida following graduation with his sights on the PGA Tour. Battling on the mini-tours weekly,…
How crazy is this? The Wake Forest men’s and women’s golf teams each won their first tournament of the fall season, with the No. 5 players claiming team medalist honors. That certainly bodes well for the depth of each squad heading into the 2020 spring season. On the men’s side, four of Wake Forest’s golfers…
By David Droschak As a first-team All-American golfer at the University of North Carolina in the early 1990s and more recently head women’s golf coach at Virginia for more than a decade, Kim Lewellen knows a thing or two about ACC rivalries. Lewellen is also accomplished at building winning collegiate programs, something she did…
By Brad King Jennifer Kupcho arrived in Winston-Salem four years ago a shy, introverted Wake Forest freshman far from her hometown of Denver, Colo. She departs in a few weeks with her name etched in women’s golf history. The world’s No. 1 amateur and the reigning NCAA champion, Kupcho carved out her place on golf’s…
By David Droschak Wake Forest came into this year’s ACC men’s golf championship ranked third in the country and on a roll. However, the Demon Deacons left Old North State Club without any hardware yet again. After winning five of six tournaments dating to last fall, the Demon Deacons shot a 2-over first round and…
By STEVE WILLIAMS There are 72 teams heading to the NCAA women’s golf regionals May 6-8 and 10 of them are from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Top-ranked Duke along with ACC champ and third-ranked Wake Forest are among the NCAA favorites. They’ll be joined by eight of the other 12 conference members that field women’s…
By Kurt Dusterberg Emilia Migliaccio is riding a charter bus with her Wake Forest teammates, heading to Charlotte Douglas International Airport. While the rest of the team relaxes ahead of a flight to the Dominican Republic for a tournament, she is chatting away on her cell phone. “At least the bus is kind of loud,”…
By Steve Huffman Kim Lewellen had a tough time deciding to leave the University of Virginia, where she was the women’s golf coach to accept the same job at Wake Forest. Ultimately, she said, the fact that she’d be replacing Dianne Dailey, who recently retired after 30 years at Wake Forest, factored greatly into her…