Ben Jordan of Greensboro and Brandon Einstein of Clemmons shot 4-under-par 68 Tuesday, two strokes behind the leaders in the first round of the 102nd Carolinas Open at The Cliffs at Mountain Park in Marietta, South Carolina. Jordan, who recently finished his collegiate career at Wofford College, was coming off a course-record 63 in the…
After dumping two shots in Governors Club’s centerpiece lake and making an “8” on the par-3 ninth hole, then tacking on a double-bogey “7” later in Thursday’s third round, B.J. Boyce’s chances to win the 112th Carolinas Amateur seemed to have gone down the drink. Instead, the UNC Greensboro golfer from Spring Lake responded with…
A Greensboro golfer holds a share of the lead entering Friday’s final round of the 112th Carolinas Amateur at Governors Club in Chapel Hill. Tanner Cadieux of Greensboro shot 72 Thursday to join Aston Lee of Charlotte at 10-under-par 206 through three rounds on the 7,062-yard course. James Rico of Cary, who won the Carolina…
Another of the Triangle’s top public golf courses is planning a major renovation. Duke Golf Club is in the planning stages of a “renovation/redesign,” Duke general manager Ed Ibarguen confirmed to TriangleGolf.com and TriadGolf.com. Ibarguen said the club was not yet ready to talk specifics on th The par-72 course plays to 7,154 yards from…
Mary Miller of Savannah, Georgia, won the North and South Women’s Amateur in 19 holes Saturday at Pinehurst No. 2. Miller, who plays at Ole Miss, defeated Emilia Doran in the final. The 2022 North and South champion as Emilia Migliaccio, then a standout at Wake Forest, the 27-year-old Doran now works as an on-course…
Keaton Vo won four straight matches by one hole at the North and South Amateur. But it takes five victories to win the championship. And Vo lost the fifth to Joshua Bai — by one hole. Bai, a University of Florida golfer from New Zealand, rallied from a three-hole deficit Saturday afternoon on the back…
Morgan Ketchum of Winston-Salem shot 7-under-par 63 Tuesday at Old Town Club to win medalist honors as well as a spot in the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Ketchum, a recent Wake Forest graduate, made eight birdies and one bogey on a 6,182-yard layout that serves as Wake’s home course. Former teammate Sarah Lydic shot 69 to…
Tyler Watts of Huntsville, Alabama, shot 65 Saturday to win the 72-hole Northeast Amateur by five strokes at Wannsmoisett Country Club in Rumford, Rhode Island. Watts, a rising freshman at Tennessee, finished with 16-under-par 260. Carson Bertagnole, a rising UNC sophomore from Pinehurst who shot 61 to take the first-round lead, shot 66 to finish…
A North Carolina player shot 61 Wednesday to grab the first-round lead at the Northeast Amateur, one of seven tournaments in the Elite Amateur Golf Series. Carson Bertagnole of Pinehurst, a rising sophomore at the University of North Carolina, made nine birdies and one bogey in his round on the par-69 Wannamoisett County Club course…
Anna Howerton of Winston-Salem finished second Thursday in the Carolinas Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship at Statesville Country Club. Howerton, who plays for High Point University, shot rounds of 74, 69 and 70 to finish 3-under-par 213, three strokes behind winner Jenna Kim of Raleigh. Kim earned an exemption into the U.S. Women’s Amateur at…