By KURT DUSTERBERG Mary-Frances Hall has a golf game that is college ready. The 18-year-old freshman shot 74-75-149 to take individual medalist honors in a 10-team tournament in early March, winning the event by three strokes. But her growing career won’t make much noise in collegiate golf circles. That’s because she plays an outsize game…
William Register began his freshman season at North Carolina in solid fashion, notching a tie for 18th at the Carpet Capital Collegiate followed by a sixth-place finish in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate. But the former Burlington Williams High School star took it to another level at the Primland Collegiate Invitational when the Tar Heels closed…
By BRAD KING Well known in the Triad during her college career by her maiden name, Laura Philo, the Wake Forest hall-of-famer was a two-time first team All-American and the 1996-97 Marge Crisp Award winner as the school’s top female athlete. Laura Diaz has gone on to become the most successful Demon Deacon in LPGA…
By STEVE HANF Lecture halls and a pair of exams awaited Payne McLeod on the UNC Wilmington campus. On this late-September school day, though, McLeod soaked up the scenery from the ferry deck. The Hilton Head lighthouse looming over Harbour Town Golf Links. Dolphins frolicking in the distance. A golf course teeming with some of…
BY JOHN DELL Coach Terrance Stewart of UNC Greensboro finds it hard to believe that the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate at Grandover Resort is in its ninth year. “Has it been that many?” he said. “Well, it’s a good that it’s lasted this long, and we feel like we have a good, competitive tournament each year.”…
By MICHAEL GRAFF He just drove the van. In 41 years as Elon’s golf coach, Bill Morningstar never pretended to do anything more. He recruited the best players he could, put them in a van, and drove them around. He drove it right through Elon’s moves from NAIA to Division II, and from Division II…
Girls Sarah Bae, Raleigh, NC High Point Sarah Bertram, Concord, NC Gardner-Webb Hannah Craver, Winston-Salem, NC Appalachian State Evelyn Dole, Raleigh, NC Virginia Marley Felthousen, Powell’s Point, NC Converse Bethany Galloway, Charlotte, NC Western Carolina Allea Hawkins, Hendersonville, NC USC-Upstate Katherine Lail, Taylorsville, NC Mars Hill Allyson Markiewicz, Charlotte, NC Wofford Lucia Polo, Greensboro,…
By STEVE HANF Terrance Stewart had no trouble attaching a grade to the performance of Grandover Resort & Conference Center in its first year playing host to the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate. “Absolute A-plus,” Stewart raved. As for the performance of his UNC Greensboro Spartans, perhaps a grade of “incomplete” remains in order. The host team…
By STEVE HANF The Bridgestone Golf Collegiate has grown into one of the top tournaments in the region over the past seven years. UNC Greensboro’s marquee event should gain even greater stature this fall when the tournament brings back plenty of top talent to a new location: Grandover Resort & Conference Center’s East Course. “Forest…
By STEVE WILLIAMS Ben Pinkleton had hopes of playing collegiate golf after finishing high school at Northeast Guilford. Seven years later, he’s getting that chance. Pinkleton is a 25-year-old freshman at Guilford College, filled with enthusiasm and confidence in his improving game. He posted some of the Quakers’ best scores in qualifying but narrowly missed…