Macy Pate and Morgan Ketchum won matches for Wake Forest, which beat Mississippi State 3.5-1.5 in Monday’s final round of matches at the Derby Match Play at Old Barnwell Golf Club in Aiken, South Carolina. Pate beat Avery Weed, the nation’s top-ranked player after the fall season, 3 and 1. Pate won her final match…
Cameron Young claimed the biggest victory of his career Sunday at the Players Championship. The 28-year-old Wake Forest graduate shot 4-under-par 68, including a winning birdie on the iconic 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass to beat Matt Fitzpatrick by one stroke. Young finished at 13-under 275. Young, whose victory last August at the Wyndham Championship…
Macy Pate tied for ninth in a power-packed field at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate Wednesday at Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island. The Wake Forest golfer and Winston-Salem resident, shot steady rounds of 72, 72 and 70 to finish at 1-over 214, eight shots behind medalist Farah O’Keefe of team champion Texas. The Longhorns…
With nine holes closed for the last four months, one of the top public courses in the Triangle is expected to have all 18 holes open in the next few weeks. Sources familiar with UNC Finley Golf Club have told Triangle.com and Triad Golf Magazine that Finley staffers “hope” the entire Finley course will be…
Anna Howerton led the way Tuesday for High Point University, which beat N.C. State by six shots to win the 15-team women’s Daniel Island Invitational at Daniel Island Club’s Ralston Creek course. Howerton, a Winston-Salem native, shot 6-under-par 210 for 54 holes to finish one stroke behind medalist Marie Madsen of N.C. State. Eva Lye…
UNC Greensboro finished third Tuesday in a tournament it hosted at Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico. Stetson won the tournament at 15-under-par 849 followed by Southern Mississippi at 857. UNCG shot 860 led by Kelvin Hernandez in seventh place at 2-under 214. Elon finished fourth in the 15-team tournament.
A Triad standout who won medalist honors earlier this month in her first tournament of the spring season, continued her strong play as her team stayed unbeaten in the spring season. On February 3, Emily Mathews of Mebane, playing for Virginia Tech, won the Advance Golf Partners Collegiate at Hammock Creek Country Club in Palm…
Host UNC Greensboro will face a six-stroke deficit entering Tuesday’s final round of the Dorado Beach Invitational in Puerto Rico. Stetson holds the lead at 7-under-par 569 after 36 holes. Southern Mississippi is four shots behind. At 1-under 575, UNCG is two shots ahead of Elon in the 15-team field. Jake Lewis of UNCG is…
UNC Greensboro’s BJ Boyce shot 3-under-par 69 Sunday to take the individual lead in the first round of the Dorado Beach Collegiate, hosted by UNCG in Puerto Rico. Elon, which shot 1-under 287, took a one-stroke lead over UNCG in the 15-team, 54-hole tournament. Jack Wieler and Drew Yeagley shot 70 for Elon. Stetson and…
The women’s teams at Wake Forest and High Point had a good week. The Demon Deacons finished fourth Wednesday in a loaded field at the 54-hole Moon Golf Invitational at Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Florida. Auburn beat Wake by 15 shots with Texas A&M second and Mississippi State third. Winston-Salem’s Macy Pate and Anne-Sterre…