By BOB SUTTON A new practice facility at Stoney Creek Golf Club should assist in providing year-round instruction opportunities on the site. “It will certainly help us when it’s 40, 45 degrees and golfers can work on their games,” says Jimmy Dunn, director of golf at the club. And at other extremes, the practice area…
By STEVE HANF The new grass is in, and so are the reviews. From the regulars to the visiting course managers and superintendents, they all love the new Diamond Zoysiagrass greens at Pilot Knob Park. “We’ve had a lot of play come through from outside the area, a lot of people wanting to see them,”…
By MICHAEL GRAFF Just before 7 a.m. on a Monday at Winding Creek Golf Course in Thomasville, regular Joe Connell wanders up to the clubhouse with his clubs, $12 for the senior privilege membership 18-hole fee, and a bag full of tomatoes. The tomatoes, ripe from the garden, are for Dave Costello, who works the…
By KEITH JARRETT The options for fun and entertainment at Rumbling Bald Resort on Lake Lure stretch as far and wide as the blue waters which surround this golf and vacation destination. Start with 36 holes: the Apple Valley and Bald Mountain championship courses that offer two distinctly different layouts but similar feels for challenge,…
By STEVE HANF One year removed from a wet, blazing summer, Pilot Knob Park is blazing a trail that other golf courses in North Carolina could be following in the not-so-distant future. In April, the course located about 20 minutes northwest of Winston-Salem and less than an hour from most other spots in the Triad,…
By JAY ALLRED For close to a century, High Hampton Inn & Country Club, surrounded by the eternal beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Cashiers, has been hosting generation-after-generation of golfers and vacationers who return to rejuvenate their souls and reconnect amidst the 1,400-acre playground. This rustic resort is, arguably, one of America’s top…
By David Droschak The work is complete …. Now the reviews start. In what some have described as a bold move after two successful U.S. Opens and a unique USGA double-header on the horizon in 2014, Pinehurst Resort is ready to unveil the throwback design of its classic No. 2 course to the golfing public.…
By STEVE HANF More than one person questioned Alex Johnston’s sanity when he interviewed for a job at Salem Glen Golf & Country Club. Sure, the facility still boasted the only Nicklaus-designed golf course in the area. There was, however, that little matter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which Salem Glen remained under when Johnston…
By DAVID DROSCHAK It has been 13 years since the passing of real estate mogul Joseph Koury, but Mo Milani can rattle off stories about the early development of Grandover Resort on demand, offering vivid details of long walks the two shared, covering every piece of dirt, every plan, and every idea for the…
By BOB SUTTON The golf part of Forest Oaks Country Club always has been one of the foundations associated with the facility in southeast Guilford County. Its rich history was solidified as a PGA Tour stop for more than three decades. But Geoff Dail, who’s general manager at Forest Oaks, said it has so…