Of the 45 courses Golf Digest panelists rank as the best in North Carolina, six are located in the Triad. Old Town Club was ranked No. 3 with Sedgefield Country Club at No. 26, Old North State Club at No. 32, Tot Hill Farm at No. 33, The Cardinal by Pete Dye at No. 40…
The Triad’s most-heralded course is also one of the best in the country, according to the latest Golf Digest rankings released this month. Old Town Club in Winston-Salem was No. 39 in the rankings by Golf Digest panelists, moving up from No. 54 two years. The original Perry Maxwell design, has grown in stature and…
The courses at one of the Triad’s top public golf facilities will receive some changes this summer. Sand bunkers will be replaced with grass on a few holes at Bryan Park’s Champions and Players courses. Changes are already visible at No. 11 on the Champions course, where sand that had guarded the dogleg right on…
Kris Spence is staying busy. The Greensboro-based golf architect has several projects in the works, including extensive work at Starmount Forest Country Club. He’s also helping repair flood damage at Hound Ears in Boone. Other project sites in the pipeline include Raleigh Golf Association and Pine Valley Country Club in Wilmington. Listen to Spence describe…
Visiting golfers won’t be playing Myrtle Beach’s municipal course this summer. As Myrtle Beach’s On The Green Magazine reports, Whispering Pines, the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base course, will close May 23 to regrass greens, fairways and tees. The course is expected to reopen Sept. 1 (OK, summer officially lasts another three weeks, but…
We’re closing in on the typical start of the mountain golf season. But with the horrible damage wreaked by Hurricane Helene last fall, which High Country courses will be ready to open? How will they be different from past years? Will the others reopen, or are they gone for good? There is good news and…
An acclaimed Triad-based course architect had one of his projects highlighted this week by Forbes. Earlier this week, Forbes.com posted a feature about Greensboro’s Kris Spence and his renovations at Dunedin Golf Club. Spence recently completed a renovation of Dunedin, an original Donald Ross design on the Gulf Coast, just north of St. Petersburg. Forbes…
A small city at one edge of the Triad has a new golf professional at one club and one on the way at another. Veteran Triad golf professional Andy Cardwell is the new pro at Mt. Airy County Club. Cardwell told Triad Golf Magazine that he would take over his new duties on March 24.…
The owner of three prestigious Triad golf clubs has added a South Carolina course to its holdings. McConnell Golf, owner of Sedgefield Country Club, The Cardinal by Pete Dye and Old North State Club in the Triad, has purchased the 27-hole Cobblestone Park Golf Club near Columbia, sources with McConnell confirmed Friday to Triad Golf…
I enjoy playing Gillespie Golf Course. I really do. The city of Greensboro muni is a solid golf course, typically in good shape. The price – I paid less than $20 last year for 18 holes on a weekend afternoon — can’t be beaten. I’m excited that the city and a few benefactors have committed to…