A High Country favorite for golfers without memberships in the pricey clubs in and around Avery County is expected to be open with at least nine holes for the spring season. A spokesperson for Sugar Mountain Golf Course told TriadGolf.com that the Avery course is on schedule to open in late April or May —…
A municipal Triad course has flipped its sides back to its original routing. Jamestown Park Golf Course swapped the numbering of its front and back nines as a means to smooth operations. As a result, the ninth green is now a short distance and in easy view of the pro shop. Jamestown Park pro Marcy…
The first three weeks of the new year were bad for Triad players and many area golf courses due to especially cold temperatures and snow. But it was a good time for cutting down trees, a $720,000 project underway at Winston Lake Golf Course, where tree growth caused poor conditions on the greens and fairways.…
The new clubhouse at Tanglewood Park is taking shape. Tanglewood director of golf Mike Wilcox told Triad Golf on Friday that the construction appears to be on the schedule for the new clubhouse on the location where the original clubhouse, built more than five decades ago, was demolished last year. Much of the exterior of…
The clubhouse at the City of Greensboro’s Gillespie Golf Course is repaired and back in use, though even some of the layout’s regular customers may not know it. And some improvements are on the way. Gillespie golf pro Bob Brooks told Triad Golf that damage from Tropical Storm Debby in August were repaired and the…
Macy Pate should have the opportunity to play the No. 1 course remaining on her bucket list this spring thanks to her invitation to play in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on April 2-5. The Wake Forest golfer, No. 51 in the women’s world amateur rankings, is scheduled to play Augusta National Golf Club, the…
A trio of Triad courses and another recently restored by a Greensboro architect were listed in the top 25 courses in North Carolina in Golf Magazine rankings released Sunday morning. Old Town Club, already ranked among the top 100 in the U.S. according to Golf Magazine and Golf Digest, the nation’s two most-followed surveyors, ranked…
By John BrasierPublisher The routing is much the same and most of the greens are in the same places. But the addition of 32 new grass-faced bunkers and rebuilt greens at Maple Chase Country Club have added teeth and pin positions to the north Winston-Salem club’s layout as well as the capability for much-improved playing…
Grandover Resort reopened its West Course with new state- of-the-art Tif-Eagle Bermuda putting surfaces, matching those converted in 2018 on its East The East Course stretches to 7,213 yards from the back tees, with a challenging 75.7 rating and a 141 slope. It leaves a lasting impression with its 18th hole, a 570- yard par-5 bordered…
The changes at Greensboro National Golf Club are noticeable from the moment players enter the parking lot. Pulling into the lot, players are directed to pull up to the bag drop, where an attendant will take their clubs out of their vehicle and place it on a cart. When players finish their round, their clubs…