Duke overtook N.C. State after two rounds of the womens’ Ruth Chris’ Tar Heel Invitational at Finley Golf Club. Rianne Maxili shot 4-under-par 67 Saturday to grab a one-stroke lead in the medalist race at 6-under 136 entering Sunday’s final round of the 14-team tournament. Valentine Delon of Virginia Tech is one back, with Benedicte…
Greensboro’s Scottie Pearman, the No. 1 ranked player on the World Long Drive Tour, fell short of making Saturday’s final round at the World Long Drive Championship in Sparks, Nevada. After easily advancing through the first round, Pearman did not amass enough points in Friday’s series of round-robin brackets to continue into the finals, which…
Playing out of the sand at an upscale public golf course in the Triad has become a better experience in the past few weeks. And there’s a lot more to come, according to the course’s social media. Greensboro National Golf Club has almost completed renovations of its bunkers in the last few weeks. The project…
Will Zalatoris’ back issues haven’t gone away, nor even improved enough to keep him on the course. The 30-year-old former Wake Forest star announced that he will have another back surgery that will sideline him for the 2027 season. Zalatoris told Golf Channel that he would have spinal-fusion surgery after participating in the PGA Tour’s…
Wake Forest’s Tom Haberer held on to win the Elon Phoenix Invitational on Tuesday at Alamance Country Club. Haberer, 13-under through his final 27 holes Monday, was 4-under through his first 14 holes Tuesday and cruising to an apparent victory before a late challenge by Campbell’s Benjamin Killingstad, who birdied Nos. 15 and 17 to…
Banzai! The latest Wake Forest University standout on the PGA Tour won his second tournament of the year Sunday at the Baycurrent Classic in Japan. Michael Brennan, who won the Wyndham Championship in August, birdied Nos. 11 and 12 and followed with six consecutive pars to hang on for a one-shot victory over Jacob Bridgeman…
Austin Hitt had to win Sunday. There was no other way he could be assured of earning a promotion to the PGA Tour. And with his Tar Heels pride showing for all to see on his shot book as well as his mother’s rain attire, Hill went out and did it. The 28-year-old UNC alum…
By John Brasier A Triangle club with a century-old Donald Ross design — tweaked a handful of times over the decades — plans to make renovations to restore the original “magic” of the historic layout. Greensboro-based architect Kris Spence, considered a master at restorations and renovations of Ross designs, will begin an extensive project in…
B.J. Boyce of UNC Greensboro was the medalist as the Spartans finished second Monday at Arkansas’ Blessings Collegiate Invitational. The graduate student from Fayetteville shot 8-under-par 64 in the final round to come from behind to take his first collegiate victory at 5-under 211 for 54 holes. Boyce won the Carolinas Amateur this summer at…
High Point University’s Makayla Grubb claimed another medalist honor Tuesday at the Mercedes Benz Intercollegiate, hosted by Tennessee at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville. Grubb, a sophomore from Stafford, Virginia, shot 4-under-par 67 for a 12-under total and a tie for first place with Tennessee’s Madison Messimer, who shot a final-round 65. A match-play qualifier…