A few Triad golfers cleared the first hurdle on the way toward spots on the LPGA Tour. Mallory Fobes and Morgan Ketchum advanced through the Florida LPGA Tour Pre-Qualifying tournament, which finished Saturday. The top 34 players at tournaments in Florida, California and Texas advanced to the Qualifying Tournament Oct. 13-16 in Venice, Florida. Players…
Lawrence Hicks of Greensboro matched the score of legend Paul Simson to win the 70+ Division of the N.C. Super Senior Championship Sept. 23-24 at Mill Creek Golf Club. Hicks (pictured right) won the 70+ Division with scores of 69 and 72 score for a 3-under-par 141 total. The 75-year-old Simson (pictured left) played in…
A future Triangle community is planned to have a new private golf facility designed by one of the world’s elite architects. Tom Fazio was announced as the designer of an 18-hole course, a nine-hole short course and practice facilities for a 1,271-acre community in Chatham Park’s South Village. Developer Southern Land Co. made the announcement…
I’d never been to Clinton, North Carolina. But I knew of semi-private Cohere Country Club due to some of their legendary former members. That list includes longtime Carolinas Golf Association executive director Jack Nance, former UNC men’s basketball coach Walter Skidmore, and of course, former Raleigh News & Observer golf writer and Carolinas Golf Reporter…
A popular Triad golf course is no longer open to the public on a limited basis. Earlier this month, Pinewood Country Club in Asheboro stopped opening its course to public play on Mondays and Tuesdays. The club made the announcement via social media. Fees at the course on public days had been $52 for 18…
Last year was a fresh start for Greensboro’s Tanner Cadieux. New school, new team, new surroundings. And everything seemed to fall into place after an uneventful year at N.C. State. As a sophomore at Viriginia Commonwealth, the Greensboro native quickly became a mainstay on the team on his way to Atlantic 10 All-Conference team honors.…
The long-awaited unveiling of a popular nine holes with a new look is only a few days away. Raleigh Golf Association will reopen its front nine with a sold-out Friday shotgun start, completing the facility’s new 18-hole course made up of the front nine of the former 18-hole public course and a back nine comprised…
Ryan Gerard didn’t win the Tour Championship on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club. But he made a putt worth more than $1 million on the final hole. Scottie Scheffler got off to a fast start and took control on the back nine on his way to 66 and a three-stroke victory at 16-under-par 264.…
Sweltering temperatures. Steamy humidity. Sizzing sun and afternoon thunderstorms. It didn’t matter this past weekend at one Triad golf course. On Saturday, 260 players teed off on reopening day at Salem Glen Country Club. On Sunday, 247 more filled the course. Members of the semi-private Clemmons layout, a product of Nicklaus Design, were anxious to…
In a way, Mark Kriston turned back time at the 79th Forsyth Amateur Championship. Twenty years, to be exact. Kriston seized control Sunday on the front nine at Old Town Club and survived a late triple-bogey to win by three strokes over second-round leader Fisher Kennedy. The 42-year-old Kriston shot 2-under-par 68 in the final…