The highly acclaimed Winston-Salem course closed April 16 to make several structural improvements, including the change of the surfaces of the undulating greens from bentgrass to bermudagrass Tif-Eagle. The club will also complete installation of the Better Billy Bunker system in its 80 sand bunkers, improve cart paths and complete other updates around the course…
Ron Fobes scoots around the Maple Chase Country Club golf course faster than anyone else without leaving tracks or any trace of evidence on the tees, fairways or rough. The Maple Chase member is an authorized dealer of Phat Rides, selling scooters easily adaptable for golf course. An emerging product, Phat Rides scooters weigh less…
SUMMERFIELD – First Responders of the Triad Inc. has donated $18,000 in proceeds from the 2022 First Responders of the Triad Pro-Am Golf Tournament at Greensboro National Golf Club to the Rockingham County Sheriffs’ Office. The Sheriffs’ Office intends to use the donation for the purchase of a trained Belgian Malinois for its K9 Unit.…
By William Fowler Brown said that GreatLife and Sapona club members wanted to begin the relationship with GreatLife managing the course as “sort of a dry run” toward ownership. GreatLife intends on purchasing the club and investing around $500,000 in the property in 2024, CEO John M. Brown told Triad Business Journal on Monday, January…
By William Fowler Ryan Wilson is the new CEO of the First Tee – Central Carolina, the organization where he started his professional career in 2011. Wilson, who played golf at High Point Central High and High Point University, worked with the local First Tee organization from 2011 until 2015. “I’m so thankful to be…
Summerfield, NC, January 30, 2023/ Press Release / — Greensboro National Golf Club, LLC is pleased to announce that Bruce Mohler has become the new General Manager of Greensboro National Golf Club, effective January 23, 2023. Mohler has 28 years of golf club management experience and golf operations knowledge and joins the club from Jacksonville…
Staff Report U.S. Kids Golf Senior Director of Academy Development Jim Hardy, PGA, and Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame professional Rick Murphy are partnering to create a youth golf program in the Triad. Rick Murphy, PGA, has been an instructor in the Piedmont Triad for more than 30 years. Murphy teaches his students from the…
Back-to-back shots make for memorable day at Forest Oaks By STEVE WILLIAMS When Chad Edmondson holed out from 150 yards for an eagle on the par-4 seventh hole at Forest Oaks Country Club, it was merely a preview of coming attractions. His next swing also was also on target, resulting in a hole-in-one…
By David Droschak Elkin has some pretty neat places with iconic history. There’s Speedy Chef, a throwback fast food joint that has been family owned since 1968. Legend has it that Angry Troll Brewing was founded by a troll after a vintage wooden bridge he called home was demolished. And the wine at nearby vineyards,…
By David Droschak Few would argue that Lake Lure is one of the most beautiful man-made lakes in the country. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, it’s the focal point of the Rumbling Bald on Lake Lure golf destination and community, which could be in for some major changes…