Greensboro native Leah Edwards and Western Kentucky University teammate Reagan Ramage shot 70 then won a playoff Nov. 18 at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee, to claim the site’s second and final qualifying spot for the 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship. Two Triad players earned alternate status earlier in the fall at Wilson…
Old Town Club continued its climb in the 2025-2026 Golf Magazine Top 100 Courses in the World rankings released this week. The Winston-Salem course, designed by Perry Maxwell, was up four spots to No. 80 in voting by the magazine’s 126 panelists from 16 nations. Pine Valley remained No. 1, followed by Cypress Point and…
Changes are nothing new at Wild Dunes Resort’s Harbor Course. But the latest changes in a $9.5 million renovation project are intentional and positive. Forty years after Harbor’s original completion on Isle of Palms, near Charleston, Fazio Design returned for the extensive update. The course reopened Nov. 13. The result was a more playable layout, especially…
North Carolina will have a new PGA Tour event beginning in 2026. The Biltmore Championship will be played Sept. 17-20 at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, near Asheville. Biltmore Estate and the Explore Asheville tourism non-profit will be co-title sponsors. Though Asheville has not played host to a major pro golf championship in more than…
A Triad golfer was named to the American Junior Golf Association 2025 Rolex Junior All-America Second Team. Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain, who has committed to play at Tennessee for next fall, topped the AJGA list released Wednesday. Badgett made the first team in 2024, when he played a full junior schedule. Badgett, a senior…
On Netflix, Lake of the Ozarks became famous to the nation as the hideout for a drug money-laundering operation run by a financial advisor played by Jason Bateman. What the series didn’t show was that the central Missouri lake is also an affordable golf destination with quality courses and an assortment of lakeside accommodations and…
A few college women’s highlights as the fall season comes to a conclusion: Macie Burcham of Greensboro finished in a tie for eighth for East Carolina at 7-over-par 220 in a 77-player field at Edisto Island’s Plantation Course. The Pirates finished third as a team at the South Carolina event, behind winner College of Charleston…
Alina Amos won’t have the support of teammates while competing in the NCHSAA Class 4A (the state now has eight size classifications) Girls’ State Championship at Longleaf Golf Club. The Reidsville High senior will be playing as an individual — nothing unusual during her four-year high school golf career — today and Tuesday. And it’s…
Have you ever been to The Omni Homestead, one of the nation’s finest golf resorts? Maybe not, despite its location in the remote Allegheny Mountains of southwestern Virginia, only three and a half hours or so from Winston-Salem. After all, many Triad golfers find no reason to leave the state for a golf trip. There’s…
Visitors to Boone and Blowing Rock and the rest of Watauga County soon may lose their best public golf option. According to various reports from the High Country, at least one of the owners of Boone Golf Club would like to explore a sale of the property, which would probably lead to some type of…