Mebane native Nick Mathews, a senior at N.C. State, finished fifth in the ACC Stroke Play Championship over the weekend at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mathews shot rounds of 70, 68 and 72 for 6-under-par 210, three shots behind medalist Jacob Modleski of Notre Dame. Marshall Meisel of Wake Forest…
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw will design Pinehurst No. 11 adjacent to the No. 10 course, Pinehurst Resort announced in a Monday release. Construction is scheduled to begin later this year with opening expected in 2027. The course will sit on a 900-acre site along N.C. 5, about 10 minutes south of Pinehurst’s first five…
Macy Pate beat Sophia Fullbrook 4 and 3, but it wasn’t enough for Wake Forest, which lost to Florida State 3-2 Saturday in the championship round of the ACC Championship match play competition. Pate, a standout at Reagan High, shot 30 on the front nine at Sedgefield Country Club, closing out Fullbrook with a 3-foot…
Wes Bryan, one of the most popular players at the Wyndham Championship, may not be able to play in this summer’s event at Sedgefield Country Club. Bryan, a Columbia, South Carolina native, known best for his trick shots and YouTube presence, announced Wednesday night that he has been suspended from PGA Tour events because he…
Just imagine, a young Rory McIlroy winning the Atlantic Sun Conference championship and playing on North Carolina courses against the likes of Tar Heel teams from Belmont, Campbell and Gardner-Webb. Though rarely mentioned in the media, McIlroy did sign a letter of intent to play at East Tennessee State in Johnson City back in 2004.…
North Carolina resident Akshay Bhatia made only six pars Thursday in the first round of the Masters — about as many as an 18-handicapper might hope to make on the long Augusta National course and its treacherous greens. It wasn’t the standard recipe for pulling into contention for a Green Jacket. Unless, of course, he…
Sometime late Friday afternoon, one of the golf world’s legendary figures probably will finish his final round of competitive golf in the Masters. That’s when 67-year-old Bernhard Langer, accompanied by Wake Forest alum Will Zalatoris and 20-year-old amateur Noah Kent, will be greeted with a lengthy applause by the Masters faithful while walking up the…
Will Zalatoris will play with the youngest and the oldest players in the field on Thursday and Friday in the first two rounds of the Masters. The 28-year-old former Wake Forest standout, Masters runner-up in 2021 with top 10 finishes in 2022 and 2024, will play with 20-year-old Noah Kent of the University of Florida…
Kris Spence is staying busy. The Greensboro-based golf architect has several projects in the works, including extensive work at Starmount Forest Country Club. He’s also helping repair flood damage at Hound Ears in Boone. Other project sites in the pipeline include Raleigh Golf Association and Pine Valley Country Club in Wilmington. Listen to Spence describe…
We’re closing in on the typical start of the mountain golf season. But with the horrible damage wreaked by Hurricane Helene last fall, which High Country courses will be ready to open? How will they be different from past years? Will the others reopen, or are they gone for good? There is good news and…