Macy Pate continued her march through the North and South Amateur Championship bracket with two hard-fought victories at Pinehurst No. 2, earning her a berth in Saturday morning’s semifinals. The Winston-Salem resident and rising sophomore at Wake Forest took the lead with a par on the 17th hole and made another par at 18 to…
Michael Riebe of Vanderbilt University knocked off medalist Kelly Chinn of Pinehurst, who plays at Duke, 3 and 1 Thursday at Pinehurst No. 2 in the first round of match play in the North and South Amateur. Another Pinehurst native, Jackson Van Paris, a teammate of Riebe at Vanderbilt, also advanced with a 3 and…
Charlie Parks of Asheboro beat Evan Long of Charlotte on the first playoff hole to win the 70-and-older 16th Carolinas Golf Association Super Senior Championship on Wednesday at Cutter Creek Golf Club in Snow Hill. Parks and Long had finished the 36-hole tournament at 6-under-par 138. In the 65-and-older bracket, Pat Thompson of Asheville beat…
Bryson DeChambeau, formerly known almost as much for his eccentricity as his championship abilities, is atop the golf world after his remarkable victory Sunday in the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2. DeChambeau’s decisive, spectacular blast from 55 yards to within 4 feet of the cup on the 72nd hole will no doubt go…
THE GOOD: It’s easy to criticize the randomness of the penalties produced by the waste areas filled with wire grass or the severity of the slopes on the greens that send seemingly good approaches bouncing and rolling off the putting surfaces into ridiculously difficult collection areas. But take a look at the final leaderboard Sunday…
Making its debut as a U.S. Open site in 1999, Pinehurst No. 2 has a shorter Open history than traditional venues such as Oakmont, Shinnecock Hills, The Country Club (Brookline), Oakland Hills, Merion, Winged Foot, Baltusrol, and Olympic Club. But like fellow relative Open newcomers Pebble Beach and Bethpage Black, Pinehurst No. 2 offers the…
The USGA has gone all in at Pinehurst. As golf fans will see at the U.S. Open on June 13-16 at Pinehurst No. 2, the relationship between golf’s American governing body and the Pinehurst Resort has become heavily intertwined. To the right on the few hundred yards from N.C. 2 (Midland Road) to the main…
Lexington Golf Club (pictured above) closed on June 1 to convert the greens to Champion Bermuda grass. The course is expected to reopen in early August, according to director of golf Dylan Dawson. Lexington is using a “no till” process that simple kills the existing turf and plants the new grass. Prior to the closure,…
Asher Vargas of Spring Texas won the AJGA Wyndham Invitational at Sedgefield Country Club on Thursday, finishing with a 6-under-par 204 total for 54 holes. Mason Howell of Thomasville, Georgia, and Ronin Banerjee of Irvine, California, tied for second at 206. Pennson Badgett (pictured above) of Pilot Mountain, who shot 70 in his first two…
Burlington native Kayla Smith birdied three of the final six holes Thursday at Mooresville Golf Club to cap a 4-under-par 68 and win The Carolinas Golf Association North Carolina Women’s Amateur by three strokes over Winston-Salem’s Macy Pate. Smith, who recently finished her fifth season at the University of North Carolina with the school’s No.…