The sizes of the undulating greens, gradually reduced over the past three decades, have been restored with new TifEagle Bermuda at one of the Triad’s elite golf courses. The bunkers have been rebuilt, with some moved and a few added, to compensate for distance gains due to improved golf equipment. A few hundred encroaching trees…
The front nine at a well-maintained Triad muni is closed as crews repair a pipe leak. Jamestown Park closed its front nine, which had been the course’s back nine prior to a change this fall, to make repairs near a pond and the fourth green, according to staffers in the pro shop. The employees said…
Forest Oaks Country Club reopened to the public on Nov. 1 with repaired putting surfaces. The former home to the PGA Tour’s Greater Greensboro Open, known now at the Wyndham Championship, had been closed for more than a month after a fertilizing application mishap left wide strips of dead bent grass. Will Andrews, who manages…
The 2023 Wyndham Championship will go down as one of the most memorable PGA Tour events of the year. Not just to those of us in the Triad, who look forward to our annual tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. But also, to millions of pro golf fans throughout the world. We can thank Lucas Glover,…
Get to Sedgefield Country Club early Thursday if you want to see Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry, Jason Dufner, Stewart Cink and Jimmy Walker play in Thursday’s opening round of the Wyndham Championship. They should be finished about the time most of us are eating lunch. Thomas (7:45 a.m.), Lowry (7:45), Dufner (7:01) and Cink (7:23)…
Mebane’s Emily Mathews, one of four Triad players in the field at the U.S. Girls’ Junior championship, will get a quick look at how her game stacks up in the qualifying rounds Monday and Tuesday for stroke play at the U.S. Air Force Academy Eisenhower Golf Club Blue Course in Colorado Springs. Mathews is paired…
As a freshman at Reagan High, Anna Howerton wasn’t sure she wanted to play on the high school golf team. But her father gave her a nudge. “My dad wanted me to play,” Howerton recalled. As it turned out, Howerton’s dad probably saved himself a lot of money. His daughter has earned a scholarship to…
The cofounder and operator of Golf Gem, Jonathan Dudley has taken a unique role at Forest Oaks Country Club and steered in perhaps, a surprising direction. A former GolfTec manager and head professional at Mill Creek and The Valley (formerly Indian Valley), Dudley wanted to return his focus to golf instruction. Dudley, who moved from…
Enjoying the comforts of a luxury box at the Wyndham Championship is no longer reserved for corporate sponsors and their lucky guests. Now, Wyndham and the annual PGA Tour event at Sedgefield Country Club are making it easy by offering Wyndham Rewards Earner Card holders with a grounds pass a free upgrade to a 17th green…
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…