By STEVE WILLIAMS Despite a rain-drenched summer, the new greens project at Bryan Park’s Champions Course is right on target for a late-August re-opening. “We were so lucky at the very beginning of the process that we managed some way or another to miss the really torrential downpours that would have caused those sprigs to…
By MARC PRUITT Jon Isaacson still isn’t sure how his family talked him into dressing into tropically-themed clothing to attend the Wyndham Championship last year. “I remember hearing about the contest they were having and just thinking ‘no way am I going to do that,’” Isaacson said. “Then, my wife told me about what was…
By MICHAEL GRAFF Their decision to kill the grass on their golf course in the middle of the busiest time of the year seemed so … normal. These days, it seems like everybody’s either doing it or already has. The big courses and the small courses, the private courses and public courses, the championship courses…
By STEVE HANF Steven Brame left his truck in Winston-Salem but returned home to Henderson with a nice consolation prize: his first tournament win at the 53rd North Carolina Amateur Championship of the Carolinas Golf Association. Brame tamed the Forsyth Country Club course with an 11-under total of 273, good for a one-shot win over…
By BOB SUTTON A grassroots campaign has Shamrock Golf Club on the comeback trail. The grooming of the grounds is happening as neighbors and supporters of the course handle a good share of the chores. A greens project is being overseen by a Texas group. “This is a massive endeavor,” said Jon Harris, who has…
By MARC PRUITT Keith Henshaw has his brother Rob and their penchant for smoking cigars to thank for their latest innovation, one they hope will provide an alternative – and more cost effective – solution to players who are constantly re-gripping their clubs. It was over cigars last fall when Rob pulled out his clubs…
Registration for the First Tee of the Triad’s fall program will open earlier than expected because of an overwhelming success story for the summer edition. All the summer programs – spread among various Piedmont Triad locations – are filled to capacity. Locations are Gillespie Park in Greensboro, Winston Lake and The Meadowlands in Winston-Salem, Tanglewood…
Perry Maxwell’s 1939 course at Old Town Club to reopen this summer By BRAD KING Bill Coore is standing on the first tee box at Winston-Salem’s Old Town Club pointing toward a trio of bunkers flanking the right side of the opening fairway. On an unseasonably cool, spring morning, the soft-spoken, 67-year-old golf course architect –…
By MARC PRUITT The Heather Hills Golf Course is taking a mulligan. After closing and sitting dormant for nearly five years, a new ownership group is breathing fresh life into the executive course that sits just off Ebert Road in Winston-Salem. The course re-opened for play April 25, and the new owners are in the…
By MICHAEL GRAFF And now, they’ll be side-by-side. For the past five years, golf course superintendents in the Triad have faced a difficult decision: Join the movement toward hot-weather bermudagrass greens or stick with the old-favorite, cold-weather bentgrass. Greensboro’s most well-known public golf facility will try both. On June 17, Bryan Park will close its…