By Bob Sutton When Wyndham Championship tournament director Mark Brazil began a congratulatory announcement at the 2010 trophy presentation for champion Arjun Atwal, he commented on “what a week it had been.” In this case, it could have served as a literal assessment of Atwal’s journey that ended with a par putt…
By STEVE HANF In these dire times, folks in the golf course industry have no use for semantics. When putting surfaces have suffered tough times with bermudagrass in the cold-weather months, it’s been called “winter kill.” When the same issues have reared their ugly head in the heat, the term was “summer bentgrass decline,” explained…
By DAVID DROSCHAK In a generation when star golfers like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson make more money off the course than on the green grass, Ryan Moore chose an interesting corporate path in 2009 – to say the least. No telling how much cash Moore left on the table when he accepted his…
By David Droschak There’s something special about a son following in his father’s footsteps, or in the case of the Maples family its love affair with a special Virginia mountain retreat that now runs three generations deep. Dan Maples remembers vividly his first job after graduating from the University of Georgia in landscape architecture,…
Aspiring young golfers from the Triad will be the beneficiaries of the newly created Mike Goodes Scholarship. The Triad Youth Golf Foundation, the community non-profit junior program started by Precision Golf School, announced the scholarship and noted it will help a range of juniors, including advanced players headed to college as well as novices who…
By STUART HALL Patrick Reed has played Pinehurst No. 2, the Olympic Club and even a couple of rounds at Augusta National. Not surprising, those courses left favorable impressions on the 19-year-old. And so did Bryan Park Golf and Conference Center, recent host of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. “Easily the best public course…
Young High Point golfer remembered for spirit, courage By STEVE HANF HIGH POINT – When Glenn Heer learned in the spring that a bone marrow donor had been found and he’d be on his way to a normal life following a transplant, he cut short his freshman year of college to prepare for the procedure.…
Copyright USGA/Fred Vuich By STEVE HANF The planning has been in the works for some four years. The event will last six days. The relationship between Bryan Park Golf & Conference Center, the city of Greensboro and the United States Golf Association? That could last a lifetime if all goes well from July 12-17…
Sizzling 61 lifts Womble to HPGA title at Blair Park By STEVE WILLIAMS Davis Womble has been one of the state’s top junior golfers for several years. He claimed a championship in one of the majors on the junior circuit last December, winning the Donald Ross Junior at Pinehurst No. 2. He’s also making quite…
By STEVE WILLIAMS You wouldn’t think that the sport of long driving and a game of chess would have any common ground. Grip-it and rip-it doesn’t equate with checkmate. A driving range grid and a chessboard seem hundreds of yards apart. But in both competitions one move can dictate the next. It was that process…