Renowned Donald Ross design becomes McConnell Golf’s seventh course in Carolinas

        McConnell Golf, LLC has announced the purchase of its seventh premier golf club in the Carolinas, Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., a renowned Donald Ross design and site of PGA TOUR’s Wyndham Championship.  Sedgefield CC’s membership debated the possible sale throughout most of 2010, and after considering all options decided that the sale to…

Mike Goodes & Friends Charity Classic Pro Am Adds Local Sponsors and Champions Tour Players

         Greensboro, NC. – August, 2010 – The Mike Goodes and Friends Charity Classic Pro Am is scheduled for Monday, September 27th.  Building on the momentum of eight Champions Tour players joining the Charity Classic Pro Am this year, corporate sponsors have signed on to help the Triad Youth Golf Foundation. Premium event sponsors of…

A full week of work for new Wyndham champion

          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…

Summer Escape: Olde Mill’s generational restoration a winning combination

          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,…