By BOB SUTTON With the ideal set-up to have a home site, officials with the Carolinas Section of the PGA decided the best way to go about that was to return home. By agreeing to lease about a 3-acre piece of property at Bryan Park Golf & Conference Center in Greensboro, the group is essentially…
VILLAGE OF PINEHURST, N.C. (March 14, 2011) – PCC Realty LLC, which is controlled by the owners of Pinehurst Resort, today announced that it will not reopen the newly-acquired Pit Golf Links at least for the remainder of 2011. After an extensive review, PPC officials determined that in lieu of current economic conditions and the required…
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…
By STEVE HANF Read about NCHSAA 1A/2A/3A (Updated 11/23/2010….Kristi Ingram verbally commits to Elon University) PINEHURST – Kristi Ingram gave up basketball her sophomore year to focus on golf. The senior from Winston-Salem’s Mount Tabor High School enjoyed net gains from that decision in early November. Ingram recorded rounds of 73 and 71 on Pinehurst…
By EDDIE HUFFMAN After summer heat that did a number on a lot of North Carolina golf courses, a couple of Alamance County courses, Indian Valley and Mill Creek, are looking to the future with brand new greens. “Like everybody else we were totally burnt,” said Derek Cobb, director of golf at Indian…
PGA Professional Robert Linville, of Greensboro, NC, won the 2010 Bermuda Run CPGA Senior Open, held at Bermuda Run Country Club (East Course) in Advance, NC. Linville, Director of Instruction for Precision Golf School in Greensboro, NC, had two solid rounds of 74-72 for a total of 146 (+2). After Steve Forrest, PGA, of…
By MICHAEL GRAFF In mid-September, still five weeks before hosting one of the premier college golf tournaments in the country, UNC Greensboro coach Terrance Stewart spent a Friday morning putting together gift packages for sponsors. It’s the little things that have made the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate such a big success. Scheduled for Oct. 23-24 at…
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…
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…