Hallie Wilson of Lewisville birdied the 18th hole Wednesday to shoot 5-under-par 67 at Pinehurst No. 6 to win the North and South Junior Girls’ championship. Wilson, who shot 7-under 209 for the 54-hole tournament, rallied from a six-shot deficit entering the final round to beat Zoe Cusack of Potomac, Maryland, by one stroke. Wilson…
Sage Bradshaw of Bluffton, South Carolina, birdied the final hole to force a playoff and went on to win The Carolinas PGA Junior Boys’ championship Tuesday at Colonial Country Club. Bradshaw and John Santospago of Charlotte each shot 7-under-par 64 in the final round after opening with 67 to finish at 11-under 131 in the…
Macy Pate’s dominance at the Women’s North and South Amateur came to a quick halt in Saturday afternoon’s championship match at Pinehurst No. 2. The Winston-Salem resident and Wake Forest standout, who claimed medalist honors in stroke play and followed with four straight match play victories lost 4 and 3 to Catie Craig, a Georgia…
Macy Pate continued her march through the North and South Amateur Championship bracket with two hard-fought victories at Pinehurst No. 2, earning her a berth in Saturday morning’s semifinals. The Winston-Salem resident and rising sophomore at Wake Forest took the lead with a par on the 17th hole and made another par at 18 to…
Michael Riebe of Vanderbilt University knocked off medalist Kelly Chinn of Pinehurst, who plays at Duke, 3 and 1 Thursday at Pinehurst No. 2 in the first round of match play in the North and South Amateur. Another Pinehurst native, Jackson Van Paris, a teammate of Riebe at Vanderbilt, also advanced with a 3 and…
Charlie Parks of Asheboro beat Evan Long of Charlotte on the first playoff hole to win the 70-and-older 16th Carolinas Golf Association Super Senior Championship on Wednesday at Cutter Creek Golf Club in Snow Hill. Parks and Long had finished the 36-hole tournament at 6-under-par 138. In the 65-and-older bracket, Pat Thompson of Asheville beat…
Bryson DeChambeau, formerly known almost as much for his eccentricity as his championship abilities, is atop the golf world after his remarkable victory Sunday in the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2. DeChambeau’s decisive, spectacular blast from 55 yards to within 4 feet of the cup on the 72nd hole will no doubt go…
THE GOOD: It’s easy to criticize the randomness of the penalties produced by the waste areas filled with wire grass or the severity of the slopes on the greens that send seemingly good approaches bouncing and rolling off the putting surfaces into ridiculously difficult collection areas. But take a look at the final leaderboard Sunday…
The USGA has gone all in at Pinehurst. As golf fans will see at the U.S. Open on June 13-16 at Pinehurst No. 2, the relationship between golf’s American governing body and the Pinehurst Resort has become heavily intertwined. To the right on the few hundred yards from N.C. 2 (Midland Road) to the main…
Making its debut as a U.S. Open site in 1999, Pinehurst No. 2 has a shorter Open history than traditional venues such as Oakmont, Shinnecock Hills, The Country Club (Brookline), Oakland Hills, Merion, Winged Foot, Baltusrol, and Olympic Club. But like fellow relative Open newcomers Pebble Beach and Bethpage Black, Pinehurst No. 2 offers the…