Country Club Golf Center’s new facility in Lewisville is progressing, but partners Chris Merritt and Ricky Lyons told TriadGolf.com that there’s still no specific timeline for their move from their current location on Country Club Road near its intersection with Styers Ferry Road. The 17-acre new location can be found at 7815 Shallowford Road, just…
Just about every major golf manufacturer was represented at Greensboro Coliseum Complex with products for the annual Carolinas PGA Merchandise Show. Most, if not all, the big brands were on the showroom floor. Titleist, TaylorMade, Callaway, Srixon, Bridgestone … Footjoy, Adidas, Johnnie-O, Good Good and RLX … The displays included golf carts, range finders, golf…
Bryan Park will soon have simulators open to the public under a business model unique to the Greensboro area. Kyle Kolls, the general manager of the Bryan Park golf facility, told TriadGolf.com that a new outside, but covered facility with 20 bays equipped with Toptracer simulators, is expected to open in the next week or…
The Triad will soon lose another driving range. But it may gain a “supreme” replacement. Country Club Golf Center (pictured above), at 5675 Country Club Road in Winston-Salem, will close late this summer, according to Tommy Pegram, one of the business’ operators. The 6-acre property at the western edge of the city, near borders with…
The cofounder and operator of Golf Gem, Jonathan Dudley has taken a unique role at Forest Oaks Country Club and steered in perhaps, a surprising direction. A former GolfTec manager and head professional at Mill Creek and The Valley (formerly Indian Valley), Dudley wanted to return his focus to golf instruction. Dudley, who moved from…
By David Droschak I asked Chip Watson the other day for the key ingredients as to why the Golf School at North Carolina State has enjoyed such a successful run as it enters its 34th consecutive year this June. Sure he and co-founder and former N.C. State men’s golf coach Richard Sykes have for the…
Golf Genius Software has acquired Operation 36 Golf, developers of a beginner golf development program with a unique coaching model that is driving the goal of “1,000,000 Golfers Created”. Operation 36 provides a proprietary software platform and teaching curriculum now in use by nearly 600 golf facilities in 14 countries, and will operate as a…
By David Droschak The scorecard from Joe Steadman’s Player Ability Test hangs proudly in his office near the practice facility at the Country Club of North Carolina. The private club’s first teaching professional remembers the day well, logging 36 holes for the first time in his playing days that had included many relaxed rounds with…