By STEVE WILLIAMS North Carolina’s juniors won bragging rights over their rivals from South Carolina and Georgia in the 8th annual Carolinas-Georgia Junior Championship. The event, which features the top 20 boys and top 10 girls from each of the three states, is annually played in mid-January at Mount Vintage Plantation Golf Club in North…
By STEVE WILLIAMS The thought of winning a state championship in women’s golf wasn’t even in the wildest dreams for Rockingham County High School for the better part of the school’s four decades. In fact, the Cougars barely managed to put together a team and had qualified just once for regional play. But a couple…
By EDDIE SOUTHARDS Salisbury had its run of 1-A/2-A state titles end this fall but it didn’t stop the Hornets’ top player from repeating as the individual state champion. Senior Grace Yatawara survived a playoff to win her second straight title. She shot rounds of 81 and 77 at Longleaf Golf and Family Club to…
By Marc Pruitt Erhardt makes cut at AJGA FootJoy Invitational Greensboro • June 8-12 — Greensboro’s Reilly Erhardt made the cut at the AJGA FootJoy Invitational at Sedgefield Country Club and finished tied for 44th at 16-over par after rounds of 71-76-73-76. Erhardt, who won the 1-A state championship last month while leading Bishop McGuinness…
By Marc Pruitt South Rowan’s Davis Richards, an N.C. State signee who won the individual title in the South Piedmont 3-A conference and finished 12th in the 2014 state championship, was expected to battle East Rowan’s Nick Lyerly for individual honors this time around. But instead of playing for a state title in early May,…
By Brad King The First Tee has steadily blossomed into a robust national organization that has impacted, influenced and inspired more than 9 million young golfers. Locally, however, when Mike Barber took the reigns as The First Tee of the Triad President and CEO in October 2011, the organization was represented at just three locations with…
By STEVE HANF As expected at a tournament, drama was unfolding on the back nine. It had nothing to do with the team championship, however, and everything to do with which Hornet would earn medalist honors. “Ultimately our job was to win a team state championship and hopefully one of our girls wins the individual,”…
By STEVE WILLIAMS Rosters are not usually deep in high school girls golf. Schools often struggle to find three players, the number required to post a team score. Unlike other sports where there are junior varsity players ready to move up, girls golf teams can be here today, gone tomorrow. That’s why freshmen can have…
By MARC PRUITT Missing a cut and being severely jet-lagged never felt so good for Matthew Guo and Mark Johnston. Guo, a rising sophomore at West Forsyth in Clemmons, and Johnston, a rising senior for the Titans, both played in the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach September 22-27 as representatives of the…
There seems to be no letup for the girls golf teams at Ledford and Salisbury. Both schools will be trying to make it four straight state championships this month despite suffering key graduation losses from the three-peat teams of 2013. Two of Ledford’s big three from last year’s 3A championship are now playing college golf,…