Ryan Gerard didn’t win the Tour Championship on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club. But he made a putt worth more than $1 million on the final hole. Scottie Scheffler got off to a fast start and took control on the back nine on his way to 66 and a three-stroke victory at 16-under-par 264.…
Michael La Sasso’s first pro victory was one to remember. The 22-year-old Raleigh native hit a spectacular 40-yard pitch to within a foot of the cup and tapped in a winning birdie on the final hole Sunday to win the season-ending LIV Golf tournament at Chatham Hills Golf Club near Indianapolis. La Sasso, who shot…
A Raleigh player is in position to win what could be the final event ever in LIV Golf. Michael La Sasso shot 4-under-par 66 Saturday for a 13-under total through 54 holes at The Club at Chatham Hills and a one-shot lead entering Sunday’s final round of LIV Golf Indianapolis. The 22-year-old La Sasso, who…
Jamestown Park pro Marcy Newton finished second Tuesday in the 36-hole Carolinas PGA Women’s Professional Championship at Bulls Bay Golf Club near Charleston. The 48-year-old Newton, a former UNC standout, USGA Girls’ and Women’s Amateur champion and 13-year veteran of the LPGA Tour, shot rounds of 69 and 73 to finish at 2-under-par 142, one…
In a way, Mark Kriston turned back time at the 79th Forsyth Amateur Championship. Twenty years, to be exact. Kriston seized control Sunday on the front nine at Old Town Club and survived a late triple-bogey to win by three strokes over second-round leader Fisher Kennedy. The 42-year-old Kriston shot 2-under-par 68 in the final…
Pinehurst native and UNC standout Carson Bertagnole advanced through stroke play and the first round of match play before dropping his match in the Round of 32 at the U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club. Teammate Hampton Roberts of Cary, a former Panther Creek High standout, also qualified for match play before losing in the…
Furman University golfer Fisher Kennedy shot 7-under-par 65 Saturday at Maple Chase Country Club to take the lead into Sunday’s final-round of the Forsyth Amateur Championship. With a 9-under 133 total, including 2-under 68 Friday at Tanglewood Championship, Kennedy leads first-round leader Mark Kriston of Clemmons, who shot 67 Saturday, by one stroke. Defending champion…
Mark Kriston of Clemmons shot 4-under-par 67 Friday at Tanglewood’s Championship course to take the first-round lead in the Forsyth Amateur Championship. Fisher Kennedy of Winston-Salem, a senior at Furman University, was second and Tom Coleman and Stephen Holt were tied for third at 69 with defending champion Brett Barry at 70. The tournament resumes…
Alex Smalley got off to a great start, but made a wobbly finish to his second round Friday at the St. Jude Championship. The Jamestown golfer and Duke graduate birdied three of his first four holes and added a fourth at No. 9 to shoot up near the top of the leaderboard, only to drop…
Clemmons native Brandon Einstein made a bogey this week in defense of his title at the North Carolina Open. But that bogey Tuesday — his only blemish in 108 holes in the past two State Opens — isn’t what cost him another victory. Symon Balbin just made too many birdies. Balbin, a 24-year-old former UNC…