Tyler Watts of Huntsville, Alabama, shot 65 Saturday to win the 72-hole Northeast Amateur by five strokes at Wannsmoisett Country Club in Rumford, Rhode Island. Watts, a rising freshman at Tennessee, finished with 16-under-par 260. Carson Bertagnole, a rising UNC sophomore from Pinehurst who shot 61 to take the first-round lead, shot 66 to finish…
A North Carolina player shot 61 Wednesday to grab the first-round lead at the Northeast Amateur, one of seven tournaments in the Elite Amateur Golf Series. Carson Bertagnole of Pinehurst, a rising sophomore at the University of North Carolina, made nine birdies and one bogey in his round on the par-69 Wannamoisett County Club course…
Rich Wills of Cramerton, a rising junior at Clemson, won the North Carolina Amateur Championship Saturday at Bermuda Run’s East Course. Wills shot 6-under-par 66 in the final round for an 12-under 276 total, two shots in front of UNC Charlotte’s Daniel Boone of Fuquay Varina, University of Richmond’s Jack LaPiana of Charlotte and University…
Anna Howerton of Winston-Salem finished second Thursday in the Carolinas Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship at Statesville Country Club. Howerton, who plays for High Point University, shot rounds of 74, 69 and 70 to finish 3-under-par 213, three strokes behind winner Jenna Kim of Raleigh. Kim earned an exemption into the U.S. Women’s Amateur at…
It’s not Alex Smalley or Cameron Young. But there are golfers with Triad connections within striking range after two rounds at the U.S. Open. Wake Forest native Akshay Bhatia and former Wake Forest golfer Alex Fitzgerald are two of only 21 players to match or break par at the halfway point at windy Shinnecock Hills.…
Jackson Ormond of Webster, New York, shot 6-under-par 64 Tuesday at Sedgefield Country Club to take the first-round lead in the AJGA Wyndham Invitational. Jessy Huebner of Port St. Lucie, Florida, shot 65 for second with four players tied at 67. Twelve of the 73 players in the field broke par on the 6,900-yard course.…
For much of the weekend, Hickory’s J.T. Poston seemed in control in The Memorial at Muirfield Village Golf Club. But a dramatic duel between two North Carolina natives emerged out of a five-way tie with three holes to play. Poston won by sinking a 3-foot par putt Sunday on the second playoff hole. Raleigh’s Ryan…
Alex Smalley showed up Friday at Muirfield Village for the second round of The Memorial. And he passed Rickie Fowler on the scoreboard. But not anybody else. The Jamestown resident and former Duke star shot 4-over-par 76 to miss the cut, finishing 71st in the 72-player field. It would have been easy for Smalley to…
Alex Smalley was largely overlooked and disregarded during much of his first four years on the PGA Tour. And that was just fine with the 29-year-old Wake Forest native and former Duke University golfer, who lives in Jamestown and plays out of Sedgefield Country Club. “I don’t really like the spotlight,” said Smalley, while eating…
North Carolina and Duke were eliminated Monday from the NCAA Men’s Championship. The Tar Heels tied with three other teams for the final two spots in the eight-team match play format, but lost in a playoff, which had five players from each team play one of the first five holes at Omni La Costa Resort…