Ellie Acrey shot 5-over 76 Monday at Sapona to lead Reagan into the runner-up spot entering Tuesday’s final round of the N.C. 7A Girls’ Championship. The Raiders posted 42-over 255, 10 stroked behind Marvin Ridge and 11 better than D.H. Conley and Lake Norman, the teams tied for third. Acrey, a senior, stands third as…
Alina Amos won’t have the support of teammates while competing in the NCHSAA Class 4A (the state now has eight size classifications) Girls’ State Championship at Longleaf Golf Club. The Reidsville High senior will be playing as an individual — nothing unusual during her four-year high school golf career — today and Tuesday. And it’s…
Triad golfers Morgan Ketchum and Macy Pate led the Wake Forest women to a third-place team finish out of 18 teams Sunday at the Landfall Tradition in Wilmington. North Carolina won the 54-hole tournament at Landfall’s Pete Dye Course with 7-under-par 857. Central Florida was second at 862 and Wake posted 867. Ketchum shot 4-under…
Have you ever been to The Omni Homestead, one of the nation’s finest golf resorts? Maybe not, despite its location in the remote Allegheny Mountains of southwestern Virginia, only three and a half hours or so from Winston-Salem. After all, many Triad golfers find no reason to leave the state for a golf trip. There’s…
Visitors to Boone and Blowing Rock and the rest of Watauga County soon may lose their best public golf option. According to various reports from the High Country, at least one of the owners of Boone Golf Club would like to explore a sale of the property, which would probably lead to some type of…
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County are home to a few of the most-prestigious and best-known golf courses in the state and the entire country. But there’s likely no more important golf facility than the city of Winston-Salem’s Reynolds Park Golf Course, which has been introducing new players to the game for more than eight decades. Originally…
The First Responders of the Triad Tournament attracted the entry of a record 128 players for Friday’s seventh-annual benefit golf outing hosted by Greensboro National Golf Club. The tournament was created by Byron Development (majority owners of Greensboro National) partners Herb Parks and Patrick Donnelly. This year’s goal was to raise $200,000 for local first…
Freshman Makayla Grubb finished third in the individual standings to lead High Point to a third-place finish in a field filled with Florida schools at the Pat Bradley Invitation at Doral Resort’s Red Tiger course in Miami. Grubb, a freshman from Stafford, Virginia, finished at 2-over-par 218 in the 54-hole tournament following a final-round 70…
Europe can keep the Ryder Cup. The Euros deserve it — they beat the U.S. team 15-13 under the terms of the competition. But I think the Americans can claim victory, too. Battling head-to-head in match-play for the only time on Sunday, the U.S. went 6-1-4 and dominated the points distribution 8-3. That should —…
Don’t believe everything you see on social media, including reports that a popular public golf course just outside the Triad has been sold. Even if the report seems to make perfect sense. Goodyear Golf Club, barely across the Virginia state line in Danville, has not been sold to Caesars Virginia as reported on social media…