A popular High Country public golf course has 13 holes open with four more expected to open soon. Work continues on restoration — and improvements — at Sugar Mountain Golf Course, hit hard with flooding by Hurricane Helene last September. Widely considered one of the nation’s top “executive” courses, the par-64 Sugar Mountain layout is…
Wake Forest coach Jerry Haas showed he can still play a little bit Tuesday in the final round of the Carolinas PGA Senior Professional Championship at Catawba Country Club in Newton. Haas shot 5-under-par 67 to finish the 36-hole tournament at 5-under 139 in second place behind Gus Ulrich of Pinewild Country Club in Pinehurst,…
It’s been nearly three decades, but I still remember vividly the most disappointed I’ve ever been while attending at a golf event. It was late September 1995, a cold, rainy weekend in Rochester, New York. Somehow, the U.S. Ryder Cup team lost to Europe in a stunning final-day collapse. It was miserable. Do you remember…
Brett Barry should feel lucky that his wife Jami and young daughters Halle and Sophie missed the first 15 holes of Sunday’s final round of the Forsyth Amateur Championship at Forsyth Country Club. It had been an ugly round for Barry and Scott Campbell, who came into the final round six shots clear of the…
Scott Campbell shot 6-under-par 66 Saturday at Maple Chase Country Club to take the lead entering the final round of the Forsyth Amateur Championship. Campbell, a former All-American at Greensboro College, has a 36-hole total of 8-under 134, one stroke ahead of defending champion and first-round leader Brett Barry, who shot 69 at Maple Chase…
Defending champion Brett Barry shot 66 at Tanglewood Park Championship Course on Friday to take the first round lead in the Forsyth Amateur Championship. Scott Campbell was in second place at 68, followed by Paul McLean at 70 and Stephen Holt, Troy Blamer and David Song at 71. The group at 72 includes Forrest Blevins,…
The Forsyth Championship begins Friday with three different courses playing host to the 54-hole tournament. A field of close to 90 amateurs will play Tanglewood Park’s Championship Course in the first round and Maple Chase Country Club on Saturday. The field will be cut to the top 16 overall scores for Sunday’s final round at…
Brandon Einstein’s quest at the N.C. Open all came down to an 18-inch-or-so putt on the final hole Thursday at Forsyth Country Club. “I was a little nervous,” admitted the 25-year-old Tanglewood Park associate pro as he recalled standing over his ball on the 18th green. Einstein routinely tapped in the putt for 6-under-par 65,…
Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain went toe-to-toe with the medalist for nine holes Wednesday at The Olympic Club’s Lakes Course before falling 4 and 3 in the first round of match play at the U.S. Amateur. Playing Preston Stout of Oklahoma State, who beat him by 11 strokes over 36 holes of stroke play, Badgett…
It didn’t take an Einstein to come up with the simple plan that’s guided the second-round leader of the N.C. Open. Hit the fairways. Shoot for the middle of the greens. Make a few putts. But execution isn’t as easy. Yet Brandon Einstein went out and did it — twice. The 25-year-old Tanglewood Park pro…