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…
Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain emerged from a 20 players for 17 spots playoff Wednesday morning to qualify for match play competition at the U.S. Amateur. But it wasn’t easy. He got the last spot. Badgett bogeyed the second playoff hole, No. 10 at The Olympic Club’s Lake Course, to clinch a berth. Badgett had…
Two Triad golfers shared the lead Tuesday after the first round of the North Carolina Open at Forsyth Country Club. Instructors Matt Fry of West End and Brandon Einstein of Clemmons shot 5-under 66 to led the 156-player field. Other familiar Triad faces near the top of the leaderboard included Charlotte senior John Faidley, a…
(Updates with 20 players at 143 set for Wednesday morning playoff for 17 spots in match play) Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain is in for a long Tuesday night in San Francisco capped by a possible playoff involving several players at the U.S. Amateur. The rising senior at East Surry High shot 2-over-par 72 at…
Pennson Badgett put himself in good position at the U.S. Amateur despite a shaky finish Monday afternoon at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. The rising senior at East Surry High shot 1-over-par 71 on the Ocean Course, leaving him in a tie for 38th place out of 312 players in the field. The top…
Many of the state’s top club pros, instructors and amateurs are in the Triad this week for the North Carolina Open, which begins Tuesday at one of the region’s top courses. The 156-player field will tackle the par-71, 6,793-yard Donald Ross design for 54 holes in the Carolinas PGA event at Forsyth Country Club. Greensboro…
Fresh off a high-profile performance in a national junior tournament, a Triad golfer will tee it up Monday in the most prestigious amateur tournament. Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain has a 2:10 p.m. PDT tee time at The Olympic Club’s Ocean Course in the first round of qualifying at the U.S. Amateur in San Francisco.…