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.…
A Triad golf course, closed for more than three weeks after heavy rain, is in “great shape” after opening to the public a week ago. Mill Creek Golf Club in Mebane suffered water damage during a storm on July 6-7. TriadGolf.com was told that a temporary bridge over the creek is in operation at No.…
Scottie Pearman, a Randleman native, won the World Long Drive Association Elite Division title on Sunday at the Bluff City Shootout near Memphis, Tennessee, with a drive of 357 yards, beating Colton Casto of Hobe Sound, Florida, in the finals. The victory was the first on the WLD tour this year for Pearman, who has…
It’s Monday (late night) so time for What’s Going on in Triad Golf? With Chris Kirk’s tie for fifth at the Wyndham Championship, the Ryder Cup approaching and U.S. captain Keegan Bradley here at Sedgefield, I came up with a hope for the future. When Scheffler captains a future U.S. team — very likely —…
With his easy victory Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club, Cameron Young didn’t leave any doubt. Maybe there shouldn’t have been any doubters. With one round to play at the Wyndham Championship, the tournament’s most-popular topic seemed to be whether Young could win a PGA Tour event. After all, in his 93 previous attempts, he’d finished…