Pennson Badgett of Pilot Mountain is tied for fifth Wednesday entering the third round of the Junior PGA Championship Boys Division at the Brick Boilermaker Complex on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. Badgett, a rising senior at East Surry High and a University of Tennessee commitment, has carded rounds of 69 and…
Jordan Spieth doesn’t have to finish in the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings to play in next year’s PGA Tour “signature events.” As he proved this year, his star status is enough to warrant sponsor exemptions. But as Spieth told reporters Wednesday at Sedgefield Country Club on the eve of the Wyndham Championship,…
Spectators who want to watch Jordan Spieth, Akshay Bhatia and Adam Scott play their first round Thursday in the Wyndham Championship better get to Sedgefield Country Club early. Playing in one of a handful of featured threesomes, Spieth, Bhatia and Scott will tee off at 7:23 a.m. on No. 10. Other Thursday pairings expected to…
The field of 156 for the Wyndham Championship was filled Monday when recent Wake Forest standout Scotty Kennon, Austin Duncan, Stephen Franken and Tain Lee all shot 6-under 65 at Bermuda Run East to earn the four Monday qualifying spots for this week’s tournament at Sedgefield Country Club. The tournament’s three unrestricted sponsor exemptions are…
Note: Wyndham Clark withdrew from the tournament since this story was written Who’s going to win this year’s Wyndham Championship? Does anybody claim to have picked Aaron Rai last year or Lucas Glover the year before? TriadGolf.com will give it a shot, or at least a prediction of likely contenders. I had to make some…
Lincoln Newton won what turned out to be a father-son battle down the stretch to claim his second straight Triad Amateur championship Sunday at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek Course. The 18-year-old rising senior at Oak Grove High birdied Nos. 15, 16 and 17 to overtake his father Scott Newton and Jamal Hutchison of…
Brant Stovall of Germanton shot 4-under-par 67 Saturday at Lexington Golf Club to take the lead after the first round of the Dugan Aycock Davidson County Amateur. Michael Swaringen of Rowan County shot 69 for second place. Justin Long was third with 71. Isaac Spencer and Tyler Lambert shot 72. The final round will begin…
Credit the Wyndham Championship’s position at the end of the PGA Tour regular-season schedule for continuing to bolster the field for the Triad’s annual Tour stop this coming week at Sedgefield Country Club. As the last chance for players to reach the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings and qualify for the playoffs —…
Pinehurst Resort will be the site of the first Titleist retail shop in the U.S., according to The Pilot newspaper. Titleist will occupy the current Padgett Learning Facility near the driving range at the clubhouse for courses Nos. 1-5. The shop will be open to the public.
A pair of major 36-hole amateur tournaments will take place this weekend. More than 70 players have entered the Triad Amateur, scheduled to begin Saturday at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek Course. Also beginning Saturday, The Dugan Aycock Davidson County Amateur has 76 players entered at Lexington Golf Club. TriadGolf.com will provide daily coverage…