Dustin Johnson received a special invitation to play in the PGA Championship next week at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, according to the field released Tuesday by the PGA of America. Johnson, a Columbia, South Carolina native, plays on the LIV Tour and does not meet any of the criteria for entry. Johnson’s five-year exemption for…
The Wake Forest women’s golf team is seeded No. 2 behind Texas in the May 5-7 NCAA Regional in Lubbock, Texas, in assignments announced by the NCAA. Julia McLaughlin of High Point University, the individual champion of the Big South Conference tournament, will play in Lubbock as an individual. The top five teams and the…
The golf cart accident that killed John Elway’s agent Jeff Sperbeck over the weekend was a tragic fluke. But it should serve as a reminder that golf carts can be dangerous if driver and passenger are not careful. As someone who spent eight hours in an emergency room with a broken nose and ripped rotator…
Wake Forest, Elon, North Carolina, N.C. State, Duke and UNC Charlotte each received bids Wednesdayto the NCAA Men’s Regionals. The six regionals will be held May 12-14 with the top five teams and top individuals advancing to the NCAA Championship. Wake, the seventh-ranked team in its regional led by LSU, and UNC Greensboro’s Colin Dutton,…
The course commonly regarded as the second-best layout at Pinehurst Resort will close for the summer. Pinehurst announced Tuesday that the resort’s No. 4 course, reopened in 2018 after a redesign by Gil Hanse, will close beginning May 19 for greens restoration. The expected reopening date is Aug. 7. The resort said No. 4’s Ultradwarf…
Virginia rallied down the stretch to beat North Carolina 3-2 Monday afternoon to win the ACC Match Play Championship at The Club at Olde Stone in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Virginia’s Bryan Lee rallied from a two-hole deficit to win four of the last five holes and beat Maxwell Ford in the deciding match. David Ford…
Colin Dutton on UNC Greensboro was the medalist Tuesday at the Southern Conference Championship at Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Georgia, earning an automatic bid into the NCAA Regionals. Dutton, who grew up in the Pinehurst area and transferred to UNCG after three seasons at Wingate University, shot 69, 66 and 71 for a 10-under-par 206…
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw will design Pinehurst No. 11 adjacent to the No. 10 course, Pinehurst Resort announced in a Monday release. Construction is scheduled to begin later this year with opening expected in 2027. The course will sit on a 900-acre site along N.C. 5, about 10 minutes south of Pinehurst’s first five…
UNC Greensboro took the lead Sunday after the first round of the 54-hole Southern Conference men’s tournament at The Oconee Course in Greensboro, Georgia. Jake Lewis shot 4-under-par 68, two shots off the lead, for the Spartans, whose five players each shot 70 or better. Colin Dutton shot 69 and Kelvin Hernandez, Jack Marcotte and…
Macy Pate and Carolina Lopez-Chacarra led the way as Wake Forest claimed a fourth-place finish Thursday in stroke play at the ACC Women’s Championship at Sedgefield Country Club. Chacarra shot a bogey-free, 4-under-par 68 and Pate fired 69 and second-round substitute Sarah Lydic, 3-under for 36 holes, shot 71 for the Demon Deacons, who shot…