Wake Forest was a victim of ACC expansion over the weekend at the ACC Women’s Championship. Newcomers Stanford and Southern Methodist claimed the top spots at Porter’s Neck Country Club in Wilmington. Stanford won the team title in match play after defeating SMU in stroke play. The Cardinal shot 33-under-par 831 on the Tom Fazio…
(This is the first of a new weekly feature on TriadGolf.com. Each weekend, editor/publisher John Brasier will share his experience that week playing at a Triad course open to the public.) If you play golf and live in the Triad, you’ve almost certainly played the Champions Course at Bryan Park. The Rees Jones design, host…
With its landmark, red-and-white striped lighthouse standing only yards behind its 18th green along the Calibogue Sound, Harbour Town Golf Links has long been a beacon of golf in the Carolinas. Now, approaching 60 years old, the Pete Dye/Jack Nicklaus design reopened in November on Hilton Head Island after a subtle, but effective facelift from…
Elon University has reopened its Holland House as the home of its men’s and women’s golf programs. Donors provided $3 million fir the expansion of the university’s golf complex, which includes the W. Cecil Worsley III Golf Training Center. Holland House has new practice and team spaces, and state-of-the-art technology. The complex expansion project also…
In August, Cameron Young won his first PGA Tour title in the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield. In March, he won the Players Championship, the most-prestigious non-major tournament. And on Sunday, the former Wake Forest golfer will go head-to-head with defending champion Rory McIlroy in the final round of the Masters on the hallowed grounds of…
Rory McIlroy may be dominating the Masters, but a player with Triad connections has been the early Masters of Augusta National’s most famous stretch of holes. Wake Forest alumnus Cameron Young has played holes 12 through 15 at 7 under par through the first two rounds. Young, who won the 2025 Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield…
A new six-hole Triad course is expected to open in the next few days. Old Field, the par-3 course built adjacent to Collin Creek Golf Club outside Mocksville, is tentatively planned to open April 10 to private play, an employee at the pro shop serving both courses told TriadGolf.com. The course will later open to…
Anna Howerton of Winston-Salem rebounded from a tough weekend to shoot 68 Monday and spark High Point to a fourth-place finish in a 16-team field at the Terps Invitational at the University of Maryland Golf Course. Howerton, who shot 80 in the second round, made five birdies in the final round to finish at 7-over…
Tiger Woods won’t be at Augusta this week. As is the case whenever Tiger gets in trouble, he has gone away to some secret place where he can recover and try to let the trouble blow over. He’ll be back, though few outside his close circle know what’s really behind his impaired driving troubles that…
The final-day charge Alex Smalley needed to win and earn a spot in the Masters never materialized Sunday at the Valero Texas Open. The Jamestown golfer, who played at Duke, finished with two rounds of 71 for 10-under-par 278 to finish in a tie for 14th place seven shots behind winner J.J. Spaun. Smalley entered…