The Cardinal by Pete Dye now accepting public play

        By Brad King One of the Triad’s most renowned, challenging — and formerly private — golf experiences is now accessible by the public. At the beginning of March, owner McConnell Golf announced that it would be transitioning the Sedgefield Country Club Dye Course near Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro into a semi-private facility. McConnell Golf also…

Triad superintendents battle … years of extremes

        By BRAD KING McConnell Golf recently held its annual executive meeting in which administrators from the company’s growing stable of clubs made a variety of presentations to the group covering numerous club-related topics. Michael Shoun, the director of agronomy, titled his presentation, “The Year of Extremes.” Golf course superintendents like Shoun are the caretakers of…

Renowned Donald Ross design becomes McConnell Golf’s seventh course in Carolinas

        McConnell Golf, LLC has announced the purchase of its seventh premier golf club in the Carolinas, Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., a renowned Donald Ross design and site of PGA TOUR’s Wyndham Championship.  Sedgefield CC’s membership debated the possible sale throughout most of 2010, and after considering all options decided that the sale to…