Junior Golf Pyramid By David Droschak Starting your child out in a golf program may not be a simple as it sounds if you’re new to the game. Proper direction from the start could mean all the difference in the world as to whether a 10-year-old falls in love with golf or finds the whole…
By Steve Hanf In the business world, employers expect at least two weeks’ notice before letting someone walk away from their job. Tom Thorpe won’t have it so easy when the time comes to leave the Carolinas Golf Association. “I did tell him one time, ‘I’m gonna need a two-year notice from you before you…
By Steve Hanf At 28 years old, Maggie Watts has grown up in a world with opportunities for females to experience the game of golf. “I grew up in a time that women’s golf and junior girls golf was always included in the overall golf picture,” said Watts, the director of women’s golf with the…
By Steve Hanf Just about everyone who enjoys golf in North Carolina and South Carolina knows about the Carolinas Golf Association. But as Hale B. Van Hoy and Jack Nance worked tirelessly to grow the game of amateur golf in the region, they couldn’t help but have a little fun with the acronym. “We had…
By SEVE HANF Bill Harvey spent a lifetime playing golf in some of the nation’s biggest tournaments. Harvey also spent a lifetime sharing his love of the game with countless others. The last tournament in which Harvey played – in fact, the last time he played golf at all – was in 2006 at a…
By STEVE HANF Steven Brame left his truck in Winston-Salem but returned home to Henderson with a nice consolation prize: his first tournament win at the 53rd North Carolina Amateur Championship of the Carolinas Golf Association. Brame tamed the Forsyth Country Club course with an 11-under total of 273, good for a one-shot win over…
By BOB SUTTON Matt Crenshaw has no visions of turning his breakthrough 2012 season on the amateur circuit into something more lucrative. The Burlington golfer said the run of Carolinas Golf Association championships suits him just fine. Crenshaw is a four-time winner this year, including pulling off a double of individual majors by following June’s…