Statewide organizations report spike in participation By Brad King No need to squint to find something or someone discussing the decline of golf. Rounds are down, they say. Courses are closing. The game can’t attract millennials because it’s slow and takes too long. Everywhere you look it’s doom-and-gloom. Tiger Woods is now raising young kids…
Former NW Guilford star captures N.C. Junior Championship By Steve Huffman Grant Powell got an early introduction to the game of golf. He was 1 when he started picking up clubs and swinging them as he toddled along. When Powell was just 7, he won the first-ever tournament he entered, shooting a 41 on nine…
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 Steve Huffman Scott Harvey was recently named Carolinas Golf Association player of the year for the fifth consecutive time, so it would be easy to assume the honor is becoming old hat. Not at all, according to the 37-year-old Greensboro resident. “I’m still trying to get my head around it,” Harvey said of the…
By MICHAEL GRAFF A dozen years ago, Scott Harvey was living out his dream of playing golf professionally, and he hated it. Harvey was on a professional mini-tour, traveling all around the country and competing against several other dreamers like him. The thing about dreamers, though, is that they aren’t always friendly, particularly in a…