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State’s golfers often hit creeks and pine

Course Features, Featured NewsBy TG_Admin01 June 1, 2014

BY ED DUPREE If you’ve played a lot of golf courses in North Carolina, you’ve probably been “up the Creek” a few times. That’s because “Creek” appears in the names of the Tarheel State’s courses more than any other word – 43 times. Second is “Pine” with 35 times with the majority of those…

Yadkin Valley Golf Grapes Great Views

Course Features, Destinations, Featured NewsBy TG_Admin01 October 10, 2012

By DAVID DROSCHAK Even though Ed Shelton describes himself as “a reformed golfer” who hasn’t picked up a club in 15 years he was all ears when Yadkin Valley tourism officials approached him about partnering golf with the area’s surging wine industry. After all, Shelton is an astute businessman, who along with brother Charlie has…