By William Fowler Ryan Wilson is the new CEO of the First Tee – Central Carolina, the organization where he started his professional career in 2011. Wilson, who played golf at High Point Central High and High Point University, worked with the local First Tee organization from 2011 until 2015. “I’m so thankful to be…
By Steve Huffman Gillespie Golf Course is recognized as a tight nine-hole tract, as good a municipal course as you’ll find. It’s also recognized as the site of one of the battles in the civil rights movement, a place where a group of black men sought to integrate a course they weren’t allowed to play.…
By Steve Huffman Jim Melvin grew up across the street from Gillespie Park Elementary School, an area of east Greensboro that in the early 1930s remained largely rural. Melvin, now 82, recalled that, “When I was about 7, I watched them build a golf course.” It was a project that was to become Gillespie…
By Brad King The First Tee has steadily blossomed into a robust national organization that has impacted, influenced and inspired more than 9 million young golfers. Locally, however, when Mike Barber took the reigns as The First Tee of the Triad President and CEO in October 2011, the organization was represented at just three locations with…