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…
Three Wyndham Championship Youth Golf Clinics, presented by Sunbrella®, are set for Monday August 15 and Tuesday August 16. The first youth golf clinic is set for Monday, Aug. 15 at 11 a.m. at Winston Lake Golf Course in Winston-Salem. PGA TOUR golfer Joe Bramlett will attend this clinic. Bramlett played through three rounds of PGA…