By Steve Huffman At the still-tender age of 11, Ellen Yu has participated in and won more tournaments than most golfers accomplish in a lifetime. But it doesn’t take her but a moment to rank the importance of her win in the U.S. Kids Golf Foundation’s World Championship, played the first week of August at…
By KURT DUSTERBERG Mary-Frances Hall has a golf game that is college ready. The 18-year-old freshman shot 74-75-149 to take individual medalist honors in a 10-team tournament in early March, winning the event by three strokes. But her growing career won’t make much noise in collegiate golf circles. That’s because she plays an outsize game…
By STEVE WILLIAMS Tanner Owen of High Point has climbed all the way to the No. 2 slot in the North Carolina junior boys rankings and he’s done it with a fantastic fall finish. Owen, a sophomore at Bishop McGuinness High School, captured the Tarheel Youth Golf Association State Championship at Sapona Country Club in…
Womble caps solid summer with Carolinas Junior title ELGIN, S.C. July 27-29 — Davis Womble of High Point captured his second major junior title in the past year when he won the Carolinas Junior Championship at the Members Club at Woodcreek Farms. Womble, who won the Donald Ross Junior last December, used his latest…
The American Junior Golf Association will be making its first stop in Forsyth County this August on the famed Tanglewood Championship Course. The event came together through the work of AccuSport of Winston-Salem and former Wake Forest star Webb Simpson, now a member of the PGA Tour. The event, the AccuSport Championship hosted by Webb…
Chapel Hill, NC – The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour hosted the UNC Finley Classic this weekend at UNC Finley GC. At the end of two days, Sarah Bae of Raleigh, NC emerged as the champion posting three under – 69 on Sunday to win by 8 shots. Bae’s victory was her first…
Thirteen year old, Lyberty Anderson shoots 71 in the final round to win by two shots. Young Gun Girls shine in Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tours’ first Major Southern Pines, NC – The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour played its first major of the 2010 season this weekend at Pine Needles Lodge…