By David Droschak Lori Beth Adams took quite an unconventional break from the game during the COVID-19 outbreak that halted women’s professional golf for close to five months. The former University of North Carolina-Wilmington star golfer returned to her home in Burlington and helped a family friend from church flip a house in rural Alamance…
By Kurt Dusterberg The clock was ticking on the junior golf career of Mallory Fobes when she teed off at the Dogwood State Junior Girls’ Championship in July. Fobes was playing the final Carolinas Golf Association junior event of her career, having never won a CGA tournament. Trailing by five strokes heading to the final…
By STEVE WILLIAMS A trip into the zone has Lori Beth Adams on the road to the LPGA Tour. The former Western Alamance High School and UNC Wilmington star used an incredible 6-under-par 30 on the back nine of round seven in the LPGA Q-Series as the key to earning full status on the 2019…
By Steve Huffman Think the life of a touring golf professional is glamorous? Then, please, step back and consider a week in the life of Lori Beth Adams. In early August, the 26-year-old Adams, a graduate of Western Alamance High School and UNC Wilmington, competed in the Firekeepers Casino Challenge, a Symetra Tour event played…
By Kurt Dusterberg Rachael Mast spent part of her summer in Puerto Rico on a mission trip with Tyro United Methodist Church. While her group put a new roof on a community center, she gave the walls a fresh coat of paint. “I’m learning a lot about the people here and how God moves in…
By Steve Huffman Lori Beth Adams’ most vivid golfing memories of 2015 had nothing to do with what she did to earn Carolinas Golf Association women’s player of the year honors. It had to do with her practice round at the U.S. Women’s Open, played last July at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pa. Adams…
By Steve Hanf Lori Beth Adams goofed when it came time to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open Championship. “I was supposed to play at the Governors Club site (in Chapel Hill), but I signed up too late and I had to go up to Pennsylvania,” Adams said. “I had never been up to Pennsylvania.”…
By ALEX PODLOGAR It was the fight that made it special. Burlington’s Lori Beth Adams finally won her first collegiate tournament this season as a senior at UNC Wilmington. She has made runs at the Women’s North & South Amateur Championship in Pinehurst before — enough to lament she always felt that the championship…
By STEVE HANF Lecture halls and a pair of exams awaited Payne McLeod on the UNC Wilmington campus. On this late-September school day, though, McLeod soaked up the scenery from the ferry deck. The Hilton Head lighthouse looming over Harbour Town Golf Links. Dolphins frolicking in the distance. A golf course teeming with some of…