By Steve Huffman Ralph James will occasionally be golfing with someone he’s just met, not one of his longtime partners. They’ll play a few holes, with James smacking his 240-yard drives down the center of the fairway, with his chipping and putting games little short of superb. Before long, the newcomer will have seen enough.…
By Brad King Longtime Wake Forest women’s golf coach Dianne Dailey said she plans on knocking the rust off her clubs in retirement. “I’d like to actually play a little bit more golf, just because I haven’t had a chance to play much,” she said. “Maybe if I can get my game back in shape…
By David Droschak The oldest town in Yadkin County features quite a golfing throwback. Barry Byrd, the owner of Tee Time Golf & Repair Shop in Jonesville, has amassed what can best be described as a “picker’s paradise,” with more than 400 sets of used irons, 500 putters, and 1,000 woods and hybrids to fit…
By Brad King Fittingly in many ways, legendary Wake Forest University golf coach Jesse Haddock passed away during the week of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Though he never coached Palmer during his historic, three-decade stint at Wake Forest, the program Haddock inherited in 1960 always benefited from The King’s cachet. Shortly after assuming control of…
By Kurt Dusterberg It would be easy to write off 81-year-old John Gerring as an old-school teaching guru, a throwback to a bygone era. But Gerring hopes you will hear him out. After 55 years as a PGA professional, he knows what works, even if his instruction doesn’t involve whistles and bells. That’s by design;…
By STEVE HANF In the Triad, Lanny Wadkins is best remembered for his 1983 victory in the Greater Greensboro Open and endless trips around Forest Oaks Country Club. What many local golf fans may have forgotten is that Wadkins played his first six Greensboro PGA Tour events at Sedgefield Country Club, including his very first…
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By BRAD KING Well known in the Triad during her college career by her maiden name, Laura Philo, the Wake Forest hall-of-famer was a two-time first team All-American and the 1996-97 Marge Crisp Award winner as the school’s top female athlete. Laura Diaz has gone on to become the most successful Demon Deacon in LPGA…
By MARC PRUITT To listen to Bermuda Run’s Zach Brown tell you how he recently won “just another tournament,” you can hear the humility that one of his coaches, John Buczek, boasts about. When you’ve won 80 or so tournaments during your career, maybe it was “just another tournament.” But it wasn’t. Brown won the…
Perry Maxwell’s 1939 course at Old Town Club to reopen this summer By BRAD KING Bill Coore is standing on the first tee box at Winston-Salem’s Old Town Club pointing toward a trio of bunkers flanking the right side of the opening fairway. On an unseasonably cool, spring morning, the soft-spoken, 67-year-old golf course architect –…