By DAVID DROSCHAK We’ve grown accustomed to golf industry rhetoric promising playable courses and timely rounds, only to be faced with a half-dozen lost Titleists and over-crowded layouts, prompting repeated calls to the wife pleading our innocence as 18 holes stretches into a fifth hour. Having headed to The Heritage Golf Club in Wake Forest…
Even a course as revered and respected as Pinehurst No. 2 failed to escape the golfing excesses of the 1990s, when the universal theme was large expansive layouts with plenty of green grass. Well, that’s all about to change at the famed Donald Ross layout over the next 12 months as the architectural team of…
Tim Cate has quickly become the golf architect of choice along the southern North Carolina coast. Cate’s most recent design, Cape Fear National atBrunswick Forest, located about five miles south of Wilmington off U.S. Highway 17 South, had its ribbon-cutting ceremony in mid-April and opened for public play. It costs $75 for local golfers, which…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Golf requires unwavering patience and practice. It takes a special person, one with a vision for teaching and a passion for the sport, to deal on a daily basis with kids and teen-agers, whose minds tend to wonder and concentration becomes an ongoing challenge in a game that’s based as much on…
A spot in the Nationwide Tour’s Rex Hospital Open on May 20-23 will be awarded to the winner of the Rex Hospital Junior Invitational. The junior event, presented for the first time by the Tarheel Golf Foundation, will be played May 15-16 with the first round at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course and the second…
Hitting great golf shots and playing in the zone requires the ability to move from thinking to doing. This most often occurs when you have a relaxed and positive mind-set. To ensure that this is the case you must be careful of what you are thinking. Limiting Thoughts (LT) such as, “I always struggle on…