Rich Wills of Cramerton, a rising junior at Clemson, won the 66th North Carolina Amateur Championship Saturday at Bermuda Run’s East Course. Wills shot 6-under-par 66 in the final round for an 12-under 276 total, two shots in front of UNC Charlotte’s Daniel Boone of Fuquay Varina, University of Richmond’s Jack LaPiana of Charlotte and…
Jenna Kim of Raleigh won the Carolinas Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship by three strokes Thursday at Stateville Country Club. Kim, a rising senior at Durham Academy, has committed to play at Yale University. Kim finished at 6-under-par 210 after rounds of 72, 68 and 70. Anna Howerton of Winston-Salem, who plays at High Point…
It’s not Alex Smalley or Cameron Young. But there are golfers with Triad connections within striking range after two rounds at the U.S. Open. Wake Forest native Akshay Bhatia and former Wake Forest golfer Alex Fitzgerald are two of only 21 players to match or break par at the halfway point at windy Shinnecock Hills.…