Alex Smalley meets with the media while sharing the second-round lead in the PGA Championship. Alex Smalley was largely overlooked and disregarded during much of his first four years on the PGA Tour. And that was just fine with the 29-year-old Wake Forest native and former Duke University golfer, who lives in Jamestown and…
North Carolina and Duke were eliminated Monday from the NCAA Men’s Championship. The Tar Heels tied with three other teams for the final two spots in the eight-team match play format, but lost in a playoff, which had five players from each team play one of the first five holes at Omni La Costa Resort…
Alex Smalley made a charge on the back nine in his second straight final round on the PGA Tour. And for the second straight time, he came up just a little short in a bid to earn his first Tour victory. Trailing by five shots with fewer than nine holes to play Sunday, the Jamestown…
Duke and North Carolina made solid performances Saturday in the second round of stroke play at the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California. Ethan Evans shot 3-under-par 69 and William Love and Bryan Kim shot 71 for the Blue Devils, who are tied for sixth place with Arizona and Virginia at…
Alex Smalley will enter another final round of a PGA Tour event in contention for his first victory. The Jamestown resident shot 1-under-par 69 Saturday to join a tie for fifth place in the Charles Schwab Challenge, three strokes behind leader Eric Cole, who fired 63 to storm from back in the pack to take…
Duke and North Carolina got off to strong starts Friday at the Men’s NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort. Ethan Evans and Bryan Kim each shot 1-under-par 71 for Duke, which shot 2-under 286 as a team, good for a tie for fourth place with San Diego, six shots behind leader UCLA. Auburn is…
Alex Smalley is back in contention to win his first PGA Tour event. The Jamestown resident added 67 Friday to his opening-round 65 at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, to join a tie for sixth place at 8-under-par 132 in the Charles Schwab Challenge. Smalley, the third-round leader in the PGA Championship two…
Duke lost to Southern Cal 3-2 in the quarterfinals of match play Tuesday at the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California. Rianne Malixi, who finished third in stroke play in the 150-player field, and Katie Li claimed easy victories for Duke. USC won the other three by wide margins as none…
Duke finished seventh Monday in stroke play and advanced to the eight-team match play bracket at at the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California. The Blue Devils will play second-seeded Southern Cal in Tuesday’s quarterfinals. In other matches, No. 2 Stanford will play Pepperdine, Arkansas will play Oklahoma State and Texas…
The holes follow the routes they always have since 1985, when Elk River Club unveiled Jack Nicklaus’ first North Carolina Signature Course. But just about everything on the Banner Elk course, ravaged by Hurricane Helene in September 2024, is new. That Elk River looked much the same to me a few days ago as it…