A handful of pro golfers from North Carolina are having outstanding years on the PGA Tour. But who is the best? That’s a tough question. We can’t make a decision based on major championship victories. Despite the high volume of pro golfers from the Tar Heel State only three Raymond Floyd, Davis Love III and…
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.…
I spent most of the last week in Missouri attending a family wedding. So I had the chance to play one of the courses I played when home on college breaks. In the early 80s, Lake Saint Louis Golf Course had the best nine holes in then-exurban St. Charles County, outside of St. Louis. And…
Jackson Ormond of Webster, New York, shot 6-under-par 64 Tuesday at Sedgefield Country Club to take the first-round lead in the AJGA Wyndham Invitational. Jessy Huebner of Port St. Lucie, Florida, shot 65 for second with four players tied at 67. Twelve of the 73 players in the field broke par on the 6,900-yard course.…
The Sedgefield Country Club course is my favorite Donald Ross design. And yes, I’ve played Pinehurst No. 2 several times, as well as East Lake, Linville, Pine Needles, Mid Pines and several other celebrated Ross layouts in the Southeast and Northeast. This past week, I enjoyed another opportunity to play Sedgefield and my opinion became…
For much of the weekend, Hickory’s J.T. Poston seemed in control in The Memorial at Muirfield Village Golf Club. But a dramatic duel between two North Carolina natives emerged out of a five-way tie with three holes to play. Poston won by sinking a 3-foot par putt Sunday on the second playoff hole. Raleigh’s Ryan…
Alex Smalley showed up Friday at Muirfield Village for the second round of The Memorial. And he passed Rickie Fowler on the scoreboard. But not anybody else. The Jamestown resident and former Duke star shot 76 to miss the cut, finishing 71st in the 72-player field. It would have been easy for Smalley to leave…
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…