Adam Alfieri finished his senior year of high school golf on quite a roll. The Carrboro standout won the Mid-State 2-A Conference individual title, placed sixth in the Mideast Regional and capped it off with a top-10 effort in the 2-A state championship at Foxfire Resort’s Gray Fox Course. Alfieri, who missed his junior season…
Franklin Academy in Wake Forest placed second in the Mideast Regional with four golfers finishing in the top 10, but didn’t fare so well at the 1-A state high school championship at Longleaf Golf and Country Club. The Patriots placed seventh – 64 shots behind winner Mount Airy. Grant Lewis was the only player to…
Wake Forest signee rallies team with “dream finish” Few high school golfers will ever get to live a script like the one that played out over the final few holes of the North Carolina Men’s 4-A Golf Championship. It was truly a dream finish for Pinecrest senior Eric Bae, who will play college golf at…
Resort’s Centennial Course celebrates 20th anniversary By DAVID DROSCHAK A lot has happened since Pinehurst Resort honored its 100th anniversary two decades ago with the opening of its eighth golf layout – also known as the Centennial Course. Pinehurst brass Robert Dedman Sr. and Don Padgett Sr. are no longer with us, neither is golfing…
By Kurt Dusterberg Emily Brooks would like to become a household name in golf circles. In the meantime, she has the most famous silhouette in the sport. Brooks is a senior at Elon University, and much to her surprise, her image adorns the 2016 United States Golf Association rule book. “My dad and my grandfather…
By BRAD KING Despite having already captured two previous Rex Hospital Opens, Kyle Thompson admitted he was a desperate man fighting for survival as he headed into last year’s Web.com Tour event at Raleigh’s TPC Wakefield Plantation. Thompson entered the 2015 tournament on a past champion’s exemption. His name was nowhere to be found on…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Dan Brooks chuckles some when asked about his early days as Duke’s women’s golf coach. “I actually came into this not wanting to be a coach, I wanted to be a teacher, and my ego was huge and I wanted to be THE teacher,” said Brooks, who has now coached the ultra…
By DAVID DROSCHAK With more than 300 private clubs scattered across the world – and its fair share in the Triangle and the state of North Carolina (and still growing each year) – tackling a story on the far-reaching affect of ClubCorp’s network can be a bit overwhelming. Sure, the firm has golf clubs in…
North Carolina’s juniors won bragging rights over their rivals from South Carolina and Georgia in the 8th annual Carolinas-Georgia Junior Championship. The event features the top 20 boys and top 10 girls from each of the three states, and is annually played in mid-January at Mount Vintage Plantation Golf Club in North Augusta, S.C. A…
By STUART HALL Last summer, as Jordan Spieth turned his attention toward preparation for the Open Championship, the third leg of his Grand Slam pursuit, his approach raised a few eyebrows. Though Spieth had played St. Andrews’ Old Course only once — in 2011 prior to the Walker Cup as an amateur — he chose not to…