By David Droschak Harrah’s Cherokee Casino is growing faster than a spinning slot machine reel. The resort destination bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has a new luxury hotel that towers over the town of Cherokee, it recently opened a pair of 1,900-square-foot high roller suites on the 21st floor and a Ruth’s Chris…
Complete High School Coverage By David Droschak It’s understandable that Ben Griffin relates better to Justin Bieber than Justin Rose. North Carolina’s new 4-A individual golf champion turned 15 years old just five days before stunning a talented field at Pinehurst No. 6, a group of golfers that included Grayson Murray (who is headed to…
By Kurt Dusterberg For Angela Stewart, golf was a last-resort sport. “I got too old to play softball,” she said with a laugh. Year after year, Stewart was a regular on the rec league ball fields of Greenville, N.C. When she tore her ACL at 38, it was time to leave the diamond life behind.…
What do you do after you hit a disappointing shot? If you are like most golfers, you’ll try to figure out what went wrong. After a few disappointments you may even start to get mad at yourself, and the downward spiral begins. Do you spend as much time focusing on and enjoying the good shots? Probably not.…
By KURT DUSTERBERG For many of us, working on our golf game means a trip to the driving range. You pull out the BIG STICK, rip a few to the other end of the range, and feel like you’re in good form. David Orr is here to tell you what you probably already know, deep…
By David Droschak Developers of the newest golf course in the Sandhills joke that “one foot of dirt” was moved to build Dormie Club. While that’s a slight exaggeration and virtually unheard of in today’s “bulldozer age” of golf course design, Dormie Club’s natural setting really is a throwback layout in the ilk of British…
By JAY ALLRED For close to a century, High Hampton Inn & Country Club, surrounded by the eternal beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Cashiers, has been hosting generation-after-generation of golfers and vacationers who return to rejuvenate their souls and reconnect amidst the 1,400-acre playground. This rustic resort is, arguably, one of America’s top…
By David Droschak Cheyenne Woods was facing the exact same scenario as a year ago, tied for the lead after shooting the same scores, on the same golf course, with the same goal at stake – the ACC Women’s Individual Golf Championship. This time around, the niece of Tiger Woods was determined not to let…
VILLAGE OF PINEHURST, N.C. (March 14, 2011) – PCC Realty LLC, which is controlled by the owners of Pinehurst Resort, today announced that it will not reopen the newly-acquired Pit Golf Links at least for the remainder of 2011. After an extensive review, PPC officials determined that in lieu of current economic conditions and the required…
By David Droschak The work is complete …. Now the reviews start. In what some have described as a bold move after two successful U.S. Opens and a unique USGA double-header on the horizon in 2014, Pinehurst Resort is ready to unveil the throwback design of its classic No. 2 course to the golfing…