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…
By Kurt Dusterberg When your golf game goes south, sometimes you don’t want take responsibility for all those double bogeys. It’s not me, you rationalize. It’s my equipment. And you might be right. As technology has advanced, so has the business of custom fitting golf clubs. Tee to Green Practice Range and Golf Shop in…
By DAVID DROSCHAK It has been 13 years since the passing of real estate mogul Joseph Koury, but Mo Milani can rattle off stories about the early development of Grandover Resort on demand, offering vivid details of long walks the two shared, covering every piece of dirt, every plan, and every idea for the…
Bob Boyd, one of the most accomplished golfers in the history of the Carolinas PGA Section, recently lost his five-year battle with leukemia. He was 55. Nicknamed “Big Pro” and playing out of Wilmington, Boyd won 26 individual and 20 team major Section championships, and was named Carolinas PGA Section Player of the Year a…
McConnell Golf, LLC has announced the purchase of its seventh premier golf club in the Carolinas, Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., a renowned Donald Ross design and site of PGA TOUR’s Wyndham Championship. Sedgefield CC’s membership debated the possible sale throughout most of 2010, and after considering all options decided that the sale to…
We ended last season by posing the question: Is seeing believing, or is believing seeing? Let me start this golf year in the same vein: If you are serious about improving your game, regardless of your mechanical skills, you must find a way to be comfortable with uncertainty. The need to get a certain result…