By David Droschak The most sinking feeling in all of golf is watching a perfectly good ball – maybe one you’ve hit just a few times – dive head-first into a lake, never to be found. Think again. There’s a better than even chance your Titleist, Callaway or Nike will not only be recovered,…
Taelor Rubin captures Twin States Junior title BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. – Taelor Rubin of Raleigh led wire-to-wire and claimed her first Carolinas Golf Association junior title when she won the 44th Twin State Junior Girls Championship. Rubin, a rising senior at Cary Academy, fired a 2-under-par 70 and grabbed a one-shot lead in the opening round…
Mental Minute Outcome Goals (OG) Vs Intention Goals (IG), know the difference, your game depends on it! OGs help you develop a long-term vision for your game. They should not be used for a particular round of golf. OGs raise anxiety because the outcome you seek is often out of your comfort zone. Setting OGs…
By David Droschak There’s something special about a son following in his father’s footsteps, or in the case of the Maples family its love affair with a special Virginia mountain retreat that now runs three generations deep. Dan Maples remembers vividly his first job after graduating from the University of Georgia in landscape architecture,…
By Kurt Dusterberg When Rob Nelson arrived at Croasdaile Country Club, he was ready for a new experience. As it turns out, life beyond the golf course has some perks, too. Nelson took over at the beginning of March as the head golf professional at the private Durham club, replacing Cole Huckabee, who oversaw…
You have to dig a little deeper and do some extra research to uncover Chuck Smith’s name when it comes to Triangle golf course design, but his architectural influence and land planning expertise reaches from Clayton to Durham, with numerous stops in between. Smith’s resume “officially” lists just three golf courses – including River…
Sarah Bae has been on a steady climb in the state’s junior golf ranks for the last couple of years. After helping Athens Drive High School to the state 4-A team championship last fall as a freshman, Bae has continued her strong play, garnering four victories this year. She won the Peggy Kirk Bell…
Katherine Perry is closing out an amazing run in junior golf on top. Perry, who will be a freshman at North Carolina this fall, added to her long list of junior achievements on June 25 by winning the N.C. Junior Girls Championship at Forest Oaks Country Club. She capped a three-day run of five…
Outcome Goals (OG) Vs Intention Goals (IG), know the difference, your game depends on it! OGs help you develop a long-term vision for your game. They should not be used for a particular round of golf. OGs raise anxiety because the outcome you seek is often out of your comfort zone. Setting OGs for a…
By CARTER CHEVES It’s hard to imagine someone at the age of 12 at a crossroads in their life, but Taelor Rubin was once there. When she was cut from her seventh-grade soccer team, she was initially devastated, but turns out she was also very resilient, albeit in a new direction. “When I…