Tim Cate has quickly become the golf architect of choice along the southern North Carolina coast. Cate’s most recent design, Cape Fear National atBrunswick Forest, located about five miles south of Wilmington off U.S. Highway 17 South, had its ribbon-cutting ceremony in mid-April and opened for public play. It costs $75 for local golfers,…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Golf requires unwavering patience and practice. It takes a special person, one with a vision for teaching and a passion for the sport, to deal on a daily basis with kids and teen-agers, whose minds tend to wonder and concentration becomes an ongoing challenge in a game that’s based as much…
A spot in the Nationwide Tour’s Rex Hospital Open on May 20-23 will be awarded to the winner of the Rex Hospital Junior Invitational. The junior event, presented for the first time by the Tarheel Golf Foundation, will be played May 15-16 with the first round at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course and the second…
Hitting great golf shots and playing in the zone requires the ability to move from thinking to doing. This most often occurs when you have a relaxed and positive mind-set. To ensure that this is the case you must be careful of what you are thinking. Limiting Thoughts (LT) such as, “I always struggle on…
A downward turn in the economy had people digging deeper into the coupon pile, driving a few extra miles to save 10 cents a gallon on gas and begging for bargains during the Christmas holidays. And with rounds of golf leveling off in the Triangle during cost cutting times, more than a few eyebrows…
By David Droschak The last time North Carolinians were captivated by the state of Mississippi was during Hurricane Katrina, which blew away lavish casinos, leveled homes and basically stunned a region along the Gulf of Mexico that over the last decade had begun carving a unique golfing travel destination niche. Often overshadowed along…
North Carolina State’s golf team has been invaded by a rampaging bunch of Canadians, an Ontario trio that is tearing up the Lonnie Poole Golf Course on the back lot of the school’s Centennial Campus. One of them, NCAA champion Matt Hill, is well-known to local fans, since he had perhaps the greatest season…
Who needs the PGA Tour? For a dozen years, amateur golfers in the Triangle have played their own tour, without having to travel to such outposts as Verona, N.Y., Humble, Texas, and Quad Cities. Instead, the eGolf Amateur Golf Tour takes golfers to Greensboro and Pinehurst, to Clemmons and Raleigh and many…
Andy Knox of Cary earned player of the year honors and was one of two North Carolina players to make the All-Carolinas team for 2009. The announcement was made in December, just a few days after Knox was also named to the Carolinas Golf Association’s All-State team. Knox, who will play collegiately at UNC Greensboro,…
For a golfer to be told that a stiff club shaft no longer suits his swing can be a humbling experience. After all, stiff shafts are often equated with power and distance. “It’s an ego thing,” said Chris Sweeney, 45, territory sales manager for Mizuno, who was encouraged to switch from playing a Dynamic Gold…