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…
2010 North Carolina All State Boys Team West End, NC—30 boys have been named to the 2010 N.C. Boys’ All-State Golf Teams by the Carolinas Golf Association and the Tarheel Youth Golf Association honoring those junior golfers who have had the most success in amateur and junior golf events at the local, state, regional and…
N.C. junior golf’s best honored by the Carolinas Golf Association and the Tarheel Youth Golf Association West End, NC—Sarah Bae of Cary and Davis Womble of High Point have been named the 2010 N.C. Junior Players of the Year by the Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA) and the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA). The N.C.…
Pinehurst No. 2, the site of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open in consecutive weeks in 2014, will close in the winter as the final stages of the course’s restoration project are completed. The famed course, designed by legendary architect Donald Ross, will close Nov. 16 and reopen sometime in March 2011, Pinehurst…
Wilson Day has had a tremendous year by any measuring stick. Top-10s in some of the biggest junior tournaments around, along with a tie for eighth in the Carolinas Amateur highlight his 2010 accomplishments. But he didn’t have a victory until September when he won the Joe Cheves Junior Invitational with an amazing comeback that…
By STEVE WILLIAMS Pittsboro Northwood has made another step forward in establishing its position among the best 3-A teams in the state. The Chargers finished eighth with an all-freshman lineup in 2008, moved up to fifth in 2009 and climbed another notch to fourth this time around. They will have their sights set on challenging…
By STEVE HANF Tony Alcon watched his Athens Drive girls soar to new heights the last two years. The Jaguars flew so high, in fact, that the coach could only marvel at the depths of despair experienced at the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A Championship on Nov. 1. “To be heartbroken over a second-place…