The Triangle’s Big 3 ACC golf programs received their May 11-13 NCAA regional assignments Wednesday with North Carolina and Duke required to make long journeys. The Tar Heels are the No. 2 seed behind Texas at the Texas A&M Regional at Traditions Club. The Blue Devils will go to Arizona as the No. 5 seed…
North Carolina women’s golf programs were given their assignments Tuesday for the six NCAA regionals on May 11-13. UNC, N.C. State and High Point will play at Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, where the Tar Heels are the No. 2 seed behind Texas. Wake Forest will serve as No. 2 seed behind Florida State…
Wake Forest struggled in the final round Saturday and failed to make the match-play bracket at the ACC Men’s Championship at Shark’s Tooth Golf Club at Lake Powell, Florida. Wake tied with Duke for the eighth and final match-play slot, but lost a playoff. Stanford finished 20-under-par 844 to win the stroke-play format, 16…
Southern Methodist and Stanford dominated the first day of the ACC Men’s Golf Championship Thursday at Shark’s Tooth Golf Club in Lake Powell, Florida. Stanford shot 13-under-par 275 to grab a 10-stroke lead over second-place Wake Forest on Thursday. Led by 66 from SMU’s William Sides, the Cardinal and the Mustangs held the top four…
High Point University’s women team needed almost every bit of daylight Wednesday at Fripp Island Resort’s Ocean Creek Course near Beaufort, South Carolina. Anaïs Arafi of HPU beat Breanna Hoese on the fourth extra hole in the deciding match as HPU edged UNC Asheville 3-2 in the championship round of match play. Arafi rallied from…
Elon University has reopened its Holland House as the home of its men’s and women’s golf programs. Donors provided $3 million fir the expansion of the university’s golf complex, which includes the W. Cecil Worsley III Golf Training Center. Holland House has new practice and team spaces, and state-of-the-art technology. The complex expansion project also…
Macy Pate will play on golf’s biggest stage in competition Saturday. The Winston-Salem native, a junior at Wake Forest, sneaked inside the cut line Thursday at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur to earn a tee time in Friday’s final round at Augusta National Golf Club. NBC will televise the final round from noon to 3:30…
A trio of North Carolina’s Big Four struggled at one of the nation’s top collegiate events. UNC finished eighth, Duke tied for ninth and Wake Forest tied for 11th Tuesday at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational at Floridian National in Palm City. Texas Tech won the 54-hole tournament at 45-under 807. UNC posted 833, Duke had 835…
Xander Goboy and Pearce Lewin led N.C. State to victory Tuesday in the 16-team Michael A. Marino Classic at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach. The Wolfpack finished at 15-under-par 201 for 54 holes, four shots better than second-place Louisville. Charleston and Coastal Carolina tied for third at 213. Goboy was tied…
Cameron Young claimed the biggest victory of his career Sunday at the Players Championship. The 28-year-old Wake Forest University graduate shot 4-under-par 68, including a winning birdie on the iconic 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass to beat Matt Fitzpatrick by one stroke. Young finished at 13-under 275. Young, whose victory last August at the Wyndham…