By DAVID DROSCHAK No telling what athletic path Carter Jenkins would have taken had he suited up behind home plate as an aspiring baseball youth a decade ago. “I wanted to catch, but the coach’s son also wanted to catch, so unfortunately that stuck me in left field. That wasn’t a whole lot of fun,”…
By STUART HALL As Page Marsh played her way through the golfing ranks, her father always said, “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” Those words still resonate with Marsh, who is in her 15th season as N.C. State’s women’s golf coach. The process of building the Wolfpack into a nationally-competitive program has not…
By Kurt Dusterberg When Jason Widener was a teenager, golf came easily. He won the USGA’s Junior Amateur championship in 1988, and followed it up by signing with Duke University, where he won medalist honors at the ACC Championship as a freshman in 1990. Then everything changed. “Three quarters of the way through my freshman…
Former Holly Springs baseball player turns to collegiate golf By Kurt Dusterberg Wes Conover grew up with athletic genes on both sides of his family. His father played small-college basketball and his grandfather starred at Syracuse. So Wes followed suit on the court at Holly Springs High School. On his mother’s side, he had four…
By Stuart Hall Dan Brooks arrived at Duke University in 1984 as a young coach taking over a 10-year-old program and knowing only one way to recruit. While the women’s golf landscape has evolved over the last 30 years, Brooks’ recruiting philosophy has not. Considering he is collegiate women’s golf’s winningest coach and has led…
By Stuart Hall Whether Duke’s men’s golf team is playing a tournament round or practicing on the range in mid-March, each day is an integral part of a process leading to a larger goal. A few miles away, North Carolina calls that same progression “Play for May,” a simple reminder that the end game is…
John Inman played 14 events on Champions Tour in 2013 By DAVID DROSCHAK Two-time PGA Tour winner and former University of North Carolina men’s golf coach John Inman thought his days of competitive golf were numbered after an uneventful run on the Web.com in 2011 and an even less stellar attempt at Champions Tour Q-School…
By Kurt Dusterberg The Campbell women’s golf team does a lot of things well. The Camels rank in the top 10 nationally in par-3 scoring. They’re No. 3 in eagles. Birdies? They have more than any school in the country. But what they do best lately is win. In March, Campbell’s team total of 870…
By DAVID DROSCHAK Jamie Green couldn’t even text his family or friends to relay the news that his Duke Blue Devils won the 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Golf Championship in dramatic fashion. Torrential rain over the final nine holes fried the coach’s cell phone. But there were plenty of high-fives and hugs to go…
BY JOHN DELL When North Carolina State golfer Albin Choi tells somebody where he’s from he usually waits for the next question. “Immediately they will say, ‘Do you like hockey?’” Choi said. “And my response is, ‘of course I like hockey.”’ Choi, a junior who has lived in Toronto most of his life, loves sticks…