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…
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…
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By KURT DUSTERBERG Like so many great ideas, the Tar Heel Golf Foundation was created to fill a need. Today, just 18 months into its operation, junior golfers across North Carolina are reaping year-round benefits. The non-profit organization operates the Tarheel Junior Golf Tour and Tarheel Future Stars Series, a slate of events that provides…
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…
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,…