Paul Simson should have competed from the front tees in the N.C. Super Senior Championship Sept. 23-24 at Mill Creek Golf Club. But the 75-year-old Raleigh legend, whose golf accomplishments include two U.S. Senior Amateur and three British Senior Amateur titles, knew he didn’t need the advantage and showed it by shooting a 3-under-par 141…
A future Triangle community has been planned with a private golf facility designed by one of the world’s elite architects. Tom Fazio, who lives in Hendersonville, was announced as the designer of an 18-hole course, a nine-hole short course and practice facilities for a 1,271-acre community in Chatham Park’s South Village. Developer Southern Land Co.…
I’d never been to Clinton, North Carolina. But I knew of semi-private Cohere Country Club due to some of their legendary former members. That list includes longtime Carolinas Golf Association executive director Jack Nance, former UNC men’s basketball coach Walter Skidmore, and of course, former Raleigh News & Observer golf writer and Carolinas Golf Reporter…
Last year was a fresh start for Greensboro’s Tanner Cadieux. New school, new team, new surroundings. And everything seemed to fall into place after an uneventful year at N.C. State. As a sophomore at Viriginia Commonwealth, the Greensboro native quickly became a mainstay on the team on his way to Atlantic 10 All-Conference team honors.…
The Triangle’s stars on the PGA Tour made serious bank this season. In fact, the four Triangle natives in the top 40 of the money list took home about $28.4 million in official PGA Tour earnings, according to figures from Golfweek Magazine. Of course that doesn’t include endorsements, appearance fees, corporate outings, equipment contracts and…
The long-awaited unveiling of a popular nine holes with a new look is only a few days away. Raleigh Golf Association will reopen its front nine with a sold-out Friday shotgun start, completing the facility’s new 18-hole course made up of the front nine of the former 18-hole public course and a back nine comprised…
An iconic Triangle golf course has opened vastly expanded practice facilities in the last month. Hillandale Golf Course, a hub of public golf in Durham for decades, debuted its new 58-mat driving tee as well as an approximately 20,000 square foot putting green at its practice area. The driving range, which formerly had only 20…
Ryan Gerard didn’t win the Tour Championship on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club. But he made a putt worth more than $1 million on the final hole. Scottie Scheffler got off to a fast start and took control on the back nine on his way to 66 and a three-stroke victory at 16-under-par 264.…
Michael La Sasso’s first pro victory was one to remember. The 22-year-old Raleigh native hit a spectacular 40-yard pitch to within a foot of the cup and tapped in a winning birdie on the final hole Sunday to win the season-ending LIV Golf tournament at Chatham Hills Golf Club near Indianapolis. La Sasso, who shot…
Former UNC All-American Marcy Newton finished second Tuesday in the 36-hole Carolinas PGA Women’s Professional Championship at Bulls Bay Golf Club near Charleston. Newton is the golf pro at Jamestown Park Golf Course. The 48-year-old Newton, who won USGA Girls’ and Women’s Amateur titles before a 13-year career on the LPGA Tour, shot rounds of…