The Wyndham Championship field will include several players coming to Greensboro on hot streaks. Michael Thorbjornsen, who won the Rocket Classic on Sunday, third-place finisher Davis Riley, fourth-place Rasmus Hojgaard and fifth-place Hideki Matsuyama are in the field for the Wyndham, which begins Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club. In fact, of the top 10 finishers…
The field is set for the Wyndham Championship. Well, most of it, anyway. Hideki Matsuyama and Tony Finau committed before the Friday night deadline. Now, the only other additions will be four qualifiers from Monday’s “four-spotter” at Bermuda Run East. And any top 10 finisher in this weekend’s Rocket Classic in Detroit is eligible to…
Triangle golf fans will have a chance to watch several of their hometown favorites on the PGA Tour — several finishing strong years — compete in next week’s Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro. Raleigh native Ryan Gerald (UNC), Chapel Hill’s Ben Griffin (UNC) and Wake Forest’s Alex Smalley (Duke) and Raleigh native…
The Wyndham Championship announced an important commitment for the Aug. 6-9 event at Sedgefield Country Club. Justin Thomas was announced on Monday by Wyndham officials. Thomas, who won the 2017 and 2022 PGA Championship titles, has 16 Tour victories and is No. 22 in the Official World Golf Rankings and 39th on the FedExCup points…
There’s another PGA Tour winner with Triangle ties. Jackson Koivun, who moved to Chapel Hill from California before his senior year of high school, shot 5-under-par 66 Sunday and held off a final-day charge from the world’s No. 1 player to win the 3M Open at TPC of Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota. The 21-year-old…
The two Triangle golfers who made the cut at the U.S. Junior Amateur were eliminated in Wednesday’s first-round of match play at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Stephen Eastman, a Durham Trinity Academy golfer who shot 1-over-par 142 to tie for 19th in stroke play, lost his Round of 64 match to Callixte…
Sugar Mountain Golf Club may be the best “short” course anywhere. The par-64 municipal layout that winds through the golf/ski resort community at 4,000 feet near Banner Elk offers some outstanding holes with beautiful views of the surrounding peaks, including Grandfather Mountain. And the poa annua/bent grass greens have typically been just as fast as…
The reigning Wyndham Championship winner almost became the British Open champion — or the Champion Golfer of the Year, the title on the other side of the pond. Seven shots off the lead in a tie for 11th place entering Sunday’s final round at Royal Birkdale, Wake Forest graduate Cameron Young shot 6-under-par 64 to…
Ella June Hannant’s bid to win the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship was halted in Friday morning’s quarterfinals by Anna Bell of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Bell knocked off Hannant 2 and 1 to advance to a semifinal against Amelie Zalsman of St. Petersburg, Florida, who has committed to play at Wake Forest, beat Hannant 2 and 1…
Wake Forest native and Duke graduate Alex Smalley shot 3-under-par 67 Thursday at Royal Birkdale to earn a place near the top of the leaderboard at the British Open. Smalley, who now lives in Jamestown, made seven birdies — he birdied four of the first four holes — and would have joined Jackson Suber as…