By EDDIE SOUTHARDS Sarah Bae walked off the 18th green at Pinehurst No. 6 in tears for the second straight year. Only this time, they were tears of joy. The Raleigh Athens Drive senior won the girls’ 4-A state high school golf championship in dramatic fashion. Bae sank a 20-foot birdie putt on the second…
By Eddie Southards Coming from behind is familiar territory in high school state tournaments for 4-A women’s power Athens Drive. The Jaguars, a runner-up in 2010, carded a two-day total of 481 at Pinehurst No. 6 to beat Reagan of Forsyth County by 10 shots en route to their third state title in four years.…
By KURT DUSTERBERG Five years ago, golf was a foreign concept to Sarah Bae. So was speaking English. When she left South Korea for the United States at age 12, Bae met her first challenge – the language barrier – head on. “I had to adapt and learn to communicate,” she says with the no-big-deal…
2010 North Carolina All State Boys Team West End, NC—30 boys have been named to the 2010 N.C. Boys’ All-State Golf Teams by the Carolinas Golf Association and the Tarheel Youth Golf Association honoring those junior golfers who have had the most success in amateur and junior golf events at the local, state, regional and…
N.C. junior golf’s best honored by the Carolinas Golf Association and the Tarheel Youth Golf Association West End, NC—Sarah Bae of Cary and Davis Womble of High Point have been named the 2010 N.C. Junior Players of the Year by the Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA) and the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA). The N.C.…
Sarah Bae has been on a steady climb in the state’s junior golf ranks for the last couple of years. After helping Athens Drive High School to the state 4-A team championship last fall as a freshman, Bae has continued her strong play, garnering four victories this year. She won the Peggy Kirk Bell event…