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nother USGA championship is coming to the North Carolina Sandhills The Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst has been awarded the 74th U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in July 2021. It will be the third USGA event hosted by the private club. The Country Club of North Carolina’s Dogwood Course will serve as the host site for both stroke play and match play, while the club’s Cardinal Course will be the stroke-play co-host course. “The Country Club of North Carolina and amateur golf have a long-standing relationship and the USGA is appreciative of this continued and passionate commitment,” said Stuart Francis, USGA Championship Committee chairman. “The U.S. Junior Amateur is junior golf’s most prestigious championship and we look forward to identifying a champion for the first time in the state of North Carolina in 2021.” Established in 1963, The Country Club of North Carolina’s Dogwood Course was designed by Ellis Maples and Willard Byrd, and renovated by Kris Spence in 2016. The Cardinal Course was designed by Byrd and Robert Trent Jones Sr., and renovated by Arthur Hills from 1999-2002. “CCNC has a great history and tradition of supporting amateur golf and we have the experience, infrastructure and a committed staff and group of volunteers who will help make this a memorable championship,” said club president Tom Beddow.
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he Club at 12 Oaks has been purchased by Concert Golf Partners, a California-based owner/operator of private clubs. The Club at 12 Oaks is the centerpiece amenity at the 12 Oaks community in Holly Springs, featuring a golf course by Nicklaus Design Group, an 11,000-square foot clubhouse, fitness center, two resort-style swim complexes, tennis and pickleball courts, as well as numerous parks and open spaces. Terms of the Aug. 20 transaction were not disclosed. The announcement is the latest chapter in the 12 Oaks success story that Tampa-based Landeavor LLC has engineered since acquiring the 912-acre community in 2013. “It has always been our plan to sell the Club at 12 Oaks to a leading national private country club hospitality firm” said Dave Mason, vice president of development for Landeavor. “After months of due diligence, we believe that Concert Golf Partners is absolutely the best choice for club members and community residents.” The Club at 12 Oaks is the second private club in the Triangle acquired by Concert Golf Partners. It had previously assumed ownership of MacGregor Downs Country 4
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Hal Sutton defeated Bob Lewis Jr. 9 and 8 to win the 1980 U.S. Amateur at CCNC. In 2010, Doris Chen won the U.S. Girls’ Junior at the club with a 3-and-2 victory over Katelyn Dambaugh. CCNC also played host to the 1972 U.S. Professional Match-Play Championship (won by Jack Nicklaus), seven Southern Amateurs, four Carolinas Amateurs and seven North Carolina Amateurs. The list of Southern Amateur champions includes Ben Crenshaw (1971), Len Mattiace (1985) and Webb Simpson (2007). The 2021 U.S. Junior Amateur will be the 34th
USGA championship in North Carolina. In 2019, the Tar Heel State will host the U.S. Amateur (Pinehurst Resort), U.S. Senior Women’s Open (Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club) and U.S. Senior Amateur (Old Chatham Golf Club). The U.S. Junior Amateur was first played in 1948 and is open to amateurs who have not reached their 19th birthday by the conclusion of the championship and who have a Handicap Index not exceeding 4.4. Tiger Woods (three times), Jordan Spieth (twice), Johnny Miller and David Duval are among the notable U.S. Junior Amateur champions.
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o just how did Quail Ridge Golf Club return to form after the previously dilapidated course had zero takers at auction? A call from the Coca-Cola man, of course. But this success story really has nothing to do with soda pop at all, other than a phone call between friends that set off a chain of events that has now placed Quail Ridge Golf Club back in the rotation for snowbirds heading south on U.S. 1 to Pinehurst, along with Triad and Triangle golfers. 6
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“The golf club was in very, very poor shape,” said Mike Hendley, now one of three principal owners who have helped revive an Ellis Maples design that once hosted an ACC men’s golf championship and U.S. Open qualifier. “We bought it in January 2017. It was not closed but it was getting ready to be. They tried to auction it off and it didn’t work. There just wasn’t any grass out here at all, and the greens weren’t good. The fairways were nothing
– they were actually sand.” “It’s pretty bad when you can’t auction a place off,” added Joe Gay, the former director of golf at nearby Tobacco Road who left golf 2 ½ years ago to go into the restaurant business. Gay, born and raised in Sanford, has briefly returned to the golf business to help promote Quail Ridge. “I really wasn’t ready to jump back in (to golf) but I’m just stepping my toe in the water because I had a
personal interest in this place being a hometown boy and my family’s roots run deep here,” Gay said. “You just want a place like this to thrive and now that it’s in great shape you want people to know about it.” How far had Quail Ridge fallen since Wake Forest won the 1968 ACC title here by 31 strokes? Well, the snack bar/grill had been closed since 2004 and rounds were selling online for as cheap as $10. In the course’s heyday it logged close to 30,000 rounds, but that number had dipped to around 8,000. “And that’s being generous,” said Randy Dallas, a consultant and course superintendent.
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Quail Ridge from page 6 “I would say on a sale of 1-10 the course was a 2 when we sprayed it out,” Dallas added about the turf retooling effort that has taken place. “It was basically weeds. There wasn’t any grass here… I don’t know how people were playing.” Well, they weren’t, and rumors pointed to apartments being planned for the 156-acre property. And that’s where the Coca-Cola man comes into play. Hendley, one of the first two golf professionals here in 1967, received a phone call out of the blue in 2017 about Quail Ridge. “The Coca-Cola guy was just a church friend,” he said. “(Current partner) Lib Kelly Smith had approached him because he’s very wealthy and they were friends. He said ‘Mike I have this friend that is looking at Quail Ridge and what do you think?’ I said, ‘it’s a good idea’
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and Lib called me that night and wanted to know if I wanted to invest in it. I thought about it and thought
about it and I felt it would be smart to do. I have done this because of the history. I didn’t know if I would make any money or not, but I knew if I didn’t then I could afford the investment part. This was in October 2017 and we closed it in January and went to work.” Smith was in charge of redoing the clubhouse and opening the grill, while Dallas began the turf portion of the course’s $1.2 million investment. The results have been staggering, with some of the nicest fairways and greens in the Sandhills area. “I was a Sanford Golf Course guy back in the day and it was a treat to come over here and play,” Gay said. “This was like a country club with bent grass greens. Between this place and the Palomino Motel in the 1970s and ‘80s they were getting package play up and down the East Coast. Little ole Sanford, North Carolina, was hopping. “This course was on the rotation for all of the golfers who played in Pinehurst,” he added. “That is what excited me for Mike, Lib and Jack Maxwell (the course’s third partner) because all these snowbirds have to drive right by this place to get to Pinehurst and Southern Pines. I think there is some untapped potential here now that they have it in great shape. There is a bright future here.” Gay’s marketing ideas include a striking new entrance in plain view of travelers heading both directions on
U.S. 1, and tee plaques that provide interesting factoids about the course and Sandhills golf. “Just like any restaurant or golf course or anybody who serves the public if you have a bad reputation you can lose people within six months,” Gay said. “Once you correct all those things it might take 6 years to get them all back, especially around here because of the competition. We are the Home of American Golf and it’s true. Step one was to get the place in great shape. Randy has done that on the physical end, the 156 acres of grass are awesome.” Now, Gay will spend the next 6-12 months getting the word out that “The Gateway to The Sandhills” layout is back … and open for business. “In the golf business it’s always good to tie yourself to the Sandhills of North Carolina and at Tobacco Road we did that, and Quail Ridge sits geographically on the northern edge of the Sandhills,” Gay said. “If you dig down six feet you are hitting sand the whole way. This ancient beach when it receded left a sand deposit called the Sandhills and you are on the shoreline right here.” “We have so many golfers that haven’t played here in 4-5 years that swore they would never set foot on this property again,” added head pro Traye Cooke. “They play it one time and they are hooked and now they play it 3-4 times a week.”
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From Pebble Beach to Pinehurst
The U.S. Amateur torch has been passed from one famous resort to another in August
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t’s a great time to be among the world’s best amateur players, considering the recent venues for the U.S. Amateur Championship. The proverbial torch was passed in mid August from Pebble Beach to Pinehurst as the Sandhills area will now take a firm grip and spotlight on several high-profile USGA championships over a five-year period, starting with the 2019 U.S. Amateur at Pinehurst Resort. A team of eight from Pinehurst Resort – from golf maintenance to golf operations to media relations to volunteer leaders – have returned from an August fact-finding trip to the West Coast as the 2018 U.S. Amateur was staged at rival resort Pebble Beach. “It has been since 2008 that we last hosted the U.S. Amateur and a lot of people have changed on our team and on the USGA team, so the trip was to make sure we’re all on the same page,” said Pinehurst Resort president Tom Pashley. “And it helps us get a shot in the arm because we’ve got a lot going on here and have been running in a bunch of different 2018 U.S. Amateur champion Viktor Hovland
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directions. It’s a great opportunity to get people focused and realize it’s less than 365 days before it’s going to be here.” It will be the third time Pinehurst has hosted the U.S. Amateur and 10th overall USGA championship at the iconic resort. Pinehurst was the stage of Labron Harris’ triumph in 1962, and in 2008 Danny Lee romped to victory, becoming the youngest player to win the U.S. Amateur at the time. Pinehurst has been home to amateur golf since the early years of its founding, serving as the home to the longest consecutively running amateur championships in the United States, the North & South Amateur. It is at Pinehurst where Richard Tufts penned the “Creed of the Amateur,” wherein he writes, “Amateurism, after all, must be the backbone of all sport– golf or otherwise.” In addition to the U.S. Amateur, the USGA will stage the U.S. Senior
Women’s Open at Pine Needles Resort in 2019, while the U.S. Women’s Open will be played there in 2022 and the U.S. Open at Pinehurst Course No. 2 in 2024. “It is a special place to be in a very special time, to have this much going on,” Pashley said of the area. “What a great vote of confidence from the USGA in entrusting the Sandhills with so many of their national championships. It does speak to their faith and our ability to conduct the championship and the volunteer’s commitment to step up time and time again to help run them, and it talks about the quality of golf in the area. So many places would consider it a highlight to get any one of 2008 U.S. Amateur champion Danny Lee these and for us to have so in Pinehurst seems to have interested many of them coming in a people.” five-year span -- well it’s an embar“Recovering from some of these rassment of riches.” sand areas on No. 4 is going to be Stroke play for the U.S. Amateur, more difficult than No. 2,” added just as in 2008, will be split between longtime Pinehurst Resort director of No. 2 and No. 4, giving the new Gil golf course maintenance and grounds Hanse-designed No. 4 course its first Bob Farren. “It is always going to be spotlight championship. Match play compared to No. 2 but No. 2 is flat will then return to the Ross-designed and more hardpan. This course is famed No. 2 layout. going to be harder to manage.” “It is going to be a great test early More information about how to on to see how it holds up under volunteer log on to www.pinehurst. championship conditions, and com/2019-u-s-amateur/. with the best players in the world “Any national championship is having an opportunity to challenge an honor to have the opportunity to it,” Pashley said. “It’s a feather in the host so we take it very seriously,” cap of Pinehurst No. 4 to be able to said Pashley, whose resort hosted the be a co-host of this championship. first-ever back-to-back Opens in 2014. Being less than a year old; it will be a “And our volunteer team takes it very real neat opportunity. seriously, and they have been workThe new No. 4 design will offiing behind the scenes for a year leadcially open on Sept. 20. ing up to this point. So the amount of “We have seen a tremendous time and work and effort that goes in amount of interest from golfers all to it from the volunteer’s perspective over the country and the world is incredible. who are going to be coming here “That’s one of the many reasons this fall to check it out,” Pashley the USGA keeps coming back here, said. “We’ve been very pleased with they know we have a volunteer base the response. Just the prospect of that can conduct these championships being able to play a new course because it is a challenge and a lot of work – yet a ton of fun.” www.trianglegolf.com
North Carolina Golf: A Perfect 10
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n case you haven’t been keeping count, North Carolina now has more than 10 million residents and is the 10th most populous state. I will also argue Bets that the Tar Heel state is a perfect 10 when it comes to golf experiences. Having lived in the Triangle area for 35 years and enjoyed the heyday of the golfing boom when as many as 20 new courses opened across North Carolina in a year, it’s easy to assume all of our new golfing friends are conscious of all the ins-and-outs of where to play and what to see. That’s not necessarily the case as I often run across golfers who are in need of some muchneeded guidance. So, here are my top five “must do” golfing experiences if you live here. Take a trip to Pinehurst Resort. Known around the world for the famed No. 2 course, the resort located in the Sandhills area is so much more these days. Just a walk through the clubhouse hallway will inspire you to pick up a club. Attend a professional golf tournament, or better yet, splurge and play in a pro-am. So many states don’t have a single event. We are lucky here to have four profes-
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sional championships. You can see Tiger By BETSEY MITCHELL Woods at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte or check out the Wyndham ell, Dro, I can’t argue with the Championship in Greensboro, the SAS fact that North Carolina has an Championship in Cary or the Web.com amazing offering of quality golf. Tour event in Raleigh. You have included some beauties, but Tee it up on a Donald Ross-designed they are sure hard to come by and can be golf course. With more than three dozen very pricey. scattered across our state my recommendaI know a good way to get inside tion would be Linville Golf Club. Opened these gates without taking out a home in 1924, the mountain course is private equity loan; keep your handicap with the but you can gain playing Carolinas Golf Association. privileges by staying at the Many of these courses are historic Eseeola Lodge. on their tournament schedPlay a round at Bald ule. You don’t have to be Head Island. There’s just a low handicapper to play. something cool about loadYou just need to pay close ing your clubs onto a boat attention to registration and cruising to your golf DUELING DIVOTS dates because they fill up destination. With a slope fast. of 143 I do suggest not keeping score -- just Pro-ams are a blast but can be also pricenjoy the layout as it winds its way over ey. You don’t need to play to gain access to dunes, around lagoons, through a maritime a championship. You can be a spectator and forest and along the Atlantic Ocean. still have money left over for dinner. Somehow, some way find your way to Championship volunteers are regularly one of the top-ranked courses. Old North up close to the players and can see the State Club, Grandfather Mountain or The entire golf course. For the price of a hat and Country Club of North Carolina are all pri- shirt you could be the one in the tee box vate but get creative and pull off a dream with that paddle you see on TV… mere feet round. from the greatest players of our time.
Almost free access to the best courses around and they feed you lunch, too. Championship golf cannot function without dedicated volunteers. There are many opportunities right here in our state. There is a massive run of USGA championships coming. And this September, the U.S. Mid Am is at Charlotte Country Club. It is short notice but they might still need some help. Next year, the USGA will be at Pine Needles in Southern Pines for the U.S. Senior Women’s Open, Pinehurst Resort has the U.S. Amateur, and Old Chatham has the U.S. Senior Amateur. You can sign up now for one or all on the USGA website. If you want to play golf at some good golf courses at a reasonable rate, here are some to consider; near the beach – Oak Island and any of the Ocean Ridge courses. Moving west into the Sandhills, try Hyland and Legacy. Continuing southwest you will find a good Donald Ross at Monroe Country Club. Shifting north is the challenging Lonnie Poole. Most have heard of Tobacco Road but close to Asheboro is Tot Hill Farm by the same architect, Mike Strantz. And on the western edge of the state there is Mount Mitchell, Maggie Valley and Beech Mountain.
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Self-proclaimed “Country Girl” chasing LPGA dream
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hink the life of a touring golf professional is glamorous? Then, please, step back and consider a week in the life of Lori Beth Adams. In early August, the 26-year-old Adams, a graduate of Western Alamance High School and UNC Wilmington, competed in the Firekeepers Casino Challenge, a Symetra Tour event played in Battle Creek, Mich. It was one of the few Symetra tournaments where Adams didn’t fare well, missing the cut. The Monday following the tournament, she flew home to North Carolina. For a couple of days, she took a break from golf, putting her clubs aside and spending time with family members and friends. Then it was back to the grind, Adams heading to nearby Indian Valley Golf Course to work on her game. The following Saturday, Adams climbed in her aged Honda Element, the one with 227,000 miles on its odometer, and set off alone on a 20-hour drive to Sioux Falls, S.D., site of the next tournament on the Symetra Tour. It’s a scenario repeated week-after-week for Adams and other Symetra hopefuls who travel long distances for little money, chasing the dream of one day making it to the LPGA Tour. “There are times you’re lonely, but that’s a part of it,” Adams said. “Golf’s a process; you have to enjoy 10 TRIANGLE GOLF TODAY • FALL 2018
the ups-and-downs. I’m just out here doing my best. And I’ve made a lot of friends along the way.” The Symetra Tour is the LPGA Futures Tour, a stepping stone to the LPGA. The top 10 money winners on the Symetra Tour earn their LPGA playing cards. As of mid September, Adams was 27th on that list, still optimistic she can advance and earn her LPGA accreditation before the Symetra Tour ends in mid-October. Such a move isn’t impossible, Adams insists. The annual tour includes 22 tournaments, but the upcoming six offer the tour’s largest purses. If she does well from here out, Adams said, she could be playing on the LPGA Tour next spring. “To win a tournament would definitely do it,” she said of a way she might move into a top 10 slot. “A couple of top five or top two finishes would put me right there.” Adams has done especially well in several tournaments, finishing second in the Island Resort Championship in Harris, Mich., in June and finishing as high as sixth on other occasions. This is the second year Adams has competed full time on the Symetra Tour. She said her improvements from a year ago have been considerable. “Last year, it was more like I was getting my feet wet,” she said. “There’s so much to learn.” If a top 10 finish isn’t realized this year, Adams plans to attempt to make it to the LPGA next spring through qualifying school. Adams got her start in golf when she was just 7 when her father, Steve, introduced her to the sport at
Indian Valley, close to the family’s home in northern Alamance County. She played golf and several other sports until reaching high school when her father told her she needed to select one on which to concentrate. For Adams, it was golf. Asked if she ever wishes she’d chosen soccer instead, Adams laughed. “No,” she said. “Golf’s been good to me. I’ve enjoyed it.” Adams suffered with mononucleosis as a sophomore in high school, for six weeks not able to so much as putt a ball, much less drive one. The illness affected the attention she received from college coaches. But UNC Wilmington’s Cindy Ho eventually saw Adams play in a tournament in Durham and invited her to the campus for a visit. Adams said she’ll be forever grateful to Ho for taking a chance on her. “I visited Wilmington and loved the campus,” she said. “I loved all four years I spent there.” In 2013-14, her senior year, Adams capped a brilliant career by making her fourth-consecutive postseason appearance at the NCAA East Regional in Tallahassee, Fla. She was the Colonial Athletic Association’s top player in 2012-13, collecting CAA player of the year honors and winding up second in the CAA Championship as the Seahawks finished runner-up. Adams earned an individual entry into the NCAA Central Regional in Norman, Okla., where she placed eighth overall. Continued on page 11 www.trianglegolf.com
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One person who thinks Adams has what it takes to make it to the LPGA Tour is Jason Widener, who teaches at Mebane’s Mill Creek Golf Club. Widener has worked with Adams for eight years. “She’s reached the stage where she really doesn’t have any weaknesses,” Widener said. “She’s always been able to bomb the ball off the tee and her short game has caught up to her long game. She’s getting more and more confident, she’s got all the tools.” He said the progression he’s seen in Adams’ play has been remarkable. “Each year she gets better,” Widener said. Paul Hunt owns Burlington’s Hunt Golf. He has known Adams since she was about 12 and began competing in area youth tournaments. Hunt said he’s kept up with Adams and helped her get a deal with Wilson Staff to provide her clubs and other equipment. He said as much as he admires Adams as a golfer, he admires her even more as a person. “She’s a grinder, she’s worked for everything she’s got,” Hunt said. Like Widener, Hunt said he’s impressed by Adams’ improvements, and feels she’s only going to continue getting better. “She’s throwing darts now,” he said. “And she can flat crush a ball off the tee.” Adams said she appreciates the kind words, and said she hopes to one day reward those who have invested so much in her success. She also hopes to one day earn enough to replace her aged Element, but for the time being, she’s remaining true to her roots. “I’m a country girl,” Adams said. “I like to fish and ride a four-wheeler. When I’m home, that’s what I do. We’re a country family.”
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Architect Spotlight Kris Spence so much more than a Ross restorer
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By BRAD KING olf course architect Kris Spence faced a standing room only crowd of 400-plus gathered in Providence Country Club’s Grand Ballroom in early January for a presentation of the club’s upcoming golf course renovation. Tall and broad-shouldered with auburn hair and a chiseled countenance, Spence was dressed in a dark suit and a stylish white dress shirt with a cutaway collar — far from his typical field attire. When a technical glitch forced Spence to present 12 holes to the membership from memory, he never missed a beat. Speaking in a soft-spoken, Midwestern drawl, Spence is astutely loquacious and the members loved what they heard. “The excitement level was through the roof,” said Providence CC director of golf Kevin Reardon.
Spence, 56, lives and works in Greensboro in a relatively nondescript office on West Friendly Avenue near PTI airport. Despite the unpretentious surrounds, he has earned a reputation as one of the country’s top restorers of Donald Ross courses and other classically designed layouts. His firm, Spence Golf Design, which he opened in 2000, now boasts nearly two-dozen employees and has carved out a productive niche around the Southeast. Spence has renovated, restored or worked on about 30 courses in North Carolina, most notably Sedgefield CC, site of the PGA Tour’s annual Wyndham Championship, Roaring Gap Club — ranked No. 82 in Golfweek’s Top 100 Classic Courses — Country Club of North Carolina’s Dogwood Course, Forsyth CC, Mimosa Hills, Grove Park, Blowing Rock, Cape Fear and Myers Park. “I’ve worked on around 20 Ross courses,
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with several being his best work in North Carolina,” Spence said. “I’d like to think I’ve played a significant role in improving the quality of golf architecture throughout the state.” Raleigh-based McConnell Golf purchased Providence CC in early 2016 and immediately announced it would spend the next few years providing substantial improvements around the club and renovating Providence’s golf course. Spence was hired to function dually as the architect for the project as well as the construction manager. “Kris is a visionary in implementing new features and modernization when he updates an existing course,” said McConnell Golf CEO John McConnell. Spence previously worked with McConnell Golf on the restoration of the Ellis Maples-designed Brook Valley Country Club in Greenville, N.C. At Providence, things have come full circle as Spence renovated the design work of Maples’ son, Dan. “People pigeonhole me as a ‘Ross guy,’” Spence said. “But I’ve done plenty of restorations that don’t look like a Ross course.”
Like Ross and Maples, Spence comes at architecture from the perspective of a golf course superintendent. He grew up in Steele, Mo., in the state's southeast corner — the “boot heel,” Spence says, where “nobody in town played the game but me.” Spence says he learned golf watching Nicklaus, Trevino and Watson on TV. Despite not having a high school golf team, Spence was good enough to earn a college scholarship to Arkansas State. Following graduation in 1985, Spence was working for the legendary golf course superintendent Jim Ganley at the Atlanta Athletic Club, when John Hughes — then the owner of Greensboro’s Forest Oaks CC — reached out to Ganley looking for a young new superintendent. Ganley suggested he look no further than Spence. “I oversaw my first GGO at the age of 23, in 1986, and haven’t looked back,” Spence said. Following Forest Oaks, Spence moved on to direct the construction of the Governors Club in Chapel Hill, before coming back to Greensboro Country Club for a decade. His design career was jump Continued on page 15 www.trianglegolf.com
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the greens from bentgrass to Champion bermudagrass, and a complete redesign and reconstruction of the bunkering using the started following his work on the Irving Capillary Concrete liner system. The new Park course in 1998. bunkers feature a combination of high sand “I’m married to a Greensboro girl and flashed faces and slightly irregular rolled proudly call North Carolina my home,” grass edges. Spence said. “Being located in North “These are some of the most beautiful Carolina has played a huge roll in my and functional bunkers I’ve done in my career, mainly because Ross was so prolific career,” Spence said. “Every bunker serves in the state designing 50 courses. “Another unique aspect of being based a strategic purpose or sets an angle moving the hole from side-to-side. Providence in North Carolina is I’ve worked on cool was somewhat flat and straight before, now and warm season grass courses, and clay the holes sashay from side-to-side around and sandy sites. Having that diversity in through the bunkering creating tons of my DNA has come in very handy. North options.” Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are With Spence and the club’s maintegolf rich states with plenty of work to keep nance staff working through challenging me busy, but not to far from home – which weather conditions in the spring and sumI liked when my three daughters were mer, Providence reopened slightly ahead of young.” schedule at the end of August. A large, neighborhood club with a “The Providence project was a unique younger membership established in southopportunity for me in that I was able to east Charlotte in 1989, Providence has express a wider range of creativity versus earned a reputation as one of the Queen most of my restoration efforts,” Spence said. City’s premier family country clubs. “Mr. McConnell wanted a golf course that Providence’s avid golfing membership was fun to play, aesthetically pleasing, straplayed more than 28,000 rounds last year. “I would describe our membership as very tegic, interesting with variety, difficult when it needs to be — but first and foremost one active,” Reardon said. “They don’t miss that the membership could be proud of. I many opportunities to play.” Spence’s renovation focused on rework- certainly feel we delivered on that front. “I want Providence to be unique unto ing the green complexes without rebuilding them, especially the surrounds, converting itself, have a style and character all its own.
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CCNC Dogwood Course I think the members will find that they have a course that they can be proud to show their friends and guests that is significantly different than their neighbors in the Charlotte market.” Spence typically spends two or three days a week on site. “Actually, going onto the site is the part that people like to see, where I’m out throwing pin flags, I’m painting lines and I’m conferring with shapers,” he said. “I’m very hands-on and I’m in the field a lot. I approve every feature on every project. There’s a lot going on when I’m on site.”
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During the Providence renovation, Spence drove back and forth to Charlotte when he was able, but after long days he spent the night at his place on High Rock Lake, about 45 minutes from the club. Meanwhile, Spence was also flying down to Florida to oversee a major Ross restoration at Sara Bay CC in Sarasota, which was a winter hangout for Bobby Jones where he played exhibition matches against Walter Hagen and other wellknown professionals of the day. Jones was even hired to help sell real estate for the original owner and development when the club was formed. “Sara Bay will have the most authentic Ross greens in the state of Florida,” Spence said. “We utilized his drawings in laying them out during the shaping process.” Closer to home in the North Carolina mountains, Spence is finishing a bunker, tee and fairway remodel project at Jefferson Landing, about 20 miles northeast of Boone. “We’re also designing a new nine-hole par-3 course near the clubhouse area as an added amenity for members and guests,” he said. When Spence needs to refuel his creative juices, he occasionally travels across the pond to the game’s birthplace. In early June, Spence made his third trip to Scotland, this time with his brother-inlaw and two nephews, playing a strong rotation of classic golf courses including Lundin Links, Carnoustie, the Old Course, Jubiliee, North Berwick, Gullane, Dunbar and Old Musselburgh — which they played with hickory clubs. “This was my first time visiting the East Lothian area,” Spence said. “We saw a lot of great stuff. My focus was to improve my use of undulation and variety in the approaches of my work. I learned so much from my visit and can’t wait to return in a year or two.” TRIANGLE GOLF TODAY • FALL 2018
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Homestead Resort stands the test of time By David Droschak
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ath County in Virginia has virtually stood still for years, where doors are left unlocked and you fish, hunt or play golf – and wake up the next day and do it all over again. Legendary touring pro Sam Snead was born and died here, but early in his pro career made it across the mountainous border to work as head pro at rival Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia. “But locally, everybody knows he’s from here,” says nephew and threetime Ryder Cup member J.C. Snead. “I’ve had arguments with people that say ‘no, he’s from West Virginia.’ One guy got really belligerent and I thought I was going to have to smack him.” While the elder Snead has been gone now for 15 years, those around these parts are still protective of the native son’s legacy they all followed into flat stick fame. “You would be surprised that some people even think he’s from North Carolina, from Greensboro; they get Greensboro and the Greenbrier mixed up since he won eight times in Greensboro,” said Don Ryder, who served as director of golf at the Homestead Resort for 42 years. “He played a lot at The Homestead in his later life; he was up on the driving range almost every day.” Mark Fry can attest to that. The current 18 TRIANGLE GOLF TODAY • FALL 2018
head professional was in charge of running the resort’s golf schools back then and would marvel at Snead’s mass appeal. “There was this mystique when he would show up with that hat on,” Fry said. “My golf school would just stop. He was cordial to take pictures and sign autographs. He had a reputation of being hard to approach, but you have to remember when he was in his prime he was in his office when he was on the golf course. There are a lot of times I don’t want somebody to barge into my office uninvited when I’m busy … and he was busy on the golf course. “I can still see him hitting balls up there,” Fry added. “Later in life he couldn’t see how far they were going, but he would look over at me and say: ‘It just hit the ground, didn’t it?’ So, he knew how long it was in the air -- just amazing.” Can you imagine the social media explosion that would occur if Snead were still alive and he was walking around the Homestead in his unassuming down-home fashion? Playing 36 holes in the center of the Alleghany Mountains is like opening up a history book and turning page-after-page, anxiously awaiting the next chapter. In 1899, William McKinley teed off on the Old Course at The Homestead Resort to become the first sitting president to play golf. Many more have followed suit here,
including William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford. In fact, Wilson loved the golf so much he played a round every morning of his honeymoon while on site. Now that’s dedication to the game. The resort, now owned by Omni, celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2016 with birthday cake in the lobby each day and fireworks each night, but little has changed here over the years. The hotel’s architectural splendor still rockets into the sky and serves as the backdrop for the final hole of the Old Course, which boasts the oldest first tee in continuous use in the United States. Meanwhile, The Cascades was ranked the No. 1 course in Virginia for 82 consecutive years until recently and was a course Snead battled many times. “Few courses have stood the test of time like the Cascades,” Fry said. “One of the most famous quotes there is the statue of Sam on the first tee, and it says ‘If you can shoot par or better at the Cascades you can play anywhere in the world.’ Of course, he traveled the world and did just that. He knew what a test that course was,” Ryder said. At just 6,667 yards from the tips, The Cascades course has lulled thousands of golfers into a false sense of comfort, security and downright frustration.
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The Old Course is even shorter at 6,099 yards, but I defy you to find a flat fairway lie or a straight putt. Heading up into the higher elevations of the resort property, the Old Course is a diabolical test of leftis-right, up-is-down … well, you get the blurry picture. “When I was playing on the PGA Tour I would hit driver on every hole at the Old Course for practice to make myself concentrate on hitting it in a certain place,” said J.C. Snead. “You can get every kind of lie you can think of in golf. You’ll play with people from the South where it’s not that hilly and they don’t have a clue how to play it.” But play the courses golfers did. The resort logged more than 53,000 rounds for more than a decade during the golf boom from 1993-2003. “The Homestead and the Cascades course have been to amateur golf what Pinehurst has been to professional golf,” Ryder said. “We’ve hosted over 200 Virginia state championships, 8 USGA championships, an NCAA championship, you name it. “Golf has been No. 1 in this county besides maybe eating for years and years and years,” Ryder added. “At one time, we had just golfers coming here. It is now promoted as more of a family business, but golf still plays a huge part.”
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TYGA Jack Ratz Memorial
Wildwood Green Golf Club Raleigh, NC August 6, 2018 Boys 16-18 Division - 6473 1 Casey Osiecki, New Bern 1 Devin Phillips, Raleigh 1 Wells Armes, Raleigh Selected Others 4 Noah Butler, Raleigh 5 Jason Crews, Raleigh 5 Nicholas Mathews, Mebane 7 Leo Doak, Apex 7 Zachary Hickey, Wake Forest 7 Cullen Cox, Chapel Hill 10 Jacob Kallam, Clayton 10 Caleb Jarman, Clayton 13 Christian Beck, Apex 13 Langdon Aronson, Raleigh 15 Campbell McLauchlan, Fuquay Varina 16 Wooten Wheless, Raleigh 19 Ryan Glendy, Raleigh Boys 14-15 Division - 6473 1 Davis Spradling, Clayton 2 Aidan Harrington, Raleigh 2 Owen Kose, Holly Springs 2 Jennings Glenn, Raleigh Selected Others 8 Will Underhill, Holly Springs 10 Myles Patterson, Durham 10 Ryder Massey, Wake Forest 12 Brian Wei, Raleigh 12 Ethan Yu, Chapel Hill 14 Ashwath Kapilavai, Cary 14 Nick Kleu, Cary 17 Tom Doak, Apex 17 Joshua Buxbaum, Wake Forest 19 Christian Conway, Raleigh 21 Zachary Davis, Clayton 22 Karson Knox, Wake Forest 23 Trevor Gregory, Wake Forest 24 Tyler Christensen, Raleigh Boys 12-13 Division - 5718 1 Drew Greene, Greenville 2 Parker Denning, Benson 3 Cooper Ruffing, Raleigh 3 Connor Williams, Sanford Selected Others 5 Timothy Kaufman, Cary Girls 14-18 Division - 5718 1 Anna Claire Bridge, Raleigh 2 Ava Lucas, Raleigh 3 Kate Hawkins, Littleton Selected Others 4 Madison Srinivasa, Raleigh 5 Georgia Martin, Fayetteville 6 Ava Zellman, Raleigh 8 Isabella McNeill, Wake Forest 9 Ellie Bauguess, Wake Forest
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Hope Valley CC, Durham, NC August 14-16, 2018 Boys Division - 6,720 1 Spencer Oxendine, Fayetteville 68-70-64--202 2 Peter Fountain, Raleigh 72-65-67--204 3 Bronson Myers, Columbia, SC 66-70-69--205 4 Luke Hackworth, Charlotte 69-72-66--207 Selected Others 6 Christopher Sperrazza, Raleigh 69-73-71--213 8 Brady Hooks, Clayton 71-73-70--214 8 Jake Herring, Wilson 73-72-69--214 8 Thomas Morrison, Pinehurst 73-72-69--214 15 Chris Kim, Cary 73-70-73--216 20 Kenan Poole, Raleigh 73-73-75--221 23 Tyler Dechellis, Clayton 75-75-72--222 25 Connor Jones, Raleigh 76-72-77--225 25 Jack Marcotte, Apex 79-75-71--225 25 Nicholas Mathews, Mebane 83-69-73--225 31 Will Hawley, Raleigh 72-73-82--227 31 Symon Balbin, Pinehurst 71-80-76--227 35 Frank Gilliam, Raleigh 74-75-79--228 35 Zach Roberts, Holly Springs 73-78-77--228 Girls Division - 6,220 1 Katherine Schuster, Kill Devil Hills 71-68-71--210 2 Julia McLaughlin, Princeton, NJ 75-71-72--218 3 Emily Dunlap, Greenville, SC 70-74-75--219 4 Kayla Smith, Burlington 70-77-73--220 Selected Others 12 Lotte Fox, Raleigh 82-86-83--251 13 Kayla Dowell, Mebane 81-89-82--252
14th Dogwood State Junior Championship
Duke University GC Durham, NC August 7-9, 2018 Boys Division - 7,000 1 Kenan Poole, Raleigh 71-68-69--208 2 Peter Fountain, Raleigh 70-72-72--214 3 Michael Childress, Salisbury 74-69-73--216 4 Eston Lee, Four Oaks 72-73-73--218 Selected Others 5 Jack Marcotte, Apex 75-73-71--219 6 Fulton Smith, Pinehurst 75-72-74--221 6 Matias La Grutta, Cary 72-75-74--221 9 Will Hanna, Raleigh 76-69-77--222 9 Spencer Oxendine, Fayetteville 76-71-75--222 14 Attie Giles, Pinehurst 70-76-78--224 14 Connor Jones, Raleigh 75-74-75--224 14 Josh Lendach, Raleigh 76-75-73--224 17 Garrett Risner, Holly Springs 73-76-76--225 17 Tyler Dechellis, Clayton 75-75-75--225 17 Zach Roberts, Holly Springs 74-76-75--225 21 Nicholas Mathews, Mebane 76-74-76--226 31 Symon Balbin, Pinehurst 78-75-76--229 34 Joey Pritchard, Pinehurst 77-78-75--230 35 Kareem Elkassem, Raleigh 78-75-78--231 35 Carter Boulia, Cary 78-77-76--231
14th Dogwood State Girls’ Championship
Chapel Hill Country Club, Chapel Hill, NC August 7-9, 2018 Girls Division - 5,971 1 Nicole Adam, Pinehurst 72-73-74--219 2 Rachel Kuehn, Asheville 76-72-72--220 3 Ana Tsiros, Asheville 77-74-76--227 4 Sophie Holland, Cornelius 75-78-76--229 Selected Others 9 Hailey Freedman, Chapel Hill 77-82-77--236 10 Maria Atwood, Holly Springs 79-84-76--239 15 Lorin Wagler, Southern Pines 86-81-78--245 16 Hannah Rose Bruxvoort, 85-80-82--247 Chapel Hill 16 Mara Hirtle, Pinehurst 84-85-78--247 21 Lotte Fox, Raleigh 85-81-85--251 23 Kayla Dowell, Mebane 88-84-82--254 26 Katelyn Kenthack, Pinehurst 89-82-84--255 26 Toni Blackwell, Fayetteville 88-83-84--255 28 Erin Singleton, Apex 86-84-87--257 28 Carson Jenkins, Raleigh 91-88-78--257 31 Carmen Tucker, Fayetteville 89-83-88--260 33 Emily Mathews, Mebane 95-93-86--274 35 Anna Claire Bridge, Raleigh 90-100-102--292 37 Grace Greene, Apex 93-110-93--296 38 Mary Kathryn Hederick, 105-99-99--303 Wake Forest 39 Gaby Tucker, Fayetteville 91-111-113--315
52nd Twin States Junior Girls’ Championship
Spring Valley Country Club, Columbia, SC July 31 - August 1, 2018 Girls Division - 6,001 1 Emily Hawkins, Lexington 68-74--142 2 Elle Johnson, Inman, SC 75-72--147 2 Abigail Schimpf, Daniel Island, SC 77-70--147 4 Molly Hardwick, Lexington, SC 75-76--151 Selected Others 17 Angelique Seymour, Fayetteville 77-82--159 23 Deborah Spair, Raleigh 81-80--161 31 Lorin Wagler, Southern Pines 82-82--164
Peggy Kirk Bell Tour
Tour Championship Salem Glen CC, Clemmons, NC August 3-5, 2018 Bell National - 6052 1 Danielle Suh, Herndon VA 71-73-74--218 2 Alyssa Cong, Germantown MD 77-72-72--221 3 Victoria Ladd, Greensboro 76-75-71--222 Selected Others 7 Halynn Lee, Cary 74-75-77--226 Futures National - 5289 1 Averi Cline, Suwanee GA 71-72-72--215 2 Reagan Southerland, Atlanta GA 72-75-74--221 3 Liza Lapeyre, New Orleans LA 77-73-73--223 Selected Others 4 Megan Morris, Cary 73-77-75--225 9 McKenzie Daffin, Fort Bragg 79-78-74--231
ProQuip Girls Classic
Raleigh, NC Lonnie Poole GC July 21-22, 2018 Bell National - 5831 1 Haley Quickel, Middletown DE 2 Grayson Warren, Washington 3 Paris Fieldings, Suffolk VA 3 Maria Atwood, Holly Springs Selected Others 10 Channing Garnett, Wake Forest 14 Angelique Seymour, Fayetteville 18 Emily Brubaker, Raleigh 20 Katelyn Kenthack, Pinehurst 22 Kayla Dowell, Mebane 22 Mara Hirtle, Pinehurst Futures National - 5020 1 Macy Pate, Boone 2 Amber Mackiewicz, Virginia Beach 3 McKenzie Daffin, Fort Bragg Selected Others 5 Megan Morris, Cary 6 Emily Mathews, Mebane 14 Tyler Spriggs, Cary 16 Natalie Hill, Smithfield 18 Madison Srinivasa, Raleigh 21 Ava Lucas, Raleigh 22 Catherine Vivongsy, Wake Forest
79-68--147 73-74--147 74-75--149 79-70--149 78-76--154 80-77--157 83-75--158 82-79--161 79-84--163 83-80--163 74-70--144 76-70--146 75-74--149 76-75--151 81-73--154 81-84--165 87-81--168 87-83--170 89-85--174 84-91--175
13th Carolinas Pro-Junior
Prestonwood CC (Meadows) Cary, NC August 13, 2018 Pro-Junior Division 1 Christopher Wooten/John Faidley, Winston-Salem 62 2 Steve Isley Jr/Walker Isley, Oak Island 65 2 Donna Andrews/Nicole Adam, Southern Pines 65 4 Grady Newton/Marcy Newton, Winston-Salem 66 Selected Others 5 Paul Dickens/Will Hawley, Wake Forest 67 9 Benjamin Scearce/Zac Collins, Raleigh 68 14 Baxter Poe/Nathaniel Eaton, Raleigh 70 14 Deborah Spair/Kelly Mitchum, Southern Pines 70 17 Chase Clayton/Nick Jacobi, Albemarle 71 17 Holland Giles/Ronald Giles, Pinehurst 71 17 Chase Duncan/Ryan Vance, Raleigh 71 23 Alex van der Linden/Will Pohlman, Apex 72 25 Carter Massengill/Tripp McIntyre, Cary 73 25 Benjamin Hays/Brian Burgwyn, Cary 73 25 Grace Ridenour/Kathy Bounds, Chapel Hill 73 30 Ben Blalock/Langdon Aronson, Raleigh 74 30 Greg Greksa/Michael LaSasso, Raleigh 74 33 Frank Maynard/Ryan Rosamond, Durham 75 33 Andy Harris/Drew Eggers, Fuquay Varina 75 33 Jackson Bryce/Jeff Holden, Cary 75 33 Haylie George/Kyle Burgess, Garner 75 38 Dan Alton/Noah Butler, Raleigh 76 38 Ryan Bradley/Tony Mabini, Holly Springs 76 38 Ferdinand Guerrero/Quinlan Polin, Cary 76 38 Jackson Collier/Parks Helms, Fayetteville 76 38 Carmen Tucker/Micah Vugrinec, Fayetteville 76 44 Cate Piterle/Tom Ream, Holly Springs 78 46 Jens Klemsche/Sean McDowell, Cary 79 48 James-Paul Wagner/Louis Matroni, Cary 80 50 Dante Jannotta/Will Woodard, Cary 81 50 Jimmy Hamilton/Seth Marshall, Knightdale 81 52 Anna Claire Bridge/Jess Yadloczky, Raleigh 83 53 Dylan Johnson/Monique Gesualdi, Raleigh 84 54 Liz Harper/Megan Dunn, Cary 87
Boys (High School, graduation year) 1 Akshay Bhatia, Wake Forest (Home School, 2020) 2 Spencer Oxendine, Fayetteville (Jack Britt HS, 2019) 3 Jackson Van Paris (O’Neal School, 2021) 4 Kenan Poole, Raleigh (Ravenscroft, 2019) 5 Peter Fountain, Raleigh (Broughton HS, 2020) 6 Christopher Sperrazza, Raleigh (Cardinal Gibbons, 2019) 7 Tyler Dechellis, Clayton (Clayton HS, 2021) 8 Will Hawley, Raleigh (Broughton, 2019) 9 Josh Lendach, Raleigh (North Raleigh Christian Academy, 2021) 10 Fulton Smith, Pinehurst (O’Neal School, 2019) Girls (High School, graduation year) 1 Nicole Adam, Pinehurst (O’Neal School, 2020) 2 Maria Atwood, Holly Springs (Holly Springs HS, 2022) 3 Megan Kanaby, Chapel Hill (Cardinal Gibbons, 2019) 4 Lotte Fox, Raleigh (Wakefield HS, 2020) 5 Angelique Seymour, Fayetteville (Jack Britt HS, 2019) 6 Deborah Spair, Raleigh (Ravenscroft HS, 2020) 7 Mara Hirtle, Pinehurst (Pinecrest HS, 2020) 8 Jaclyn Kenzel, Southern Pines (Pinecrest HS, 2020) 9 Halynn Lee, Cary (Green Hope HS, 2021) 10 Emily Brubaker, Raleigh (Cardinal Gibbons, 2020) Source: Tarheel Youth Golf Association as of 9/1/18
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CALENDAR All listings are based on submissions by clubs and correspondence. To list your tournament free email your information to jay@triadgolf.com or call 336-924-1619.
CGA Men Majors/Qualifiers Four-Ball Championships Sept. 28-30 – 23nd N.C. Four-Ball Championship, 12 Oaks, Holly Springs N.C. Mid-Amateur Championship Sept. 7-9 – 25th N. C. Mid-Amateur, Ballantyne CC, Charlotte Sept. 12-14 – 57th Carolinas Senior Amateur Championship, GC at Briar’s Creek, Johns Island, SC Sept. 25-26 - 11th North Carolina Super Senior Championship, Alamance CC, Burlington Oct. 8-9 – 7th Carolinas Super Senior FourBall Championship, CC of South Carolina, Florence TBA – 3rd Carolinas Senior Interclub Final Four
CGA Women Majors Sept. 26-27 – 20th Carolinas Senior Women’s Amateur, Members Club at Wildewood, Columbia, SC Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 – 2nd Carolinas Women’s Club Team, Mid Pines, Southern Pines Nov. 10-11 – 8th Carolinas Net Amateur Championship, Prestwick CC, Myrtle Beach, SC
CGA Other Oct. 19-20 – 73rd Captain’s Putter Team Matches, Spring Creek GC, Gordonsville Nov. 10-11 – 8th Carolinas Net Amateur Championship, Prestwick CC, Myrtle Beach, SC. Nov. 10-11 – 21st Carolinas Interclub Final Four, Pinehurst #5, Pinehurst TBA – 10th Carolinas Young Amateur
Captain’s Choice/Charity Sept. 7 – Trauma Services Open, Bryan Park, Brown Summit, www.conehealth.com/ts-open. Sept. 15 – Hooter’s Fall Tournament, Plantation G.C. 336-342-6191. Sept. 15 – First Christian Church of Walnut Cove Inaugural Golf tournament at Hemlock Golf Club in Walnut Cove. Contact Brent Fleetwood for additional information 901-335-7511. Sept. 20 – VHVH Golf Tournament benefiting Help our Homeless Veterans Restore Home, Health and Spirit, Reynolds Park GC, Winston-Salem. Robert Nixon 336-486-4393. Sept. 21 – The 12th Annual Stongner Scholarship, Pudding Ridge, Mocksville, visit www.scholarshipforautism.org . Sept. 28 – 27th annual Ed Steffey Memorial Education Open to support educational projects in Danville and Pittsylvania County, Goodyear GC, Danville, Va. 434-797-1909. Sept 28 – Lefty for Life – CBG Memorial Tournament aka The Brad, benefiting the Mental Health Association in Greensboro, Bryan Park Champions, Brown Summit. Info www.leftyforlife.org .
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Sept. 29 – Reidsville Christian Church, Plantation G.C. 336-342-6191. Sept. 29 – 4th Annual Chameleon Classic benefiting children with autism and intellectual disabilities, Country Hills, Gibsonville. Contact Sue Harvey 336-333-7065. Oct. 5 – 11th – Annual Hope for the Warriors Golf Tournament, Grandover Resort, Greensboro, contact Jack F. Masarie hornhaus@gmail.com . Oct. 5-6 – Christian Outreach for Youth, Plantation G.C. 336-342-6191. Oct. 6 – 4th Annual Friends of Eden Animal Rescue, Oak Hills GC, Eden, Contact 336-912-1178. Oct. 12 – Camel City Classic benefitting Combat Warriors, Maple Chase, WinstonSalem, Contact Sean at Maple Chase Golf Shop 336-767-0034 or sean@maplechasecc.com. Oct. 13 – Annie Penn Cancer Tournament, Plantation G.C. 336-342-6191. Oct. 18 – 16th Clemmons Masonic Lodge Charity Tournament, Tanglewood Reynolds, Clemmons, Contact Richard Brewer 336-399-2278.
Laid-Back Golfers Tour 434-792-3728 • Men/Women All-Ages Flights pre-determined by handicap Tees determined by hdc/age formula Oct. 1 – Greensboro National, Summerfield Oct. 9 – Deep Springs CC, Stoneville Oct. 16 – Forest Park CC, Martinsville Oct. 30 – Bryan Park GC (Players), Brown Summit Nov. 12 – Danville GC, Danville Nov. 27 – Goodyear GC, Danville
Golfweek Amateur Tour 252-864-9161 Sept. 29-30 – Local Finals, Bryan Park (both courses), Brown Summit Oct. 19-21 – National Championship at Hilton Head Island, SC
Senior Individual Oct. 9-11 – World Super Senior Championship. Tanglewood Championship, Clemmons. Ages 70-over, Kitty Visintine 336-703-6420.
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(ages 50-over) 910-964-1547 Sept. 20 – Bryan Park (Champions), Brown Summit Sept. 27 – Beacon Ridge CC, West End Oct. 24-25 – National Championship at Hilton Head Island, SC
Amateur Team Sept. 29-30 – Tuscarora Two-Man Invitational, Tuscarora CC, Danville. Medal play in flights. 434-724-4191. Oct. 6-7 – Greensboro National Fall Classic, Greensboro National GC, Summerfield. 2-man bestball. 336-342-1113. Oct. 20-21 – 35th annual Lexington BBQ Festival 2-person teams, Lexington GC. 336-248-3950. Oct. 20-21 – Chatmoss Two-Man Invitational, Chatmoss CC, Martinsville. Medal play in flights. Also senior division. 276-638-7648.
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Parent-Child Sept. 21-23 – Alamance County ParentChild, Shamrock GC, Burlington. Contact 336-350-8002.
Junior Golf Schedule CGA 910-673-1000 * TYGA 910-673-1000 * PKBGT 336-347-8537 * NCJGF 919-858-6400 * TGF 919-291-5813 * NJGT 704-824-6548 * AJGA 770-868-4200 * USGA 908-234-2300 * USKIDS Raleigh Tour 919-206-4666 * Winternational 847-204-9888 * HJGT 904-379-2697 Sept. 15 – TYGA Tots, Northgreen CC, Rocky Mount, Boys/Girls, Ages 6-11. Sept. 15-16 – PKBGT N.C. Series Final, Colonial CC, Thomasville. Girls. Sept. 15-16 – HJGT - Charlotte Junior Open, Red Bridge Golf & Country Club, Locust, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18. Sept. 22-23 – CGA Junior Collegiate, Keith Hills CC, Buies Creek, Boys only, Invitation only. Sept. 29 – TYGA NC Middle School Championship, Longleaf GC, Southern Pines, Boys/Girls, Middle School. Oct. 6-7 – PKBGT-CGA Jimmy Anderson Girls’ Invitational, Jacksonville CC, Jacksonville, Girls only, Ages 12-18. Oct. 6-7 – HJGT - Wilmington Junior Open, Course TBD, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18, 407-614-2962. Oct. 13-14 – TYGA State Championship, Colonial CC, Thomasville, Boys/Girls, Ages 12-18. Oct. 13 – TYGA Tots State Championship, Longleaf GC, Southern Pines, Boys/Girls, Ages 6-11. Oct. 15--NCHSAA Girls’ HS regionals, NC only. Oct. 22-23 – NCHSAA Girls’ State Championships, NC only. Oct. 22-23 – NCISAA Girls’ State Championship, NC only. Oct. 27-28 – NJGT College Prep Series Fall Classic, Rock Barn, Claremont, Ages 6-18. Oct. 27-28 – TYGA Triad Bill Harvey Memorial Junior, Bryan Park GC, Greensboro, Boys/Girls, Ages 12-18. Oct. 28 – PKBGT Invitational Last Chance Qualifier, Girls, TBA. Nov. 10-12 – PKBGT Invitational, Grandover, Greensboro, Girls Invitational Only. Nov. 21 – TYGA One Day, Longleaf GC, Southern Pines, Boys/Girls, Ages 12-18. Dec. 1-2 – PKBGT Tournament of Champions, Pinehurst #8, Pinehurst, Girls Invitational Only. Dec. 28-29 – PKBGT Peggy Kirk Bell Junior, Pine Needles, Southern Pines, Girls. Dec. 28-29 – Donald Ross Junior Championship, Pinehurst No. 1, No. 4 No. 5, No. 8, Pinehurst, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18, 910-235-8140. Jan. 20-21 – PKBGT Linville Cup, Mid Pines, Southern Pines, Girls Invitational Only. www.trianglegolf.com
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