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SAS Junior Championship Formed

– by David Droschak

he SAS Championship, in partnership with the Triangle Youth Golf Association and Prestonwood Country Club, will host the inaugural SAS Junior Championship on Aug. 10.

The event will be open to 105 junior golfers, both male and female, ages 12–18. All participants must reside in Wake, Durham, Chatham, Johnston, Franklin, Granville, Harnett or Nash counties, tournament officials said.

“We are eager to work with the Triangle Youth Golf Association to make this the best event of the year by focusing on the experience of the junior golfers and their families,” said tournament director Jeff Kleiber. “This is a unique event that will allow us to strengthen our relationships with the local golf community, showcase the level of junior golf talent in the Triangle, and support an impactful local charity.”

In addition to the golf tournament, the SAS Junior Championship will feature exclusive programs throughout the day, including breakfast with PGA Tour Champions professionals Mike Goodes and Neal Lancaster, a seminar with current collegiate golf coaches and a VIP gift package. SAS Championship volunteers

will assist in the management and operation of the daylong event.

“Our longstanding partnership with the SAS Championship allows us to host numerous events in conjunction with the tournament, and the SAS Junior Championship is an exciting addition,” said Prestonwood general manager Matt Massei. “We are always eager to support TYGA and First Tee of the Triangle as they strive to grow the game of golf and positively impact the lives

New golf pro named at 12 Oaks

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By DAVID DROSCHAK

att Bevan has been named the new head pro at The Club at 12 Oaks, a private Nicklaus Design Group golf course in Holly Springs.

Bevan has more than 18 years of operations and instruction experience.

He previously served as head professional at the Champions Retreat Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., and at Manhattan Woods Golf Club, an exclusive private club outside New York City.

Bevan has built a repPhoto courtesy 12 Oaks utation as a top teacher and coach. At Manhattan Woods, he worked with PGA Teacher of the Year and Golf Digest Top Instructor Michael Breed to develop a high-level instruction program using the latest in video analysis and launch monitor technologies.

Bevan plans to implement the same level of instruction and innovation to the members of The Club at 12 Oaks. He also is committed to upgrading pro shop opera-

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of youth in our community.”

Registration to the SAS Junior Championship for TYGA is now open to at www.tygajuniorgolf.org, with a fee of $50 for members and $65 for non-members.

Parents and guests are welcome.

A portion of the registration fees will go to support The First Tee of the Triangle and their mission of impacting the lives of young people through the game of golf.

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tions, improving member programming and developing a strong junior golf program.

“We’re extremely excited to have Matt Bevan join the 12 Oaks team,” said David Mason, vice-president of development at Landeavor, the community’s developer.

“He’s a consummate professional who’ll bring the passion and commitment necessary to deliver an exceptional golf experience at The Club at 12 Oaks.”

Founded in 2007, 12 Oaks has emerged as one of the top-selling communities in the Raleigh/ Research Triangle region, and is now home to close to 1,000 families.

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NEXT ISSUE: September 12, 2017 On the Cover: The Neuse in Clayton is one of several area courses converting to Bermuda greens.

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Beating the heat:

Area courses upgrading greens in record fashion

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By DAVID DROSCHAK hether you subscribe to the theory of global warming or just the luck of the summer weather draw, the dog days of August across central North Carolina have been getting hotter and hotter much of the last decade.

The intense heat and accompanying humidity have played havoc on bent grass greens across the Triangle, leaving large patches of dead spots, root rot and massive humming fans that run up the power bill trying to cool down the “cool season” grass.

Golf course owners have heard the rallying cry from local golfers who bemoan the higher mowing pattern on bent grass as superintendents try to keep the grass alive in the summer months.

Now, a record number of area courses – five in all – have decided to spend the $250,000-$350,000 price tag this summer to replace their bent grass greens with the latest heat tolerant Bermuda.

The list includes

The Neuse in Clayton, Wildwood Green in North Raleigh, Hasentree in Wake Forest, The Challenge in Graham and Belmont Lake in Rocky Mount.

Most agree that it comes down to dollars and a whole lot of sense to make the conversion.

“Just look at the number of rounds and do the math,” said Wildwood Green owner Chip Watson. “If you have bent grass greens in the summer your rounds are probably going to go down. Say 10-15 players a day that may not play and take that number over a 2 ½ month period, and say you lose 1,500 rounds that we can attribute to having bent grass greens as opposed to Bermuda. Just put a dollar amount per player on it. It will be the reverse in the winter but it will be a lot less because the daylight is less and the weather is not as good anyway.

“At the worst case it’s a seven-year payback and that’s not even considering you can probably go up in your price and you can pump the rounds in the summer as much as you want,” Watson added.

Tim Wilkie at Belmont Lake has been in the golf industry for more than 40 years and agrees 100 percent with Watson.

“It’s like anything, people are always looking for more efficient and better systems to take care of things,” said Wilkie. “With golf, our environment has changed, they talk about global heating and I do think our weather has gotten more severe in terms of heat, so you have to be

open to change and flexible to conquer the beast because you know how the beast tends to spread out if you’re not paying attention.

“It was an absolute no brainer and it was a move we needed to make. We just bit the bullet. We have a wonderful, proactive owner who is so supportive of this. We’re getting it done and it’s efficient, so now we only had two bad summers instead of a number of them.”

Here is a look at each of the courses making the conversion to Bermuda grass greens:

The Neuse, Clayton

Clayton’s population increased by 131 percent from 2000 to 2010, and is expected to rise another 25 percent in 2017, so general manager Stew McComb can’t wait to unveil his new greens to an eager audience.

The Neuse started construction June 5 and the grow-in has been so aggressive that McComb believes a member appreciation event by Aug. 19 is not out of the question.

“Having a newer product to resale to folks who maybe have lost a little faith in us because of how the greens were deteriorating over the years is huge, but the bigger impact is the growth in Clayton,” he said. “With the activity that is being developed out here there is a lot more traffic than there was three years ago, five years ago, and that is really great.”

The Neuse lost portions of five greens last summer.

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amenities to their members with the new greens project.

“We are delighted to start this revamp process in order to provide the very best playing conditions for our members,” said Hasentree general manager Cris Carter.

“Our goal is to continually provide our members with a luxurious country club experience and these Champion Bermuda greens will provide our members with a first-class putting surface year-round.”

Hasentree’s expected completion date is late August.

Carter points out that Champion Bermuda is drought tolerant, leaves fewer ball marks on greens and provides consistent putting surfaces throughout the year for players. And Champion also features a no-till renovation process that allowed for renovation of the existing greens at Hasentree without reconstruction.

“Part of that recovery mode is getting the old folks back, but when the new folks come in and see the place I think the word out on the street is going to be ‘hey, you’ve got to come and check out The Neuse.”’

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by John LaFoy and is worth playing just for the 192-yard 14th hole, a par-3, which is framed by a series of rocky outcroppings and lake that makes you feel you’re teeing it up in the North Carolina mountains, not Down East.

“The Neuse is a fantastic layout,” said Steve Ostroff, ClubCorp regional director of golf. “Breathtaking views and rolling terrain with undulations makes this a must-play course. The Raleigh market is growing so rapidly and ClubCorp now has three fantastic golf course offerings, and each property will have new greens built within the past five years. This shows our commitment to this exciting golf market.”

Belmont Lake, Rocky Mount

Wildwood Green, North Raleigh

The Carolinas Golf Group was involved in a greens conversion at Deep Springs in Stoneville last summer, but this approach was somewhat unusual for a public course. Watson’s management and ownership group, which includes with father Roger Watson, involved the membership as part of the funding arm of the project.

The Wildwood Green construction began June 27 and is expected to be completed by Labor Day. “We started last fall talking about it and polling the members,” Chip Watson said. “The members stepped up to the plate. We came up with a whole plan with a Champion member type plan; they could contribute and basically pay their dues in advance for one year, three years, five years or a lifetime to contribute. And they have a whole list of other benefits and discounts and their dues are frozen for a period of time.”

Watson said around 200 members contributed to the greens conversion.

“We were able to get the members on board and we didn’t have to borrow a lot of money to go out and do it,” Watson said. “We are all kind of in it together, so to speak. It has been exciting.”

Wildwood Green also added a muchneeded practice green near the driving range. Previously, golfers had to cross the street from the range to warm up, and then walk back across the street to the first tee.

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Bags of sprigs have been planted at Belmont Lake in Rocky Mount and be ready to go. And it’s great for we closed and when they come out here camps and clinics, too,” Watson said of the again we want them to see a noticeable new practice green, which is now open. difference -- from the appearance of the The Wildwood Green membership entrance to how they are treated in the even found a way to embrace the tempopro shop to their experience on the golf rary greens in place until the new ones are course,” Smith said. complete.

“It was real easy for us to do, we really “A lot of people like it because it’s had no choice,” Smith said when asked fun,” he said. “We had a ‘Set the Course about having to close the course for three Record Day’ and we had people who set months. “There have been a lot of different the course record who never would have owners but Richie is committed to making the course record. We kept some social this a fantastic golf course. We talked at events going.” the beginning of the year that this absolutely had to be done to bring us up to the The Challenge, Graham level we need to be. We needed some kind The Challenge has been closed since of catalyst to turn things around.” the spring and is scheduled to re-open to Smith said ongoing work will continue the public Aug. 5. on the Challenge’s bunkers and railroad Built in 1996, The Challenge has conties that add a unique touch to the layout. verted its greens from bent to Bermuda “We’ve had just a huge punch list that grass, and redefined its fairways, among we’ve been knocking out all summer,” he other improvements under owner Richard said.

Belton, a local businessman and golf Hasentree, Wake Forest enthusiast.

The course also has a new logo, said This exclusive Tom Fazio-designed prigeneral manager and director of golf Todd vate course is just a decade old, but owner Toll Brothers says it’s showing its continSmith.

“When somebody played here before ued commitment to providing world-class

This project began July 12, and beside from the sprigging process, was all done in-house with the expertise of Wilkie and superintendent David Coley.

“It took about four full days, nine of us to really work on those greens to get them ready,” Wilkie said. “You need a knowledgeable greens superintendent, which we have, and you just have to get a process going, and as you went on everybody got a little more efficient. And then after the sprigging got done for the next 10 days we had two guys going out every 20 minutes to water the greens all day long.”

Like Hasentree, Belmont Lake is just 10 years old.

“When we were trying to open in 2007 it was getting later in the summer and they had not planted the greens yet so Bermuda grass wasn’t going to grow in at that time of the year and would have been dormant until March or April, so that was why we ended up having the bent grass. I love the bent grass and if we had electricity on the golf course I would have been a proponent to stay with it but it’s hard if you get summers like last summer when it was hot, wet and humid with a terrible heat index and no wind. The weather was just totally against you.”

Belmont lost five greens last summer.

“We have no means to cool them off,” Wilkie said. “Last summer it was a steam bath here.”

Wilkie says a target date for project completion is the end of August.

“That might be saying we’re optimistic, but at the rate they are growing right now it’s all positive,” he said.

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Summer Escape: Converted brickyard one of Western North Carolina’s pristine getaways

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By KEITH JARRETT

or a half-century, Etowah Valley Golf & Resort has provided quality play for more than a million rounds and lodging for tens of thousands for visitors.

And as the 27-hole layout in Henderson County celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, there are current and future plans to ensure those numbers of golfers playing and staying continue to grow at one of Western North Carolina’s most popular places to tee it up.

Converted from a brickyard, Etowah Valley opened on July 8, 1967, 18 holes built by esteemed architect Edmund Ault.

The original layout has remained virtually intact, South and West nines that feature a traditional look and style in the design of courses much older.

Long, straight or slightly dogleg, treelined par-4s and par-5s dominate the terrain once used for brick mining, land long ago stripped of tons of clay that formed the famous Etowah Brick.

Most par-4s on the original 18 demand not only a solid shot off the tee but often mid-irons or more into large greens, a challenge for many players who tire of the driver-wedge game of a lot of courses.

Ault added nine holes in 1988, and the North nine is quite a departure from the South and West courses. A more open look with three reachable par-5s and a pair of par-3s that play less than 150 yards, the North also features three short par-4s that offers a chance to score more easily than the original 18.

At the height of its summer season, Etowah Valley was in excellent condition during a recent visit, all 27 holes inviting and ready.

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If one plays the West Course first, the initial tee shot is an introduction to Etowah Valley and its stout test.

The first hole is a straightaway par-4 of 431 yards, and even a long, straight tee shot leaves a lengthy approach that must clear a pond short and left of the green to a long and wide putting surface accustomed to receiving long irons and even hybrids and fairway woods.

The 455-yard par-5 6th hole is the best chance for birdie, where a good drive around the corner of the dogleg right can leave an iron approach to a slightly elevated green.

The par-5 9th hole goes downhill and the tee ball must avoid small bodies of water left and right, setting up an uphill second shot to another wide, long green with multiple pin positions available.

The signature hole is the fourth on the South side. A long pond of more than 200 yards sits down the right side of the par-4, forcing all but the longest of hitters to lay up on a narrow fairway left of the water, leaving a long approach to a flat green protected by sand left and right.

The birdie chances on the North side begin on the short par-3 1st hole and ends with a classic risk/reward par-5 9th hole, where the second shot must be flown over a pond that protects a long, left-to-right green that is very narrow from front to back over the water.

Rick Merrick, the head pro at the course, has been at Etowah for 26 years.

He said many first-time visitors are surprised at the variety of the holes.

“Most people think when they come to the mountains, they are going to play

a real hilly course,” he said. “But we are in a valley. Our South nine is relatively flat…the West nine is kind of rolling hills, a little wider and a little bit longer. Then the North nine is a little shorter, with smaller greens and a totally different look.”

And the non-golf time at Etowah Valley offers plenty of choices. There are 65 lodge rooms and three restaurants on site, with a heated swimming pool and tennis.

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Frank Todd and his wife Betty Anne built Etowah Valley from the vision of Betty Anne’s father Bruce Drysdale, who owned the brickyard business.

The Todd family owned and operated the golf course until 2013 and established a solid reputation as a top stay-and-play resort over the decades.

The current ownership group of 14 partners took over in 2014 and is headed by local businessmen Dewey Andrew, Darrell Redmond and Tim Rice, who serves as general manager.

Under leadership that invested nearly $2 million, the course has added a new fleet of golf carts and maintenance equipment and installed a new irrigation system to the South course.

All the lodge rooms were renovated, along with the restaurants. Zeke’s Greenside Tavern seats 160 and is open 10 hours a day, seven days a week, with live entertainment on a patio that overlooks the course.

“We have a vision…and feel good about the plan and the execution after nearly three years,” said Rice. “Our members and resort guests are excited about our efforts. They see our dollars are being well spent.”

Etowah Valley is a premier spot for Western North Carolina fund-raising tournaments. The annual Pro-Am benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County and has raised more than $300,000 over the past 20 years.

The Asheville Tourists Children’s Fund, a charity that buys shoes for children in neighboring Buncombe County, holds its tournament at Etowah, as does the WNC Sports Awards Banquet tourney, which raises funds for its scholarship program.

“We’re very proud of where we started from, evolving from a brickyard to a 27-hole facility,” Merrick said.

“The new owners have worked hard to bring it back to where it used to be and to extend that even further.

We are in the midst of short-range plans for improvement and there is a long-range plan to make things even better. We’ve come a long way and feel like we have a long way to go -- hopefully another 50 years and then some.”

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NASCAR drivers relish the PGA Tour spotlight

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By BRAD KING

olf and auto racing, at first glance, seem an unlikely pairing.

Two sports that some don’t even consider to be sports, one involving taking your life in your own hands driving high rates of speed around a track; the other trying to use as few a swings as possible with a stick to hit a little ball resting stationary on the ground in front of you.

In fact, their differences may be what bring the two sports together.

Turns out there are a growing contingent of NASCAR drivers who are avid golfers off the track, using the “other” sport to relax from their often-stressful professional careers.

One of the leaders of the pack is Charlotte resident Kevin Harvick, a veteran driver and the 2014 Cup Series champion. On Monday, Aug. 14, for the eighth consecutive year his Kevin Harvick Foundation jumpstarts Wyndham Championship week at Greensboro’s Sedgefield Country Club by hosting a Pro-Am, presented by Technology Concepts &

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Design, Inc., and BB&T, to help underprivileged children.

Harvick and his wife, DeLana, a native of Kernersville, started their foundation in 2010 after a NASCAR fan poll gave Harvick a zero on the humanitarian side.

“It’s not that we weren’t doing anything,” Harvick said. “We did a ton of stuff with the Victory Junction camp and different charities, but we never publicized it. We’d donate money and do our thing — shut down the race shop and take the com-

pany up to the Victory Junction camp, have a field day with the kids. But we never did it publicly.”

The mission of the Kevin Harvick Foundation is to support programs that positively enrich the lives of children throughout the country. In 2013, as part of a continuing effort to support athletics at Harvick’s alma mater, North High School in Bakersfield, Calif., his foundation presented the school's boy's and girl's golf teams with a donation of 21 sets of new golf clubs, golf bags, putters and team apparel.

Sunday at the Wyndham

Harvick said events such as the Monday Pro-Am during the Wyndham Championship week have helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for good causes from North Carolina to Northern California.

“Mark Brazil, his wonderful team at the Wyndham Championship and Bill Johnson of Technology Concepts & Design go above and beyond to lend a helping hand for so many children in need,” Harvick said. “I have gotten to know several members of the golf community fairly well in recent years, and have been amazed by their generosity and overwhelming support. The Kevin Harvick Foundation couldn’t do the work we do without the generosity of groups such as this.”

Since taking up golf about a

decade ago, Harvick has become so addicted that when the California native moved to Charlotte, he built a par-3 hole in his back yard that is a replica of Augusta National’s iconic No. 12 hole.

Harvick said golf is therapeutic for him, “to go and do something totally different” from racing — which is why he can often be found in the early evenings hitting balls in the backyard with his 5-yearold son, Keelan.

“I don’t know that I can 100 percent blame it on Keelan, but he was definitely part of the excuse to convince Mom that we needed to put the golf hole in the backyard,” said Harvick, who said he was inspired to replicate No. 12 after attending the Masters a few years back and later playing a round at Augusta National.

So who is the best golfer among the NASCAR drivers? Well, if the results from the new “Golf Guys Tour” — made up of 16 NASCAR drivers, team members and broadcasters — are any indication, that would be Denny Hamlin, who also happens to be one of the sport’s leading drivers.

Calling themselves “the most frustrated amateurs on tour,” The Golf Guys Tour boasts its own Twitter account (@ TheGolfGuysTour) and website (www.thegolfguystour.com), which sells merchandise, and posts results and photos.

Hamlin won the tour last year and already has built a large lead in this season’s standings as well.

“I’m the best golfer,” said Hamlin, a member at The Peninsula Club just north of Charlotte, where he plays to a 4.2 handicap. Hamlin estimates he plays as many as 90 rounds a year. When he’s not on the course or the track Hamlin has a fullsized golf simulator in his home.

“As soon as I started racing, I started playing golf,” he said. “A lot of the crew guys would go play on their time off. I really didn’t have any Continued on page 15 www.trianglegolf.com

Wyndham from page 14 other sports that I did growing up, so I took it up and went out for a few rounds. The next thing you know, I kind of got addicted to it. I enjoy the challenge. Hopefully I’ll play a lot more once I retire.”

During racing season, Hamlin said he and other drivers regularly tee it up following Saturday practices. He competed in this year’s Diamond Resorts Invitational — featuring legendary PGA Tour Champions, LPGA stars and over 40 celebrities from the world of sports and entertainment competing for their own prize purse.

Hamlin finished 29th out of 47 celebrities.

He is renowned among his fellow competitors for his putting.

One professional golfer’s caddie called Hamlin “possibly the best amateur putter” he had ever seen.

Hamlin said one of his fondest golf memories was last year’s Wells Fargo Championship Pro-Am, where he and former FedEx CEO Mike Glenn teamed up with PGA Tour star Adam Scott to shoot 56 and win the event by two shots.

“It was so crazy how well we played brother-in-law golf,” said

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Jimmy Buffet Hamlin, who recently posted a video of himself practicing his short game on a plane.

One of Hamlin’s best friends and frequent partners on the golf course is Bubba Watson. Hamlin even caddied for his fellow lefthander during the Masters Par-3 Contest in 2012; the year Watson won his first of two green jackets.

Like Harvick, Hamlin has a foundation in his name and also hosts a pro-am.

One of his foundation’s two biggest fundraising events of the year is the “The Denis, Denny & Mark’s Pro-Am Jam,” a golf and concert event held each October at Daniel’s Island in Charleston, S.C., cosponsored by Hamlin, Hootie & the Blowfish’s Mark Bryan and entrepreneur Denis Gallagher.

Last year’s fifth annual event raised a Pro-Am Jam record amount of $270,000, bringing the five-year fundraising tally to $990,000.

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“Being on the verge of $1 million raised in only five short years is a testament to the generosity of all that support and participate in the Pro-Am Jam and the organizations it benefits,” Hamlin said.

Indeed, NASCAR driver David Ragan said despite what people might think, he sees a lot of similarities between his sport and golf.

"Golf is one of the sports -- like

NASCAR -- that really hasn't changed in how it's played since its inception," Ragan said. “They stick with a lot of the same procedures that have been in place since day one. Technology might help drive the ball farther on the golf course, just like technology helps give us more horsepower to go faster, but the core basics of the sport are still very much the same as they were when they first started."

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Some rules changes perplexing

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By HOWARD WARD hold my breath on that one. ey, Howard, did you hear about ■ Another one under consideration is low down and catch your all of the plans at the USGA breath, Betsey. I know you’re a getting rid of the penalty for when you to simplify the rules? Read on rules junkie, but me, I’m just sitget hit by your own ball. This should be carefully now. These are not rules yet. ting around waiting to see what they a no-brainer. I can’t think of one time in The gang at Golf House is just thinking come up with.

It doesn’t really matter my life or any other golfer’s life when it about it. would be of benefit to purposely ricochet to me. I still go by the old philosophy These are the ones that I hope make a ball off my shoulder after striking the of hit it, find it, hit it again. That has the cut: ball. How this ever got to be a penalty in always worked for me.

■ Using a laser (aka distance-measuring the first place is beyond Seriously, I really device) is OK. It is so dumb to watch a me. don’t care much what tour caddie stomp off 27 yards from a ■ The other one that kind of changes they sprinkler head when this clever measurshould be moved to the make. The only change ing device has been around for 10-plus head of the class is perI am adamant about is years. mitting tournaments with the out-of-bounds rule.

■ They are thinking about getting rid of a set maximum score per I have always felt it was the penalty for accidently moving your hole. This would put an unfair. A player can hit ball while you are trying to find it. This end to the misery of play- DUELING DIVOTS a ball 50 yards off line makes total sense to me. In Pinehurst, ing in a club championinto a water hazard and the superintendent is fond of dressing ship when you are lying 10 in the bunker is allowed to drop another ball with out the base of trees with a foot of fluffy after you have been lying 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2 only a one- stroke penalty. Yet, he can pine straw. I dare you to find a ball that in the same bunker. Pick up at par plus 3 hit a nice drive that lands in the edge rolls into that haystack without moving it. – you’ve lost the trophy by now anyway. of the fairway and bounces one inch This change would be good news for the There is still a chance for third place. out of bounds and he is forced to take players in the Piedmont when October ■ And ready golf, yes please, ready golf. a penalty shot and go back to the tee. rolls around. Those are the days when the Howard, if we had these rules back My solution for all these rule fairways can be more maple leaves than in the day, we would be done 18 holes in changes is to hire Boss Hawg to come grass. It’s kind of like the USGA finally 2:45 instead of the usual 3:15. up with a blueprint. Boss Hawg decided to allow the “leaf rule.” Still no

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For instance, you can move the ball anywhere in the fairway. Makes sense to me. If your ball is in the fairway you deserve a good lie. I also like the root rule. If your ball is in the trees, and one of those trees is in the way of your swing, you simply apply the root rule. There’s got to be a root there somewhere and you shouldn’t have to spend five minutes looking for it.

Once you’re on the green, you only have to putt into the knock-back range, which is from wherever you feel like you can make the putt.

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Massei move South leads to development

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By DAVID DROSCHAK ack Massei began playing golf with his older brother Luke Massei on a 9-hole course carved into a New Hampshire mountainside.

“My brother and I would play all summer, or as long as the course was open, and it wasn’t open for long,” said the rising senior at Green Hope High School in Cary.

So Massei must have been thrilled as a fourth-grader when his father Matt Massei accepted the job as general manager of Prestonwood Country Club, correct?

“I was just excited to get out of the cold weather,” the younger Massei said.

Jack Massei was still playing other sports as a youngster, but soon gravitated to golf even though Luke was on his way to becoming a 3,000-yard passer for Green Hope.

“My dad never pushed me to do anything; all he did was give me an opportunity to play and I did all sports – basketball, soccer and golf -- and golf is the one I decided to play. With my brother, my dad was 100 percent supportive in what he wanted to do and the same with me in golf. It just happened

to be the business my dad was in.”

You’ll often see Matt Massei walking along the cart paths of junior events, the former director of golf at Pinehurst Resort offering a tip or two to his son, who has posted 14 top 10 finishes over the last two years and is now ranked the sixth-best junior in North Carolina.

At the time, Jack Massei didn’t realize that the warmer climate of the Tar Heel state would spur his golf development.

“Looking back now, there were really no tournaments in New Hampshire; junior golf isn’t nearly as big as it is here, so moving here gave me the opportunity to get better,” he said. “If I was in New Hampshire I likely wouldn’t be where I am now.”

Or playing as much golf. Few days pass without seeing Jack at Prestonwood, either on the course logging a round or at the practice range.

“I am at the club on average five days a week for 2-3 hours a day. That’s my home away from home,” he said.

Jack admits he was better at golf than the other sports, but that’s not the allure for him.

“With golf you can go out one day and shoot 67 and go out the next day and shoot 80,” he said.

“You never can really master it; there is always

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room for improvement. There are always new people and everybody at the start of the week has a chance.”

Like Jack at the 2015 North Carolina Junior Championship.

“I had never played in a match play event and I was ranked something like 120th and went out and won the thing when my goal was just to make it to match play.

Anyone can win,” he said.

Jack said he’ll play college golf in the fall of 2018 for newly appointed coach Andrew Sapp, who led the North Carolina Tar Heels for six seasons before landing at East Carolina in mid July.

“I’m really excited to work with coach Sapp,” Jack said.

“He didn’t recruit me at East Carolina but I visited UNC one or two times when coach Sapp was there so we already had a little bit of a relationship. So it works for both of us.”

Honors: Three-year first team all-conference; third in 2017 4-A state championship.

2017 Victories: Medalist for U.S. Junior Local Qualifier.

Best Round: Shot 68 in the final round of the 2015 Dogwood after two rounds of even par that produced runner-up finish.

Magic Moment: Winning the 2015 North Carolina Junior Boys in front of my mom and dad. “It was kind of surreal because going into the week I wasn’t expecting much, so if I just got into match play I would have gone home with a smile from ear-to-ear and to go out and win it was special.”

Goals: “To improve game and scoring average, just become a more complete golfer with a better mental game.

I am going to try and give pro golf a chance; at least give it one go-around since I’ve spent the last 8-9 years practicing and playing every day. It’s definitely a dream of mine.”

Natalie Petersen embraces golf’s individual pressures

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By KURT DUSTERBERG atalie Petersen was hoping to finish her junior golf career with a flourish.

She was well on her way after winning her first two matches at the North Carolina Junior Girls Championships in June. But when she stepped to the tee for her third match, something felt wrong.

“I pulled out my driver,” Petersen said. “And instead of my shoulder going around, it went forward.”

The Holly Springs High School graduate had dislocated her shoulder. The weeks since have left her on the sidelines, but not without golf in her future.

Petersen will play at Georgia Southern University in the fall.

“My coach (Emily Kuhfeld) was the only one who

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reached out to me in the recruiting process,” said Petersen, a two-time selection to the North Carolina high school allstate team. “I didn’t know anything about the school.”

The Division I program in Statesboro, Ga., is entering its third year of competition, and Petersen is impressed with what she has seen.

“We have our own golf facility and university course,” she said. “I had never seen anything like that on the visits I had gone on. I could see myself going there. All the standards the golf team holds at Georgia Southern, I just love.”

She has come a long way since she began playing golf at age nine in New Hampshire, trying to keep up with her older brothers on the driving range. After battling the boys for a summer, she decided to enter her first tournament.

“I shot 143,” she said. “I finished dead last. I was like, ‘I don’t think golf is the sport for me.”’

Of course, Petersen improved over the years, but she wondered if she would ever be good enough to compete with the older girls she faced at tournaments. That all changed in her sophomore year when she played at the High Point Junior Open Championship.

“I shot 73-71; I didn’t even know I had it in me,” she said. “I thought maybe I am good. I could really keep up with these people who at one point were beating me.”

Soon, she was dialed in to golf. Her days of dabbling in other sports - basketball, tennis, swimming, softball and soccer - came to an end.

“Playing all the other sports was nice for the team aspect, but golf is different because you have to put all the

pressure on yourself,” she said. “It can be good and bad, but if you figure out how to manage the pressure – especially going into the last few holes of a tournament – you learn how to deal with the mental stuff.”

She closed out the 2016 season with three wins, proof that her game is on par with the best juniors in the state.

Now she can take that confidence to Georgia Southern.

“I have a very competitive drive,” Petersen said. “I will totally walk in with a different mindset.”

Honors: Four-time all-conference and all-academic team.

Two-time prep all-state team.

2017 Victories: Peggy Kirk Bell Tour Eagle Classic at Georgia Southern Golf Course (77-73-150).

Best Round: Shot 66 at Keith Hills Golf Club near the end of last summer. “I holed out on No. 4 from 120 yards for eagle.

Two holes later, I birdied. I was like, this is cool. I shot 32-34.”

Magic Moment: “The very last hole of my last state championship, I was in one of the last groups. All my friends who were playing in the tournament came out and circled the green and cheered me on. I stuck a shot close; I think I had 15 feet to the pin. I walked up and drained it, and everyone went crazy. So I had a birdie on the last hole of my high school career. I got to do it in front of my coach, my mom and dad, and all my friends.”

Goals: “I want to grow the game for juniors. I teach a kids class weekly at Keith Hills and I volunteer for their kids’ academy. For a golf goal, I would like to be an all-American by the time I’m a senior in college. And to win a college tournament would be really cool.” www.trianglegolf.com

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AJGA

Amino VITAL Junior Championship Treyburn CC, Durham, NC July 17-20, 2017 Boys Division - 6978 1 Ranveer Grewal, Ludhiana 69-72-69--210 2 Roberto Nieves, Miami, FL 71-73-69--213 3 Brendan Gonzalez, Orange, CA 78-67-69--214 3 Connor Creasy, Abingdon, VA 74-73-67--214 5 James Webster, Baltimore, MD 72-72-72--216 Selected Others 13 Attie Giles, Pinehurst 73-72-74--219 18 Chris Kim, Cary 73-72-75--220 21 Quinn Riley, Raleigh 73-77-71--221 29 Matias La Grutta, Cary 73-73-78--224 31 Spencer Oxendine, Fayetteville 76-75-75--226 31 Will Hawley, Raleigh 71-76-79--226 Girls Division - 5973 1 Xin (Cindy) Kou, Windermere, FL 67-77-67--211

2 Jing Wen Lu, Shanghai 71-73-72--216 3 Haeley Wotnosky, Wake Forest 73-72-72--217 4 Yu Wen Lu, Shanghai 75-70-74--219 5 Emily Nash, Lunenburg, MA 72-76-72--220 Selected Others 10 Holly McCann, Raleigh 71-78-77--226 11 H annah Rose, Chapel Hill 76-79-74--229 Bruxvoort 13 Nicole Adam, Pinehurst 78-77-75--230 16 Channing Hensley, Wake Forest 76-80-78--234 17 Lotte Fox, Raleigh 77-77-81--235

Carolinas Golf Association

21st NC Junior Boys’ 13 and under Championship Asheboro Municipal GC, Asheboro, NC July 10-11, 2017 Finals Jake Herring d. Davis Adams 1 up Semifinal Davis Adams d. Caleb Surratt 10 holes Jake Herring d. Abhay Gupta 3 and 2 Quarterfinal Caleb Surratt d. Spencer Turtz 3 and 2 Davis Adams d. Daniel Boone Jr. 3 and 1 Jake Herring d. Tyler Strickland 1 up Abhay Gupta d. Benjamin Bailey 2 and 1 Colonial CC, Thomasville, NC June 27-30, 2017 Finals Quinn Riley d. Seve Anfindsen 4 and 3 Semi-finals Quinn Riley d. Narayan Mohan 4 and 2 Seve Anfindsen d. Zach Caudill 19 holes Quarter Finals Narayan Mohan d. Peter Foundation 1 up Quinn Riley d. Tanner Bibey 6 and 5 Seve Anfindsen d. Symon Balbin 2 up Zach Caudill d. Connor Armistead 2 and 1

Selected Others 6 Mara Hirtle, Pinehurst 74-86--160 7 Jaclyn Kenzel, Southern Pines 81-80--161 9 Maria Atwood, Holly Springs 81-81--162 13 Deborah Spair, Raleigh 81-84--165 23 Anika Bhatnagar, Cary 82-97--179 Junior Division - 5194 1 Ella Kue, Kings Mountain 83-81--164 2 Megan Morris, Cary 92-84--176 3 Mattie Padgett, Seneca, S.C. 96-82--178 Selected Others 4 Toni Blackwell, Fayetteville 85-95--180 7 Gaby Tucker, Fayetteville 101-99--200 8 Kaitlyn Rand, Raleigh 103-99--202 Sub-Junior Division - 2460 1 Ella Stalvey, Elgin, S.C. 43-45--88 2 Camille Oliver, Cary 44-48--92 3 Mackenzie Crossman, Pittsboro 54-51--105 Selected Others 6 Alexandra Hirst, Pinehurst 66-55--121 NC One-Day Series Event Pine Island CC, Charlotte, NC July 18, 2017 Prep NC - 5804 1 Alexis Sudjianto, Charlotte 2 Emily Song, Charlotte 2 Mara Hirtle, Pinehurst Selected Others 4 Jenna Nagy, Apex Futures - 5344 1 Cindy Song, Waxhaw 2 Liza Lapeyre, New Orleans LA 3 Elyssa Kim, Charlotte Selected Others 20 Megan Santos, Fuquay Varina

2GG Apparel Girls Championship

CC of Whispering Pines, Whispering Pines, NC July 10-11, 2017 Championship Division - 5700 1 Sasha Hayes, Winston Salem 80-70--150 1 Isabella Rawl, Lexington, S.C. 75-75--150 3 Sophie Holland, Cornelius 76-75--151

Seth Lomison

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Conway, SC Coastal Carolina University Hackler GC July 15-16, 2017 Futures - 5287 1 Maria Atwood, Holly Springs 78-68--146 2 Loralie Cowart, Winston GA 76-78--154 3 Sydney Grimes, Suffolk VA 80-78--158

North Carolina One-Day Series @ MacGregor Downs CC

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MacGregor Downs CC, Cary, NC June 26, 2017 Prep - 5657 1 Greer Valaquenta, Morrisville 2 Deborah Spair, Raleigh 3 Claire Patrick, Creedmoor Futures - 5121 1 Grayson Warren, Washington 2 Katelyn Kenthack, Pinehurst 2 Macy Pate, Boone Selected Others 4 Lauren Nee, Cary 4 Anika Bhatnagar, Cary 6 Tyler Spriggs, Cary 6 Toni Blackwell, Fayetteville

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Wolfpack Classic @ NC State Lonnie Poole GC

Raleigh, NC, Lonnie Poole GC July 1-2, 2017 Prep North Carolina - 5831 1 Lauren Martin , Mooresville 75-78--153 2 Kayla Smith, Burlington 81-75--156 2 Tomita Arejola, Aliso Viejo CA 78-78--156 Selected Others 8 Megan Kanaby, Chapel Hill 85-77--162 11 Jenna Nagy, Apex 85-79--164 14 Channing Hensley, Wake Forest 85-83--168 19 Camryn Fletcher, Raleigh 91-80--171 26 Carson Jenkins, Raleigh 93-92--185 Futures National - 5020 1 Maria Atwood Holly Springs 76-72--148 2 Trinity Muthomi, Kernersville 75-78--153 3 Virginia Anne Holmes, Montgomery AL 78-76--154 Selected Others 4 Kayla Dowell, Mebane 80-78--158 5 Angelique Seymour, Fayetteville 79-80--159 6 Erin Singleton, Apex 82-78--160 12 Megan Morris, Cary 84-91--175 12 Grace Greene, Apex 87-88--175

TYGA

2017 TYGA One Day Club of Irish Creek, Kannapolis, NC June 26, 2017 Boys’ 16-18 - 6489 1 Zain Tucker, Salisbury 2 Bryson Sprinkle, Rockwell 3 Hayden Estes, Mooresville

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Boys (High School, graduation year) 1 A.J. Beechler, Pinehurst (Pinecrest, 2018) 2 Fulton Smith, Pinehurst (O’Neal School, 2019) 3 Chris Kim, Cary (Green Hope, 2019) 4 Jack Massei, Cary (Green Hope, 2018) 5 Akshay Bhatia, Wake Forest (Home School, 2020) 6 Peter Foundation, Raleigh (Broughton HS, 2020) 7 Viraj Garewal, Raleigh (Panther Creek, 2017) 8 Jackson Van Paris (O’Neal School, 2021) 9 Austin Bonfiglio, Holly Springs (Middle Creek, 2017) 10 Spencer Oxendine, Fayetteville (Jack Britt HS, 2019) Girls (High School, graduation year) 1 Gina Kim, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill HS, 2018) 2 Jennifer Chang, Cary (Athens Drive, 2018) 3 Natalie Petersen, Holly Springs (Holly Springs HS, 2017) 4 Nicole Adam, Pinehurst (O’Neal School, 2020) 5 Haeley Wotnosky, Wake Forest (S. Wake Academy, 2018) 6 Mackenzie Battle, Aberdeen (Pinecrest, 2018) 7 Emilia Migliaccio, Cary (Athens Drive, 2017) 8 Holly McCann, Raleigh (Ravenscroft, 2019) 9 Riley Smyth, Cary (Cardinal Gibbons, 2018) 10 Elizabeth Nguyen, Pinehurst (Pinecrest, 2017) Source: Tarheel Youth Golf Association as of 7/1/17

3 Joel Marburger, Concord Selected Others 6 Kameron Jones, Mebane 9 Jacob Steinert, Pittsboro Boys’ 14-15 - 6489 1 Andrew Coward, Landis 2 Austin Miller, Rockwell 3 Carter Busse, Davidson 3 Colby Patterson, Salisbury Selected Others 19 Brady Caleb Smith, Oxford

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Inaugural Junior Hickory Fall Classic set for early October

eth Lomison had a fulfilling junior career. Now, the 20-year-old from Pfafftown figures it’s time to start giving back to the game.

Lomison, who works for the Tarheel Golf Foundation, is launching the inaugural Junior Hickory Fall Classic, where juniors can learn how to play with old hickory clubs of yesteryear in a competitive setting.

The event is scheduled for Oct. 7 at Wolf Creek Golf Course for boys and girls ages 9-15.

“This event is not modern golf; I want to teach youngsters a hands on way about the roots of golf,” Lomison said. “Golf has taught me so much. I want to share this with oth-

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50th NC Junior Boys’ Championship

11th Carolinas Junior Girls 15 & Under Championship

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ers. Hickory golf is for people of all ages, young and old, good and not so good players. It is just good, oldfashion fun. There isn’t anything like this for youth out there right now.

We want to introduce hickory golf to the next generation.”

Lomison, an intern with the National Hickory Championship for four years, has been playing modern golf for eight years, and pre1900 Hickory golf for the last seven years. He is the 2016 CGA Jimmy Anderson champion and the current Foxburg Hickory champion.

Hickory clubs will be provided to those entering the 18-hole October tournament, with a cookout and awards for the top three male and female finishers.

“With hickory clubs you have to be fluid and precise, compared

to today’s golf, which is a grip it and rip it game,” Lomison said.

“Hickory is about having fun hitting the ball and playing the course. Back in the day they didn’t have pars. It was about hitting the best score and beating the course. Hickory golf is different for each player. For some it is about the history, or the feel of the clubs, for others it’s the camaraderie and friendships.

“Wolf Creek is a nice course because it is a short, open course that makes it perfect for hickory golf.

It is also a family-friendly course and Hickory golf is a great family past time.”

For more information go to the Junior Hickory Classic Facebook page or email juniorhickoryclassic@gmail. com. www.trianglegolf.com

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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.

USGA Qualifiers Selected events (full list at Carolinasgolf.org) Aug. 2 - U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Qualifying, Members Club at Woodcreek Elgin Aug. 8 – U.S. Senior Amateur Championship Sectional Qualifier, High Point CC (Willow Creek), High Point Aug. 21 – U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship Sectional Qualifier, Colonial CC, Thomasville Aug. 30 – U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship Sectional Qualifier, CCNC, Pinehurst Sept. 13 – U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship Sectional Qualifier, Cutter Creek, Snow Hill Oct. 23 – 2017 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Sectional Qualifier, Pinewild, Pinehurst Oct. 24 – 2017 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Sectional Qualifier, Cedarwood, Charlotte

CGA Men Majors/Qualifiers Four-Ball Championships Oct. 13-15 – 22nd N.C. Four-Ball Championship, Wakefield Plantation, Raleigh Carolinas Amateur July 14-17 – 103rd Carolinas Amateur Championship, Golf Club at Briar’s Creek, Johns Island, S.C. N.C. Mid-Amateur Championship Aug. 19 – Qualifier, Monroe CC, Monroe Aug. 24 – Qualifier, Jacksonville CC, Jacksonville Aug. 29 – Qualifier, Bermuda Run, Advance Aug. 30 – Qualifier, Carolina Trace, Sanford Sept. 8-10 – 24th N. C. Mid-Amateur, Willow Creek, High Point

CGA Senior Men Majors/Qualifiers Aug. 9-11 – 17th North Carolina Senior Four-Ball Championship, Benvenue CC, Rocky Mount Aug. 31 – Carolinas Senior Amateur Qualifier, Carolina Trace, Sanford Sept. 6 – Carolinas Senior Amateur Qualifier, Mill Creek, Mebane Sept. 11 – Carolinas Senior Amateur Qualifier, Cabarrus CC, Concord Sept. 12-14 – 56th Carolinas Senior Amateur Championship, Grandfather G&CC, Linville Sept. 25-26 - 10th North Carolina Super Senior Championship, Hendersonville CC, Hendersonville Oct. 2-3 – 6th Carolinas Super Senior Four-Ball Championship, Old Chatham GC, Durham

CGA Women Majors Aug. 19-20 – 12 Carolinas Mixed Team Championship, Pinehurst No. 5, Pinehurst.

Sept. 26-27 – 19th Carolinas Senior Women’s Amateur, Greensboro CC (Irving Park), Greensboro.

Nov. 11-12 – 7th Carolinas Net Amateur Championship, Pinehurst No. 3, Pinehurst. th

CGA Other Aug. 19-20 – 12th Carolinas Mixed-Team Championship, Pinehurst No. 5, Pinehurst.

Aug. 7 – Carolinas Pro-Junior Championship, Hope Valley CC, Durham TBA – 72nd Captain’s Putter Team Matches Nov. 12-13 – 7th Carolinas Net Amateur Championship, Pinehurst No. 3, Pinehurst.

TBA – 2nd Carolinas Interclub Final Four, Pinewild, Pinehurst TBA – Carolinas Young Amateur

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Amateur Individual Aug. 4-6 – 70th Forsyth County Amateur Invitational, Reynolds Park GC, Olde Homeplace GC, Maple Chase G&CC. Medal play in flights.

Todd Barr 336-734-1212.

Aug. 5-6 – Holly Ridge Charity Classic in memory of John Ridge and Jerry Davis, Holly Ridge GL, Archdale. Aug. 4 Par-3 shootout. Medal play in flights. Optional shootout on Aug. 4.

336-861-4653.

Aug. 5-6 – Lee County Amateur, Carolina Trace Country Club, Sanford. www.leecountyamateur.com.

Aug. 26-27 – Crooked Tree Amateur, Crooked Tree GC, Brown Summit. Medal play in flights.

336-656-3211.

Sept. 8-9 – 76th Annual Moore County Men’s Amateur Championship. Southern Pines GC, Southern Pines Dick Wilson 910-949-4675.

Sept. 9-10 – 49th Annual Reidsville Invitational, Pennrose Park CC, Reidsville. Medal play in flights. 336-349-5163.

Sept. 30-Oct. 1 — Steve Welch Fall Classic, Asheboro Municipal GC. Medal play in flights.

336-625-4158.

Laid-Back Golfers Tour 434-792-3728 • Men/Women All-Ages Flights pre-determined by handicap Tees determined by hdc/age formula Aug. 9 – Greens Folly GC, South Boston, Va. Aug. 22 – Kinderton CC, Clarksville, Va. Sept. 6 – Caswell Pines GC, Yanceyville Sept. 19 – Deep Springs CC, Stoneville Oct. 11 – Greensboro National, Summerfield Oct. 25 – Chatmoss CC, Martinsville Nov. 8 – Bryan Park GC, Brown Summit Nov. 13 – Danville GC, Danville Nov. 29 – Goodyear GC, Danville

Golfweek Amateur Tour 252-864-9161 Aug. 5 -- Hyland GC, Southern Pines Aug. 19 -- Whispering Woods GC, Whispering Pines Aug. 26 -- Anderson Creek, Spring Lake Sept. 2 -- Pine Lakes CC, Myrtle Beach Sept. 3 -- Grande Dunes, Myrtle Beach Sept. 9 -- Falls Village, Durham Sept 23-24 -- Local Finals at Bryan Park (both courses) Oct. 20-22 -- National Championship at Hilton Head Island, SC

Senior Individual Oct. 10-12 – World Super Senior Championship.

Tanglewood Championship, Clemmons. Ages 70-over, Kitty Visintine 336-703-6420.

Ridencgolf.com Senior Amateur Tour (ages 50-over) 336-329-3453 Aug. 17 – Greensboro National, Greensboro Aug 31 – Forest Oaks, Greensboro Sept. 14 – Holly Ridge, Archdale Oct. 19 – Stoney Creek, Whitsett

Senior Amateur Tour (ages 50-over) 910-964-1547 Aug. 3 -- Pinewild (Holly), Pinehurst Aug. 10 -- Finley GC, Chapel Hill Aug. 17 -- Whispering Woods, Whispering Pines Aug. 24 -- Anderson Creek, Spring Lake Sept. 21 -- Bryan Park (Championship), Brown Summit Sept. 28 -- Chapel Ridge, Pittsboro Oct. 5 -- Stoney Creek GC Oct. 25-26 -- National Championship at Hilton Head Island, SC

Ladies Individual/Team Aug 5-6 – PKBGT Collegiate Amateur, Salem Glen GC, Clemmons. Open to all current collegiate players in addition to PKBGT Alumni 25 years of age or younger. Current junior golfers are not eligible. 336-347-8537.

Sept. 9-10 – 51st annual Colonial Country Club Ladies Invitational, Colonial CC, Thomasville.

Pre-flighted CGA ranking event. Optional captain’s choice tournament on Sept. 8. Elaine Schuermann 336-906-2064.

Amateur Team Aug. 12-13 – Madison Rotary Four-Ball Invitational, Deep Springs CC, Madison. 336-427-4654.

Aug. 12 — Iron Play 2-person captain’s choice series. Top three teams advance to championship on Oct. 7. 336-644-7991.

Aug. 26-27 – Marvin Crowder 2-Ball, Kinderton CC, Clarksville, Va. 434-374-8822.

Sept. 9 — Iron Play 2-person captain’s choice series. Top three teams advance to championship on Oct. 7. 336-644-7991.

Sept. 30 – Oct. 1 – Lynrock Memorial Two-Man, Lynrock GC, Eden. 336-623-6110.

Oct. 14-15 – Jamestown Park Fall Classic, 2-man bestball. Jamestown Park GC. 336-454-4912.

Oct. 21-22 – Lexington BBQ Festival 2-person teams, Lexington GC. 336-248-3950.

Nov. 4-5 -- Greensboro National Fall Classic, Greensboro National GC, Summerfield. 2-man bestball. 336-342-1113.

Captain’s Choice Aug 5 - Sigma Chi, Plantation GC, Reidsville.

Annette Mint 336-342-6191.

Aug 12 – 6th Annual Burned Children’s Fund, Rock Barn, Conover. Scott Routh 336-399-6738 or routhcs@forsyth.cc .

Aug 24 – MS Golf Tournament benefitting the National MS Society, Forest Oaks CC. Worth Wilson 336-543-4522.

Sept. 1 – Kadren Robertson Memorial benefiting Hospice, Hemlock GC, Walnut Cove. Call 336-591-7937.

Sept. 8 – 4th Annual Trauma Services Open supporting trauma recovery, Bryan Park, Brown Summit. www.conehealth.com/ts-open Sept. 16 – Special Olympics N.C. Golf Classic, Lexington GC, Lexington. Det. Jeremy Parks 336-479-3331.

Sept. 16 – The United Way Benefit Classic, Greensboro National GC, Summerfield. Doug Hanks 336-373-7739 Sept. 22 & 23 – 11th Annual Stogner Scholarship benefiting Children with Autism, Pudding Ridge GC, Mocksville. Contact Wendi@scholarshipforautism.org.

Oct 3 – SECCA Slam for Art, Salem Glen, Clemmons. Siobhan Olson 336-769-6365.

Oct. 6 – 48th Annual Exchange Family Center Golf Tournament, The Crossings, Durham. Contact: Natalia Koch, nataliak@exchangefamilycenter.org Oct 13 – Camel City Classic benefiting Combat Warriors, Maple Chase GC, Winston-Salem, Golf shop 336-767-2941 ext. 2 Oct 13 – Postal Customer Council Golf Tournament, The Preserve at Jordan Lake, Pittsboro. Eddie Goldberg 919-420-5161.

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 Aug. 1-3 - CGA Carolinas Girls’ Championship, CC of South Carolina, Florence, girls only, ages 18 and under.

For the latest tournament schedule, now updated daily, go to www.trianglegolf.com then click on Tournaments Aug. 1-3 - CGA Dogwood State Boys’ Junior, Bermuda Run CC, Bermuda Run, NC, NC boys only, Ages 8-18.

Aug. 1 - TYGA One Day Series, Wilmington Muni GC, Wilmington, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18.

Aug. 1 - TYGA Triad One Day Event, Starmount Forest CC, Greensboro, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18.

Aug. 2 - TYGA One Day Series, Coharie CC, Clinton, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18.

Aug. 3 - TYGA One Day Series, CC of Johnston County, Smithfield, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18.

Aug. 4-6 - PKBGT TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP (*) @ Salem Glen G&CC, Advance, NC, Girls, Ages 11-18.

Aug. 7 - CGA Carolinas Pro-Junior, Hope Valley CC, Durham, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 8-18.

Aug. 8-10 - CGA Dogwood State Girls’ Junior, Pinewood CC, Asheboro, NC girls only, ages 18 and under.

Aug. 10 – TYGA/SAS Junior Championship, Prestonwood CC, Cary. Open to Boy/Girls 12-18 from Wake or adjacent counties.

Aug. 11 - PKBGT North Carolina One-Day Series @ Mill Creek Golf Club, Mebane, NC, Girls, Ages 9-18.

Aug. 12-13 - CGA Virginias-Carolinas Boys Team Matches, Boonesboro CC, Lynchburg, VA, invitation only.

Aug. 14-17 - AJGA Junior All-Star at Irish Creek, Club at Irish Creek, Kannapolis, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 12-15.

Aug. 15-16 - TYGA Tournament of Champions, River Ridge GC, Raleigh, NC, Invitation only.

Aug. 26-27 - HJGT North Carolina Summer Classic, Bryan Park-Players, Greensboro, NC, Boys/Girls, Ages 10-18.

Aug. 26-27 - PKBGT Southeast Finale @ Cobbs Glen CC, Spartanburg, SC, Girls, Ages 9-18.

Aug. 26 - PKBGT North Carolina One-Day Series @ Pinehurst No. 9, Pinehurst, NC, Girls, Ages 9-18.

Sept. 1-4 - AJGA Girls Championship, Furman Golf Club, Greenville, SC, Girls Only, Ages 12-19.

Sept. 16-17 - PKBGT North Carolina Series Finale @ Statesville Country Club, Statesville, NC, Girls, Ages 9-18.

Sept. 23-24 - TYGA State Championship, TBD, Boys/Girls, Ages 12-18.

Sept. 27 - TYGA-PKBGT North State Girls High School Challenge, TBD, Girls only, grades 9-12.

Sept. 30 - TYGA NC Middle School Championship, TBD, Boys/Girls, Grades 6-8.

Oct. 6-9 - AJGA Junior All-Star Invitational, Reynolds Lake Oconee, Greensboro, GA, Invitational.

Oct. 7 – Junior Hickory Fall Classic, Wolf Creek, Reidsville. Learn to play with old hickory clubs.

Seth Lomison juniorhickoryclassic@gmail.com .

Oct. 7-8 - CGA-PKBGT Jimmy Anderson Girls’ Invitational, Jacksonville CC, Jacksonville, NC, Girls only, Ages 12-18.

Nov. 11-13 - PKBGT INVITATIONAL (*) @ Grandover Resort, Greensboro, NC, Girls, Ages 11-18.

Dec. 2-3 - PKBGT TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS @ Pinehurst #8, Pinehurst, NC, Girls, Ages 11-18.

Dec. 9-10 - 28th Charles Tilghman Carolinas PGA Junior Championship, Surf Club, N. Myrtle Beach, SC, Boys/Girls, Ages 13-18, 336-398-2742 Dec. 28-29 - Peggy Kirk Bell Junior @ Pine Needles, Southern Pines, NC, Girls, Ages 11-18.

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