by Stan Olenik Editor-Publisher The flagship event of the South Carolina Golf Association is returning to the upstate. The Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg will host the SCGA Amateur starting on July 24th. It will be the first time the Amateur will be played in the Upstate since […]
By Stan Olenik Editor-Publisher, The Golf Club When you pull up the Facebook page for the Upstate SC Amateur Players Tour you see pictures of a lot of smiling golfers. They usually have a trophy in their hand after playing a good round in a tournament, but the […]
You can’t blame upstate golfers for hibernating through much of this winter. There have not been many acceptable days to play golf. Local clubs have started to scheduled events in the last weeks of winter. The Tyger River Shiver was the first of several to play and the […]
The South Carolina Golf Association Golf Day each year celebrates the success and history of the state organization. The event usually includes a pro-forma business meeting to officially elect officers, but this year under new business the SCGA made a major announcement. “We are taking a bold step […]
By Stan Olenik, Editor-Publisher It wasn’t that long ago that Nick Biershenk, Brad Sill and Brandon Masters were the top Junior golfers in the Upstate. Each of the three had outstanding junior, high school or college careers. Masters won a state high school championship, Biershenk and Sill both […]
By Stan Olenik Editor-Publisher, The Golf Club It has never been clear if the Champagne Shoot-Out at Thornblade Club on New Year’s Eve ends the golf year in the Upstate or starts the New Year. Either way, the event has gone from a small gathering of friends to […]
By Stan Olenik, Editor-Publisher It is a good time to be Erik Erlenkeuser. A successful year on the golf course earned the tall junior golfer from Anderson the South Carolina Golf Association Jay Haas award as the top junior in the state. It was a goal the TL […]
By Stan Olenik – Editor/Publisher Erik Erlenkeuser set some lofty goals for his golf game and now he can put a check mark next to one of the big ones. Erlenkeuser is the South Carolina Golf Association winner of the Jay Haas Player of the Year award. The […]
By Stan Olenik Editor-Publisher Boscobel has long been a favorite course for amateurs, tournaments and everyday play. Now Coby Gambrell and Jon Guenthner, the owners of the course in Pendleton, have bought the Woodhaven Par 3 course just down the road. They have renamed the course The Bel […]
By Stan Olenik Editor-Publisher Borrowing from a seasonal theme. The weather outside was frightful, but the result for the Nielsen brothers was delightful. A full field of 130 golfers, 65 two-man teams. battled each other and the weather in the Cranberry Classic played at Boscobel. The tournament has […]
