The best field for a club event this side of a SCGA or CGA major is always the Invitational at Musgrove Mill. If you follow amateur golf in the Carolinas and you look at the final scores you can put a significant golf accomplishment next to just about […]
Needing just five points to secure a repeat victory in the Cyder Cup Matches, Spartanburg put it away early. The defending champs scored wins in four of the first six matches on the card and tied another, taking 4.5 early points to edge closer to the win. Down […]
The first two rounds of the 19th Annual Cyder Cup Matches at Green Valley on Saturday turned into a good day for the guests. Team Spartanburg took an 11.5-4.5 lead over Team Greenville with two strong sessions. Spartanburg held a 5.5-2.5 advantage after Saturday’s early best-ball matches.Dustin Adair and […]
By Jed Blackwell, Associate Editor-Publisher Donnie Fredricks wasn’t one of the winners in Sunday’s Jimmie Evatt Memorial Fall TexasTwo-Man tournament at Saluda Valley, but he’d have been the favorite in a card game. Fredricks made his competitors beat a pair of aces. After starting on the back nine, […]
By Jed Blackwell, Associate Editor-Publisher Faced with the prospect of a chip-off to decide the Upstate Fall Two-Man Team Championship at Three Pines, Tyler Croxton and Matthew Wiggins elected not to watch their opponents. They couldn’t have seen much anyway. After a long back nine led to two […]
By Jed Blackwell Associate Editor – Publisher, The Golf Club Derrick Oyervides spent some time in the clubhouse at Greer Golf on Sunday afternoon talking about some of his near-misses in the Greater Greer Open through the years. He won’t have to have that conversation again without talking […]
Matthew Larkin made a birdie, and then he heard a target number. That was enough of a spark to send him to the title at the Upstate Amateur. The Wofford golfer birdied four of the last six holes at Green Valley, and three of the last four, shooting […]
Golfers all know when you take a mulligan it is a second chance to hit a good shot. Away from the golf course, Mulligan has become short hand for a do over, another chance to get something right. Ken Murray, who is a long time member at Boscobel […]
by Jed Blackwell, Associate Editor – Publisher Williamston — One of the most popular amateur tournaments among players was so much fun on Sunday, the leaders just kept playing. Two rounds weren’t enough to determine a winner in the Earl Wooten Memorial at Saluda Valley Country Club. Austin Langdale […]
Red numbers were the order of the day at the Earl Wooten Memorial at Saluda Valley Country Club on Saturday, as 20 players turned in scores under par across all three tournament divisions. That number included 16 players at 71 or better in the Men’s division, led by […]