By Jed Blackwell Associate editor/publisher Patrick Stephenson said that at some point on the 16th green in the second round of the Upstate Amateur at Carolina Country Club, he started seeing black spots. With brutal weather conditions, Stephenson was content to chalk it up to the temperature. Well, […]
It wasn’t dim it was dark, when James Scott pitched his second shot into the hole from just off the 9th green to win a playoff over Robbie Biershenk and the championship of the Budweiser Classic at Boscobel. The event has the well earned reputation as being the […]
Betty Armbruster won the very first door prize awarded Tuesday afternoon at the Upstate Ladies Amateur Championship at Holly Tree. Talk about a good day. Armbruster was a three-time winner on Tuesday. The Spartanburg golfer claimed that first door prize. She was closest-to-the-pin on hole no. 15 in the […]
Danny Brock held off the charge from three golfers to record his second Greenville County Amateur Championship and the first on the course he grew up playing as a kid. “I always just called it “The Fox”, Brock said. “The last couple of times the County has been […]
Andrew Gregory didn’t play particularly well during the 5A state golf championship held in May at Carolina Country Club. The former Boiling Springs and future Liberty University golfer got a little bit of revenge on the course this weekend. Gregory fired an 11-under-par three-day total of 205 to […]
On moving day at the Greenville and Spartanburg County championships, 5-under par was a popular score. In Greenville a pair of 5-under par rounds at Fox Run pushed two former champions to the top of the leader board. In Spartanburg a 5-under par round helped the 2022 SCGA […]
Intense heat didn’t stop full fields of golfers from playing the first round of the Greenville and Spartanburg County championships. The thermometer was in the middle 90s at both the Carolina Country Club in Spartanburg and Fox Run Country Club in Simpsonville. Zach Phillips leads Spartanburg County Am […]
First round co-leader Max Fain was never out of contention in the final round of the Spartanburg County Senior Amateur at Woodfin Ridge. But by the 17th hole he needed something good to happen or Brian Kennedy, playing in the same group, would win the county title. “I […]
The Chesnee Country Club isn’t the easiest place to find. The 9-hole course North of Chesnee on 221 has been around since the 60s. Jim Hodges had the land and the community was interested in having a golf course. Along with A.Z. Jolly and dozens of supporters, some […]
Brad Sill credited his win at the Southern Oaks Open to his performance on the greens on Sunday. “I finally got some putts to drop,” he said. They dropped at the right time, too. Sill trailed by two strokes with four holes to play, but birdied three of […]
