The high school golf season is just around the corner and the South Carolina High School Golf Coaches Association has produced their pre-season poll. While it isn’t quite “round up the usual suspects” there are a lot of familiar names at the top of each Classification’s Ranking. Last […]
When the Korn-Ferry Tour season started a few weeks ago, Greenville’s Keenan Huskey and Boiling Springs Trent Phillips didn’t have full time status on the Tour, All that changed on Sunday when the two upstate young professionals tied for second at the Panama Championship. Huskey shot rounds of […]
While most of the 42 teams of golfers playing in the Smithfields Tough Days tournament experienced a pair of difficult rounds, the winners looked like they were playing in a Tough Day-Easy Day event. Brandon Masters and Blake Williamson survived a tough first round, but made the second […]
The South Carolina Golf Association’s Golf Day celebration was part business meeting and part awards presentation. The business meeting included the election of Greenville’s Rob Reeves to a two-year term as president of the state organization. The awards presentation honored the players of the year, several special awards […]
Sydney Roberts is not much of a scoreboard watcher, instead she has a pretty good feel for where she stands in a tournament. In the second round of the Carolinas Golf Association’s Young Amateur championship, for some reason, Roberts started glancing at the scoreboard. “I don’t usually do […]
Traditions do not begin when someone, somewhere, somehow calls something a tradition. It takes years to build tradition and on New Year’s Eve in the Upstate golfers know there is one tradition unlike any other, the Champagne Shoot-Out at Thornblade Club. The event has earned its “Tradition” moniker. […]
The next time Bennett Scaletta tees it up in a tournament he will do so as the 2023 Jay Haas South Carolina Junior Player of the Year. The 14 year old from Belton has jammed a lot of success into just a couple of years of junior golf. […]
Michael Pius, MS, PGA , Executive Director, First Tee Upstate Dear Upstate Golfers,
Thank you for your continued support of First Tee — Upstate South Carolina and the kids and teens that we now serve all across the Upstate! 2023 has been yet another record setting year for […]
Trace Crowe is one of the newest members of the PGA Tour. The young professional who grew up in Easley completed an amazing six month run in professional golf with a second place finish at the PGA Q-School’s final stage presented by Korn-Ferry. Crowe began the year with […]
After pushing the Cranberry Classic back a week because of weather problems, the tournament was completed in a little different fashion when weather tried to be an issue for a second time. With a sketchy forecast for Sunday, the second round, Boscobel officials had the full field play […]