SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (February 18, 2020) -- One hundred and twenty-seven (127) applications were submitted to the CGAcers club for holes-in-one made in 2019. The average distance of those reported was 140.5 yards. The longest ace recorded was 250 yards by Aaron Jones from Fayetteville, N.C. Jones made this incredible shot on the 2^nd hole of Stryker Golf Course in Fort Bragg, N.C. on May 15, 2019. The shortest ace (85 yards) was made with a pitching wedge on October 10 by Candice Robertson from Carthage, N...

(Photo L-R  David Lamb, Ben Hynson (Director of Golf MacGregor Downs CC), Len Calvert)

The CGA was saddened to hear the passing of our former CGA champion Len Calvert.  “Porkchop” as he was so affectionately referred to, lost his battle with cancer at the age of the 51.  Back in 1994, Porkchop (then an amateur) teamed with professional David Lamb of Smithfields Country Club to capture the 1994 CGA Club Championship at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary, NC.  The duo shot a record-setting 12-under-p...

Ladies' Four-Ball Play Day Results
from Bulls Bay GC and Dunes West G&RC

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (February 7, 2020) -- Final results from the Ladies' Four-Ball Play Days hosted by Bulls Bay Golf Club in Awendaw, S.C. and Dunes West Golf & River Club in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. on February 4 and February 5.

Winners in each flight received gross and net prizes. The first place gross and net team in each flight also gained an exemption to the year-end Ladies' Four-Ball Play Days Tournament of Champions that will be held...

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- Final results from the Carolinas Golf Association’s Senior Four-Ball One-Day Tournament at Berkeley Hall Club (North) in Bluffton, SC on February 4, 2020.  Teams are ranked by gross scores.  Gross and Net scores are listed.

Tournament format is 18 holes of four-ball stroke play, both gross and net.  85 percent of a player's course handicap is used to determine net scores. Entry is open to any male amateur golfer who has reached his 55th birthday by the tournament date, is a member of...

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J., and ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (Feb. 4, 2020) – The USGA and The R&A have issued the Distance Insights Report, which provides comprehensive research and analysis on the contributors to, and long-term impacts of, hitting distance in golf. 

After extensive stakeholder research, the report features more than 100 years of data, informed by a library of 56 supporting documents. It is accompanied by a 15-page conclusions paper from the governing bodies that summarizes their perspectives on the long-term im...

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- Final results from the Carolinas Golf Association’s Senior Four-Ball One-Day Tournament at Berkeley Hall Club (South) in Bluffton, SC on February 3, 2020.  Teams are ranked by gross scores.  Gross and Net scores are listed.

Tournament format is 18 holes of four-ball stroke play, both gross and net.  85 percent of a player's course handicap is used to determine net scores. Entry is open to any male amateur golfer who has reached his 55th birthday by the tournament date, is a member of...

Ladies' Four-Ball Play Day Results
from True Blue GC and Caledonia G&FC

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (January 29, 2020) -- Final results from the Ladies' Four-Ball Play Days hosted by True Blue Golf Club and Caledonia Golf & Fish Club on January 27 and 28, 2020.

Winners in each flight received gross and net prizes. The first place gross and net team in each flight also gained an exemption to the year-end Ladies' Four-Ball Play Days Tournament of Champions that will be held at Kiawah Island Resort on December 9-10, 2...

Editor's Note: Brooks and Thigpen will be inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame on April 8, 2020 at Hope Valley Country Club in Durham, N.C.

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A Female Fair: 2020 Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame Inductees Include Pioneers of Women’s Golf

By David Droschak

It has been 11 years since a female was inducted into the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame, but the 2020 class of Dan Brooks and Dorathy Dotger Thigpen definitely highlight some of the most outstanding ac...

The USGA, Masters Tournament and PGA of America announced today that registration for 2020-2021 Drive, Chip and Putt qualifying is now officially open on DriveChipandPutt.com.

The schedule of qualifiers, set to begin this summer at hundreds of locations nationwide, was also released, including the 10 venues hosting regional qualifiers for participants who advance in the fall. This list of iconic championship sites around the country features four new venues (Pebble Beach Golf Links, Quail Hollow Club, The B...