Carolinas Golf Association

Nine U.S. Sites, Along with Canada, England, Japan Will Host Final Qualifying Between May 18-June 8

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Feb. 24, 2020) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced the 12 final qualifying sites for the 120th U.S. Open Championship, which will be played at Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course), in Mamaroneck, N.Y., on June 18-21, 2020. Winged Foot is hosting its sixth U.S. Open and 13th USGA championship.

Final qualifying, conducted over 36 holes, will be held at eight U.S. sites – two i...

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- Final results from the Carolinas Golf Association’s Senior Four-Ball One-Day Tournament at River Club in Pawleys Island, SC on February 24, 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 a club which is a ...

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- Final results from the Carolinas Golf Association’s Two-Day Tournament at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club and Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club in Southern Pines, NC on February 18 & 19, 2020.  Gross and net scores are listed.  Players are ranked by gross scores.

Tournament format is 36 holes of individual stroke play, both gross and net. 100% of course handicap is used to determine net scores. Entry is open to any amateur golfer who is a member of a club which is a member of the Carolinas Golf Asso...

Ladies' Four-Ball Play Day Results
from Wild Dunes Resort

BEAUFORT, S.C. (February 18, 2020) -- Final results from the Ladies' Four-Ball Play Days hosted by Wild Dunes Resort in Isle of Palms, S.C. at the Links Course on Monday, February 17, 2020 and the Harbor Course on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.

Special congratulations go to Sally Manich of Pinehurst, N.C. (pictured above, second from right) who had a Hole-In-One on No. 3 at the Harbor Course on Tuesday.

Winners in each flight received gross and net prizes. The fi...

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...