The JoJammers won the silver medal in the women’s softball 55-plus division at the Senior Games of North Carolina State Finals played Sept. 13-15 at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh.
The JoJammers, from the Raleigh Wake Senior Games, finished second to the Why Nots, who advanced from the Alamance Burlington Senior Games.
Results from other divisions are below.
Laura Wearn of Charlotte led wire-to-wire in winning her first major championship title by four strokes over defending champion Katherine Perry of Cary at the 61st N.C. Women's Amateur Championship in Gastonia.
Wearn's final round 74 was the highest round she shot throughout the N.C. Women's Golf Association www.ncwga.com event, which was played Tuesday through Thursday at the 6,024-yard, par-36-36--72 Gaston Country Club layout.
Lori Beth Adams of Burlington was third, followed by Corrine Carr of Pinehurst in a tie for fourth. Courtney Rouse of Holly Springs was seventh, and Wendell's Ashley Denton shared ninth.
Local-level U.S. Open qualifying tournaments completed Tuesday and
Wednesday in Pinehurst and Wallace saw golfers from Raleigh and
Pinehurst claim places in sectional qualifying. Competitors from Chapel
Hill and Wake Forest were left waiting in alternate spots.
Wallace: In Wednesday's local qualifier on River Landing's River
Course in Wallace, Jason Moon of Raleigh tied for second at 6-under-par
66 and Bobby Clampett of Raleigh shared fourth place at 67 to take two
of the five sectionals spots. Ryan Armour of Jupiter, Fla., won the
event with a 65.
Pinehurst: In the local qualifier at Pinewild Country Club's
Magnolia Course in Pinehurst that started Monday but had to be
completed Tuesday because of rain, nine qualifying spots and two
alternate positions were available. Darron Stiles of Pinehurst shot a 6-under-par 66 for a one-stroke victory.
Forget trying to build a better mouse trap. Build a better business model instead.
That's the key to building a billion-dollar business from scratch, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told a group of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists this afternoon at the annual CED Venture Conference held in Pinehurst.
Raleigh-based Red Hat didn't succeed because it created better software. On the contrary, the Linux open source software was created by a worldwide community of software developers even before Red Hat existed.
What Red Hat did do, Whitehurst said, is devise an innovative way to sell free software that clicked with corporate customers because it solved a problem they faced: ever-changing software for critical operations, including new features they may not even want.
In what is very accurately called a grassroots effort, more than 1,000
tee times are up for public bid, giving recreational golfers in the
Carolinas a chance to play some elite private courses.
The foursome rounds - which can make great Father's Day or Mother's Day gifts - are being auctioned at Rounds4Research.com.
The purpose of the April 7-21 auction is to raise money for golf
turfgrass research, which includes outstanding research programs at
N.C. State and Clemson, according to an event news release.
As junior golfers from around the nation are being introduced to some
of the Pinehurst region's outstanding courses this week, a golfer
already acquainted with the layouts has put his local knowledge to
work.
Zachary Martin of Pinehurst combined great putting with course
familiarity to win the 88-player Boys Division of Sunday's K12
qualifying tournament for this week's Golf Pride Junior Classic, which runs Tuesday through Thursday at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines.
The 18-hole stroke-play qualifying event, conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, was played at the Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club at Southern Pines.
