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Mullins records her 3rd Ace!
On Saturday, July 3rd, Margaret Mullins recorded her 3rd career hole-in-one. She used a 30 degree hybrid to ace the 133 yard 5th hole. Witnessing the feat were her playing companions, Steve Lowe & Ron Mullins. "Margret continues to raise the bar for Steve and Ron to follow." said PGA Head Professional, John Norton.
Magazine Article at GolftheMidAtlantic.com
Check out an article published in Golf the Mid Atlantic magazine by Jeffrey A. Rendall. Click here to read the article in its entirety. Rendall remarked that the course is "the total package" and that the setting is "breath-taking and at times, overwhelming."
Brian Sharp Inducted into the 2009 Tech Hall of Fame
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Associate Head Golf Coach, Brian Sharp, was one of six inductees into the 2009 Tech Hall of Fame. The inductees were honored at a Hall of Fame dinner on the Tech campus on Friday, November 20th and were introduced to football fans at halftime during the N.C. State football game.
Brian set many records during his tenure with the Virginia Tech Golf Team. He was voted Hokies MVP all four years he competed, was a four time all-conference Metro Conference pick, the Metro student-athlete of the year and a four-time first team all-state honoree. Sharp also won the Medallion Award for the most outstanding male student-athlete at Virginia Tech in 1995 and was selected to the NCAA All-District 3-North team twice during his college golf career. His 74.14 stroke average was the best for a Tech golfer since 1979 at the time and still ranks as the sixth best over the past 30 years.
After graduation from Tech in 1995 with a degree in finance he turned professional and played golf on various developmental tours before joining the Buy.com Tour. He returned to Va. Tech as the assistant golf coach in the fall of 2003. He earned his MBA from Tech's Pamplin College of Business in 2006 and promoted to associate head coach in July 2008. In May of 2009 Sharp was named the recipient of the Jan Strickland Award presented by TaylorMade-Adidas to the Assistant Coach of the Year, as selected by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
Jay Hardwick Wins The Senior Open of Virginia
Jay Hardwick, Director of Golf Operations for the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech and Head Golf Coach for the VT Golf Team, posted a pair of 69's to claim the event title at the Country Club of Virginia's West Hampton Course in Richmond on Friday, September 25, 2009. The 6,044 yard par 70 course was originally designed by Donald Ross in 1921 and redesigned by Lester George in 2005.
Hardwick posted back to back birdies at holes No. 15 and 16 to complete the event with a score of 138 over Dean Sumner and Jon Corliss who tied for second with scores of 139.
Congratulations Coach Hardwick!
Team USA wins the 2009 Walker Cup
Drew Weaver, 2009 graduate from Virginia Tech and and former member of the VT Golf Team, was one of ten amateur players participating in the Walker Cup which concluded on September 13, 2009. The event was held at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. The United States Team went to a 16 ½ to 9 ½ victory over Great Britain and Ireland.
It was the third consecutive win for the Americans, who now hold a 34-7-1 all time record in the Walker Cup, a men's amateur team competition played every other year, with one squad from the USA and the other representing England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Wales. The event is the amateur equivalent of the Ryder Cup played by golf professionals.
Congratulations to Drew and the 2009 Walker Cup team!
River Course Selected to Host 2011 NCAA Golf regional
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Pete Dye River Couse of Virginia Tech has been selected to host an NCAA Men's Golf Regional in 2011, as announced by the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Committee on June 15th. Virginia Tech will be the host institution for the event.
The Virginia Tech facility, located in nearby Pulaski County, is one of six sites selected to host regionals in 2011. Joining the River Course will be the Omni Tucson National Resort in Tucson, Ariz., with the University of Arizona as host; the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, Colo., with the University of Colorado, Boulder as host; the Golden Ocala Golf Club in Ocala, Fla., with the University of Florida as host; Wolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville, Ind., with Indiana University, Bloomington as host; the Farms Golf Course in Rancho Santé Fe, Calif., with the University of San Diego as host.
"We are delighted that Virginia Tech has been selected as one of the six sites for the 2011 regionals," Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Jim Weaver said. "We believe that the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech is an outstanding golf tract for regional competition."
This is the second time that the Hokies have hosted an NCAA regional. In 1997, Virginia Tech hosted the East Regional at the Homestead Resort's Cascades Course. The Hokies also hosted the 2004 NCAA Men's Golf Championship at the Cascades Course at the Homestead Resort.
Renowned golf architect Pete Dye began a renovation of The River Course of Virginia Tech in 2004. Opening in August 2005, the course was selected by Golf Digest as one of the Top 5 "Best Newly Remodeled Courses in America" for 2006. It is now included in Golf Digest's "Best Places to Play" for 2008-2009 as a coveted 4-1/2 Star Facility. This rating was the highest awarded in Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee and is also shared with The Homestead's Cascades Course, The Meadows Course at the Greenbrier, Kingsmill's River Course and Pinehurst Resort Courses Nos. 4, 6, 7 & 8. 'The River' was also selected as one of the "100 Middle Atlantic Must-Play Courses for 2008".
Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech Recognized by GolfWeek Magazine
"The River" was profiled in the May 30, 2009 issue of GolfWeek in their GolfWeek's Best pick by senior staff writer, Bradley S. Klein. Klein noted that "You don't get many chances at waterfront golf these days, which is exactly what makes the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech so impressive. Here's a 3-year-old public layout in one of the loveliest parts of America, the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the course occupying a 2 1/2 mile bend of the New River, golfers are afforded intimate scenes of river life, passing trains and hills ablaze with fall-foliage color."
To read the article in its entirety, please click here or on our home page link - GolfWeek's Best. For other golf news visit the GolfWeek magazine website at www.golfweek.com.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MASTERS PREVIEW MENTIONS PETE DYE RIVER COURSE OF VIRGINIA TECH
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Magazine in their MASTERS PREVIEW edition mentioned the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech as one of two of the "Best Courses On The Way" to The Masters. Sports writer, Joe Passov, noted that travelers on their way to Augusta traveling from I-77 could "enjoy their own thrill fest in Radford, Va., on a 7,665-yard fun house bisected by a 70 foot cliff."
Pete Dye Joins World Golf Hall of Fame
Renowned golf course architect Pete Dye was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday, November 10th, 2008 in the Lifetime Achievement Category. Dye is one of the most influential golf course architects of the modern era with more than 120 courses to his credit. His work includes such famed courses as The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass; Harbour Town Golf Links, a design with Jack Nicklaus; Crooked Stick in Carmel, Indiana; Whistling Straits and Blackwood Run in Kohler, Wisconsin; and the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
The courses Dye designed consistently rank among the top courses in the country - many in the top 10 - according to major golf publications like Golf Digest, Golf Magazine and Golfweek.
"Pete Dye's impact and influence as an architect is among the most far-reaching the sport has known," said Jack Peter, the Fall of Fame's COO and Senior Vice President. He joins the likes of Donald Ross, Robert Trent Jones, Sr. and Alister MacKenzie on a short list of golf course architects in the Hall of Fame.
The World Golf Hall of Fame is the ultimate destination for the celebration and recognition of golf's greatest players and contributors. The Hall of Fame is located at World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida.
Pete Dye and Mark Cote, Director of Golf Maintenance, inspect the course.
