A New Era in Local Golf Coverage

It’s spring again in North Carolina, which means dogwoods, azaleas and – to many of you – golf.

And that’s why WRAL.com is launching a new site today aimed at the thousands of people here who follow golf and care passionately about the sport.

You’ll find plenty of stories to keep you up to speed on what’s happening at the professional level. But what has been missing in the Triangle – until now – is coverage focused on the local scene.

What courses can you play? What are they like? What golf gear do you need to know about? What junior players are on their way up? And what are some courses within an easy drive you want to know about?

We want this site to be your guide to golf in the Triangle and beyond. Whether you’re new to the area or a longtime North Carolinian, we believe this site will appeal to you.

Stuart Hall will lead WRAL’s effort, and you couldn’t have a more passionate golf writer than Hall. I’ve actually known him for years – we both went to Raleigh’s Sanderson High School and worked together on the student paper, the Sandscript.

It’s great to be working with him again. And it’s exciting to launch a new element of our coverage at WRAL that fills a void long missing in the Triangle.

We welcome your input, either as a comment on this story or as an email to me at dhuffman@wral.com.

And we welcome the start of a new level of golf coverage.

Dane Huffman

Sports Managing Editor