In my imagination, I walk over to my bag and reach in and take the head cover off of my driver. I pull the driver out and walk over to the tee. I reach in my pocket and get a tee. I tee up my Maxfli 1 with the name facing the target. I walk behind the ball and pick out my imaginary line from the ball to my target. I’m visualizing a line 24 inches long - 12 inches in back of the ball to 12 inches beyond the ball, pointed in the direction over which I expect to...
Peggy Kirk Bell would’ve fretted over her World Golf Hall of Fame speech. She was that way with all her speeches....
This article originally appeared on USGA.org on May 19, 2019. By Scott Lipsky, USGA Throughout her three-decade career, Helen Alfredsson has won wherever she’s played. A major champion. Seven wins on the LPGA Tour. Eleven victories on the Ladies European Tour. And now, she can finally add USGA champion to her list of accolades. With a final-round 72, Alfredsson, 54, topped Trish Johnson and Juli Inkster by two strokes to capture the 2nd U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship on Sunday at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club, with a 72-hole total of 1-over 285. “Just to have something USGA, it feels very nice. Since...
Armed with a lifetime of experience on the golf course and on the practice tee, Donna Andrews will compete in the 2nd U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship this week with an often undervalued commodity: perspective....
Fifty years ago, Peggy Kirk Bell started Youth Golfari as a way to get kids involved in the game of golf, while they experience a week of fun unlike any other. She and her husband Warren “Bullet” Bell ran the camp together, where she was one of the lead instructors and he ran the day to day operations. Over the years their own children attended the camps, but every kid felt like family. Peggy Bell Miller, daughter of Peggy and Bullet, started attending the camp herself at age 10. Back then, families would come together and the kids would stay for a...
Southern Pines, English golfer Laura Davies crushed her tee shot. The defending U.S. Senior Women’s Open champion had dropped by to play a round at the home stomping grounds of the grande dame herself, the late Peggy Kirk Bell, in anticipation of the 2019 U.S. Seniors Women’s Open Championship....
The USGA hosted Media Day for the U.S. Senior Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club on March 25, 2019. ...
This article originally published on ThePilot.com on March 24, 2019. By Hunter Chase, The Pilot Peggy Kirk Bell’s impact on women’s golf lives on. Bell, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 95, was a pioneer in promoting women’s golf, a passion she carried throughout her life, including the more than 60 years she was the Grand Lady of Pine Needles. She still is making an impact on women’s golf, with her legacy and contributions to the game a driving force behind the USGA bringing the U.S. Senior Women’s Open to Pine Needles in May. The Senior Women’s Open, the newest national championship overseen by...
This article originally published on USGA on February 27, 2018. By Julia Pine, USGA Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C., will be the host site for the 77th U.S. Women’s Open in 2022. The championship, considered the ultimate test in women’s golf, will be held June 2–5. The 2022 U.S. Women’s Open will be the seventh USGA championship and record fourth U.S. Women’s Open contested at Pine Needles, which is also set to host the 2nd U.S. Senior Women’s Open in 2019. The USGA was last at Pine Needles for the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open, when Cristie Kerr won the first...
This article originally appeared in The Fayetteville Observer on February 1, 2018. By Bill Kirby, Jr. SOUTHERN PINES – There’s something inviting about this place with the circular drive, and all the more in the evening when you can see the soft lamps emitting a yellow hue from the Georgian-style hotel windows. There’s a warmth. “Mid Pines has history and rich traditions,” Haresh Tharani says about Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club that has been a part of the Sandhills since 1921. “It has the right bones.” Read More....