The new Quaker Creek course, located just north of Mebane, opened its first nine holes in October. Elmo Cobb designed and built the course for owner Richie Belton. It features larger greens with a greater amount of slope than his previous designs. The fairways feature hybrid 419 bermudagrass and the course has complete irrigation. Response has been very positive on the course and the rates are under $20 for 18 holes on the weekdays. The course is just 10 minutes from I-40. They expect to get approval for the permits for the next nine by November and plan to start moving dirt immediately.

Scott King, the former manager at Long Creek Golf Course, has leased Montgomery County Country Club in Troy. The semi-private 18-hole golf course has undergone a vast amount of remodeling in the last four years. All of the greens were rebuilt and new irrigation was added to the greens and tees. The facilities include a restaurant and bar. The course is less than one hour from the Triad south of Asheboro. Scott invites his friends from the Triad to come and visit. Tee times can be made by calling 910-576-1487.

Construction on a new clubhouse at Ringgold Golf Club near Danville, Virginia, is under way and should be complete for the spring golf season. Club manager Sonny Gibson said the new clubhouse will be much larger than the original one, which opened in 1976 at the time the course opened. The new facility will house an expanded pro shop and a much bigger dining room. Ringgold Golf Club features a 27-hole course and is open to the public.

The Old North State Club on Badin Lake has achieved designation as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary, the seventh course to earn that distinction. Other Audubon certified courses in the state are Carolina National, Carmel CC, TPC at Piper Glen, Kinston CC, St. James Plantation and Wade Hampton.

John Miller is the new general manager of Pine Needles Lodge and Club and Mid Pines Inn and Club. He will oversee the operations of both resorts. The USGA Women's Senior Amateur will be played October 5-10, 2002 at Mid Pines. This will be the fifth national golf championship to be played at Pine Needles and Mid Pines in the past ten years.

The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America CEO Steve Mona has selected Chuck Borman to fill the association's vacant chief operating officer position. Borman was the executive director of the Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association, one of GCSAA's 102 affiliated chapters, since 1998. Before joining the Carolinas GCSA, Borman served on the GCSAA staff, first as the director of membership (1995-97) and then as a coordinating advisor (March 1997 – March 1998).

The Carolinas PGA Section will induct Eugene "Gene" Hamm and Hampton "Hamp" Auld into the Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame on Friday evening, January 11, 2002, during Carolinas Golf Night. Induction into the Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame is a prestigious honor bestowed upon PGA Professionals who have been a member of the Carolinas PGA for a minimum of ten years and are 50 years of age or older.

Hamm, born November 28, 1923, was introduced to the game of golf in 1936 as a caddie at Raleigh Golf Association. He became a member of the PGA of America in 1954 and today enjoys a Life Member Retired classification.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife of 55 years, LaRure. Gene Hamm is a golf course architect. He has designed and overseen the building of more than 77 layouts in the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and New York.

In the Carolinas, these courses include Pine Tree GC, Caswell Pines, Beacon Ridge GC, North Ridge CC, Wake Forest CC, Lochmere GC, Reedy Creek GC, Quail Ridge CC, Chapel Hill CC, Sea Gull GC, Beechwood CC, Burning Ridge GC, Raccoon Run GC, Eagle Nest GC, Indian Wells GC, and River Oaks GC.

Auld was born May 24, 1921, in Paterson, NJ. A member of the PGA for 44 years, Auld passed away on March 29, 1995. He played on the PGA Tour off and on from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Auld served as a head golf professional in clubs in West Virginia, Ohio, Arizona, California, and the Carolinas. In the Carolinas Section, he served as head golf professional at Cape Fear CC, MacGregor Downs CC, Spring Valley CC, Gator Hole GC, and closed out his career at Colonial Charters GC in North Myrtle Beach.

Auld was an excellent player, capturing the 1968 Carolinas PGA Section Championship, the Carolinas Open in 1971, the 1972 Pro-Pro Championship with Randy Glover, and the Carolinas PGA Seniors’ Championship in 1985 and 1986. He finished fifth in the first United States Senior Open at Winged Foot in 1980. At the age of 71, Auld captured his last Seniors title in the Pinewild Senior Open in Pinehurst.