Golf

It has been a busy summer for Corbin middle school and high school golfers. Corbin Lady Redhound golfer Makena Myatt competed in the LPGA USGA Girls Golf National Championship by PKBGT. The three-day tournament was played at Pine Needles in North Carolina. Myatt was one of 56 girls from across 16 countries, who competed. She finished in 10th place with a 10-over-par for the tournament. Myatt also competed in the 47th Kentucky Girls Junior Amateur at Frankfort Country Club where she finished in the top 10. In addition, Myatt competed in the Kentucky Girls Junior PGA Championship at Bardstown Country Club. Over two days, she shot 8-over-par finishing tied for fourth place. In the Bluegrass Golf Tour...

As anyone, who has played much golf in their life can attest to, golf is a sport, which can help you forget about your real-world problems for a while. This may come in the form of having a really great day where you are hitting nearly every fairway and green in regulation and you have your putter going. For most of us hackers though, it is usually because trying to hit the dang little white ball is so frustrating sometimes, you just forget about everything else. Either way, you are usually not thinking about the mortgage, your high cholesterol or the stress of your job for a while when you are...

What is the difference between the Pro Golfers Association (PGA) Tour and the Senior PGA Tour, which is now known as the PGA Tour Champions? This is the heart of a question my wonderful wife, Cecelia, asked me Sunday evening as I was watching a replay of the leaders playing the back nine at the 46th U.S. Senior Open Championship at Scioto Country Club. Padraig Harrington ran away with it shooting 12-under for a four-stroke win over Stewart Cink. The biggest difference is naturally age as the old name implies. The PGA Tour Champions is for us older folks, i.e. for golfers age 50 and older. By the time most professional golfers hit...

The greater Corbin area used to have not one but two golf courses. Both are now closed. I miss one of these courses. The second one not so much…LOL. I suspect many of you, who played both courses, probably agree with me. I am talking about the old Tri-County Country Club and Sweet Hollow Golf Course. Both were nine-hole courses, but not every nine-hole course is created equally. Tri-County was in western Knox County between Old Barbourville Highway and the Cumberland Gap Parkway. When I say located between the two roads, I mean literally. The entrance for Tri-County Country Club was off Old Barbourville Highway. Cumberland Gap Parkway was visible from the...

In 1996, Greg Norman entered the final round of the Masters Golf tournament with six-shot lead over his closest competitor, Nick Faldo. When the day started, nearly everyone expected Norman to pull out the win and probably in big fashion. This wasn’t meant to be. Norman struggled and ended with a final round 78. Faldo shot a final round 67 and got the five-shot win. It was painful to watch. You really had to feel sorry for Norman. Going into the final round of this year’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills in New York, Wyndham Clark began the day with a six-stroke lead. By the time my dad and I tuned into the final round...

The Corbin Lady Redhounds Golf team welcomed a new head coach last week. Latoshia Davis spent last season as assistant coach under Joe Roberts. Davis started playing golf at 10 years old. She is a 2013 Whitley County High School graduate who went on to play at the University of the Cumberlands. “This is a special place with a strong sense of pride, and I’m excited to pour into these young ladies both on and off the course,” said Davis. “This team has the potential to be something special. With dedication and the right mindset, I believe we can turn that potential into real success on the course.” Davis is currently a board member...

Corbin’s Makenna Myatt is headed to Pine Needles after her championship win at the 2026 Emma Talley Girls Tradition through the KYPGA Jr. Tour qualified her to compete at the LPGA Girls Golf Championship, according to the Corbin Boys Golf Team Facebook page.

This week marks 35 Par for the Course columns that have been featured in the pages of the News Journal throughout 2025. While it’s not exactly what I envisioned when I first made plans to launch the series, I think it’s been a pretty good run. With that being said, I am retiring the column… for now. I am open to reviving Par for the Course at some point, but right now I have to put it on indefinite hiatus for a number of reasons. First, I am about to dedicate a considerable amount of time in the coming weeks to not only wrapping up what is left of the...

When I first started this column, one of the main goals that I had in mind was to make an honest attempt to pick up the game of golf myself. Admittedly, I haven’t done a great job with that. I managed to work in a couple of lessons early on, but this past spring and summer my goal of actually getting out onto a course, or at least going to the driving range, was sadly unmet. What can I say? Life has been hectic, and my work schedule at the moment really isn’t conducive to picking up new hobbies. Mostly, I have been busy writing about other people’s experiences on...

The 2025 boys golf region championship meet took place on Monday, Sept. 22, at the London Country Club. Collected here are several photos from the meet, including student-athletes from Whitley County, Corbin, North Laurel, South Laurel, Knox Central and Barbourville high schools.