Abigail Ante and Jack Carr grew up in front of each other’s eyes as well as those of the quaint but quirky local golf community. The duo just didn’t know one another too well. “We really didn’t talk a lot until last year because we both were just too awkward,” Ante...
Anchorage golfer Jack Carr was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after his stirring victory at the Anchorage Open men's championship. The 17-year-old West High senior birdied Nos. 17 and 18 and fired a sterling 3-under 69 in the final round of the 36-hole course...
In arguably the greatest golf moment of his young life, Jack Carr briefly stepped away from the festivities to do what all good boys and girls should. The West High senior grabbed his phone and called his mother from just outside the Anchorage Golf Course clubhouse....
Anchorage golfer Greg Sanders was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning his 10th Alaska State Amateur golf championship Sunday in a playoff at Chena Bend in Fairbanks. It took a huge comeback for Sanders to earn his 10th title. Trailing by 7 strokes back at...
As one of the 132 qualifying golfers for the 60th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, Pam Chesla ventured through the registration process like all the other competitors. However, Chesla’s status as the lone Alaskan in the first United States Golf Association national...
Anchorage’s Harry Weigle is one of many two-sport college athletes from Alaska. But he's unique. He's the only golfer-bowler combo. Weigle is entering his third season of competing in both sports for Waldorf University, an NAIA school in Forest City, Iowa. “I am lucky...
Anchorage golfers Abigail Ante and Mark McMahan are separated by 44 years of age but have this in common: they're the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Athletes of the Week. Ante, 15, won the Alaska match-play women's championship at Palmer Golf Course in her first try after...
Kenai’s Maxwell Dye of Marian University tied for the third-lowest round after the first two days of the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Championship in Irish Haven, Wisconsin. The junior golfer fired a 77 and 82 for a 36-hole total of 159 to put him 10th out...
Kenai’s Maxwell Dye of Marian University shared team honors for the lowest score and tied for 25th in a men’s field of 88 golfers at the WLC Fall Invitational in Hartford, Wisconsin. The junior carded a 79 to help the Sabres finish fourth out of eight NCAA D3 teams....
Alaska doesn’t produce many college golfers, but we got two from the Kenai Peninsula playing this year at Marian University. Kenai’s Maxwell Dye is a junior for the men’s team and Soldotna’s Sydney Clark is a sophomore for the women’s team at Marian, a NCAA D3 school...
Kenai’s Maxwell Dye was part of the top-flight team for the Marian University men’s golf squad at the Wheaton Invitational in Illinois. The sophomore carded 18-hole rounds of 81 and 86 for a 167 total that tied him for 29th place out of 40 NCAA D3 golfers. Dye ranks...