The pride of every golf club should be the course conditions. At Cape Fear National, this is our trademark. When traveling to other courses, our membership is comparing and evaluating using CFN as the baseline. And it is a very high bar. Justin Britt is the leader of a team that does exceptional work. Here's a little bit about our behing the scenes all star. Justin is originally from Laurinburg, NC, and got involved with golf as a young boy when he would play with his d

Over the past several months, the MGA has enjoyed seeing several members get a hole in one as well as others on non-MGA and tournament days. We sure hope the trend continues! It does though beg the question, “Why do I have to buy everyone a drink?” Research has shown that in the late 1800’s in Scotland, a golfer who made a hole in one was celebrated and thus received drinks from his friends at the golf club. This unfortunately led to golfers falsely claiming aces for free dri

In this month’s website feature, share what your MGA Scorers do each Wednesday to ensure 120 golfers have an organized, competitive and fun experience on official MGA days. Dave Andrews, Official Scorer and this month’s member spotlight put together a summary that highlights the very thorough and time-consuming ‘behind the scenes’ task of getting MGA Wednesdays ready for action. Big Thanks to Dave and all our Scorers. It's obviously a big effort, so buy them a drink next tim

Are we getting older? You bet we are, but there’s a visceral beauty in this otherwise proverbial writing on the wall, especially when it relates to our game, we love to challenge ourselves with. Whether we took golf up as a young boy or came to golf later in our glory years, the game itself presents us with a myriad of milestones to aspire to. Maybe it’s breaking 90, 80 or 70 for some, others it may be finally making birdie on hole 11 or 8, and certainly to shoot our career l

By Paul Rapley: “Please replace your divots and rake the bunkers.” We’ve all heard these reminders countless times, yet these simple instructions are merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Golf Course Etiquette. It seems in today’s world we hear of increased stories of conflict on the golf course which begs the question Why on earth do golfers get so ornery on the golf course and even after a round? Many reasons pop up but perhaps the more thoughtful question is how w