Golf legend: Collins won 2 state titles, shot a 60<\/p>\n
Published 7:01 pm Wednesday, August 26, 2026<\/p>\n
Salisbury High graduate Will Collins won individual 2A state golf championships in 2006 at Keith Hills, shooting 4-under 68 on the final day, and repeated in 2007 at Longleaf.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s the only male in Rowan County\u2019s high school golf history to win two individual state titles.<\/p>\n
Collins went on to play at the University of Virginia, competing for the Cavaliers from 2007-11.<\/p>\n
His most remarkable college feat was bouncing back from an 11-over 83 on the first day of the 2009 ACC Championships to shoot a 6-under 66, one of his best collegiate rounds, on the second day.<\/p>\n
In 2010, he was a lot more consistent and finished second in the ACC Championships. He was first team All-ACC that season.<\/p>\n
He made several All-ACC Academic teams, while majoring in kinesiology.<\/p>\n
Not long after he graduated, Collins shot a course-record 64 in the final round to win the Kenridge Invitational at Charlottesville\u2019s Farmington Country Club.<\/p>\n
Collins\u2019 career round came in August 2011 in a U.S. Amateur qualifier near Harrisburg, Pa. Collins shot 60 to smash the course record by four shots. He shot 9-under 26 on the front side \u2013 3-3-3-2-3-3-2-3-4. <\/p>\n
Collins played on the Korn Ferry Tour, the PGA\u2019s Latin America Tour and the eGolf Tour. He played pro golf for eight years.<\/p>\n
Collins will be on the Salisbury-Rowan Hall of Fame ballot for the first time in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf legend: Collins won 2 state titles, shot a 60 Published 7:01 pm Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Salisbury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-869577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}