(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) May 11, 2012 — Four Hills Country Club has sold a parcel of land and restructured its debt as part of bid to return the club to financial health. Continue reading
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) April 9, 2012 — Matt Williams is leaving as head of the Sun Country PGA and Amateur, to be replaced by Dana Lehner, communications and development chief.
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) March 22, 2012 — Mayor Richard Berry told the city Golf Advisory Board that Albuquerque’s municipal golf courses must pay for themselves, and his chief operating officer said that will require an average $2 increase per round.
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) March 7, 2012 — GolfWeek magazine has ranked Paa-ko Ridge Golf Club the top course in New Mexico for 2012, according to its March 9 issue.
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Feb. 17, 2012 – Albuquerque will play host to the amateur golf world’s heaviest hitters as the 2012 USGA Regional Affairs Conference comes to town.
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Feb. 6, 2012 — The USGA has listened to what golfers have been saying for years – that there were some pretty goofy rules that did little except slow the pace of play and punish the innocent.
Among the biggest changes for the 2012-2015 edition of the Rules of Golf is that a golfer is no longer penalized if the wind moves his ball before he makes a stroke. Continue reading
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Feb. 4, 2012 — Here’s quick analysis of Tim Finchem’s plan to reshape the PGA Tour season and eliminate Q School as an immediate launch pad to the PGA Tour:
(PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.) Feb. 2, 2012 — New Mexico golf icon and Irish Senior Open winner Joe McDermott is recovering from a detached retina and awaits word on whether he will regain sight in his left eye.
(HOUSTON Jan. 31, 2012) — Notah Begay III is the recipient of the Golf Writers Association of America’s Charlie Bartlett Award for service to society. Continue reading
(MURCIA, SPAIN) Jan. 20, 2011 — Former Lobo golfer Jodi Ewart won the Q School event to gain full status on the 2012 Ladies European Tour. She had already won full status on LPGA Tour. Continue reading
(PORT ST. Lucie, Fla.) Jan. 20, 2012 — PGA Village, the PGA of America-owned golf resort near Palm Bach, is offering a 10-round pass to its three golf courses for $899.
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Jan. 5, 2012 — Tracey Fine of Four Hills Country Club noticed our take on which country club Lobo Head Football Coach Bob Davie should join and weighed in with this: Continue reading
(PHOENIX) Jan. 3, 2012 –The chairman and CEO of Ping says three different balls should be approved by rule-makers — one longer, one the same as and one shorter than balls currently approved for play.
Shorter balls could then be mandated as a condition of play on classic courses hosting PGA Tour events — keeping them competitive. Longer balls could be allowed for amateur play. Ball distance could even be factored into handicaps — like course slope ratings, says PING head John Solheim.
(TURTLE BAY, Hawaii) — Dec. 19, 2011. Albuquerque’s Katie Kempter shot a final-round, 9-under-par 63 over the Palmer Course at Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu Sunday to finish the 54-hole Turtle Bay Hawaii State Open Golf Tournament at 12-under.
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Dec. 14, 2011 – The University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course’s “everything-included” unlimited-play membership is back for 2012. Continue reading
(MESQUITE, Nev.) December 10, 2011 — Imagine Elephant Butte or Socorro, N.M., with more than one great golf course and a bunch of value casinos and you have Mesquite, Nev. — the working man’s Vegas.
(MESQUITE, NEV.) Dec. 4, 2011 — Former University of New Mexico Lobo Jodi Ewart qualified for the 2012 LPGA Tour by finishing tied for fourth at the LPGA Tour’s Q School final stage in Daytona Beach, Fla. Continue reading
(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Dec. 2, 2011 — Bob Davie, the University of New Mexico’s new football coach, will get a country-club membership has part of his compensation package — but local golfers are asking, at which one? Continue reading
