Marty Sanchez Links Gets New Operator

Indigo Sports, a Troon Company, has been selected to manage Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe, a 27-hole city-owned golf complex in Santa Fe. Indigo Sports will manage the golf operations, agronomy, retail, food and beverage, and sales and marketing at the complex located off the N.M. Hwy. 599 bypass west of Santa Fe. The […]

PGA Tour’s Developmental Tours to Merge

Merger Creates One Western Hemisphere Tour PGA Tour Latinoamérica and PGA TOUR Canada will merge into a single tTour to form PGA Tour Americas, which will begin play in February 2024, the PGA TOUR announced. PGA TOUR Americas will consist of 16 events contested across Latin America, Canada and the United States from February through […]

Bullseye Golf Center to Close after 46 Years

Bullseye Golf Center, Albuquerque’s oldest golf shop, will close at the end of business Thursday after 46 years. Brothers Rob and Gene Scott decided not to renew their lease at 8212 Menaul Blvd. NE in the Hoffmantown Shopping Center. They plan to retire: Rob to trout fishing, Gene to puttering around his shop at home […]

How N.M., El Paso Helped Lee Trevino Get to the PGA Tour

One of the great benefits of editing Sun Country Golf magazine years ago was getting to know Guy Wimberly, who related how New Mexico and El Paso pros helped Lee Trevino gain entry to the PGA Tour. Guy, dean of New Mexico golf professionals, wrote for a regular column for me. In one, he related […]

Bart Bryant Killed in Florida Car Crash

Bart Bryant, who won three times on the PGA Tour, was killed in a Florida car crash in which his stopped car was rear-ended by a pickup truck. Bryant, 59, and his wife were stopped in a line of traffic on a two-lane road in central Florida when a teen in an F-150 pickup rear-ended […]

ABQ Junior Golf Camps Available on Weekly, Monthly Basis

Albuquerque Golf Academy Programs Held at Los Altos Golf Course Golf Instructor Bob May Jr. Now in His 35th Year of Teaching Long-time New Mexico golf teacher and fitness trainer Bob May Jr. is offering a series of three-day junior golf camps as well as weekly sessions at Los Altos Golf Course starting next week. […]

Add Tucson to Your Winter, Spring Golf Getaways List

I’ve been a fan of Phoenix-Scottsdale since about 1990 as a quick and easy getaway for Albuquerque golfers, but I’ve started coming around to Tucson golf as a more affordable – and driveable – cold-weather option. There’s no denying Metro Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun – from the Wigwam in West Valley to […]

Los Cabos Communities to Get Second Nicklaus Course

Ground-breaking in Los Cabos Expected in Second Quarter There’s a second Jack Nicklaus signature course coming to Los Cabos, Mexico. The Bear’s Quivira Golf Club opened there in 2014. Now, the start of construction for a second course perched above the confluence of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean is set for the […]