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 city approved a four-year contract with Indigo on Jan. 10, effective Feb. 1.
The complex features an 18-hole Baxter Spann-designed championship course that plays to a par of 72 and measures 7,272 yards from the tips, as well as a 9-hole Spann-designed executive length golf course named “The Great 28.”
This year marks the Links de Santa Fe’s 25th anniversary. The course is named for a local amateur champion who died at a young age of cancer. .By grade school, Marty was winning tournaments all over New Mexico, and by high school, he was a star golfer at Santa Fe High, earning a scholarships to New Mexico Junior College and Western New Mexico University.
After college, Marty moved back to Santa Fe and began learning the basics of course management. In 1992 at the age of 25, Sanchez died of cancer. Shortly after Marty’s passing, former Santa Fe Mayor Sam Pick promised the Sanchez family that the City would one day name a golf course after Marty. In 1998, Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe opened for play and Pick’s promise was fulfilled.
The golf course was previously managed by a company owned and operated by Albuquerque PGA Professional Tony Hidalgo who also operated Arroyo Del Oso and Puerto del Sol, two Albuquerque golf courses.
