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Arroyo del Oso’s Bill Harvey shot a second-round 73 to post a 2-over 144, good enough to get him into a tie for 68th and a good chance to play the final two days of the PGA’s Professional National Championship.

Harvey’s two-day total was the best Sun Country Section PGA showing in the event. Las Campanas’ Bob May Jr. finished at 5 over, and Four Hills Country Club’s Scott gates carded a two-day total of 4 over. Both missed the cut.

Mark Sheftic of Ambler, Pa., was the leader in the clubhouse late Tuesday afternoon with a 7-under 67-68, with three players, including 2008 PNC Champion Scott Hebert, of Traverse City, Mich., still on the course with a chance to take the lead going into Round 3 on Wednesday.

The projected cut was 2 over for the low 70 players, plus ties, in the 312-player field.

Final-round action moves exclusively to Twin Warriors Wednesday morning as some 240 players who gathered here from around the nation head home. Both Twin and Santa Ana served as venues for the event’s first two days.

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An uprising by Puerto del Sol golfers over the imminent devastation of their golf course has led water officials to propose rerouting underground pipes to serve a massive above-ground water tank to be built there.

“Instead of ripping through five or six fairways with 30-foot trenches, they’ll be skirting the edge of the course,” said Puerto operator Tony Hidalgo Jr.  A map of the tank’s location and routing of pipe can be found here.

The tank project, first reported by Sun Country Golf, led the PDS men’s and women’s golf associations to approach two TV stations, which reported how trenching would lay waste to the course when construction starts in October. See KRQE’s Tim Maestas’ story on the controversy here.

The mammoth nature of the tank project was under-reported by us when we first broke this story. The actual capacity of the tank is 2 million gallons. The 125-foot diameter tank would stretch from rough line to rough line in the area between Holes 3 and 4, and cut into 30 yards of No. 3 fairway, exaggerating the dogleg.

The tank is being built to hold a non-potable mix of recycled industrial water and water piped uphill from the Rio Grande, to be used to irrigate Isotopes Park and other Southeast Heights sports venues, including the golf course itself. In the long run, the presence of the tank will cut Puerto’s water cost by 20 percent.

At the same time, Wayne Brooks, president of the PDS men’s association, told  KRQE that in a year or two, people will forget exactly why PDS is losing money, as people stay away and play somewhere else.

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The University of New Mexico Championship Course is adding a new set of tees to bring the length of the course from the tips to 7,557 yards — an increase of 233 yards.

The new tees, dubbed “Lobo tees,” are being built on Nos. 5, 7, 11, 13 and 18. The biggest change comes on No. 7, where 54 yards are being added to bring the hole’s total length to 522 yards.

Other changes:

No. 5, a par 4, will get longer by 45 yards and play 487 yards;

No. 11, a par 3, will get 16 yards longer, playing 220 yards from the back.

No. 13 will get 44 more yards to become a 505-yard Par 4.

No. 18 will have 38 yards added and become a 562-yard uphill Par 5.

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The Outlaw Club in Lincoln Hills, a private course built as the centerpiece of a high-end estate development  in Alto, N.M., has closed.

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Rob Scott,  co-owner with brother Gene, of Bullseye Golf Center, 8212 Menaul Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque, says he’s the first in town to offer ink-jet printing of any image you want on your golf balls. [Read more →]

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