Planning a fall golf trip to Arizona?
Click here or navigate to “All Events” and scroll down for a list of all overseeding activities scheduled in Arizona, courtesy of Russ Christ of the Southwest Section PGA.
Right above it is a partial list of upcoming top-dressing-aeration schedules for many courses in Sun Country.
Elaine Dotts of Roswell won a two-night stay at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, plus two rounds each at Twin Warriors Golf Club and Santa Ana Golf Club — the grand prize in Sun Country Golf magazine’s “Great Golf Giveaway.”
Dotts’ name was picked by the magazine’s business manager, Ken Adams, in a random drawing of 70 correct entries to the golf trivia question: Name the youngest and oldest winners of the British Open. (Answers “Young Tom” Morris in 1868 and his father “Old Tom” Morris in 1867).
Winner of the second-place prize, two rounds at Santa Ana Golf Club, is Norman Weichbrodt of Albuquerque. Third-place winner is Rex Throckmorton, also of Albuquerque; he wins dinner for two at the Prairie Star Restaurant.
Prizes were donated by Roger Martinez, director of Golf at Santa Ana Golf Corp., as a thank you for the volunteer participation of Sun Country golfers in staging the PGA of America’s 2009 Professional National Championship at Twin and Santa Ana and televised nationally by The Golf Channel in early August.
For a complete list of the 70 finalists submitting correct entries, click here.
New Mexico State University Aggie golfer Tim Madigan of Rio Rancho claimed the first edition of the Callaway Golf Players Championship at Isleta Eagle in Albuquerque, outpacing the field with a two-day total of 137, seven-under par.
The Players Championship features the top professionals and amateurs in the Sun Country Section facing off in 36 holes of stroke play. The event is a cooperative effort between the Sun Country PGA and the Sun Country Amateur Golf Association. It is designed to identify the top golfers in Sun Country regardless of professional or amateur status, and is limited to players with ties to New Mexico.
For full results, click here.
Rio Rancho’s Tim Madigan tied for low medalist at the U.S. Amateur qualifier at the Whirlwind Golf Club in Chandler, Ariz., earlier this week with rounds of 64-70 for a two-day total 10 under par.
The New Mexico State University Aggie golfer was one of five qualifiers for the national championship out of the Arizona event, held Aug. 4.
The U.S. Amateur will be held Aug. 4-30 at Southern Hills Country Club and Cedar Ridge Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. A field of 312 golfers will be cut to 64 golfers after two rounds of stroke play, who then will advance through match play at Southern Hills. The nationally televised 36-hole final is set for Sunday, Aug. 30.
University of New Mexico Lobo golfer Jodi Ewart fell to Alexis Thompson 2 and 1 today in the round of 16 of the U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis.
Ewart, who will be a senior at UNM in the fall, was down three holes after losing No. 8. She chipped away to cut the deficit to one hole after winning No. 14. Thompson, 15, of Coral Springs, Fla., clinched the match on the Par 3 17th when she made par and Ewart suffered a bogey.
