Wright Zimmerly of Ladera Golf Course in Albuquerque has published the 2010 events schedule for the Ladera Players Club.
Click here for the 2010 association’s schedule.
For the schedule for Ladera’s Couples Tournaments, click here.
The Las Cruces Junior Golf Association has received a $5,000 Daniels Fund grant to support its junior golf programs.
The Las Cruces Junior Golf Association’s mission is to provide affordable and accessible golf programs to boys and girls of all ages and skill levels in the greater Las Cruces area. The Association runs three primary programs: instruction, competitions and playing access.
“The grant will enable us to grow our instruction program in 2010 and offer scholarships to those that may not otherwise be able to afford the annual participation fee,” said Douglas Logan, executive director of Las Cruces Junior Golf.
Bill Daniels, a pioneer in cable television, Established the Daniels Fund to provide grants and scholarships in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Click here to visit the Daniels Fund website.
Sun Country Golf readers are asking who is Gerina Mendoza?
She’s the Roswell native who finished tied for 30th at the LPGA Q School in Daytona Beach, Fla., in early December and won partial status on the 2010 LPGA Tour.
It’s a fair question, since the New Mexico media largely seems to have ignored the achievements of both Katie Kempter and Mendoza, who battled a field of 106 players to compete for status on the 2010 LPGA Tour.
For just 24 years old, Mendoza has quite the star-powered resume.
She got her start at Goddard High School in Roswell and then played for and graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso. She played on the Duramed Futures Tour, official developmental tour of the LPGA, where in 2009 she played in 16 events, made 13 cuts and had three top-ten finishes.Her best performance was a tie for second. In 2008, she had four top ten finishes.
Mendoza was featured on the Golf Channel’s Big Break Prince Edward Island this year, where she gained a fan in the administrator of the website, “Chickipedia, the Wiki of Hot Women.”
(For a taste of the Chickipedia’s raison d’etre, click on this video, “Chickipedia vs. Wikipedia.”)
Mendoza was the individual winner of the 2003 New Mexico 4-4a golf championship, 2005 winner of the El Paso City Women’s Championship and the individual winner of the 2007 Conference USA Golf Championship.
Back in August, Mendoza was in a grocery store when her cell phone rang. It was LPGA Tour Legend Nancy Lopez, another Roswell native, calling to wish her luck. You can read an article about that phone call on the Futures Tour website.
The Sun Country Amateur Golf Association named Tim Madigan and Lee Sanchez its 2009 players of the year.
Sanchez of Santa Fe completed his first season as a senior player. He won the New Mexico-West Texas Senior Amateur Championship at Sonoma Ranch Golf Club and was on the winning team at the SCAGA Senior Four Ball Championship at Taos Country Club.
Madigan of Rio Rancho won Player of the Year in the Championship Division. He performed well in every Sun Country event in 2009 and qualified for both the U.S. Public Links and the U.S. Amateur.
Madigan was in a close race with Nick Geyer of Albuquerque, but Madigan’s win in August at the Sun Country Player’s Championship at Isleta Eagle Golf Course put him over the top.
To see the official announcement, click here for the Sun Country AGA site.
The website Zimbio has posted a series of photos of Albuquerque’s Katie Kempter at the LPGA Q School in Daytona Beach, Fla., where she finished second and qualified for her 2010 LPGA Tour card in early December. Caddying for her was Arroyo del Oso head Professional Bill Harvey.
Click here to go to the Zimbio photo page. Zimbio is an online celebrity “wiki” magazine focusing on celebrities.
