Taos Am to Resume

Posted on July 18th, 2009 by admin

The Taos Amateur Championship will be held to be held Sept. 5-6, says Taos CC GM Tad Bourg.

The two-day stroke-play event is open to anyone with a USGA handicap — an attempt to reach out to seasonal residents and visitors who have handicaps elsewhere, Bourg said.

The championship flight will play from the tips. The senior championship flight and all other flights will play one tee forward.

Entry is $150. Carts are $15 per player. Practice rounds on Friday will be $40. The Sun Country Amateur Golf Association Senior Four Ball Championship, also a two-day event, will be held at Taos CC the following weekend.

” When I was running the course years ago, it attracted lots of golfers from around the state and a really quality field,” Bourg said. “We have a core group of good players from Taos, Santa Fe and Espanola.”

Bourg and his son, Carville, have resumed management of the golf course following the departure of American Golf Corp. at the end of 2008.

“Under American Golf, the event dwindled because they either held it in the spring or at the end of October when the weather was bad,” Bourg said.