Golf course architect Ken Killian, president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects in 1986-87, and designer of Santa Ana Golf Club, died on Sept. 20 at his home in Granada Hills, Calif. Killian was 78. Killian also designed the Mission in Odessa, Texas.
Golf legend Kathy Whitworth and West Mesa High School graduate and LPGA player Rosie Jones will participate in Santa Ana Golf Club’s Pro-Lady tournament to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation. The event is an 8:30 a.m. shotgun Oct 12 at Santa Ana Golf Club.
A pre-tournament cocktail party will be held the evening of Oct. 11 at Twin Warriors Golf Club, says the tournament’s organizer, Twin’s director of instruction, Sandy Lemon. Details to follow. For more information, call lemon at (505) 570-0442.
Golf legend Kathy Whitworth and West Mesa High School graduate and LPGA player Rosie Jones will participate in Santa Ana Golf Club’s Pro-Lady tournament to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
The event is an 8:30 a.m. shotgun Oct 12 at Santa Ana Golf Club. A pre-tournament cocktail party will be held the evening of Oct. 11 at Twin Warriors Golf Club, says the tournament’s organizer, Twin’s director of instruction, Sandy Lemon.
Details to follow. For more information, call lemon at (505) 570-0442.
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.
Tell us the names of the oldest and youngest winners of the British Open and earn a chance to win a stay at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, golf at Twin Warriors and Santa Ana golf clubs or a dinner at the Prairie Star Restaurant.
Send your answers By midnight, Aug. 17, 2009, in an e-mail to Contest@suncountrygolf.com with:
Entries must include:
1. Your name
2. Your U.S. Postal Service mailing address.
Winners will be drawn from all correct entries received by the deadline. For details, see the current issue of Sun Country Golf, available on newsstand
