Entries Tagged as 'Twin Warriors'

ADO’s Harvey Makes PNC Cut

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.

Who Let the Dogs Out? Rough, Rough, Rough, Rough!

You have just three weeks or so to play Santa Ana and Twin Warriors golf clubs before the club pros of America descend on it for the PGA”s Professional National Championship. A word of advice: Sharpen that accuracy thing.

The supers at both courses are growing the rough long — in excess of 8 inches, in order to be able to swoop in and cut it to a uniform 4 inches in time for the event. So, between now and when they close both courses to public play, life’s a bitch if you’re not in the fairway.

Let’s just say a couple of single-digit handicappers were humiliated this week, watching shots from the rough from 150 out go no farther than 70 yards. “Hello, and let’s welcome Mr. 3-wood to the tee box.” The money on this day went to Ross Nettles, a wolf grazing among sheep, thanks to that hitting the fairway thing.

If you’re up to the challenge, both courses are in superb condition. The greens are running fast and true. The rough, however, will separate the players among us. It is a rare opportunity that regular players get to play, check that, endure, a course conditioned for a major championship like Santa Ana and Twin are right now.

You have until June 21 to play Santa Ana, and until June 24 to play Twin. After that they’re closed until the PNC is over. SCG’s advice: Move up a set of tees.

Volunteer at PNC, Get Cheap Golf

Another hundred or so volunteers are needed to work the PGA’s Professional National Championship June 28-July 1 at Santa Ana and Twin Warriors golf clubs.

To learn what you get asĀ  a volunteer, go to the “Deals” page on this site.