Inside The Ropes

Very strong senior class set to bid adieu to high school golf as 4 boys state tournaments on tap Monday and Tuesday

One year after nearly finishing last, Kennedy/Fitzsimmons WGA wins their first CGA Women’s Club Team title

By a single stroke this time, CU men finish runner-up at their own Mark Simpson Invite for fourth straight year; elsewhere, UNC’s Timbre Shehee notches another top-10 showing

Colorado native Griffin Barela posts his 2nd top-6 showing in the last 3 weeks on PGA Tour Americas; Fort Collins’ Dillon Stewart narrowly misses earning 2026 Korn Ferry Tour card via season-long points

Zack Holton, 50-year-old Kelly Rudney claim long drive World Championship titles in Colorado, with Holton winning for third time in LaSalle; overall, longest drives travel 486 yards (men) and 413 (women); Coloradan Monica Lieving runner-up in Women’s Division

2 Colorado natives — Lauren (Lehigh) Dickey and Katherine Hollern — among those who advance from LPGA Pre-Qualifying; former CCU standout Xavier Bighaus breezes through PGA Tour Pre-Qual event

Janet Hopkins and Patricia Lopez of Lakewood hang on to their first round lead to claim the Championship Flight title at Ironbridge GC

CU women end 8-year drought as they claim team title at rain-shortened Ptarmigan Ram Classic, where Coloradan Brenna Higgins posts top-10 individual showing; Colorado Mesa men make it 2 team wins in 2 tournaments

UNC newcomer Kaelen Dulany claims individual title at Gene Miranda Falcon Invite after final-round 64 at Eisenhower GC

2-time CO Women’s Open champ Becca Huffer records best Epson Tour finish in almost 2 years; Kyle Westmoreland notches top-10 on Korn Ferry circuit; Justin Leonard continues hot run on Champions Tour

Kent and Steven Moore ride a big first-round lead to the finish line, earning their second CGA Parent-Child Championship title in four years.

Former CU teammates Justin Biwer and Dylan McDermott finish 1-2 in a PGA Tour Q-school ‘Pre-Qualifying’ tourney; Castle Rock’s Collin Engelhardt also advances to ‘First Stage’

Geoff Keffer joins 3-time-champions club with runaway victory in Colorado PGA Professional Championship

Parker Edens’ run at U.S. Mid-Amateur ends in quarterfinals for second time in the last 3 years

Timbre Shehee of Mead and UNC finishes runner-up in Oklahoma, marking the best college showing of her career; fellow Coloradan Logan Hale of DU also records a top-10 on Tuesday

Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Jennifer Kupcho finishes with a flurry for fifth-place showing in LPGA Tour’s Queen City Championship; Lakewood’s Griffin Barela notches top-5 on PGA Tour Americas

CSU men golfers, winners of 9 of the previous 10 Ram Masters Invites they host, fall just short of adding another RMI title, finishing 2nd; CSU’s Alessandro Trenta runner-up individually, while CO Springs’ Charlie Doyle places 26th in college debut 

Former CGA president Bill Fowler claims yet another CGA title at River Valley Ranch, this time the Senior Amateur, which he’s now won twice

Former CGA Player of the Year Gunner Wiebe set for first PGA Tour start in over a year as he receives sponsor exemption into this week’s Procore Championship; meanwhile, Colo. Open champ Jim Knous and former CCU golfer Sangha Park Monday qualify for Procore

In final World Long Drive event before World Championships, Kyle Berkshire claims ’Smash in the Sun’ title in Colorado

Jason Schultz shoots lowest final round in tournament history — and breaks his own overall scoring record — en route to his second Colorado Senior Open title; Littleton’s Brian Guetz earns low-am honors, collecting his 5th Colorado Open championship trophy

Part-time Coloradan Liselotte Neumann notches another top-10 in U.S. Senior Women’s Open, placing 3rd; Davis Bryant (DP World Tour), Shane Bertsch (PGA Tour Champions) and Robyn Choi (LPGA) record top-15 finishes in other tournament golf

In first of 3 World Long Drive events in Colorado over the next 6 weeks, Centennial State residents Monica Lieving (women’s division) and Chase Noell (amateurs) claim titles; meanwhile, ex-Buff Sabrina Iqbal runner-up in Epson Tour event

Boyle, McGinnis Lead the Pack in 2025 CGA Women’s Hickory Tournament at South Suburban Golf Course

2-time CGA Senior Player of the Year David Delich captures his first CGA title in over 10 years; another Dave (Runberg) wins by 10 in the Masters Division

Kyle Leydon wins CGA Western Championship on first playoff hole; Richard Bradsby defends Senior Division title

After long layoff, Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe posts his best PGA Tour Champions finish in almost 3 years; he ties for 7th with David Duval & Justin Leonard; Wyndham Clark fails to advance to BMW Championship for the first time since 2021

Former Littleton resident Ashley Kozlowski sees her magical U.S. Women’s Amateur run end in the round of 32

With victory at CGA Women’s Senior Stroke Play, Kris Franklin runs CGA senior major win streak to 4 for the second time in her career

Denver native Mark Hubbard falls just short of making PGA Tour playoffs, but posts one of his best finishes ever on that circuit

A year after Colin Prater claimed his third CGA Amateur title, a player he coached in high school, Thomas Herholtz, succeeds him as champion; the Colorado Springs golfer earned a U.S. Amateur berth in the process

With victory in Montrose, Englewood’s Henry Starr extends local win streak for boys in Colorado-based AJGA events

Former Northwestern golfer Jieni Li wins inaugural Colorado Championship at Todd Creek, while ex-CCU golfer Faith Kilgore places 4th; DU grad Chris Korte finishes 2nd in Texas State Open

Team from Colorado/CGA posts its 2nd-best finish ever at boys Junior America’s Cup as Ash Edwards and Brayden Forte place in top 5 individually

Jolene Wong and Neige Dunn cruise to 7-stoke victory in CGA Women’s Four-Ball Championship

Caine Fitzgerald, previously a Section overall and assistant champ, adds a Colorado Senior PGA Professional title

Former Aspen resident Justin Leonard runner-up in a senior major, Fort Collins’ Dillon Stewart notches another top-10 on PGA Tour Americas, and Wyndham Clark stays hot on PGA Tour

Colorado native Jim Knous soars to victory in Colorado Open with 69-yard hole-out for eagle in playoff; his 62 in regulation is lowest final round by champ in tourney history; Charlie Tucker takes low-am honors

Boys and Girls champions crowned in 3 different age groups at the CGA State Junior Championship

After ending U.S. Junior Amateur match-play drought for Coloradans, Nicholas Brooks falls in round of 64 to a 2024 quarterfinalist; meanwhile, Hadley Ashton, Alexander Kukreja claim CO PGA Junior Match Play titles

After 2 majors he’d rather forget — for reasons of his own making — Denver native Wyndham Clark rides stellar final 3 days to 4th-place finish at British Open; afterward, he apologizes again for Oakmont and vows temper-related incidents are ‘not going to happen again’

As CGA Women’s Stroke Play ventures further south than ever, CU’s Carolyn Fuller emerges as champ at Eisenhower GC; former Buff Kirsty Hodgkins wins Women’s Mid-Am after claiming 3 Mid-Am titles in Arizona

For fourth time in last 10 months, Colorado native Chris Korte Monday qualifies for PGA Tour event; this time, he’ll tee it up at Barracuda Championship

A year after winning CGA Women’s Stroke Play and making her debut at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, Ashley Kozlowski qualifies for her 2nd Women’s Am

Fort Collins’ Dillon Stewart wins in just his second start on PGA Tour Americas; he’s already in top 10 in season-long point standings

Fort Collins’ AJ Ott goes low to edge Derek Fribbs for Wyoming State Open title; Jennifer Kupcho posts her best finish in a major in over 3 years

2 years after finishing 2nd in U.S. Am at Cherry Hills, Neal Shipley rallies from 7 behind in final round to win The Ascendant at TPC Colorado & earns 2026 PGA Tour card; Westminster’s Connor Jones finishes 24th to land spot in next week’s Korn Ferry Tour event

The Colorado Golf Association is pleased to announce the Girls’ and Boys’ Junior America’s Cup Teams.

Polk wins Super Senior Match Play to add a 16th CGA title to his CO Golf Hall of Fame resumé

From retired pro golfer to mechanic and back to golf, Coloradan Zahkai Brown opens with solid 71 despite sometimes ‘brutal’ wind at The Ascendant; ex-AFA golfer Tom Whitney, who didn’t complete his first round, tied for lead after day 1

Kristine Franklin defends her title at the 21st CGA Women’s Senior Match Play Championship at DU Golf Club at Highlands Ranch.