Outside The Ropes

Exhibitor booth space sells out as Colorado Golf Expo set for 2025 run; World Long Drive presence provides a different vibe this time around

I like to sip wine when I play golf, but the drink carts almost always carry just beer and liquor. Is it OK for me to bring my own?

New 9-hole ‘SNAG’ course, a tribute to former CGA Match Play champ Michael Lee, taking shape at Boomerang Links; Greeley mayor attended groundbreaking on Feb. 21 

Denver Botanic Gardens proves fitting place for CGA to cultivate for golf as it hosts annual Women’s Golf Summit; 55 women’s clubs from around Colorado attend event 

Courses Where Short Hitters Can Tee it Forward

Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Wyndham Clark a key player for the second straight year in Netflix’s ‘Full Swing’; Mark Wahlberg and Colorado native Paige Spiranac in Clark episode this time; meanwhile, Clark’s squad still unbeaten in TGL

Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Penny Zavichas, a niece of Babe Zaharias, packs a life full of stories — and lessons — into her new book

Dennis Lyon — Colorado Golf Hall of Famer, former president of the CGA and of the national Golf Course Superintendents Association of America — dies unexpectedly, but leaves remarkable legacy

Colorado Golf Expo adds more World Long Drive flavor as Lakewood-based former world champions Monica Lieving and Andrew Eigner will conduct demonstrations and seminars at show

Playing a new course, it became clear that I had teed it up a little farther back than I should have and so I moved up a set of tees. Is there any way that I can post that round?

A couple of bears, a cat, a shark, Chrissie and much more; with U.S. Senior Open returning to Colorado, we take a look at the event’s rich history in the Centennial State

Columbine CC golf shop named one of the top 10 worldwide by Association of Golf Merchandisers, earning ‘Best of the Best’ honor for third time in 5 years

Set to celebrate his 25th anniversary as the CGA’s executive director, Ed Mate has gone where no one at the association has gone before

Colorado among states with highest percentage growth of golf rounds played

8 Colorado caddies awarded full-tuition-and-housing Evans Scholarships to CU; 4 come from Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy, 3 from Broadmoor CLA

Sportswomen of Colorado will honor 5-time CGA Women’s Senior Player of the Year Kris Franklin and recently retired CU women’s golf coach Anne Kelly

There’s no lack of storylines as Colorado-based college golf programs begin spring portion of schedule, including Colorado Christian men still undefeated as a team almost halfway through season

Mix Golf Into Your Super Bowl Sunday

Colorado Golf Expo gearing up as it goes where it’s never — or seldom — gone before with the show moving to March; owner Kevin Morton hopes to build on momentum of recent years

NCAA Division II men’s national golf champs from Colorado Christian earn 2024 King of the Hill honor from Colorado Sports Hall of Fame

Notable anniversaries we’ll celebrate in Colorado golf in 2025: Annika and Ernie and the Babe. Oh my!

Colorado-based golf and country clubs make the grade in national rankings

Most courses we play have four or five tee boxes. The most forward is considered the women’s tee and the second forward is considered the senior tee for men over some age, usually 60. It doesn’t seem fair…

What awaits us in Colorado golf in 2025? Another very eventful year, including the state’s fourth U.S. Senior Open

Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Wyndham Clark gears up in a hurry in 2025, with The Sentry in Hawaii and the inaugural TGL match in Florida crammed into less than a week

Wrapping up the countdown of the top Colorado golf stories of 2024

The top Colorado golf stories of 2024, Part I

Hot spots for Colorado’s golfing snowbirds

’Tis the season to pass around the holiday gift wishes, Colorado golf style

Colorado native and former DU golf captain Sara Montgomery relishes new role as president of the CGA, which has been growing by leaps and bounds

Colorado cracks the top 3 states when it comes to golf shops making this top 100 elite list

For 2nd time in the last decade, a Colorado-based BMW Championship named PGA Tour Tournament of the Year, this time after the event at Castle Pines GC raised a record amount for Evans Scholars Foundation

Sometimes in my club I get paired with a certain member who’s a negative self-talker. None of his shots is good enough…etc. How can I block this out and be positive?

CU and Boulder High School grad Hale Irwin, a two-time U.S. Senior Open champion, named honorary chair for 2025 Senior Open that The Broadmoor will host

Sandy Schnitzer earns a CGA volunteer of the year award for the second time in 5 years, this time for spearheading the association’s apprentice rules official training and certification program; Hiwan Women’s Golf Association receives Club of the Year honors

Record-matching Colorado Golf Hall of Fame inductee class draws 420 to induction dinner; Wyndham Clark, Jennifer Kupcho, George Solich, Pat Hamill, Joe Assell and the late Gene Torres make up impressive group

Bigfoot Turf Farm southeast of Greeley will host not only World Long Drive Championships, but a second WLD event in 2025

Gift-givers, hint-hint: Here are 2024’s hottest putters

Northeastern Colorado’s Ballyneal continues to ascend national/international course rankings lists with this month’s additions

Not long removed from being executive director of the CWGA, Laura Robinson has become a devoted rules official, to the point of earning the Jim Topliff Award from the CGA; John Sova & Jan Fincher named Master Rules Officials by CGA

The 49th president of the Colorado PGA looks a lot like the 40th as Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Kyle Heyen returns to the role he also held 2 decades ago

Dozens of Colorado high school seniors finalize their college golf commitments, including many who are NCAA Division I-bound

Our kids are more into video games and cell phones than golf. Is there any way we can incorporate technology on the course?

Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Dennis Lyon earns another national award from Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, this one for an advice column

Coloradan Connor Jones set to tee it up in next week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship on PGA Tour — his reward for winning the Elite Amateur Series

16 CGA juniors named to inaugural Team Colorado as part of new USGA initiative

Ashley Kozłowski goes out on a high note before embarking on career as engineer; other 2024 CGA female players of the year: Kristine Franklin (Senior) and Ashleigh Wilson (Junior) 

Colin Prater sweeps CGA Les Fowler Player of Year and Mid-Am POY awards for third time; other CGA men’s player honorees are Steve Ivan (Senior), David Nelson (Super-Senior) and Miles Kuhl (Junior)

2025 World Long Drive Championships will be held in September in LaSalle, southeast of Greeley

Denver native Wyndham Clark’s Play Big Foundation donating $80,000 to Colorado Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation; Clark’s mother passed away in 2013 after battling breast cancer

Keith Schneider, a mainstay at Castle Pines Golf Club since the beginning, set to ‘leave at the top’ after 43 years at the club; but longtime PGA professional won’t be a stranger at site of 2024 BMW Championship after being made an honorary member

Here are five public-access courses every Colorado golfer should play while enjoying the ride.

5 voted into 2025 Colorado Golf Hall of Fame induction class: amateurs Robert Polk and Jon Lindstrom, superintendents Lance Johnson and Rollie Cahalane, and longtime PGA pro Tom Apple; honorees include Duffy Solich, Verne Lundquist, Keith Schneider, Mitch Savage, Ashleigh Wilson, Miles Kuhl & Tyler Long

Geoff Keffer adds to his record total of Colorado PGA Dow Finsterwald Player of the Year honors; other Section POYs: Doug Rohrbaugh (Senior), Ashley Tait-Wengert (Women) and Andy Connell (Associate)

Colorado Christian University men’s golf team — winner of 7 of its last 9 tournaments, including all 3 this season — No. 1 in first Div. II National Collegiate Golf Rankings, by a lot

A friend told me that he read the max over par was 2 when trying to establish a GHIN handicap. I later learned the correct method is a max of 3 over. Can I go back in and adjust my lower scores?

In a Colorado boys high school golf season which already has featured at least 11 rounds of 64 or lower — including a 59 — an unprecedented 4 state tourneys are on tap Monday and Tuesday

CGA top walkers’ favorite shoes – for the Fall Fitness Finish you might want to coddle your precious feet!

Denver native Wyndham Clark set to become first Colorado high school grad since 1994 to compete in Presidents Cup

I always point out when my group is falling behind, but no one seems to want to hear it and I find myself rushing for the whole foursome…

6 NCAA Div. I golf tournaments will be held in Colorado in 3-week stretch; men’s NCAA DII national champ Colorado Christian opens season at Bear Creek GC