Some PGA Tour winners, including former CU golfer Jonathan Kaye, set to tee it up at this week’s 25th Inspirato Colorado Senior Open
By Gary Baines – 8/26/2024
After the 30th Inspirato Colorado Women’s Open and the 60th Colorado Open, it’s time for the 25th Colorado Senior Open.
The Colorado Open Championships milestone season will come to a close this week as the CSO will run Wednesday through Friday at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in northeast Denver.
The field certainly doesn’t lack for former PGA Tour players, including a few champions. Among them are former University of Colorado golfer Jonathan Kaye (a two-time winner on Tour and a two-time Colorado Open champion), Donnie Hammond (2 Tour victories) and Guy Boros (1 Tour win and the 2022 CSO champ), plus Shane Bertsch (1 win on PGA Tour Champions — where he competes full-time — to go along with a Colorado Open victory). Also playing after having long PGA Tour careers are Bob May and Skip Kendall.
Likewise in the field are former Broncos quarterback Tommy Maddox, who threw for more than 8,000 yards in the NFL; David Berganio Jr., who won the 1993 U.S. Amateur Public Links title at Riverdale Dunes in Brighton, his second victory in the event; former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall from Eldorado Springs; past U.S. Open qualifier as an amateur Steve Irwin, a senior rookie; two-time CSO champion Harry Rudolph; defending champion Jason Schultz of Dallas; Matt Schalk of Erie, the 2022 national Senior PGA Professional champ who was the CSO runner-up last summer; and Utahn Steve Schneiter, who’s won both the PGA Professional Championship and the Senior PGA Professional Championship.
Doug Rohrbaugh of Carbondale, the last Coloradan to win the CSO (2013), is also scheduled to tee it up at GVR.
A check for $20,000 — out of the total purse of $100,000 — will go to the champion.
For Wednesday’s tee times, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com