Over the last five years, the depressed economy has played havoc with private golf in Arizona. The latest episode involving members of a long-time Phoenix country club voting to give up ownership through a bankruptcy court. Call it crazy, and we’ve seen a bunch of that since things went south, but that’s basically…
Scottsdale’s Allen is “A Man on Fire” – Last weekend, shortly after Michael Allen had pulled off back-to-back wins on the Champions Tour, the Golf Channel’s Curt Byrum put the rare double in perfect perspective. “Michael Allen is a man on fire,’’ Byrum said of his fellow Scottsdale resident. “He’s scorching the…
One of These 5 Guys Will Win Masters – Unlike other professional sports that take an entire season to build to a crescendo, golf’s big moment always comes prematurely with the annual showcase called the Masters. On the game’s biggest stage, Augusta National, contested between the best players…
PHOENIX, Arizona – The galleries for the first three days of the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup were not all that large to start with. But when the weather turned ugly on Sunday, they got a lot smaller for the final round at Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix. And then they got smaller . . . and then even smaller. Blame it on…
Like the economy, the LPGA seems to be on the upswing these days. Granted, uncertainty remains about the global markets — and this global tour — but at least the ladies will be on American soil for the first time in 2012 when the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup gets under way this week at Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix.
It took Kyle Stanley just one week – seven long days – to erase the darkest moment of his career with the brightest. His first-ever win at the Waste Management Phoenix Open didn’t come easy, but as the resilient Stanley can attest, they hardly ever do. Or just look to Spencer Levin, the latest…
The cast of characters will be slightly different than those who once played in The Tradition, but The Champions Tour is returning to Scottsdale and Desert Mountain Golf Club in 2012 — as well as 2014 and 2016. The new event is the prestigious Charles Schwab Cup, the 50-and-over circuit’s version of…
Match play is one of golf’s most fickle and funny games. Just when a player thinks he’s got it all figured out, the mano y mano format jumps up and bites him like a sleeping dog. That lesson straight out of the school of hard knocks was reaffirmed Saturday in the final match of the 87th Arizona Amateur…
A waiter from Scottsdale, Michael Wog, will meet a “weekend warrior’’ from the same city, Bowen Osborn, in Saturday’s championship match of the 87th Arizona Amateur at the Country Club at DC Ranch. It marks the first time in eight years that a college-age player will not win this major championship…