Golfers are scrambling this week to get a membership at the exclusive Garden of the Gods Club before the rates increase by a couple thousand dollars. For the first time in several years, the Garden of the Gods Club is raising its membership fees, going from a $12,500 initiation membership fee to $15,000. Monthly dues [...] [...]
Four golfers who participate in the May 17 Mayor’s Cup golf fundraiser will have a shot at winning $1 million if they can make a hole in one. At the golf fundraising event, held at The Broadmoor, Mayor Steve Bach will sign four golf balls and place them into golfer sleeves. Golfers who find one [...] [...]
by Dan Cook Published: April 15,2011
Tags: Golf
With the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open less than three months away, tournament Executive Director Doug Habgood is beginning to think he’s got a record-breaker in the making. “The 2005 U.S. Women’s Open in Denver set the (women’s attendance) record with 131,000,” Habgood said. “I think it’s about time for a new record.” Scheduled for July [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: April 24,2010
Tags: Golf, UCCS
Whittney Coon first ventured onto the Lusk, Wyo., Niobrara Country Club golf course at the age of 2. It was where locals like her parents and oil-and-gas industry executives met and played. Coon was soon hooked and began playing alongside other members. By her sophomore year in high school, she had landed a summer job [...] [...]
Some real estate transactions defy otherwise cloudy economic forecasts. Take golf courses for example. This week, Escalante Golf, the general partner and ownership group for the Pine Creek Golf Club and other “boutique” golf clubs throughout the country, announced that it has acquired the Country Club of the North in Dayton, Ohio, from Oak Tree [...] [...]
by Rob Larimer Published: August 13,2009
Tags: Golf, Rugby
BERLIN – International Olympic leaders have selected golf and rugby for proposed inclusion in the 2016 Summer Games, rejecting bids from baseball, softball and three other sports.The International Olympic Committee executive board narrowed the field to two sports Thursday from a list of seven, which also included squash, karate and roller sports. The board will [...] [...]
Tickets for the 71st Senior PGA Championship, scheduled for May 25-30 2010 at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, go on sale today. Daily and weekly ticket packages can be purchased by visiting www.PGA.com, calling the PGA Ticketing Center at (800) PGA-GOLF (742-4653), or through TicketsWest outlets located at 115 King Soopers grocers in the Rocky Mountain [...] [...]
There’s a green light at the end of the recession tunnel – at least if you happen to be involved with a business that caters to diehard weekend warriors in search of greens. Golf Datatech LLC says that 63 percent of serious golfers who read weekly golf publications plan to spend as much or more [...] [...]
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