The Concession Golf Club (Sarasota, Fla.): To host the season-ending IMG Junior Golf Tour Championship, May 11-13.
Courses
The Club At Victory Ranch Honored As One Of The Top 100 Residential Courses In The Country By Golfweek Magazine
Club at Victory Ranch (Park City, Utah): Ranked No. 94 Golfweek’s Top 100 Best Residential Courses in the Country list for 2012.
Chambers Bay Goes Gas-Free For A Day To Celebrate Earth Day
Chambers Bay (University Place, Wash.): To maintain its 250-acre golf course free of gas on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22. Chambers Bay superintendent David Wienecke has arranged for Jacobsen, an equipment manufacturer, and RMT Equipment, a golf supply company, to provide electric mowers, greens rollers, bunker rakes and utility vehicles for the day.
Creighton Farms Opens Extraordinary New Clubhouse
Creighton Farms (Aldie, Va.): Opens its Clubhouse at Creighton Farms, a 34,000-square-foot structure that offers dining, event space, full-service locker rooms, club rooms and a fitness / spa center for club members.
Sun Valley Resort To Open Nine Holes On Trail Creek Golf Course This Weekend, Balance of 45-Hole Line-up To Soon Follow
Sun Valley Resort (Sun Valley, Idaho): To open the front nine holes of its Trail Creek course, weather permitting, on Saturday, April 21.
Seven OB Sports-Managed Golf Courses Honored In 2012 Golfweek’s Best Courses: State By State
OB Sports: Reports that seven courses at six of its managed facilities made Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play state listings – Longbow Golf Club, The Oaks Golf Club, Sandia Golf Club, Tetherow, Three Crowns Golf Club and We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Saguaro and Cholla courses).
Seven OB Sports-Managed Golf Courses Honored In 2012 Golfweek's Best Courses: State By State
OB Sports: Reports that seven courses at six of its managed facilities made Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play state listings – Longbow Golf Club, The Oaks Golf Club, Sandia Golf Club, Tetherow, Three Crowns Golf Club and We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Saguaro and Cholla courses).
Jamaica’s Cinnamon Hill Golf Course Ascends Golf Digest’s “Planet Golf” Rankings
Cinnamon Hill Golf Course (Montego Bay, Jamaica): Listed among Jamaica’s best courses in Golf Digest’s Planet Golf rankings.
Jamaica's Cinnamon Hill Golf Course Ascends Golf Digest's "Planet Golf" Rankings
Cinnamon Hill Golf Course (Montego Bay, Jamaica): Listed among Jamaica’s best courses in Golf Digest’s Planet Golf rankings.
Inaugural NJ Prep Challenge To Be Held May 20 At Metedeconk National Golf Club
Metedeconk National Golf Club (Jackson, N.J.): To host the inaugural Metedeconk Prep Challenge on May 20. The tournament will feature many of New Jersey’s top private schools represented.
SouthWood Announces Golf Programs Honoring U.S. Service Members
SouthWood Golf Club (Tallahassee, Fla.): Announces a series of programs honoring U.S. service members, including offering active-duty and retired military with valid ID a special $26 rate every Monday through Thursday in May.
Harbor Shores Celebrates Clubhouse Campus Grand Opening
Harbor Shores (Benton Harbor, Mich.): Celebrates the grand opening of its 17,000-square-foot clubhouse campus, including a First Tee of Benton Harbor building and Harbor Shores Learning Center.
Golf Digest Ranks Pristine Bay Resort’s Black Pearl No. 1 Golf Course In Honduras
Pristine Bay Resort (Roatan, Honduras): Pete and Perry Dye-designed The Black Pearl course is ranked No. 1 in Honduras by Golf Digest.
Salish Cliffs Garners Distinction for Environmentally Friendly Golf Course Management
Salish Cliffs Golf Club (Shelton, Wash.): Becomes the first Salmon-Safe-certified course in the world after successfully passing an assessment verifying the Squaxin Island Tribe’s commitment to protecting native habitat, managing water runoff, reducing pesticides and advancing environmental practices throughout the region.
Golf Digest Ranks Pristine Bay Resort's Black Pearl No. 1 Golf Course In Honduras
Pristine Bay Resort (Roatan, Honduras): Pete and Perry Dye-designed The Black Pearl course is ranked No. 1 in Honduras by Golf Digest.
Nagging Desire
Nags Head Golf Links (Nags Head, N.C.): Reports on its history and being “the longest 6,126 yards you’ll ever play,” according to a Golf Digest article soon after its opening in 1988.
The 66th Annual Western Intercollegiate Championship At Pasatiempo Golf Club Attracts Top College Teams & Players
Pasatiempo Golf Club (Santa Cruz, Calif.): To host the 66th Western Intercollegiate April 14-15 with a field that includes recent Masters low amateur Patrick Cantlay of UCLA, who is the No. 1-ranked player in the world.
Heritage Golf Group Announces TPC Tampa Bay Named Among 100 Best Golf Shops For 2012
Heritage Golf Group: Announces that TPC Tampa Bay in Lutz, Fla., has been named among Golf World’s 100 Best Golf Shops for 2012. The list consists of 25 shops in each of four categories – private, resort, public and off-course. TPC Tampa Bay was ranked in the public sector.
The 66th Annual Western Intercollegiate Championship At Pasatiempo Golf Club Attracts Top College Teams & Players
Pasatiempo Golf Club (Santa Cruz, Calif.): To host the 66th Western Intercollegiate April 14-15 with a field that includes recent Masters low amateur Patrick Cantlay of UCLA, who is the No. 1-ranked player in the world.
New Kent Classic
The Club at Viniterra (New Kent, Va.): Rees Jones design, which opened in late 2009, opens for public play amid positive player reviews.