March 3, 2008--Las Vegas is known as the World's Most Exciting Golf Destination--as dubbed by VegasGolfer Magazine--and there are now more than 20 PGA, Champions, Nationwide, and LPGA Tour golf pros that live here or have deep ties to this mecca that is home to more than 50 Las Vegas golf courses in an around the region. And as of today, there are 13 of those Las Vegas golfers amongst the top 169 money leaders on the official PGA Tour money list but our guess is that none of them are satisfied with thier standings early in 2008. The leader among Las Vegas golfers is former UNLV Golf All-American Chad Campbell (pictured) who is at 33rd with $462,452 with new Henderson resident and Butch Harmon disciple Nick Watney (the Butch Harmon School of Golf is located at Rio Secco Golf Club) next in 66th with $259,720. For more ...

February 29, 2008--Former BYU Cougar golfer Jake Ellison won his first event on the Butch Harmon Vegas Golf Tour, played at the Revere Golf Club, home of two Billy Casper and Greg Nash-designed Las Vegas golf courses where you can play good Las Vegas golf. After four weeks of the new Butch Harmon Vegas Tour Winter Series, Ellison stands at number four on the money list with $11,850. John Passmore is in first with $16,700 while former PGA Tour player and Henderson resident Jeff Gallagher is in second at $15,450. The Revere Golf Club is an award winning facility that is open for public play. The Lexington and Concord Las Vegas golf courses feature dramatic holes in a desert setting with majestic views of the Las Vegas valley. For more ...

February 14, 2008--Most of us with a day job and career work hard to figure out ways to play more golf. Ask most any golfer if they have played recently and the reply is "Not nearly enough." But that wasn't the case for Las Vegas golfer Bill Lunde, a former UNLV All-American and member of the 1998 UNLV National Championship team. He was grinding it out on the mini tours, miserable, he says, trying to spend as little time as possible on the course. And when he did play, he was pretty horrible. But a cocktail of some time off--basically he quit pro golf--with his own 9-5 thrown in, and a splash of fate has led Lunde to exempt status on the 2008 Nationwide Tour and a spot in 8th place on the money list through two events. "Here I am,'' he recently told Dave Lagarde of PGATOUR.com. "This has been bizarre, but things happen for a reason. I honestly believe I have the ability to stay positive and upbeat now.'' For more ...

February 12, 2008--Bill Walters, President of the Walters Group and owner of three Las Vegas golf courses including Bali Hai Golf Club--pictured--, finished a record-setting 10 shots clear at the PGA Tour's historic AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, played over Pebble Beach, Spyglass and Poppy Hills on the famous 17-mile drive in California. Walters partnered with PGA Tour player Fredrik Jacobson to fire rounds (with Walters receiving an 11 handicap) of 65-62-62-61--250. Walters owns Las Vegas golf courses Royal Links Golf Club, Bali Hai Golf Club and Desert Pines Golf Club, and he was shown several times on the Sunday CBS telecast with the announcers--CBS' David Feherty endorses Walters Golf--commenting that they had played some golf with him before and he was "a very good player who was willing to play for just about anything." Walters says that "It was the most phenomenal week of golf that I've ever had." Five of the PGA Tour pros with Las Vegas golf ties, led by Chris Riley who finished 24th, made the cut. For more ...

February 9, 2008--The world's number one golfer teacher, Butch Harmon, is dedicated to giving back to the game of golf through many ways, and one of those is by staying dedicated to the Butch Harmon Vegas Tour, a mini tour that annually plays on some of the best Las Vegas golf courses. And this year the new Winter Series is being played with 10 events at courses like Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, The Revere Golf Club and Royal Links Golf Club. Through three events, John Passmore is the leading money winner with $15,8000 earned by winning two of the three tournaments. Henderson resident and former PGA Tour pro Jeff Gallagher is in second with $10,325 after winning the first event at Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort. Harmon also operates the Harmon School of Golf at Las Vegas golf course Rio Secco Golf Club. For more ...

January 28, 2008--Adam Scott scorched the Doha Golf Club in the final round of the Qatar Masters with a fantastic 61, breaking the course record by two strokes and winning the event by three strokes. On a day when the world was watching Tiger Woods thrash the PGA Tour pros at the Buick Inviational, Scott was doing some thrashing of his own on the European Tour. “I think I have to say that is the best round of my life,” Scott told the media following his second career win in the tournament. “I’ve shot 62 before but this is my first 61 and to do it under the pressure of a final round makes it my best ever." Many have said, including Scott's Coach, Las Vegas golf's own Butch Harmon, that Scott has the talent and ability to challenge Woods as the best player in the world. Here's hoping that 2008 is the year that Scott, the current world's fifth-ranked player, steps up and does so. For more ...

January 19, 2008--Gone are the swimsuits and heels from the pages of her calendar, but Natalie Gulbis, who lives on the fairways of Reflection Bay Golf Club, one of three Las Vegas golf courses at the resort, has another calendar out--complete with action images--and also a 2008 day planner. Click now to buy Natalie Gulbis stuff. Gulbis' past calendars have upset some poeple for being too provocative--the USGA banned them at the US Womens Open one year--but the 2008 version is a bit tamer and demonstrates Gulbis' athletic ability, including trophy photos from her first win (Evian Masters) and from another successful Solheim Cup appearance on the US team. For more ...

January 18, 2008 (UPDATED JAN 22, 2008)--Charley Hoffman, a Las Vegas golf resident, won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic last year. And former UNLV Rebel golfer Chad Campbell won the event in 2006. And now Robert Gamez, who grew up in Las Vegas, is trying to become the third-straight golfer with strong Las Vegas golf ties to win this prestigious celebrity event. Through two rounds, Gamez was at 13-under par and tied with DJ Trahan for the half-time lead. Click now for LIVE SCORING. "I love Palm Springs ... I love the pro-am format," Gamez told reporters after the second round. "Like I said yesterday, I love playing in the celebrity rotation because I like all the hype and all the kind of, I would say, distraction." Gamez ended up finishing in a tie for 16th. For more ...

January 16, 2008--In his PGA Tour guide personal section Charley Hoffman, a member of the 1998 UNLV Golf team that won the NCAA title and a current Las Vegas resident, lists appearing on the nationally-syndicated Jim Rome Radio Show--known as The Jungle--as one of his major accomplishments in 2007. Another one? How about winning the 2007 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, good for his first PGA Tour win. And so far in 2008, Hoffman has made appearance number two in The Jungle, and this week is set to defend his title over the five days of the Hope, played January 16-20 in Rancho Mirage, California. LIVE SCORING now. Read on for Hoffman's complete press conference quotes and to see what Celebrity Host George Lopez had to say about him--and his hair. For more ...