March 5, 2010--The Las Vegas Golf Region is home to more than 50 Las Vegas golf courses, and there are no less than 30 PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, Champions Tour, and Nationwide Tour golfers who have strong ties to those Las Vegas golf layouts. And in the recent Sports Illustrated Golf Plus, two of those Las Vegas golfers, Rickie Fowler and Ryan Moore, were featured prominently, giving Las Vegas golf representation on about 33 percent of the 28-page section, including Fowler on the cover.--By Brian Hurlburt.

March 3, 2010--The 2010 LPGA Tour season is underway, and Natalie Gulbis is in full swing, both on and off the golf course. Gulbis, who lives at Lake Las Vegas Resort and works with Butch Harmon at his Las Vegas golf school at Las Vegas golf course Rio Secco Golf Club, finished in a tie for 55th at the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore, and looks forward to the first event in the United States beginning March 25. All the while, Gulbi fires off the tweets from her Twitter page, where she has more than 30,000 followers.--By Brian Hurlburt.

February 28, 2010 (Las Vegas, Nevada)--Rickie Fowler is arguably the best young player in golf right now, and he moved to Las Vegas just before the 2009 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, Las Vegas' PGA Tour event. If Fowler, who has lost in a playoff and finished second in just a handful of PGA Tour events since turning pro, wins soon, he could become the youngest player to win on the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods won the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational at 20. Fowler, who turned 21 in December of '09, was spotted with several of his golf buddies at TPC Las Vegas prior to Phoenix and also plays at Las Vegas golf course TPC Summerlin. FINAL RESULTS.--Staff report.

February 26, 2010--Las Vegas PGA Tour pro Scott Piercy pretty much has always told it like he sees it. That makes Piercy, who grew up playing Las Vegas golf courses such as Las Vegas Golf Club, always good for a quote, and that was no different following his second round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open. "If I was a roller coaster ride at Magic Mountain, I would be the best ride there," Piercy said in the press room. LIVE RESULTS. --By Brian Hurlburt.

February 25, 2010 (Las Vegas, Nevada)--LPGA Tour player Stephanie Louden grew up in Las Vegas, honing her skills on Las Vegas golf courses, such as Las Vegas Golf Club and Canyon Gate Country Club, among others. Louden now lives in Frisco, Texas, a suburb of Dallas with her husband, Mike, and 22-month old son Lucas. And with the 2010 LPGA Tour kicking off, Louden has a new pro working with her and feels good about her prospects. By Brian Hurlburt.

February 21, 2010 (Las Vegas, Nevada) UPDATED 2/22 --Tommy Armour III grew up playing Las Vegas golf courses, before hitting the big time on the PGA Tour. Armour III now calls Texas home, but still has friends in Las Vegas and was inducted into the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame in 2008. Now he is 50 and is having good success and a good time on the Champions Tour, where he fired a 61 last week and was among the leaders this week. Armour III fired a final-round 72 and finished in a tie for 9th.

February 13, 2010 (Las Vegas, Nevada)--Alex Cejka now lives in Las Vegas, but once lived in the Laughlin area. Cejka is one of many Las Vegas PGA Tour golfers who play and practice at Las Vegas golf courses TPC Las Vegas and TPC Summerlin, and while playing in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this weekend, had an eye towards the U.S. Open to be played at Pebble Beach in June. Cejka was one of several tour players who have strong ties to Las Vegas golf courses and the Las Vegas Golf Region playing at Pebble. LIVE RESULTS.--By Brian Hurlburt.

February 12, 2010-- (UPDATED 2/15) Charley Hoffman is a Las Vegas resident who helped lead the 1998 UNLV Golf team to the NCAA title. He is also a PGA Tour champion--Bob Hope, 2007--and is known as one of the more outgoing personalities on the PGA Tour. So it comes as not much of a surprise that he is OK with the format at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where each year celebrities become nearly as big of a story as the pros. Hoffman plays and practices at Las Vegas golf courses TPC Las Vegas and TPC Summerlin, plus works on his swing at Las Vegas' Butch Harmon School of Golf. Hoffman finished in a tie for 35th. Click for all final results.

February 1, 2010--The contingent of Las Vegas PGA Tour pros made another huge impact on the golf scene this week at the Farmers Insurance Open played at famed Torrey Pines. Three players with ties to Las Vegas golf courses finished in the top 10 behind champ Ben Crane—Alex Prugh (T5) and Rickie Fowler (T5), and Nick Watney (T9), the defending champ. But the spotlight may have shined brightest on Phil Mickelson, who made a call of distress to Las Vegas resident Butch Harmon, wound up 19th following a final-round 73. By Bill Bowman.