January 3, 2008 (UPDATED JAN. 5)--Three Las Vegas golfers are in the field for the 2008 PGA Tour opener, the Mercedes Benz Championship (only 2007 champions are invited), but Adam Scott (pictured), a former UNLV golfer, isn't in the field despite winning the 2007 Shell Houston Open. Reports indicated that he cited 'exhaustion' as his reason for missing the event while Chad Campbell and Charley Hoffman (former Rebels), and Nick Watney (Henderson resident) are in Hawaii teeing it up. Watney is the leader after the first round. Click now to read how he credits Las Vegas' own Butch Harmon, and to read his official first round press conference. After Round two Watney is in fourth. Click now for Watney's second round press conference. Follow the Las Vegas golfers with LIVE SCORING now. For more ...

December 27, 2007--Las Vegas Golfer Natalie Gulbis, who lives on Reflection Bay Golf Club, one of three Las Vegas golf courses at Lake Las Vegas Resort, was once said to be the 'Anna Kournikova of the LPGA Tour' because of her looks and lack of wins. But by winning four events this year, Gulbis has done a lot to dispel that label. Her latest 'win' came when she and John Elway teamed up to win the made-for-tv ADT skills Challenge that will be televised this weekend on NBC. For more ...

December 4, 2007--The PGA Tour Qualifying School, 2007 version, was tough on Las Vegas golfers, but the good news is that one golfer who was selling sponsorships for the FRYS.com Open in 2006 will now be completely exempt on the Nationwide Tour for 2008, while others have medical exemptions, past champion exemptions, or other ways to play in PGA Tour events in an effort to get back out on the PGA Tour full-time. Bob May (pictured), a local resident, missed out by a single shot (he bogeyed 13 and 15 down the stretch of the sixth and final round) but has a minor medical exemption, while former UNLV golfer Bill Lunde--the sales guy--missed by two shots but secured his Nationwide Tour status. Jeremy Anderson, another Rebel, also missed by two shots and will spend another year playing the Nationwide Tour full-time. This year he won $186,258 and finished 29th on the Nationwide money list. Robert Gamez will use sponsor and past champion exemptions plus his status within the top 150 money earners in 2007 to earn his way back to the PGA Tour after withdrawing from the Q School with a wrist injury. Another Rebel and Vegas resident Chris Riley also missed his card and is frustrated with his state of affairs. For more ...

November 29, 2007--When Las Vegas golfer Chris Riley was at UNLV (1993-96) he became the first four-time All-American in the history of UNLV athletics. Since then he has gone on to win on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour, played on a Ryder Cup team, earned more than $8 million, lost full-time PGA Tour playing privileges, and became a father and husband. Currently, Riley is vying to get back full-time on the PGA Tour by going through Q School, and ESPN.com reporter Bob Harig spent some time with Riley during the event in an article titled, "Life of Riley has included many twists and turns". In it, Riley talks about the game of golf being a 'selfish game' and how having kids and a family made it difficult to completely focus. "This is a selfish game. Everything is me, me me," he told Harig. "Throw little kids into the equation and it's not me, me me. Don't get me wrong, having kids is the best thing that's happened. It's gone from me, me, me to all about them. But my attitude about golf started getting terrible and it snowballed." For more ...

November 28, 2007 (UPDATED NOV 29) --There are eight pro golfers with Las Vegas golf ties (and one amateur) teeing it up over the next several days in the annual PGA Tour Qualifying School in Florida, and each has a varying degree of experience and status. Combined, the group has four PGA Tour wins and earned well more than $27 million in career PGA Tour earnings (that number climbs to about $30 million if other earnings are factored). Five are former All-Americans at UNLV (Jeremy Anderson, Chris Riley, Skip Kendall, Bill Lunde and Andres Gonzales), two are former Las Vegas high school golf superstars (Scott Piercy and Robert Gamez), and one (Bob May--pictured) is a resident who is still remembered for his duel with Tiger Woods at the PGA Championsip where he lost in a playoff. But all of them are looking to gain status on the 2008 PGA Tour, or improve the status they currently have. Also, current UNLV Rebel sophomore golfer Seung Su-Han is using new rules to attempt to make it through to the PGA Tour. LIVE Q-SCHOOL SCORING ... NOW The event is six rounds and culminates Monday, December 3. For more ...

November 18, 2007 (UPDATED NOV. 19, 2007) --Natalie Gulbis, a Lake Las Vegas Resrort resident, woke up Sunday morning with a one-in-eight chance at One Million Dollars. But after a late, last-ditch effort, she managed only a runner-up finish at the ADT Championship to Lorena Ochoa, but still earned $100,000 and a great finish among the best players on the LPGA Tour. Only the best player in the world, Ochoa, was better than Gulbis over the weekend. And Tommy Arnour III, a former Las Vegas resident who graduated from Bishop Gorman High School, also woke up Sunday morning with a two-shot lead over Nick Watney at the Callaway Invitational at Pebble Beach. Watney is a new resident of Henderson, and works with the pros at the Harmon School of Golf at Las Vegas golf course Rio Secco Golf Club. Armour III fired a final-round 70 to win, while Watney had a 75 and dropped into a 9th-place tie. . For more ...

November 11, 2007 (UPDATED Nov. 12)--Veteran newspaper writer Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, most well-known for his coverage of the UNLV Rebel basketball team, had a plum assignment recently when he spent some time with Las Vegas golfer Natalie Gulbis on the putting green of Las Vegas golf course The Falls Golf Club at Lake Las Vegas Resort. Gulbis is a member of the LPGA Tour team for the Wendy's Three-Tour Challenge that is being played Tuesday on Las Vegas golf course Reflection Bay Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus design. "I love it here," Gulbis says in the LVRJ article about living at Lake Las Vegas, where she has a business arrangement to represent the three Las Vegas golf courses at the resort (the private SouthShore Golf Club is the other). "It's so beautiful here. I love the weather. The people are warm, and they embrace you. It's the perfect place for me." Gulbis finished third over the weekend in the LPGA Tour Tournament of Champions. For more ...

October 20, 2007 (UPDATED Oc. 22)--Former UNLV All-American golfer Ryan Mooreled the FRYS Electronics Open in Arizona (LIVE SCORING) after two rounds, mostly due to a tweak in his swing setup he made during the previous week's FRYS.com Open, played at Las Vegas golf courses TPC Canyons and TPC Summerlin. Moore opened with rounds of 66-63 to lead by three shots heading into the weekend rounds. Moore followed it up with a 3rd-round 71 and now is three shots in back of Carl Petterson but still feels the tweak is making a difference. He fired a final-round 72 and finished in a tie for 6th behind champion Mike Weir. "It's just honestly, just a little bit more forward press in my hands, instead of sitting back fairly neutral just getting them a little bit more forward," Moore told the media following his round. "It just kind of allowed me to take back my shoulders a little bit more and get a good, solid, set position. I mean, that's it. That's the only thing that I did." For more ...