November 13, 2007—The first thing you notice as you walk up to the driving range of the Jack Nicklaus-designed Reflection Bay Golf Club, one of three Las Vegas golf courses at Lake Las Vegas Resort, is the giant, inflatable Wendy’s Frosty that is planted at about 100 yards in the landing area. Then you watch as the PGA Tour’s Chris DiMarco warms up while trying to bounce his Titleist golf balls off of it. DiMarco is flanked by Champions Tour players Jay Haas and Fred Funk, while down the range are LPGA Tour players Morgan Pressel and Natalie Gulbis (a Lake Las Vegas resident). Already finished warming up are PGA Tour players Camillo Villegas and Bubba Watson, and Champions Tour star Nick Price. The LPGA Tour’s Christie Kerr joins the group a little bit later. All were at Lake Las Vegas Resort for a couple days of competitive golf and fun during the Wendy’s Three-Tour Challenge, but also to raise large dollars and awareness for the Dave Thomas (Wendy’s founder) Foundation for Adoption. They participated in a pro-am on Monday as did other Tour players Kirk Triplett, Lake Las Vegas Resort player Craig Barlow, Andy North and Amy Alcott. The official event, pitting the three-player teams against each other, was played today. We won’t ruin the surprise of the results because you can catch all of the action December 22-23 on ABC. For more …

November 12, 2007--Taking a page from its history, the PGA Tour announced today that Justin Timberlake has become involved with the Las Vegas PGA Tour event, so much so that the event will now be called the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals For Children Open. Timberlake becomes the 14th celebrity in history to host a PGA Tour event, and joins the likes of Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. as those with close ties to the PGA Tour. The move, rumored for several weeks, is a way to continue to infuse new life into an event that has struggled to gain fans, especially now that it is a part of the Fall Series. Timberlake will play in a celebrity pro-am on Wednesday in addition to hosting a concert during tournament week. Timberlake is well-known for several things, among them bringing 'Sexy Back' in addition to winning both Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award. The Shriners also recently secured the title sponsorship of the event through 2012. The agreement with Timberlake also runs through 2012. Tournament week at Las Vegas golf course TPC Summerlin will be October 13-19, 2008. For more ...

November 10, 2007--The UNLV men's golf team shot a final-round 13-under-par 275 and finished in a tie for fourth place on Wednesday at the Turtle Bay Intercollegiate played at Turtle Bay Resort. Tennessee led wire-to-wire and won the tournament at 64-under 800 after a final-round 27-under 261. UC Irvine finished second, 21 shots back at 43-under. UT-Arlington finished third at 41-under, while Saint Mary's, UNLV and Charleston all tied for fourth at 35-under 829. The home Las Vegas golf course for UNLV is the exclusive and private Southern Highlands Golf Club, the last co-design of the father and son due ot Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and Sr. The Rebels also have access to many other Las Vegas golf courses including Rio Secco Golf Club, Cascata, Las Vegas Country Club, TPC Canyons and many others.

November 7, 2007--UNLV freshman Therese Koelbaek earned the first medalist honors of her career, winning the USF/Richmond Country Club Invitational on Tuesday and helping the Rebels to a third-place finish at the event. The win comes in just the fifth tournament of Koelbaek’s career, and she used a strong final round of two-under 69 to close with a three-round score of 215 (75-71-69, +2). Koelbaek is the eighth Rebel to win a tournament and she is also the fifth freshman to do so. Koelback is a member of the three-person Denmark National team and was a member of their national junior team. The Lady Rebels play and practice at many of the best Las Vegas golf courses. For more ...

November 3, 2007--Lake Las Vegas Resort is a true golf oasis in the middle of the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas. There are two championship Las Vegas golf courses, Reflection Bay Golf Club and The Falls Golf Club, and a private Las Vegas golf course, SouthShore Golf Club, in addition to resorts, upscale residential living, casinos, shopping, dining, yachting, entertainment and just about anything else you need for a terrific Las Vegas golf vacation. And now LINKS Magazine has recoginized Lake Las Vegas Resort as a Top 100 Premier Golf Property in its 2007-08 Premier Properties Guide Special Issue. The magazine refers to the special story as their annual guide to the best golf communities, and thousands of are eligible. The intro reads, "There are thousands of golf communities in the U.S., but only the best are selected for inclusion in LINKS Magazine's 'America's 100 Premier Properties', the original, most comprehensive and most authoritative guide to golf real estate." For more ...

October 31, 2007--It seems like just yesterday that Rio Secco Golf Club burst onto the scene and quickly became one of the best Las Vegas golf courses, both in quality and by buzz created by those that played or practiced at the course. This Las Vegas golf course, designed by the legendary and award-winning architect Rees Jones, is the home of the Butch Harmon School of Golf, where the best in the game hone their skills, and to 18 holes of dazzling Las Vegas golf holes that dance through the native desert. Holes play on top of plateaus, in canyons, and over ravines, and nearly each hole at Rio Secco Golf Club will leave an indelible impression on a golfer's mind or soul. In 2007, Rio Secco Golf Club celebrates its 10th anniversary, and provides the opportunity to remember some of the names that have visited these hallowed Las Vegas golf grounds including Tiger Woods, Harmon, Jones, Natalie Gulbis, Adam Scott, Charles Barkley, Kevin James, Lee Westwood, Charley Hoffman, Se Ri Pak, Fred Couples, Tito Ortiz and too many more to mention. For more ...

October 29, 2007--Junior golf in Southern Nevada and Las Vegas has a very long and rich history, and there are many people associated with the sport that could be deemed worthy of induction into the inaugural class of the Southern Nevada Junior Golf Hall of Fame. Recently, the first two members--LPGA Tour player and former junior golfer Stephanie Louden and benefactor and Champions Tour player Jim Colbert--were inducted. The induction ceremony was a part of the annual Danny Gans Partee Fore Kids fundraiser for the First Tee of Southern Nevada and the Danny Gans Junior Golf Academy. "It is the honor of The First Tee of Southern Nevada, operators of the Southern Nevada Junior Golf Tour, to induct Stephanie Louden and Jim Colbert into the inaugural class of the Southern Nevada Junior Golf Hall of Fame," said president Larry Lindholm. "What we want to accomplish with the Hall of Fame is to recognize and honor the historic past of Southern Nevada junior golf while bringing positive awareness to the present and future. With Jim and Stephanie, you have two people who have been tremendous both on and off the golf course, and embody everything that junior golf is all about, and they are very worthy to be our first honorees." For more ...

October 17, 2007--Alex Borcherts defeated Coronado's Bethany Glassford on the second hole of a playoff to earn the Nevada State 4a golf title competed at Canyon Gate Country Club this week. Borcherts and Glassford posted 160 totals for the two-day event. Sliverado finished ahead of Douglass and third-place finisher Green Valley, a perennial power house. "I've been in a lot of playoffs before. I actually won a seventh-hole playoff in a USGA event, so I have experience. I think that really helped me," Borcherts told the Review-Journal following the win. "And to have my whole team here and to have my whole family here was really good to me, because I just had that extra push, extra help."

October 15, 2007--FRYS.com, according to 2007 tournament chairman Gary Davis, helped save the PGA Tour in Las Vegas, but after two years, they are leaving as title sponsor, handing the reigns to the Shriners, who this year took over as the host organization. The Shriners are self-described as one of the "biggest secrets" in philanthropy, and have created a new branding and PR campaign moving forward, and working with Las Vegas and the PGA Tour is a spring board for those efforts. The Shriners operate 22 hospitals worldwide, and have an annual operating budget of more than $700 million that will soon become about a billion dollars. The funds are generated from an endowment, and the Shriners are always seeking new benefactors. And the golf demographic is a perfect fit according to Ralph W. Semb, Chairman, Board of Trustees for Shriners Hospitals for Children. The new name of the event will be the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and the event will be played the week of October 6-12, 2008. The agreement gaurantees the event to be in Las Vegas through 2012 and played at Las Vegas golf course TPC Summerlin. For more and complete press conference transcript ...