Monthly Archives: June 2010

Las Vegas, Nevada (July 1, 2010)–For Las Vegas golfer Chris Riley, it was all about the numbers over the last few weeks on the PGA Tour. As in five- under par in a four hole stretch during the final round of last week’s Traveler’s Championship. As in a closing round 65 (including a 30 in […]

Las Vegas, Nevada (June 30, 2010)–Las Vegas National Golf Club has been the site for major events on the LPGA Tour, the Tournament of Champions on the PGA Tour, and was also one of the Las Vegas golf courses used when Tiger Woods earned his first PGA Tour win at the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational. […]

Las Vegas, Nevada (June 24, 2010)–Wolf Creek Golf Club has been referred to as a "fantasy course come to real life" so there is no surprise that this Las Vegas Golf Region course has become a hit with online virtual gamers. Wolf Creek, a course that is annually listed among the nation's best by major golf […]

Pebble Beach, California (June 19, 2010)–We avoided writing about Tiger Woods at the US Open until he did something on the course which was worth the time. Well, Saturday's third round turned into the Tiger Woods show, and the galleries were electrified by his back-nine 31, especially his second-shot bender into the par 5, 18th […]

Pebble Beach, California (June 19, 2010)–The place to be at the 2010 US Open Championship at Pebble Beach, besides the media center where the world's best golfers come and speak, is the Lexus hospitality tent, which is lcoated on the 18th fairway within a wedge of the green. That's where Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame member Jack Sheehan […]

Pebble Beach, California (June 18, 2010)–Day two saw Phil Mickelson, a student of Las Vegas' Butch Harmon, rocket 64 places up the leaderboard and into second place. He went 5-under par in his round. He had fans in the stands and on the actual Pebble Beach, looking up at the world's best golfer. Also, a […]

Pebble Beach, California (June 18, 2010)–Sometimes as a writer, stories just unfold in front of you and you have to take pen to paper, or in this case, fingers to keypad. That was the case on Thursday at the US Open at Pebble Beach, when we listened in as Johnny Miller, World Golf Hall-of-Famer, NBC […]

Pebble Beach, California (June 17, 2010)–Where do you start following the first round of a US Open? A golfer can't win it after round one, but one can certainly lose it. Stories abound, from Phil Mickelson shooting 76 but loving the course set up to Tiger shooting 74 but happy, to two Las Vegas golfers in […]

Pebble Beach, California (June 16, 2010)–The best player in the world is a bit worried at the moment. Phil Mickelson, who is coming off his win at The Masters, thinks the greens at Pebble Beach for the U.S. Open this week could turn out to be very severe. And Mike Davis, who set up the course […]

Las Vegas, Nevada (June 9, 2010)–The return to the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship didn’t have the finish the Rebels had hoped to achieve. UNLV finished tied for 21st with a three-day total of 15-over-par 879. But, according to UNLV coach Dwaine Knight, it was a learning process that will help the team down […]