Local Tour Roundup
Former Aspen resident Justin Leonard runner-up in a senior major, Fort Collins’ Dillon Stewart notches another top-10 on PGA Tour Americas, and Wyndham Clark stays hot on PGA Tour
Archive
Walk-Off Winner
Colorado native Jim Knous soars to victory in Colorado Open with 69-yard hole-out for eagle in playoff; his 62 in regulation is lowest final round by champ in tourney history; Charlie Tucker takes low-am honors
Seeing Red
Sam Saunders, a former champ who once shot 60 at the Colorado Open, vaults into lead with 3rd-round 63; 2024 runner-up Jim Knous and former CU golfer Tucker Clark also go low to stay in the hunt
Halfway Home
Regis, DU alum Chris Korte leads by 2 at Colorado Open and hopes to go the distance; ex-champ Zahkai Brown vaults into contention with 62 and shares 3rd place with 2024 winner Davis Bryant
Gearing Up at GVR
Amateurs Jimmy Makloski of Pueblo and DU’s Willis Panzarello among leaders after day 1 of Colorado Open; 2-time champ/part-time player Derek Tolan and Connor Jones also very much in the mix
2025 CGA State Junior (9u, 11u, 13u)
Boys and Girls champions crowned in 3 different age groups at the CGA State Junior Championship
End of the Road
After ending U.S. Junior Amateur match-play drought for Coloradans, Nicholas Brooks falls in round of 64 to a 2024 quarterfinalist; meanwhile, Hadley Ashton, Alexander Kukreja claim CO PGA Junior Match Play titles
Junior Achievement
Parker’s Nicholas Brooks ends long drought for Coloradans by making match play at U.S. Junior Am; Coloradans Tyler Long and Henry Starr post top-10 finishes in PGA High School Golf National Invitational
‘The Legend’
Multiple-time Hall of Fame inductee Joan Birkland — who made a lasting impression with her sports prowess, volunteerism and the Sportswomen of Colorado — is the subject of a new documentary film
Major Lows & Highs
After 2 majors he’d rather forget — for reasons of his own making — Denver native Wyndham Clark rides stellar final 3 days to 4th-place finish at British Open; afterward, he apologizes again for Oakmont and vows temper-related incidents are ‘not going to happen again’