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Close to 20 Class of 2026 Colorado junior golfers headed for NCAA Div. I programs as early signing period begins

Coloradan Davis Bryant regains preferred DP World Tour status with another top-10 finish in final stage of Q-school

Quick-rising CU junior Carolyn Fuller wins CGA Women’s Player of the Year award, while Kris Franklin earns Senior POY honors for 6th time, and Ella Scott named top girls competitor

Quite a few Colorado golf instructors included in recent national/international top teachers lists

In ever-so-tight points race, Charlie Tucker becomes latest CSU golfer to earn CGA open-age player of the year honors; other men’s POYs: Colin Prater, Richard Bradsby, David Delich and Ash Edwards

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Coloradans Mitch Savage and Josh Troyer included in Global Golf Post’s inaugural class of up-and-comers in American golf industry

Meet the 2026 Team Colorado!

Longtime Colorado Springs resident Judy Bell, the first female president of the USGA and a World Golf Hall of Famer — and a character, to boot — passes away at age 89

Colorado native, former DU coach and current Kansas coach Lindsay Kuhle among most respected coaches in women’s golf, according to survey

Coloradan Matt Schalk qualifies for another senior major with top-15 finish at national Senior PGA Professional Championship; former Aspen resident Justin Leonard posts third straight top-5 showing on senior tour

Denver’s Joe Buchholz captures National Lefthanded Golf Championship, edging 3-time champ

Former Colorado Christian University golfer Sangha Park and ex-northern Colorado resident Dan Erickson advance to stage 2 of Q-school; meanwhile, Aurora’s Davis Bryant opts to focus on European-based tours

Kevin Stadler, Ella McLaughlin voted into Colorado Golf Hall of Fame; Kevin will join dad Craig and Ella her husband ‘Mac’ as inductees; various honors will go to 7 others 

Geoff Keffer wins Colorado PGA Dow Finsterwald Player of the Year honor for record-extending 10th time; other Section POYs: Matt Schalk (Senior), Ashley Tait-Wengert (Women) and Andy Connell (Associate)

Former Aspenite Justin Leonard eagles final hole to notch his second victory of 2025 PGA Tour Champions season

Pueblo’s own Jimmy Makloski gets a kick out of winning CGA Mid-Amateur at his home course; he edges 2025 CGA Match Play champ Colin Prater by 1

Former CU golfer Sabrina Iqbal qualifies for final stage of LPGA Tour Q-Series

Coloradans Griffin Barela and Jake Staiano, and former local college players Justin Biwer, John Sand and Gunnar Broin advance to 2nd stage of PGA Tour Q-school

Choosing a hat can be a real headache with Colorado’s crazy conditions. What Tam would survive in any or all of them?

Coloradan Timbre Shehee of UNC keeps streak of top-10 finishes intact with another runner-up showing; first official college golf rankings of season released, with several Colorado-based teams in national top 50

Another big-time golf event set for the Centennial State as 2030 U.S. Junior Amateur coming to Colorado Golf Club, which will serve as the primary host for its second USGA championship

Regis Jesuit/DU grad Chris Korte easily advances at Q-school with third-place showing; Chris DiMarco narrowly makes PGA Tour Champions playoffs, while Brandt Jobe just misses out

George Solich, a very prominent member of Colorado golf community in recent decades, set to be inducted into another hall of fame, this time the Colorado Business Hall of Fame

With narrow team victory, Colorado PGA pros take lead over CGA amateurs in all-time series at Western Colorado Cup Matches

Zach Gomez wins CGA Mid-Amateur Match Play in style, at Cherry Hills CC; it’s Westminster resident’s first CGA championship

Miles Kuhl claims 5A state title as Fairview golfers go 1-2; seniors sweep as Hunter Simmons (4A), Nicholas Brooks (3A) and Noah Pearson (2A) also win

A day after defeating stroke-play co-medalist, Coloradan Kirsty Hodgkins-Redner ousted at U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

Ash Edwards (65 in 5A), Nicholas Brooks (66 in 3A), Joey Banks (69 in 2A) and 3 golfers (70 in 4A) lead at halfway point of boys state high school tournaments

Coloradan Kirsty Hodgkins-Redner survives playoff to make match play, then takes down a stroke-play co-medalist at U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur; Hannah Wood’s big rally falls just short

Former U.S. Women’s Open qualifier — and 2014 CGA Women’s Stroke Play champ — Hannah Wood advances to match play at U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

3 Coloradans — Sophia Eagan, Shepherd Choi and Peyton Landon — are Augusta-bound after qualifying for 2026 Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals

Notes and quotes as Colorado Golf Hall of Fame inducts its 52nd class; Tom Apple, Rollie Cahalane, Lance Johnson, Jon Lindstrom and Robert Polk enshrined with 290 in attendance

Very strong senior class set to bid adieu to high school golf as 4 boys state tournaments on tap Monday and Tuesday

Bella Ridge Golf Club in Johnstown, a daily-fee public facility, opens for ‘limited preview play’ on Oct. 6

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One year after nearly finishing last, Kennedy/Fitzsimmons WGA wins their first CGA Women’s Club Team title

Folks at Rodeo Dunes hope prairie links golf, not unlike that at Ballyneal and Sand Hills, will be a ‘Dream’ come true; first course at rural Colorado site just off I-76 nearing completion

By a single stroke this time, CU men finish runner-up at their own Mark Simpson Invite for fourth straight year; elsewhere, UNC’s Timbre Shehee notches another top-10 showing

Colorado native Griffin Barela posts his 2nd top-6 showing in the last 3 weeks on PGA Tour Americas; Fort Collins’ Dillon Stewart narrowly misses earning 2026 Korn Ferry Tour card via season-long points

Zack Holton, 50-year-old Kelly Rudney claim long drive World Championship titles in Colorado, with Holton winning for third time in LaSalle; overall, longest drives travel 486 yards (men) and 413 (women); Coloradan Monica Lieving runner-up in Women’s Division

2 Colorado natives — Lauren (Lehigh) Dickey and Katherine Hollern — among those who advance from LPGA Pre-Qualifying; former CCU standout Xavier Bighaus breezes through PGA Tour Pre-Qual event

Influential Colorado ‘Golf Professional of the Century’ Vic Kline — who made a considerable impact for Colorado PGA, at Indian Tree and on golf in general in the state — passes away at 90

Janet Hopkins and Patricia Lopez of Lakewood hang on to their first round lead to claim the Championship Flight title at Ironbridge GC

CU women end 8-year drought as they claim team title at rain-shortened Ptarmigan Ram Classic, where Coloradan Brenna Higgins posts top-10 individual showing; Colorado Mesa men make it 2 team wins in 2 tournaments

With long drive World Championships set for Colorado this weekend, can the 500-yard milestone be reached?

UNC newcomer Kaelen Dulany claims individual title at Gene Miranda Falcon Invite after final-round 64 at Eisenhower GC

2-time CO Women’s Open champ Becca Huffer records best Epson Tour finish in almost 2 years; Kyle Westmoreland notches top-10 on Korn Ferry circuit; Justin Leonard continues hot run on Champions Tour

Kent and Steven Moore ride a big first-round lead to the finish line, earning their second CGA Parent-Child Championship title in four years.

Former CU teammates Justin Biwer and Dylan McDermott finish 1-2 in a PGA Tour Q-school ‘Pre-Qualifying’ tourney; Castle Rock’s Collin Engelhardt also advances to ‘First Stage’

Geoff Keffer joins 3-time-champions club with runaway victory in Colorado PGA Professional Championship