Colorado Golf Association News

Tournament recaps, player spotlights, tips, and stories from across Colorado.

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Molly McMulligan’s Fab 5

COLD WEATHER WARMERS by Susan Fornoff It’s no longer golf season in Colorado, but for many of us on the Front Range and Western Slope it is the best time

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To the Next Level

Colorado junior players formalize college golf commitments, including more than a few who are NCAA Division I-bound By Gary Baines - 11/11/2022 Junior

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Will our ‘birdie juice’ get us in trouble?

Dear Molly: My friends and I all carry birdie juice and whip out our flasks to toast birdies.

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Key Changes to the Rules of Golf Set to Take Effect in 2023

NOVEMBER 7, 2022 | LIBERTY CORNER, N.J.

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Posting, Postponed

There’s almost always a golf course open somewhere in Colorado.

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Women’s CGA Players of the Year

Leigha Devine CGA Women’s Player of the Year for second straight season; Marilyn Hardy and Kaylee Chen also earn POY honors; Grace Burke Award winners

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Men’s CGA Players of the Year

After extraordinary year, Connor Jones a shoo-in as CGA Les Fowler Player of the Year; other POY honorees include Chris Thayer, Chris Carlson, David

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Co. Golf Hall of Fame names Award Winners to be honored in 2023

Colorado Golf Hall of Fame names Connor Jones, Jennifer Kupcho, Jill McGill, Matt Schalk and Yannik Paul Golf Persons of the Year, while Madeline Bante

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Molly McMulligan’s Fab 5

FRIENDS FOR YOUR FEET by Susan Fornoff With hundreds of CGA members walking up a storm of steps for this year’s Fall Fitness Finish, this seems like a

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Colorado Golf Association enters Health/Wellness & Fitness Research Partnership with the Colorado Center for Health and Sports Science

October 26, 2022 For Immediate Release Denver, Colorado The Colorado Golf Association, the premier advocacy and membership organization for amateur

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How Do I Get a Gimme?

Dear Molly: On the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup, players are always saying "good." But in my group, nobody ever says a putt is good.

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USGA Awards 25 First Tee Chapter Grants Around the Country

OCTOBER 13, 2022 | LIBERTY CORNER, N.J.

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Delivering in a Big Way

On verge of becoming a father, Colin Prater rallies from 6 back on the final day to win CGA Mid-Amateur at Lakewood CC; Jay Livsey runner-up for 2nd

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Friendly Games

Come November, you won’t be able to post a score in Colorado.

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High Honor

2022 3A state champ Madeline Bante becomes first Coloradan since 2015 to earn USGA-AJGA Presidents’ Leadership Award By Gary Baines – 9/16/2022 For the

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Molly McMulligan's Fab 5

WONDERFUL WALKS FOR COLORADO GOLFERS by Susan Fornoff For Mark Twain, golf may well have been a good walk spoiled.

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Paying Tribute

How caddying at Columbine Country Club decades ago paved the path of a lifetime By Gary Baines - 9/7/2022 If anything teaches a newly minted teenager the

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What can I do about obnoxious music?

Dear Molly: I am getting used to hearing music from players’ carts and golf bag speakers when I play recreational golf, but it does not seem right to

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Fall Fitness 2.0

You know it’s fall in Colorado when you see the leaves changing and feel the temperature begin to drop a little more each week.

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Walking to win

Here’s your inspiration to enter the CGA’s Fall Fitness Finish by Susan Fornoff One night 30 years ago at Penn State, Suzie Frenchman started running.

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Molly McMulligan's Fab 5

GREAT GOLF MANNERS by Susan Fornoff On a media visit a few years ago, the course dispatched a stringy 20-year-old golf assistant named Tyler out to the

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2022 Hundred Hole Hike

Annually, the Colorado Golf Association participates in the Youth on Course 100-Hole Hike.

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Golf Life Navigators Partners with the CGA

(NAPLES, Fla.) – Golf Life Navigators (GLN) – the world’s only virtual marketplace to connect buyers with club communities and golf certified real estate

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I want to Move Up a Tee, But...

Dear Molly: I typically play with players who bomb the ball farther than I do, and I'd love to move up to the next tee.

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August GOLF HOME LISTINGS

Did you know, 85% of golfers in search of their future club community plan to combine the search with a golf home?

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Which tees are best?

Most golfers get this wrong.

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In a League of His Own

With win in CGA Amateur, CSU’s red-hot Connor Jones sweeps titles in 2022 CGA men’s ‘majors’; 24-under total believed to be record for the event *****For

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Bogey-free 64 Puts Jones two behind leader, davis Bryant, at CGA Amateur Championship

Connor Jones shot the low round of the day, 64, to get himself two shots behind tournament leader and Colorado State teammate, Davis Bryant.

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Incredible

12-under-par round (60) by Davis Bryant believed to be the lowest, relative to par, in the long history of the CGA Amateur By Gary Baines – 7/28/2022 The

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Molly McMulligan's Fab 5

Hot weather helpers for golfers In Colorado, summer isn’t about the humidity, it’s about the heat!

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Doubling up

Wil Collins of Albuquerque, 43, becomes 8th multiple-time winner of Colorado Open; Connor Jones finishes 3rd and breaks event’s amateur scoring record by

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Stellar Sunday in the Works?

63 by amateur Connor Jones leaves him 1 out of lead at Colorado Open, with fellow Coloradan Zahkai Brown; 2005 champ Wil Collins and Rico Hoey share top

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A Pattern Developing?

Leader Rico Hoey hopes to become 2nd native of Philippines to win a Colorado Open championship this year; 2013 winner Zahkai Brown of Golden in 2nd place

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Colorado Finishes Strong Week at 55th Pacific Coast Amateur

Team Colorado finished strong at the 2022 Pacific Coast Amateur which concluded today at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, Oregon.

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Seeing Red

4 golfers who grew up in Colorado — AJ Ott, Zahkai Brown, Jake Staiano and Chris Korte — in top 10 after ‘pretty easy’ day 1 of Colorado Open; 3 players

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