2025 INSPIRATO COLORADO OPEN PREVIEW

2025 INSPIRATO COLORADO OPEN BRINGS OUT THE BEST

The 61st Inspirato Colorado Open is July 24 to 27 at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club and the annual tournament this summer is slated to bring some of the best young pros and amateurs to compete for the $50,000 first prize.

Winners and top finishers from the past are slated to return for the 2025 event. Registered players include 2023 winner Turk PeTtit from Louisiana, 2022 winner Wil Collins of New Mexico and 2024 runner-up Jim Knous.

The $50,000 first prize has often been enough to get the attention of pros from around the world who are not yet on one of the major tours. Registrants so far include players from Australia, Scotland, and around the country.

2024 winner Davis Bryant is playing on the DP World Tour this summer and it is not known if he plans to return to defend his title. Last year featured a final-day duel between Bryant and Knous – two Colorado natives who played collegiate golf here and have strong local followings. Bryant is at the beginning of his professional touring golf career and last year, Knous retired from full-time touring golf to work at Ping.

Bryant defeated Knous on the first hole of the sudden-death playoffs. His victory was a family affair, as he grew up on the course and his father Matt, is the director of golf for Green Valley Ranch and his mother, Julie, helps run the Inspirato Colorado Open tournament series.

A regular threat to win each year is amateur Parker Edens. Edens is a former Colorado State University player who turned pro, then re-gained his amateur status. He is now the head coach of the South Dakota State University men’s golf team and finished second overall in 2023. He was low amateur in each of the past two tournaments and is slated to return.

Many of the Colorado-based players will be determined through qualifying tournaments held throughout July.

Qualifiers Are:

-June 30 at the Univ. of Denver Golf Club -July 8 at Collindage Golf Course in Fort Collins and The Broadlands Golf Course in Broomfield.

-July 15 at Eagle Ranch Golf Course in Eagle

-July 21 at CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora.

This is the final year for the Inspirato sponsorship of the tournament series and the Colorado Open Golf Foundation is working to obtain a new lead sponsor for 2026 and beyond. With that change, the board reduced the size of the first-place prize from $100,000 to $50,000 for this year’s tournament.

The Inspirato Colorado Women’s Open, played in late May, went through the same transition and the field remained a similar collection of high-ranking pros and amateurs from around the country.

The format is 72 holes of stroke play. The top 60 finishers and ties after 36 holes of play advance to the final two rounds. Anyone who completes the final round earns a share of the prize purse!

Wil Collins (2022 Champion, Albuquerque, NM) and Turk Petit (2023 Champion, Sugar Grove, NC) have both committed to playing in the Open at the time of this publication.