This Year’s Inspirato Colorado Open is July 25 to 28 at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver
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The 2024 Inspirato Colorado Open features a world-class field of former champs, local PGA elite, and a host of young talent.
If the event organizers get their wish, they will also get three days of tournament play without a world-class hailstorm.
The Colorado Open is July 25 to 28 at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club in Denver.
The tournament is the second of the summer for the Colorado Open series. The Inspirato Colorado Women’s Open took place in late May and was stopped after the second round because of a course-crippling hailstorm. Epson Tour rookie Juliana Hung took first prize and the $100,000 check.
Turk Pettit, the 2023 Colorado Open champion, is scheduled to return to defend his title from a field that includes at least one PGA Tour major champion and a host of other former Colorado Open champs.
Pettit said in 2023 that the victory gave him renewed energy for his professional career.
“It fits perfectly,” he said. “I probably haven’t won for like two years … I’ve been working really hard to try to get one and I haven’t played great (up until now).”
Pettit was part of the initial LIV Tour 2022 season, but his contract was not renewed. He had played in some Asian Tour and Korn Ferry tournaments before last season’s Colorado Open, and won the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship.
“Colorado golf has the best state open in the country, so I wanted to come play in it,” he said. “If it’s the best I want to show up.”
The million-dollar checks received by PGA Tour players grab the attention of the golfing world. But the $100,000 first-place check for winning the men’s or women’s Inspirato Colorado Open can keep a career alive.
The tournament plays out over three days. The course, near Denver International Airport, is tuned up to be as challenging as possible – tee boxes are extended all the way back, greens are rolled and pins are tucked in corners.
This summer the already-challenging No. 16 is going to return to its former glory as a bridge that was damaged in the 2023 flooding has been repaired and the black tees will return to an island tee box deep in the tall grass.
The hole is designed with a tall stand of cottonwoods directly in the middle of the fairway, and par is usually obtained only by laying well back and popping a strong second shot over, or else lacing a stinger underneath.

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2020 Men’s Champion, Mark Angulano, recorded a championship record score of 259 (-29) over the four-day period.
Denver resident David Duval, who is having a resurgence this season on the Champion’s Tour, is slated to make his return to this year’s Inspirato Colorado Open. Through mid-June, Duval had played in 10 Champions Tour events and finished top 25 twice including a T-3 at the Principal Charity Classic.
Duval was one of the most dominant PGA Tour players of the late 1990s and won 13 times, including the 2001 Open Championship and the 1999 Players Championship.
Duval is being joined by former Inspirato Colorado Open winners including 2023 winner Turk Pettit, the 2022 winner Wil Collins, 2019’s Sam Saunders, 2015’s Jimmy Gunn of Scotland and 2013’s Zahkai Brown of Arvada. Also signed up are former PGA Tour pro Jimmy Knous and Colorado National Golf Club general manager Matt Schalk, who qualified for this year’s U.S. Senior Open.

OPEN BY THE NUMBERS
2017 – The last time a men’s champion came from Colorado. It’s been six straight seasons of a winner outside of the state.
259 – 2020 Men’s Champion, Mark Angulano, recorded a championship record score of 259 (-29) over the four-day period.
22 – There have been 22 Hole-in-Ones in the 60-year history of the men’s championship.
$162K – Wil Collins ranks first on the all-time money list for the men’s championship, with $162,734 in earnings. Collins also won the men’s championship in 2005.
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