Golf By Numbers: Spring Issue

Colorado AvidGolfer

25 Colorado courses – including the members-only Club at Flying Horse (pictured above), Roaring Fork Club and Fort Collins Country Club – were among the 686 from around the country donating 805 rounds last year to Rounds4Research, an online auction to support areas of research grants, education programs, scholarships and awareness of golf’s environmental efforts. More courses are expected to participate in this year’s online auction, which will take place April 1-10, with more courses and more opportunities to give back to the game you love. Sponsored locally by the Rocky Mountain Environmental Golf Institute (RMEGI)—the philanthropic organization of the Rocky Mountain Golf Course Superintendents Association of America—the program funds research to ensure your course’s conditions are the best they can be. More info: rounds4research.com

100 holes of golf in five hours? Not even legendary speed-golfer George H. W. Bush could manage that. But the board members of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame will accomplish the feat during its first 100-hole Golf Marathon at The Greg Mastriona Golf Courses at Hyland Hills in Westminster on March 31. Teams are being formed for the ProFund fun fundraiser—the first of its kind in Colorado—that will benefit the Hall and its mission to preserve Colorado golf history and perpetuate the game through investment and involvement in youth golf. For information, contact Gary Potter at [email protected]

11 oung men and women successfully interviewed on January 21 at Colorado Golf Club for a Chick Evans Scholarship for Caddies. Individually fielding questions from the 100-person selection committee, these bright-eyed finalists shared incredible stories of hard work and character as they recalled their experiences as “loopers” in clubs throughout Colorado. Their diligence will result in full, four-year tuition and housing college scholarships at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where they will join fellow scholars who live in the recently renovated Evans Scholars House. Administered by the Western Golf Association, the Evans Scholars Foundation currently serves 53 students at the Eisenhower Chapter in Boulder and 441 alumni since the chapter opened in 1967. The finalists receiving awards were: Sarah Baines (Boulder Country Club), Sydney Bates (Columbine Country Club), Drew Biskner (Castle Pines Golf Club), Nicole Blizzard (Maroon Creek Club), Benjamin Kohut (Broadmoor Golf Club), Alexander Nelson (Ballyneal Golf & Hunt Club), Tara O’Gorman and Henock Solomon (Cherry Hills Country Club), Cole Ossian and Charles Smith (Denver Country Club) and Reilly Richards (Lakewood Country Club). Locally, the Colorado Golf Association and the Colorado Golf Foundation work to support caddies in an effort to put more young men and women on the path to an Evans Scholarship.

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