Jon Rizzi More than 20 years ago when I was managing editor of the blueblood of society magazines, Town & Country, one of our junior copy editors came into my offi ce holding a manuscript about one of the doyennes whose lifestyle we lauded. “I have an issue,” she said. “It says that Mrs. X’s … Read more
12-Time PGA Tour champion was one of the most accurate drivers ever Wire Reports Calvin Peete, who won 12 PGA TOUR events and led the tour in driving accuracy for 10 consecutive years from 1981-90, has died in Atlanta at age 71. Following in the footsteps of Pete Brown, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder, Peete … Read more
Insights from CAG editor Jon Rizzi Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer At the risk of sounding defensive, we photographed Emily Talley in January, long before a topless Lexi Thompson muscled her way onto the cover of Golf Digest. And with all due respect to The Great One and Dustin Johnson, last year’s GD cover girl, … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer April arrives bearing gifts. The warmer weather brings the crack of the bat, the thwack of the club, the trill of the robin and the drumbeat of showers that bring May flowers. While courses across Colorado green up, a new Masters champion will slide a jacket of similar hue over … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer I love our CAGGY Awards. They represent your picks for the best in Colorado golf. This year’s winners contain a number of surprises, which you can see for yourself here. Speaking of surprises, that will be the only mention of the CAGGYs in the column. Instead, I’m going to use … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer Most golf aficionados would agree that Cherry Hills Country Club, the site of this year’s BMW Championship, epitomizes the “Golden Age of Golf Course Architecture.” Designed by Philadelphian William S. Flynn and recently restored by Tom Doak, Cherry opened in 1922, putting it near the midpoint of a quarter-century bookended … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer Admittedly, the closest I’ve come to owning a BMW is my collection of Bob Marley and the Wailers albums. The band’s initials are the same as the auto brand’s, and that coincidence conveniently allowed Marley, who partly built his legend by denouncing Western materialism, to justify his ownership of a … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer The punter? Why, when we have a team with the most prolific offense in NFL history, would we put on the cover a player whose very presence on the field represents a failure to score? Because the Denver Broncos’ Britton Colquitt scores on the golf course. His 2.2 index is … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer Time was, whenever I traveled out of state and mentioned I was from Colorado, people would ask if I skied. Now they ask if I smoke marijuana. I do ski. I don’t smoke, but I am guardedly optimistic that Colorado has pioneered a tightly regulated budding industry that’s spawning jobs, … Read more
Jon Rizzi | Colorado AvidGolfer Father’s day isn’t for two more months, but this issue’s cover story has prompted reflection about the bond golf forges between generations. I have very limited firsthand knowledge of that bond. My father, who turns 92 next month, and I have played exactly one round of golf together. It occurred … Read more
