We are looking for volunteers to help at the USOC FLAME program on Thursday, July 27, 2017, at the Club at Flying Horse from 3:00p to 6:00p. The program will include four stations for students: Full Swing, Chipping, Putting and Career Development.

The West Chapter Stroke Play Championship is coming up on Monday, August 7, 2017 at Eagle Ranch Golf Course. The event is open to all Colorado PGA members and apprentices in good standing.

A dozen spots are still available in the afternoon shotgun start at the Club at Pradera Pro Am set for Monday, July 24, 2017. Format for the team competition is a One Low Gross/One Low Net Shamble. The deadline has been extended until 5:00pm today, Thursday, July 20, 2017.

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Dan O'Shaughnessy, PGA head professional at Meadow Hills Golf Course won the 2017 Pro Lady at Indian Peaks GC after posting an 8-under-par 64. Rick Cole, PGA head professional at Eaton Country Club finished in second place, one stroke back at 7-under-par 65.

Registration for the Colorado Senior PGA Professional Championship is now open! The event, open to all PGA Members 50 years of age and older as of Sept. 28, 2017, will be held at Valley Country Club, Aug. 14-15, 2017. The deadline to register is Wednesday, July 26, 2017!

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Results are coming in daily for the 2017 Match Play Championship as the round robin match play round is nearing an end on Monday, July 31. For those of you that have completed matches but not reported your match results, please be sure to send them to Justin Limon, PGA ([email protected]) as soon as possible.

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The Colorado PGA's Women's Championship will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 22-23, at The Golf Club at Ravenna. The championship is open to all female PGA and LPGA members in good standing whom reside or work within the Colorado Section boundaries. 

If the essential role of a golf pro is to give someone direction and then let them flourish, then it was only natural that Darrell Kestner should be named PGA of America Professional of the Year for 2017. People who know him say he could have won the award just about any year.

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The 2017 PGA Fashion and Demo Experience is being held Aug. 14-16 at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, Las Veges. 

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The Broadmoor Golf Club hosted a kickoff event Tuesday in advance of the 2018 U.S. Senior Open coming to Colorado Springs next summer.  The tournament will start June 28 and last through July 1.  Broncos General Manager John Elway will serve as the tournament's honorary chairman.  The tournament is currently accepting applications for volunteers  to help out for the event. 

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On Tuesday, the City of Denver released the negotiated terms for allowing festival organizer Superfly Productions, the promoter behind Outside Lands and Bonnaroo, two of the country's larger music events, to hold a large-scale music festival at Overland Park,  a city-owned golf course in Denver's Ruby Hill neighborhood.

In her second straight year of competing at the U.S. Women's Open, Jennifer Kupcho of Westminster proved to be a quick learner on the biggest stage in women's golf.

 

Not only did the 20-year-old reach her goal of making the cut at the most prestigious women's tournament, but she finished the No. 2 amateur in the field at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J.

Brandt Jobe recorded another stellar showing in a senior major, but he didn't leave the course smiling on Sunday.  The Colorado Golf Hall of Famer tied for second on Sunday at the Constellation Senior Players Championship in Baltimore. The former Coloradan has clearly become one of the top players on the PGA Tour Champions circuit. In nine senior majors since turning 50 two years ago, Jobe owns five top-five performances and six top-10s. He was third two weeks ago in the U.S. Senior Open. 

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Your help in understanding yips, its causes and the techniques/interventions used to treat yips is needed. If you are an applied sport psychology professional who does consulting work or a golf professional who teaches or plays professionally, please consider participating in a short survey. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and participation is voluntary. 

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From a Colorado perspective, the Junior America's Cup competitions have rightfully gained additional attention in recent years. 

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Davis Bryant of Aurora continued his strong play by shooting an even-par 71 in Monday's opening round of stroke play at the U.S. Junior Amateur at Flint Hills National Golf Club in Andover, Kan., just east of Wichita.

Bryant, winner of the first two majors of the Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado's 2017 season, shares 30th place with one round remaining in stroke play. The 17-year-old, who has verbally committed to play his college golf at Colorado State University beginning in 2018, made two birdies and two bogeys on Monday.

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