The Colorado Golf Association has promoted the sport of golf for the better part of a century, expanding its role as the years have passed.
Now the organization is taking another step, becoming a go-to source for news, analysis and a wide variety of other stories regarding golf in Colorado. Starting with this column and for the foreseeable future, the shared web site of the CGA and the Colorado Women’s Golf Association (Cogolf.org) will prominently feature such coverage under the heading “Colorado Golf Journal.”
It was a year ago this month that I launched a web site devoted to news and views about golf in this state. And with CGA leadership and myself having many of the same goals, we’ve agreed to join forces, with archived material from my web site being folded into Cogolf.org, and new stories appearing exclusively on the CGA site.
Hopefully, it’ll be a winning combination for Colorado golfers and fans of golf in this state.
What can readers expect to see? Though there will be plenty of coverage devoted to CGA-related topics, it’ll go far beyond that. We’ll cover golf news and tournaments from prep to college and amateur to pro, address trends in the game, write about new and existing courses, regularly follow local tour players, profile interesting people in the game, and provide commentary. Basically, it’s all fair game, as long as it’s related to Colorado golf. We’ll also provide results of major tournaments, both those run by the CGA and other major organizations.
In covering golf in Colorado for the last 26 years, I’ve gotten to know many fascinating and notable people in the game. But for those of you I don’t know, let me briefly introduce myself.
I’ve been a professional sports journalist since 1982, a year before I graduated from the University of Colorado. I caddied and was the caddiemaster at Columbine Country Club in Littleton, and was fortunate to earn an Eisenhower-Evans Caddie Scholarship to CU. During my years at Columbine, the head professional there, Tony Novitsky, was nice enough to offer me the chance to caddie for Jack Nicklaus in an exhibition Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Dow Finsterwald played at Denver’s Pinehurst Country Club. I seem to make the stories from that day better with each passing year.
As a sports writer at the (Boulder) Daily Camera newspaper for 20 years, and as the sports editor there for another 5½, I had the pleasure of writing about golf on a regular basis. I’ve reported from all 21 International PGA Tour events held in Castle Rock, every Colorado Open since 1983, and annual tour stops in the state by the LPGA and Senior circuits in the 1980s. Over the years, I’ve been honored to receive golf journalism awards from the Colorado Open, Colorado Section PGA and three from the CGA. I serve on the selection boards for both the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame and the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed writing more than a thousand stories about Colorado golf during my career, but there are many, many more left to be told. Hopefully we’ll enjoy them together for years to come on Cogolf.org.
I look forward to it.
