As Club Manager of The Loxahatchee Club, Michael A. Chase, Jr., is so dedicated to his craft that he’ll put serving members over attending dinners held in his own honor—and that’s why he’s earned Rising Star recognition, as part of the 2012 Excellence in Club Management Awards.
More than 6,000 spectators will attend the annual Hootie & The Blowfish Celebrity Pro-Am at Dye Club at Barefoot Resort on April 15, the golf marketing cooperative for the Grand Strand region announced. The event is the largest one-day charity function in South Carolina and raises money for state education and the Junior Golf Foundation.
We Are Golf, a coalition of the game’s leading associations and industry partners, will meet with members of Congress to share information and new data about golf’s diverse businesses, employees, tax revenue creation, tourism and charitable benefits, and environmental leadership.
More than 6,000 spectators will attend the annual Hootie & The Blowfish Celebrity Pro-Am at Dye Club at Barefoot Resort on April 15, the golf marketing cooperative for the Grand Strand region announced. The event is the largest one-day charity function in South Carolina and raises money for state education and the Junior Golf Foundation.
Gene Sarazen’s “shot heard ‘round the world” at Augusta National in 1935 led Americans to start referring to “double eagles”—a term the rest of the golf world has never embraced because of its inaccuracy. “It’s not really a double eagle, it’s an eagle-and-a-half,” notes Australian pro Geoff Ogilvy.
The 2012 Masters Tournament winner drew criticism both for the high-calorie content and blandness of his menu choices for this year’s dinner for previous champions. “The McDonald’s Value Menu has more surprises,” said one critic of the dinner, which featured mac and cheese and confetti cake with vanilla ice cream.
A home surveillance video captured the thief tripping and rolling down a residential driveway in Phoenix, after he lost his balance carrying a bag of PING clubs he’d stolen from a garage. “We played [the tape] and I said, ‘Awesome—there is justice in the world,’ “ the homeowner said.
The Hawaiian property plans to reopen in the first quarter of 2014 after a multimillion-dollar project design to upgrade the 18-hole golf course with “design elements true to the natural beauty of Makena.”
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