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Ex-Lady Warrior keeps on thriving on the golf link
by El Defensor Chieftain Reports | April 4, 2012 | Filed under: Sports Haley Raymond, a standout 2009 graduate from the Lady Warrior golf team, was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week on Thursday, March 22, after her victory at the Western New Mexico University Intercollegiate golf tournament at the University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course in Albuquerque. The tournament took place on the preceding Monday and Tuesday of that week during a veritable wind storm, but this was nothing new for...
read moreAggies Pull in 12th Place at Desert Shootout
Goodyear, Ariz. - The New Mexico State men’s golf team is currently 12th at the 2012 Desert Shootout at the 7,015-yard, par 72 Palm Valley Golf Course. The Aggies carded a team score of 5-over par, 293 in round one. “Today we had some guys that needed some experience and I was hoping the golf course would be a little easier for so these guys se we could get a little confidence but that didn’t happen,” head coach Mike Dirks said. “We seem to make the same mistakes. We aren’t setting up the holes very well...
read moreNM State Men’s golf Heads to Rice Intercollegiate
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The New Mexico State men’s golf team will play in the 2012 Rice Intercollegiate, Feb. 20-21, at the par 72, 7,184-yard Westwood Golf Club in Houston, Texas. The three-round event will consist of 54 holes on Monday, Feb. 20 and 18 holes on Tuesday, Feb. 21, with a 7:00 a.m. (MT) shot gun start each day. “I’m look for us to be in the last group in the last round with a chance to win,” head coach Mike Dirks said. “We need to start the spring off on a good foot. Our team has been playing a lot of...
read moreEx-Lobo Brigman Plays Golf With Clinton
BOGOTÃ — Albuquerque’s D.J. Brigman was cool Friday when notified that this week’s Nationwide Tour opener would be pretty special. As the chairman of the Nationwide Tour’s Player Advisory Council, Brigman was the first player offered the opportunity to play in the pro-am Wednesday with former U.S. President Bill Clinton at the Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship. “There was no hesitation. I said, ‘Absolutely, I’d love to do that,’” said the 36-year-old former University of New Mexico golfer. Then things got more intense...
read moreDesert Greens Golf Super Bowl Giveaway
Desert Greens Golf Course located on the westside is giving away a BBQ grill during the superbowl. No purchase necessary to win. Ask you Bartender about the SQUARES game for a chance to win a Round Of Golf, Range Balls, Appetizers and More! Drink specials, Food specials and prize giveaways. Your best place to spend Super Bowl Sunday. Larry Chavez – ABQ Media Partners
read moreGolf passes latest perk for lawmakers
Sometimes being a New Mexico legislator is a thankless job. But for all the headaches, the position does come with some perks. For instance, an association of golf course owners is giving each lawmaker, as well as Lt. Gov. John Sanchez, free passes that allow each holder to play one round at each of five golf courses around the state. The total cost of this gift is $28,500, according to a lobbyist report filed by The New Mexico Golf Tourism Alliance. “Really, it’s just to expose the legislators to tourism facts about golfing, what...
read moreBusy golf senior makes the grade
By Michael Warren | New Mexico Daily Lobo Last updated: 01/20/12 1:13am Getting the ball to the green and getting an “A” are one and the same for UNM men’s golf player John Catlin, a junior. He said it’s his rigorously busy schedule outside class that keeps him at peak academic performance. “I think that it’s helped me though. It keeps me more focused,” Catlin said. He is ranked fourth in the MWC and 32nd in the nation. He leads a Lobo squad looking to improve on a fifth place finish last season. “John has had a great start...
read moreNotah Begay III’s Inspirational Words at the Clinton Foundation’s Health Matters Conference
By Notah Begay III January 19, 2012 I’m a full-blooded Native American, half Navajo, a quarter San Felipe and a quarter Isleta. I’m also the first full-blooded Native American to win a golf tournament on the PGA TOUR. That’s something I’m extremely proud of. I was born and raised in Albuquerque, N.M. I grew up on a place called Ladera Golf Course. That’s where I dreamed of playing on the PGA TOUR one day. Hitting balls out there as a young kid and telling my colleagues and even some of my instructors that I was going to play the...
read moreSauer, Sieben claim 2011 New Mexico West Texas Mid-Amateur
Farmington, N.M. -Despite tough course conditions and an early morning frost delay, Mike Sauer of Albuquerque, N.M. fought off all comers and all distractions to win the 2011 New Mexico-West TexaMid-Amateur Championship. Sauer lead wire to wire following his first round 73 with a tournament low 68, holding of a charging Patrick Hanlon of Las Cruces, N.M. who shot 74 the first round and closed with a final round 68 to finish in second place by one shot. Annette Sieben of Albuquerque, N.M. was able to handle the early morning frost delay and...
read moreGolfer Has Drive to Help Native American Youth
By Simon Moya-Smith January 14, 2012 know very little—if anything—about the big-ticket game of golf. But Alexandrea “Alex” Schulte, 23, does. At the budding age of 14, the American Junior Golf Association named Schulte one of the Top 50 teenage players in the country. Schulte, of Naples, Florida, said she’s been playing the club-and-ball sport for 15 years, since she was 8. Her father, Robert Schulte, would travel across Texas with his softball team to compete in tournaments; Alexandrea, a Northern Ute, said she’d go for the...
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