I thought we came up with a pretty good list of the world’s best bunker players in Advanced Elements of the Short Game: Tiger Woods (he’s not good at much of anything now), Jordan Spieth, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros (who credited growing up along the beach in Spain for his amazing sand game), Tom Kite, Chi-Chi […]
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Todd Sones is one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers in America and has been a Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor every year since 1995. He also serves on the Golf Academy of America’s National Advisory Board and runs a golf school outside Chicago. This is a note from Todd’s most recent mailer that I thought I
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The land upon which Dobson Ranch Golf Course was built dates back to 1886 when Wilson Wesley Dobson emigrated to Arizona from Canada. Dobson chose wisely. As many as 20,000 head of cattle once roamed the land that is now Baseline Road, what many considered to be some of the best land in the state.
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Information on the history of Longbow Golf Club in north Mesa is a little hard to come by. The course website says the course was originally designed by Ken Kavanaugh (who also designed The Resort at Gold Canyon and Dell Urich in Tucson), but that it reopened in the fall of 2003 following a complete renovation and
This morning, several of my Golf Academy classmates and I volunteered at the Junior Golf Association of Arizona’s Mesa City Junior Championship at Dobson Ranch. This is the same course where I used to go to practice when I took Introduction to Golf at Arizona State in the late 1990s. For whatever reason, we never had
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