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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I’ve said several times since I started blogging in January of this year that my wife, Zoë, is the main reason why I’m able to attend the Golf Academy of America and pursue my dream. Today in Verbal Communication Skills, I delivered the second of four types of speeches I have to give throughout the semester, an informative speech about
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My favorite thing about the Golf Academy so far has been the outdoor Skills Development sessions we’ve had with PGA Professional Jay Friedman. This morning, my Advanced Elements of the Short Game class met at Ken McDonald Golf Course in Tempe for a hands-on discussion of the pitch shots we recently covered in Scoring With Pitching –
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