The Golf Club at Johnson Ranch in San Tan Valley was designed by Kenny Watkins and built in 1997. Watkins is a little-known golf course architect who also designed Golf Club at Oasis in Florence (AZ) in 1999. As you might imagine, San Tan Valley is about the last place I ever expected to be teeing up my golf …
A few of my 4th Semester classmates got jobs working out at TPC Scottsdale partway through their enrollment at the Golf Academy. Seeing them come to school wearing their blue Nike golf shirts featuring the white TPC Scottsdale logo on the chest was like a status symbol. Even though it was a work uniform for them, we all knew …
Torrey Pines opened in 1957, the brainchild of legendary golf course architect William F. Bell (Dell Urich Golf Course in Tucson) on the site of Camp Callan, a naval training center during World War II. While Bell’s father, William P. Bell, sometimes get credit as an original architect on the project, in fact he’d been dead for …
The second of the two golf courses at El Conquistador Golf Resort is the Conquistador Course. It was designed by Greg Nash and Jeff Hardin and opened in 1982, three years before the Canada Course. Usually this is where I write a little bit about the history of the course, but because I covered the backstory …
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This weekend, the Golf Academy Club Golf Team is down in Oro Valley just outside Tucson for the National Collegiate Club Golf Association (NCCGA) Desert Regional Tournament at El Conquistador Golf Resort. The school has participated in three NCCGA events since March of last year, and because students have to qualify for the eight-man team each …