Renee Rocco came to Southern Nevada as part of the P.J. Boatwright United States Golf Association internship program for the Southern Nevada Golf Association. In a short year, she has proven her value to SNGA leaders and is now being given more responsibility as she begins her role as Junior Golf Operations Manager for the...
At the end of June, the historic Southern Nevada Amateur will be played at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort Sun Mountain course June 29-30, 2019. The prestigious event dates back decades and some of the top players in Southern Nevada and Las Vegas golf history have won the tournament including Ed Fryatt, Brady Exber,...
Noah MacFawn (Championship), John Turk (Senior) and Al Kueker (Silver) won titles in the gross divisions of the SNGA Tour-Chimera event held May 23, 2019, at Chimera Golf Club. John Diclaro (Net), Gary Drinkhorn (Senior) and Ron Clabaugh (Silver) were the champions in the net divisions. —By Bill Bowman, Las Vegas Golf Insider staff. This...
By Tim Quinn, SNGA Handicap Chairperson How can players competing from different tee boxes be done fairly? This question comes up frequently at clubs, given the disparity in age, length, and overall skill level within most groups. Not everyone can, or wants to, play from the same tees. Fortunately, the USGA Handicap System (Section 3-5)...
The Rules of Golf are like a living, breathing document. In the history of golf, there have been changes, revisions and plenty of discussion about their overall fairness–or unfairness (depending upon what side of the ruling you are on!). During your down time–is that such a thing in this day and age?–take a moment to...
All of us golfers kind of know what a course rating is and how it can impact our handicap, or, more importanly, our friendly Nassau or club tournament result. But do we really know? With that in mind, we enlisted Southern Nevada Golf Association course rating expert Jan Hansen in a question and answer session....
As many Southern Nevada Golf Association members know, the association membership runs deep and there are golfers of all ages and levels who are members. Two of our youngest recently had success on the biggest stages in the state. Coronado High golfer Michael Sarro won the 4A individual title and Western’s Jared Smith won the...
Ronda Henderson is very well known in Southern Nevada amateur golf circles of the Southern Nevada Golf Association, Women’s Southern Nevada Golf Association and Nevada State Women’s Golf Association, but now she is making some buzz on the national scene. Henderson qualified for the U.S. Women’s Senior Open and is one of only 120 women...
It was a star-studded day at Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort for the annual U.S. Open Local Qualifier organized by the Southern Nevada Golf Association. Web.com Tour player Alex Kang, who finished 10th at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open last year, shot 65 to earn low medalist and one of five spots to move...
When Southern Nevada Golf Association member Cameron Barzekoff left to play golf on scholarship at Boise State in the fall of 2018, he had plenty on his mind. Not only did he have to ponder his adjustment from high school golf to division I college golf and living on his own for the first time,...
Boulder City–Jack Trent (Championship), John Turk (Senior) and Mark Griffin (Silver) posted victories in the gross divisions in the Boulder City Amateur played May 4-5, 2019. Allen Grant (Net), Frank Acker (Senior) and Al Kueker (Silver) came away with net titles. The event was held at Boulder Creek GC and Boulder City GC allowing players...
Pahrump, Nev.— Christy Atencio and Cheryl Burke teamed up to win the gross portion of the Nevada State Women’s Golf Association 2019 Partners Tournament held April 28-29, 2019, at Mountain Falls Golf Club in Pahrump, Nev. Kathy Johnson and Joyce Jaramillo won the net portion. The prestigious tournament, a two-person best-ball event, was scheduled for...
Christopher Viravongsa (Championship), Frank Acker (Senior) and Dave Haddock (Silver) came away with gross titles at the SNGA Tour-Aliante event April 18, 2019. Craig Goleno (Net), Anthony Becker (Senior) and Jack Schwartz (Silver) posted net victories. With solid finishes, Viravongsa, Jeffrey Gilliame, John Morella and Michael Teslenko earned qualifying spots for the Nevada State Amateur,...
Ed Fryatt (Championship), Todd Roberts (Senior) and Patrick Woerner (Silver) posted victories in the gross divisions of the 2019 Nye County Amateur held April 6-7, 2019, at Mountain Falls in Pahrump. George Wolf (Net), Gordon Schiring (Senior) and Dario Gonzalez (Silver) came away with net titles. Fryatt is the reigning 4-time SNGA player of the...
By Tim Brand, SNGA Director of Rules and Competitions In year’s past, when a player decided to take unplayable ball relief in a bunker, they had three options. While these three options still exist under the new Rules of Golf, an additional fourth option is now available. The three options that were available in the...
Yana Wilson, 12, has already won about 90 golf tournaments during her career so she was fairly relaxed heading into the 2019 Drive, Chip & Putt competition held at Augusta National as part of the Masters. Pretty heady stuff for anyone, but Wilson maintained her composure and finished with a combined score of 28 to...
