July August 2013 Contents Departments River Valley Ranch Golf Club ON PAR PLAY WORTHY A SUMMER OF CHARITY: FOUR WORTHY CAUSES PUBLISHER’S NOTES .......................................................8 This summer, four Denver area charity events will provide you with an opportunity to give back .................................................................22 ON COVER SOLHEIM CUP INSTRUCTION Americans look to defend their unblemished IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD—REALLY record at home at the Colorado Golf Club .......12 One key to improving your golf is improving self-confidence and self-efficacy .........................24 GAME PLAY JOE SAKIC CELEBRITY CLASSIC GOLF MAP AND DIRECTORIES TOURNAMENT COLORADO PLAYER PROFILES ................................56 16 Years Feeding Hope for Colorado Kids ...........16 COLORADO MAP AND GUIDES ..............................58 HOT GEAR PRIVATE CLUB DIRECTORY .......................................66 GOTTA HAVE GADGET The latest on golf gear and other products you simply must have ..............................................20 Cover: Natalie Gulbis 4 ColorAdo Golf MAGAzine • July AuGust 2013 July August 2013 Contents Lifestyles Bentley GTC Speed COLORADO GOLF MOUNTAIN ESCAPES COLORADO GOLF LIFESTYLES KEYSTONE RESORT GOLF Award-winning mountain courses, luxe lodging LUXURY AUTOS and customer care offer guests “experience THE 2014 CONTINENTAL GTC of a lifetime” ........................................................... 26 SPEED CONVERTIBLE Bentley engineers an extraordinary vehicle. .......48 VAIL GOLF CLUB Public course is arguably the most scenic, undeniably the most dedicated to pace of STYLE REPORT play in the Vail Valley ............................................. 30 MAKE A SPLASH IN SUMMER SWIMWEAR There is a style that’s just right for you ..................52 FINE DINING VAIL’S INFINITE VARIETY OF SUMMER CUISINE FINE JEWELRY Top selection of restaurants to tantalize the THE HEALING POWER OF JEWELRY taste buds ................................................................ 34 Here’s a sure way to look good and feel good at the same time ..........................................54 RIVER VALLEY RANCH GOLF CLUB No attitude, just fantastic golf and food ............. 38 RAVISHING RAVENNA Southern Denver Course Sparks to Life ................ 42 6 ColorAdo Golf MAGAzine • July AuGust 2013 July August 2013 Publisher’s notes By timothy J. Pade • [email protected] With this issue of Colorado Golf Magazine , we are The Solheim Cup is one you don’t want to miss. This proud to feature the historic Solheim Cup. The Solheim international event will certainly be historic and will once is a truly prestigious stage on which the top women again put Colorado front and center in the world of golf. golfers from the United States and Europe play, and for To read more, turn to our coverage starting on pg. 12.. 2013 that stage is set here in our state. This year, with Also in this issue, we feature some amazing Colorado experiencing one of the worst fires in our restaurants in the Vail and Beaver Creek area. Of course, history, the Solheim takes on additional importance as a Vail and Edwards are also hotbeds for golf. At an altitude portion of the tournament’s June ticket sales are being of more than 8,000 feet, golf balls seem to fly forever, but donated to the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters that’s just one reason to try Colorado’s superb mountain Foundation. We hope everyone will make it out to courses. After your round, you can enjoy some of the Colorado Golf Club in Parker to watch the match-play state’s top dining spots, too. Our restaurant coverage competition, which takes place the week of Aug. 13. starts on pg. 34, and our feature on Vail Golf Club begins Colorado has a long, proud history of supporting on pg. 30. women’s golf. In 2011, it was the U. S. Women’s Open, As a publication dedicated to the golf lifestyle, we also when we watched So Yeon Ryu defeat Hee Kyung Seo in a cover fashion, jewelry, luxury automobiles and so much three-hole playoff. In fact, Colorado has played host to the more. We also continuously update our directories and U.S. Women’s Open several times. And from 1972 to club information to keep you abreast of the latest golf 1986, the Columbia Savings LPGA National Pro-Am was news. We hope you enjoy Colorado Golf Magazine , and played here, rotating through many of our great golf we look forward to seeing you out on the course. courses, including Green Gables, Rolling Hills, Pinehurst, Columbine, Lone Tree, Meridian and Glenmoor Country Club. 8 ColorAdo Golf MAGAzine • July AuGust 2013 OLORADO OLF CJuly August 2013 Vol.XXVi, no. ii G magazine Editor/Publisher: TIMOTHY J. PADE Writers: AARON ATWOOD LYNN BEASLEY MIKE CONRAD CHRIS LEWIS MATT MCKAY LISA PERRY FRANÇOISE RHODES Art Director: MICHAEL UNGER Photography: DICK DURRANCE II PAUL LESTER KEN E. MAY JOHN HENEBRY DAVID SLATER TOM TRAVIS Marketing/Promotion: TIMOTHY J. 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S ASS’N R O E F T I A R M E W R F I L C O A G National Photography Award 1st Place International Network of Golf Awards 2004, 2005 & 2008 Follow us on facebook at: facebook.com/golfmagazines Search “Colorado Golf” on facebook and become a fan for updates and golf promos Follow us on twitter at: twitter.com/coloradogolfguy 10 ColorAdo Golf MAGAzine • July AuGust 2013 By Matt McKay on Cover ears. Confusion. Second-guessing. That hot feeling that similar soul-crushing sensations while surrounded by the beauty creeps up your spine and into your brain, setting your of Parker’s Colorado Golf Club seems incongruous and hair on fire and forcing you to break out in a feverish incomprehensible to U.S. players, who have yet to fail in cup Tsweat; the realization that you’ve just made a massive competitions on U.S. soil. and uncorrectable mistake. While Munoz’s win was the match that secured the cup for the Those emotions were rampant amongst the U.S. Team Europeans, there were many more ingredients to the mix that members when Azahara Munoz dropped Angela Stanford in the baked the American’s cake. The final day started badly for the U.S. decisive match that handed the Solheim Cup back to the even before the first ball was struck; Cristie Kerr, who’d played with Europeans at Ireland’s Killeen Castle in September 2011. The 15- an inflamed wrist though the first two days of competition, 13 win was the European’s first in four competitions, and sweet determined the pain was too great to play in singles, and her match revenge for their repeat captain, Alison Nicholas. was forfeited to Karen Stupples. European Captain Liselotte Neumann and U.S. Captain Meg Mallon Alternatively, it stunned the Americans. Despite the 8-8 The Americans were also dealt a stiff setback when Paula scorline after two days of competition, the visitors felt they had one Creamer and Stacy Lewis, two of the team’s top players, lost their hand on the cup heading into singles matches, believing they had a matches to Catriona Matthew and Sophie Gustafson. Matthew clear advantage in the format. drilled Creamer 6 and 5, while Gustafson defeated Lewis, 2-up. “I think our gals played their hearts out. We couldn’t ask any The U.S. was still in position to win when a second rain delay more of them,” U.S. Captain Rosie Jones said after the fateful final gave the Europeans a chance to rally around one another. After a day of play. “Europe just played better than us in that last 35 three-way pep talk, Suzann Pettersen, Caroline Hedwall, and minutes.” Munoz each returned to the course and got results from their Players draw motivation from all manner of sources, but one matches. Pettersen made three straight birdies to rally for a 1-up thing is certain. The loss has simmered in the bellies of the win over Michelle Wie, Hedwall was 2-down with two to play but Americans like a smoldering chunk of coal for the last many came back to halve with Ryann O’Toole, and Munoz erased an months. It’s doubtless that fire, combined with an extreme early 1-down deficit to defeat Stanford, 1-up. aversion to the feelings of defeat generated by the 2011 outcome, Jones took on a boatload of criticism after the tournament for will dominate large portions of their consciousness as they the handling of the Kerr situation. However, both she and Kerr prepare for the next competition August 16-18. To experience defended their positions, saying the injury cropped up just before July AuGust 2013 • ColorAdo Golf MAGAzine 13 on Cover because Kerr was not rested the first two days, playing all four team matches. But both insisted afterward they wouldn’t have done anything different if they could do it again. “I checked with her every single match to make sure,” said Jones. “Right before, that was my last thing I did right before I submitted my pairings was to check on Cristie, because she was playing in some of the last matches, to make sure she was ready to go.