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Summer 2014 Departments Contents Cherry Hills Country Club ON PAR PLAY WORTHY FAIRWAYS & PHILANTHROPY IN ASPEN PUBLISHER’S NOTES .......................................................9 Summertime fundraisers and a spectrum of courses highlight golf in the Roaring Fork Valley ..22 GOLF IN VAIL VALLEY ON COVER Summer in Vail offers amazing multiple COLORADO WELCOMES THE BMW CHAMPIONSHIP championship golf courses ....................................26 One of the Tour’s most prestigious event will be played at Cherry Hills Country Club .........12 ROLLINGSTONE RANCH ...........................................32 JOHN ELWAY AND THE PGA TOUR The BMW Championship is coming to INSTRUCTION Colorado, in large part thanks to John Elway ....15 RED SKY GOLF ON RADAR ALERT Golf academy’s new TrackMan launch monitor GAME PLAY helps improve golf scores .......................................34 THE EVANS SCHOLARS PROGRAM REFERENCING YOUR CLUB’S SWING PATHS Caddies receive full tuition and housing costs Being aware of the correct swing paths will at 19 major U.S. universities ....................................16 help you hit a better shot .......................................36 CAN WATSON WIN ANOTHER RYDER CUP? He did it as captain in 1993 at The Belfry in MAP AND DIRECTORIES England, and the U.S. team would dearly COLORADO PLAYER PROFILES ................................56 like a repeat ............................................................18 COLORADO MAP AND GUIDES ..............................58 PRIVATE CLUB DIRECTORY .......................................66 Cover photo: John Elwy by Dane Andrew / Total Entertainment News. TEN Summer 2014 • Colorado Golf maGazine 5 Summer 2014 Lifestyles Contents Hotel Gasthof Gramshammer in Vail COLORADO GOLF LIFESTYLES FINE DINING VAIL’S GASTRONOMIC DELIGHTS Vail’s restaurants offer visitors and residents LUXURY AUTOS world-class dining experiences .............................54 MEET THE NEW BMW I8 In a word, wow!. .....................................................40 FINE JEWELRY THE FALL AND RISE OF THE TENNIS BRACELET It fell off during a tournament and launched LUXURY TRAVEL a global fashion staple ..........................................54 GOLF IN THE KINGDOM Thailand is Asia’s sweet spot for unforgettable golf vacations ................................ 44 Summer 2014 • Colorado Golf maGazine 7 Summer 2014 Publisher’s notes By Timothy J. Pade • [email protected] We are excited to distribute this issue of Colorado Golf Colorado, not the least of which was Arnold Palmer’s Magazine throughout the Rocky Mountain region! This is historic come-from-behind win at the 1960 U.S. Open, an exceptional time in Colorado with historic ramifications, which launched what came to be known as Arnie’s Army. A and there’s no better person to grace our cover than then unknown Phil Mickelson won the U.S. Amateur in Colorado’s own John Elway, president of Cherry Hills 1990, and Jack Nicklaus won the U.S. Senior Open in 1993, Country Club, Vice President of operations and General beating runner-up Tom Weiskopf by one stroke. And, of Manager of the Denver Broncos. Elway was instrumental in course, few will forget Birdie Kim’s spectacular hole out helping to bring the illustrious BMW Championship to his from the greenside bunker on No. 18 to win the 2005 U.S. home course in Colorado, and that in turn will bring the top Women’s Open by two shots. golfers in the world to the Mile High City. We will proudly welcome the PGA’s top 70 players to We can expect the top 70 players in the world as finalists Colorado in September, and expect the game to enter a in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs. Those expected to fever pitch as the BMW Championship is played along attend include Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Zach Johnson Cherry Hills’ spectacular fairways. To read more about the and Martin Kaymer, among others. They will test the tournament, please turn to pg. 12. renovated Cherry Hills Country Club course and vie for the This issue will also showcase our gorgeous Rocky $1.44 million payout. Mountain courses in both Vail and Aspen, with features on Cherry Hills Country Club has hosted 11 major pages 22 and 26. Our lifestyles section includes travel, tournaments including seven USGA championships. The luxury automobiles, jewelry, fashion, instruction and more! U.S. Open has been held at Cherry Hills three times and the Finally, our 26th season would not be complete without PGA Championship twice. Two U.S. Amateur tournaments a huge thanks to those of you who continue to support have been contested there, as have one each of the U.S. Colorado Golf Magazine . Senior Open, U.S. Senior Amateur, U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Mid-Amateur tournaments. Cherry Hills Country Club has held more historically significant golf tournaments than any other facility in Summer 2014 • Colorado Golf maGazine 9 OLORADO OLF CSummer 2014 Vol.XXVii, no. i G magazine Editor/Publisher: TIMOTHY J. PADE Writers: AARON ATWOOD TODD HARTLEY MATT MCKAY SUSANNE KEMPER CHRISTINE LOOMIS LISA PERRY ROB STANGER Art Director: MICHAEL UNGER Photography: DANE ANDREW DICK DURRANCE II PAUL LESTER KEN E. MAY JOHN HENEBRY DAVID SLATER TOM TRAVIS Marketing/Promotion: TIMOTHY J. PADE JIM CARPENTER JOYCE HENRY MARKETING PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION STEIN SWENSON BEND, OR 97702 [email protected] Colorado Golf Magazine is published under ISSN No. 1099-7776 quarterly by Pade Publishing, Inc 559 East Second Avenue, Castle Rock, Colorado 80108 All contents of this magazine are copyrighted 1987-2014 by Pade Publishing Inc., all rights reserved. Reproduction or use of the editorial or graphic content of this magazine, without permission, in any manner is prohibited.© TO SUBSCRIBE: 1 year – $19.75, 2 years – $37.50, 3 years – $55.00 Send check to: Colorado Golf Magazine, 559 East Second Avenue, Castle Rock, Colorado 80108 or visit us online at coloradogolf.com FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 303.688.5853 Colorado Golf Country©, Colorado Golf Guide©, and Colorado Golf Country USA© are all trademarks of Pade Publishing LLC. 1987-2011 Colorado Golf Magazine is a division of Pade Publishing, L.L.C. S ASS’N R O E F T I A R M W E 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 •Summer 2014 By Christine Loomis 2013 BMW Champion Zach Johnson on Cover t’s an indelible part of the FedExCup fall schedule, a for many of golf’s finest championships, and we are thrilled to have tournament that brings it all together: great golf; a terrific fan the top 70 players in the world here for the 2014 event. Our effort experience; a prestigious title sponsor; and support of a is focused on staging a top-quality event for golf fans, players, Iworthy cause, the Evans Scholarship Foundation. No wonder volunteers, our sponsor and the many corporate hospitality the BMW Championship was named the PGA Tour’s Tournament participants.” of the Year in 2013—for the second year in a row. John Elway, club president, agrees. “Cherry Hills welcomes the “On behalf of the PGA Tour, I am pleased to congratulate the opportunity to once again showcase our course and to put Denver BMW Championship for being named the best among its peers,” at the center of the golf world in September 2014,” he says. “An says Andy Pazder, PGA Tour executive vice president and chief of important component of our club’s rich heritage has been to offer a operations. “The tournament committee should be proud of the worthy venue for the world’s finest professional and amateur special recognition the event has earned for its efforts.” golfers. Hosting the 2014 BMW Championship reaffirms our Conducted by the Western Golf Association (WGA), which commitment to opening our course for competition at the highest was founded in 1899 to promote golf in the western half of the level.” United States, the tournament is premium from start to finish. PGA Tour pro Zach Johnson, who won last year at Conway “Given the caliber of the more than 40 outstanding events on the Farms Golf Club outside of Chicago, is the tournament’s defending Tour each season, it is incredibly humbling to receive this honor for champion. In 2012, the tournament was hosted by Crooked Stick Cherry Hills Country Club Hole No. 17 the second year in a row and the third time since 2008,” says Vince Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana, and won by Rory McIlroy. And in Pellegrino, the association’s senior vice president, tournaments. 2008, the first year it was honored as Tournament of the Year, the “The WGA shares this award with our title sponsor, BMW of BMW was played at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis. North America, with whom we’ve had a strong partnership for the Fans expect a high level of golf and they won’t be disappointed. last seven years.” As the FedExCup winds down in the fall, top-ranked players will be This year, the tournament comes to the Denver metro area, on hand to battle for the final points. As of this writing, the top 10 Sept. 1-7, at Cherry Hills Country Club. Colorado energy in the rankings are Jimmy Walker, Bubba Watson, Matt Kuchar, entrepreneur and philanthropist George Solich is the general chair Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Chris Kirk, Patrick Reed, Harris for the 2014 event and a stellar example of how successful the English, Brendon Todd and Kevin Na. But keep an eye on the list. scholarship program is. Changes in ranking are part of what makes the final tournaments “Serving as general chairman of the 2014 BMW so exciting. Championship is an honor and a privilege, and as a former caddie But it’s not just about golf.

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