Colorado Golf, Winter 2012

Fall Winter 2012 Departments Contents Lakota Canyon ON PAR SPOTLIGHT MEET CHRISTOPHER MCDONALD PUBLISHER’S NOTES .......................................................8 Playing a golfer on the big screen is one (very cool) way to lower your handicap .............24 ON COVER HOT GEAR PEYTON MANNING IN COLORADO DENVER GOLF EXPO 2013 On the football field, on the golf course and Gear up for a new season of possibilities in charitable work, Manning is poised to with three days of activities, lessons, deals succeed in his new state ......................................12 and giveaways ........................................................28 GOLF SHOES GET MORE STYLISH PLAY WORTHY Traditional to outrageous—there’s a shoe LAKOTA CANYON RANCH & GOLF CLUB for you ......................................................................30 GETS NEW OWNERS The course’s future is suddenly looking a lot rosier ................................................................16 MAP AND DIRECTORIES COLORADO PLAYER PROFILES ................................34 SPOTLIGHT COLORADO MAP AND GUIDES ..............................36 THE LIFE AND MIND OF DEREK TOLAN PRIVATE CLUB DIRECTORY .......................................44 Is being a well-known name on the PGA Tour in his future? He thinks so. .....................................20 Cover: Peyton Manning 25 th AnniversAry • FAll Winter 2012 • ColorAdo GolF MAGAzine 5 Fall Winter 2012 Lifestyles Contents Boca Raton Resort COLORADO GOLF LIFESTYLES COLORADO GOLF TRAVEL COSTABAJA RESORT & SPA LUXURY AUTOS Baja california Sur, Mexico .....................................56 IT’S ELECTRIC! Two automobile manufacturers, two BOCA RATON RESORT & CLUB exceptional cars .....................................................46 Palm Beach County, Flordia ..................................58 THE ST. REGIS PUNTA MITA RESORT FINE JEWELRY Punta Mita, Mexico .................................................59 THE OLYMPIC FACTOR IN JEWELRY The most ubiquitous symbol of the Olympics THE GRAND DEL MAR appears in fashion-forward jewelry, too ...............50 San Diego, California ..............................................60 JOURNEY AT PECHENGA STYLE REPORT Temecula, California ...............................................62 THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT LIVES ON IN FALL FASHIONS ZONA HOTEL & SUITES SCOTTSDALE Winning styles for men and women ....................52 Scottsdale, Arizona .................................................64 25 th AnniversAry • FAll Winter 2012 • ColorAdo GolF MAGAzine 7 september october 2012 Publisher’s notes By timothy J. Pade • [email protected] With this edition we are extremely proud to and luxury automobiles, and this issue is no exception. You exclusively feature new Denver Bronco Peyton Manning! definitely want to read our automotive expert’s review of Manning sports a 3.4 handicap and plays golf regularly in the new Tesla S electric car and the Chevy Volt starting on the offseason, including hosting his own golf tournament pg. 46 . It amazes me that the masses aren’t running to in Tennessee each year. The Peyton Manning Golf Classic replace their gasoline vehicles with these models benefits the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and showcasing extraordinary breakthrough technology in Manning’s own PeyBack Foundation, which helps automobiles. The Tesla S is a complete luxury, fully electric disadvantage youth. This future Hall-of-Fame quarterback vehicle and is absolutely the transportation of the future. does a ton of work for charity through his foundation, and This past season was tough on golf course owners and children in his new home state of Colorado will be among city managers in our state, and rounds are down due to the the beneficiaries in the years ahead. See our feature starting cost of play. We are working hard to do our part to mitigate on pg. 12 some of that cost by making the 2013 Colorado Golf Pass Along with watching exciting football this fall and the best discount program on the market. If you want both winter, residents and visitors in Colorado also have great golf and great value on the links, you owe it to yourself numerous opportunities to get out and play great golf to check it out. The new 2013 Colorado Golf Pass goes on courses. Crisp air, deep blue skies and shimmering gold sale in mid-November—and it will once again be priced at aspens make fall one of the most beautiful seasons for golf just $49.95. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to in our state. And many facilities remain open long into buy for yourself, as well as for your golfing friends and the winter months so don’t put your sticks away just yet! family members. Also in this issue we take you with us to six of the best You may not be able to play quite as often during the warm-weather vacation properties and destinations in winter months, but you can still keep up with the game the United States and Mexico, from California to Florida, you love by reading Colorado Golf Magazine. And don’t Baja to Riviera Nyarit. All of the resorts featured in our forget to mark your calendars for the annual Denver Golf comprehensive Travel Section offer many enticements Expo, Feb. 8–10. Read all about this great annual show on for vacationers, not the least of which is exceptional golf. pg. 28 , and we look forward to seeing you there. As snow blankets your home course, consider exploring these vacation hotspots, golf clubs in hand. Travel starts Warmest Regards, on pg. 56. As in every issue of Colorado Golf Magazine , we give you the latest on trends and must-buys in fashion, jewelry 8 ColorAdo GolF MAGAzine • FAll Winter 2012 • 25 th AnniversAry OLORADO OLF CFall Winter 2012 25th Anniversary vol.XXv, no. iv G magazine Editor/Publisher: TIMOTHY J. PADE Deputy Articles Editor: CHRISTINE LOOMIS Writers: AARON ATWOOD TODD HARTLEY SCOTT MARTIN 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 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 • FAll Winter 2012 • 25 th AnniversAry Photos by Denver Broncos team photography on Cover ack in 2007, the Golf Digest ranking of Top Athlete Golfers had Peyton Manning at No. 63, tied with Ahmad Rashad. Both were listed as carrying a 3.4 handicap. To put Bthat in perspective with other famous Colorado athletes, John Elway shared the No. 21 spot (with Steve Bartkowski and tennis champion Pete Sampras) with a 0.2 handicap. In 2012, other in-the-know lists of golfing athletes had Manning with a 4.6 handicap. Either way, he can play golf. He can even hold his own with the pros. In 2009, Manning paired up with his friend Tiger Woods at the Quail Hollow Championship pro-am. A golf.com article at the time quoted Woods as saying, “We don’t get a chance to do it very often with our schedules and seasons overlapping at the wrong time, so when we do get an opportunity like that, it’s fun. It’s trash talking the entire day.” No surprise there. As Manning has repeatedly shown throughout his career, he is a very serious athlete with a wicked sense of humor. Consider his appearances on Saturday Night Live and any number of TV ads in which he demonstrated the kind of self-deprecating humor that makes a superstar, well, human. And likable. That competitive-yet-humorous-and-humble attitude naturally carries over to the golf course. Perhaps the one thing Manning doesn’t joke about is his commitment to charities, especially those that benefit children in need, and he has been an unwavering supporter of several causes throughout his career. His work in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was well documented; he and his family delivered thousands of pounds of food, water, formula, diapers and other goods to families in need in the city. In 1999, he launched the PeyBack Foundation, whose stated mission is “to promote the future success of disadvantaged youth 25 th AnniversAry • FAll Winter 2012 • ColorAdo GolF MAGAzine 13 on Cover by assisting programs that provide leadership and growth opportunities for children at risk.” The foundation focuses its efforts in a three-state region in which Manning has long ties: Louisiana, where he was born; Tennessee, where he attended college; and Indiana, where he made his name in the NFL. To date, the foundation has donated more than $4.3 million to youth organizations in those states. One of Manning’s primary annual fundraising vehicles is his Peyton Manning Golf Classic, which in 2012 began benefitting the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and the PeyBack Foundation jointly. The June tournament is a four-player team swat (or best ball) and flighted by team handicaps. Manning himself joins all of the teams at various points along the way to hit a ball or two and to have his photo taken with each team so that all participants have a memento to take home.

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