Arizona Golfers Guide Featured Course Stories

A total of 319 prizes, the most in the 25-year history of the event, will be given away at the Fiesta Bowl Million Dollar Hole-in-One presented by Fox Sports Arizona, beginning on Thursday, Nov. 5th, at the Arizona Biltmore Golf Club Driving Range.

Each day 29 prizes will be given away to the amateur golfers who nail a hole-in-one or come closest to the hole. The top three qualifiers each day, including everyone who nails a hole-in-one, will advance to the finals where they will have a chance to win $1 million, or a grand prize VIP golf trip to Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales, the site of the 2010 Ryder Cup.

Troy Matteson had a chance to win the Frys.com Open in regulation but he bogeyed the 17th and 18th holes.

Playing the same holes in reverse order in a three-way playoff, Matteson recovered from his late collapse. He birdied the second extra hole to beat Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler on Sunday at Grayhawk Golf Club for his second PGA TOUR victory.

"I just can't believe that it's ended up like this," said Matteson, who won $900,000 with his second Tour win. "I know I stumbled going down the stretch, but I'm still beside myself." The victory also rocketed Matteson up the rankings, soaring 122 places to 166th in the rankings.

While the annual overseed process is taking place throughout Greater Phoenix and Tucson, there’s no better place to golf and golf than Prescott, Arizona. Not only are the courses in pristine shape, the weather is great and the golf is FREE!

Now through Oct. 28, take advantage of the amazing promotion that 13 Prescott hotels are offering – two FREE rounds of golf for two, at Antelope Hills Golf Course. A two-night minimum stay, double occupancy is required, but the room costs just $99 per night!

Blending its colorful past as the first ever golf course in the town of Fountain Hills circa 1971 with a recently completed renovation project highlighted by a new state-of-the art irriga tion system designed to keep the course colorful for years to come, Desert Canyon Golf Club is proud of its tradition and fired up about the future.

Voted as the No. 1 public golf course in Fountain Hills and Fort McDowell for five consecutive years (2005-09) by Market Survey of America and hailed by Golf Digest as a 2008 “Must Play” course in a nationwide survey the par-71 Desert Canyon Golf Club is an atypical player-friendly desert layout that has become a local institution among golfers in the know.

Golfers from California and Nevada are about to agree with this recent quote from well-known announcer, Ben Wright. The golf icon commented not only on the grandeur of the scenery, reminding him of “his home in Scotland,” but also on the “golfing rewards” to be found on all nine courses: Carson Valley, Dayton Valley, Eagle Valley East and West, Empire Ranch, Genoa Lakes Golf Club – The Lakes & The Resort, Silver Oak and Sunridge.

Located within 35 miles of easy-to-reach Carson City, the Divine 9 seem to be transforming Nevada’s capital into the capital of year-round golf destinations. And no wonder. The area’s unique natural terrain, temperate climate and favorable elevation (at 4,600 feet, golfers can expect 10 percent more distance from their drives) have attracted some of golf’s leading course designers, including Arnold Palmer, Johnny Miller, John Harbottle and Peter Jacobsen. 

The Southwest Section PGA and the Arizona Women’s Golf Association (AWGA) have partnered with the WNBA to host “WNBA/PGA Play Golf America Day.” The event is scheduled before and during a Phoenix Mercury game at U.S. Airways Center in downtown Phoenix on August 29, 2009.