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.

The first big break for Hall of Fame golf course architect Robert Trent Jones came shortly after World War II when he teamed with the one and only Bobby Jones to create Peachtree Golf Club outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Before his death in 2000, his career culminated with the construction of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, which spans almost the entire state of Alabama.

In between, the legendary designer built about 500 golf courses in at least 40 U.S. states and nearly three dozen countries around the world. Today, his sons, Rees Jones and Robert Trent Jones Jr. carry on the family tradition of producing top-notch golf courses. The careers of Senior and his sons did overlap, but not very often.

In 1969, Junior and Senior headed west to Sedona and in the shadow of the city’s beautiful and inspiring Red Rocks they collaborated to create the breathtaking Oakcreek Country Club, one of only a handful of golf courses in the world ever designed by the father-son team.