By Bruce Meadows April 2021 Tiger Woods takes on Peter Hay . . . The Peter Hay short course at Pebble Beach Golf Links has taken on a new look, and here is how Golf Digest describes it: “Pebble Beach has announced the opening date of…
By Bruce Meadows March 2021 Some years better than others . . . Some years are worth remembering for good reasons. Others, well, for reasons not so good. For the Sonoma State men’s golf team, 2009 was a very good year,…
By Bruce Meadows March 2021 Taking golf to the ‘Next Level’ Greg Anderson has been involved in a lot of aspects of the game of golf in his life. And now he’s added a new one: “Next Level Golf and Fitness.” Greg most recently operated…
By Bruce Meadows February 2021 BV: To be or not to be ??? As a number of concerned citizens – not all of them golfers – have expressed their opinions on the possible closure and “repurposing” of Bennett Valley Golf Course, it’s become apparent that this has already become a hot…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that youth sports can finally be played in the golden state starting next Friday. 27 counties qualify right now in the state’s threshold for allowing youth sports. Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino and Napa counties all qualify to begin youth sports on February 26. With case rates between seven and 14…
By Bruce Meadows February 2021 What’s to become of BV ??? Bennett Valley Golf Course, the only truly public 18-hole course in Santa Rosa, is being considered for closure by the Santa Rosa City Council. There is a long way to go before the course is indeed closed…
By Bruce Meadows February 2021 What’s ahead for Bennett Valley GC? Bennett Valley Golf Course has been open to the public since 1970, but if some people have their way, it may not be open that much longer. The City of Santa Rosa is planning to pay $150,000 for a consultant to…
By Bruce Meadows January 2021 Good bye, 2020, hello 2021 . . . Happy New Year !!! This past year has been memorable, mostly for all the wrong reasons. So many people have died, and depending on your political persuasions, many of those include deaths that might have been prevented by a…
By Bruce Meadows December 2020 No easy answers . . . While the golf business continues to prosper, the economy in general is still suffering as the pandemic shows some signs of letting up in the hopefully not-too-distant future. With a number of vaccines having been developed and tested, there…
By Bruce Meadows November 2020 We haven’t ‘turned the corner’ yet . . . Despite what you may have read in the newspaper or online, in a tweet or heard on TV, we have not “turned the corner” on Covid-19. In fact, depending on how much you trust doctors, infectious disease experts…