By Bruce Meadows October 2026 What are the chances ??? . . . Most golfers have never had a hole-in-one. While most have perhaps come close, achieving an ace is pretty uncommon. Stats show odds of a PGA Tour player acing a hole are 3,000 to 1; for a low…
By Bruce Meadows September 2026 Home on the range . . . Every player should implement the best golf drills into their practice sessions, as they have the potential to supercharge your progress on the course. Here are some tips I found onlne that might help you. Whether you…
By Bruce Meadows August 2026 A tough, but ‘great experience’ . . . Windsor Golf Club’s Jason Schmuhl has a long and distinguished playing career, both locally and out of the area. Most recently he competed in the U.S, Senior Open at Scioto CC in Columbus,…
By Bruce Meadows AUGUST 2026 Golf, other sports returning to SSU . . . Sonoma State will bring back intercollegiate sports in 2027 following a two-year absence driven by administrators’ decision to eliminate all athletics to help close a major budget deficit. That includes golf. SSU will have 10 NCAA Division II sports…
By Bruce Meadows JULY 2026 Best private courses in California Golfweek just released its list for the best private courses of 2026 for each state, except for Alaska, which has no rated private courses. Golfweek takes input from over 800 participants and ranks the courses on 10 different criteria, including…
By Bruce Meadows June 2026 Golf tips, anyone ??? Seems like just about everybody has a suggestion or two about the best advice to offer a new or struggling golfer. The one I remember most often is something I either thought of myself or heard from somebody…
By Bruce Meadows MAY 2026 Come check it out !!! The Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame . . . Following a few unexpected delays, the Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame is on the wall in the Iron & Vine restaurant at Bennett Valley Golf Course. The initial hall honors…
By Bruce Meadows APRIL 2026 A man for all seasons . . . Paul Nikol . . . We said good-bye to Paul Nikol – teacher, coach, husband and father, to a series of medical problems on April 13. Paul was known as an outstanding elementary school…
By Bruce Meadows APRIL 2026 Lenny does it again In 2006, former Santa Rosa JC football coach Lenny Wagner scored his first hole-in-one, acing the 13th hole at Foxtail. Years went by with Lenny coming close to duplicating the feat, but he couldn’t pull it off, noting “I’ve…
Bruce Meadows MARCH 2026 It’s almost time . . . The first Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame is fast approaching and we are looking forward to sharing it with everyone March 28 at a dinner at Bennett Valley Golf Course’s Iron & Vine. The dinner – open to the…