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 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…
BY BRUCE MEADOWS MARCH 2026 Honors for Bennett Valley . . . Bennett Valley GM Greg Anderson Kemper Sports, which operates Bennett Valley Golf Course, has selected the popular 18-hole Santa Rosa public course, as its “Course of the Year.” Kemper, which has hundreds of courses around the country, says on…
BY BRUCE MEADOWS FEBRUARY 2026 Save the date . . . The Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame, which seemed like a crazy idea not that long ago, is taking shape. Bennett Valley GM and longtime local golf fixture Greg Anderson and I, along with a number of others,…
BY BRUCE MEADOWS JANUARY 2026 ‘Hall’ is getting close . . . It seems like a year ago – actually it WAS a year ago or more – that I wrote about an idea for creating a Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame. The thought came to me…
By BRUCE MEADOWS OCTOBER 2025 Fall golf brings new challenges Looking for golf tips for fall to keep your game sharp as the weather cools down? Here are a few I found online. As the leaves change and the air gets crisper, many golfers are eager to continue their…
By BRUCE MEADOWS JULY 2025 Dogs on the golf course . . . Most golf courses have doglegs . . . but how many courses allow dogs on their golf course??? And what are the rules??? The question came up the other day at Fairgrounds GC,…
By BRUCE MEADOWS JUNE 2025 Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame It’s taken a long time, considerably longer than we expected and apologetically longer than it should have taken, but it’s time to unveil our first Redwood Empire Golf Hall of Fame. I first got the idea for such…
By BRUCE MEADOWS APRIL 2025 The future of Sea Ranch . . . You may have heard that Sea Ranch Golf Links, that outstanding 18-hole oceanside course on the north coast, has closed. As Sea Ranch Lodge and golf course GM Kristina Jetton explained: “For more than a generation,…
By BRUCE MEADOWS AUGUST 2024 How old is your course ??? There is a relatively understandable preoccupation with being the biggest, the strongest, the tallest . . . the smartest, etc. And to a certain degree, being the oldest . . . and that can apply to…