This article appears in the Spring 2017 issue of Colorado AvidGolfer. Subscribe today! For the first time in this magazine’s 15-year history, a person appears on the cover of our Spring issue. Our annual celebration of the Best in Colorado Golf, known now and forever as the CAGGY Awards, usually features a golf course or type … Read more
This article appears in the Winter 2016 issue of Colorado AvidGolfer. Subscribe today! Our Winter travel issue can’t come soon enough. We all need a vacation. I, like many of you, am suffering from annus horribilis, which is not the proctologic malady it sounds like. It means “a year of disaster or misfortune.” Queen Elizabeth II … Read more
This article appears in the Fall 2016 issue of Colorado AvidGolfer. Subscribe today! This issue spans the last weeks of summer and the first days of December. A spread that big would make even a bookie nervous. Our “lead time” adds to the challenge. We go to press two weeks before the CoBank Colorado Women’s … Read more
This article appears in the August 2016 issue of Colorado AvidGolfer. Subscribe today! To paraphrase the beloved beer pitchman known as The Most Interesting Man in the World, I don’t always wear a necktie, but when I do, it’s Donald J. Trump. More specifically, it’s a Donald J. Trump Signature Collection tie with a handsome … Read more
I used to love summer. Then I got this job. The season to which I once looked most forward—bountiful daylight to play golf, run, work the garden, sit by the pool—has, for the past 15 years brought long days in the office writing and editing stories about one of those pursuits. I turn down far … Read more
When my kids were little, I joked that the three words that struck fear into every parent’s heart were collect them all. With the release of every new series of Happy Meal toys, I found myself bouncing from one set of Golden Arches to another in search of another Barbie or Beanie Baby. To pacify … Read more
Jon Rizzi Hypochondria isn’t my thing. I’m usually pretty stoic about aches and pains. But in putting together this 15th Club issue—devoted to health, fitness and wellness—I’ve caught myself wondering about the hidden health perils of golf. For example, last fall, while having a patio lunch at a local club, I watched a guy in … Read more
Jon Rizzi I’m at the meat counter at my local King Soopers when it hits me. That boneless rib eye behind the glass looks remarkably like an aerial view of a golf hole—a slight dogleg left, with the fat shaping a bunker at the elbow and the marbling suggestive of the cut of the grass. … Read more
Jon Rizzi If you're old enough to remember Sam Snead winning the first green jacket awarded at Augusta, or, like me, you’re a fan of Turner Classic Movies, then you recognize the title of this column as the name of a 1949 movie starring Ray Milland. It’s a comedy about baseball, a sport with a season that parallels that … Read more
Jon Rizzi The “30,000-foot view” has become as tired a business cliché as “low-hanging fruit,” “move the needle” and “connect the dots.” Yet 30,000 feet above the earth is literally where this column originates, and in my view, there’s nothing tired or cliché about the business of traveling, especially to play golf. I’m flying home from Phoenix Sky … Read more
