The Amgen, recognized as one of the nation’s premier cycling events, is set to tear through part of the Coachella Valley May 13 with with an exhaustive final climb up Tram Way awaiting riders.
Swinging With the Pros
An all-star cast instructs golfers at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells
Though the mood may be idyllically mellow at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells, the members’ approach to improving their golf game strikes far beyond a leisure pursuit.
The Long Road to the Perfect Short Game
Propelled by his family’s name, Dave Stockton finds his groove in teaching and enjoying the desert lifestyle
Nothing is more harmonic than a man totally at ease in his natural element. To ascend the steep and spare beauty toward the apex of Stone Eagle Golf Club in Palm Desert is to observe such a portrait painted in full. There, amid the practice green’s bosom, works Dave Stockton.
The Long Road to the PGA Tour
Byron Smith took his game on a road less traveled before returning to the desert and finding a path to greater glory
At the outset of 2013, the PGA Tour website’s profile page for Byron Smith showed a blank silhouette in the space deemed for a golfer’s standard-issue headshot. Now in the 10th year of a decade-long pursuit to compete at the sport’s highest echelon, the roads of Smith’s journey have taken the 32-year-old Palm Springs native from the depths of his own resolve to golf courses around the world.
Leap Into 'Poppies Pond' Reaches Milestone
Writer has chance to experience plunge into sacred waters
The Kraft Nabisco Championship creates anticipation for golf’s first major of the season and one of the most recognizable and cherished traditions in all of sport: The victor’s leap into ‘Poppie’s Pond’.
It’s Tee Time
Kraft Nabisco Championship Promises Thrills and Suspense
The Kraft Nabisco Championship returns to Rancho Mirage April 1-7. Aside from the Masters, Kraft Nabisco Championship is golf’s longest-running event.
Rider Hopes Tour de Palm Springs Helps Sanctuary Take Flight
Event raises awareness, funds for local causes like The Landing Zone Parrot Sanctuary
Chelsea Lee Gilbert is making her first ride in Saturday’s Tour de Palm Springs, hoping to shed exposure on The Landing Zone Parrot Sanctuary run by her parents.
Swing With Sinatra
Charity tournament celebrates 25 years
This month, when not penciling in your own tee times, plan your schedule around the Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Technologies Celebrity Invitational. The tournament benefiting Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center celebrates its 25th anniversary Feb. 21-23 at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio.
Nerves of Steele: Idyllwild Pro Loves Home Cooking
Flashes of his past at PGA West, desert courses comes full circle
Brendan Steele enjoyed the large gallery of family and friends that followed him at the recent Humana Challenge.
Play – Humana Challenge
Celebrate Fitness and Great Golf
Idyllic temperatures and high season attract golfers from around the globe. This month, pencil your tee times around the Humana Challenge, Jan 14-20.