Las Vegas Golf News

The partners responsible for putting on the annual golf industry show have announced that the event will be held in Las Vegas in 2012.

The dates of the show will be Wednesday, Feb. 29, and Thursday, March 1, while presenting partners the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) Education Conference and the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) Education Conference will be conducted February 27-28 and March 2. 

Adidas Launches New Shoe at Shriners’ Vegas Tour Stop

adidas Golf is launching a new shoe with two technologies that are going to be only available in adidas Golf through 2011. This new shoe, the TOUR 360 4.0 will be officially launched at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open from Oct. 11- 18, 2009. 

The event which is held at the TPC Summerlin, is expecting a solid field including. Celebrity sightings are promised with the Wednesday Championship Pro-Am and the always entertaining Evening with Justin Timberlake & Friends slated for Saturday at the Mandalay Bay.

The Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open will be played at the TPC Summerlin from Oct. 11- 18, 2009.  This year marks the second year for Timberlake and the Shriners to sponsor the event and the 27th consecutive year that the Tour has made a stop in the “Entertainment Capital of the World."

A stellar field has committed to participate including six golfers in the World’s Top 50: Kenny Perry, Jim Furyk, Hunter Mahan, Nick Watney, Brian Gay and Rory Sabbatini. Furyk is a three-time winner in Las Vegas.

RENO, Nev. – As a continuation of its Clubs for Armed Forces program, The Legends at Sparks Marina Reno-Tahoe Open, together with foundation sponsor EMPLOYERS, a Reno-based company providing workers' compensation insurance and services to select small businesses sent off golf clubs and tee prize packets for the armed forces who are currently serving abroad in the war zones Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Tournament officials, EMPLOYERS and Golf Headquarters loaded up 20 sets of clubs, prizes and golf balls to be delivered in anticipation of an upcoming golf tournament taking place at the end of September at Camp Bucca, 25 miles into Iraq from the Kuwait border. The bags contain clubs for Armed Forces t-shirts, LRTO golf shirts, a LRTO hat, golf gloves, golf shoes and golf mats to hit balls from. 

New: Toyota Prius Giveaway and PGA Golf Club Coyote Springs joins the program for 2010

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The 2010 OB Sports Golf Card goes on sale August 1, 2009; and what is arguably one of the regions most popular golf frequency program includes some new benefits for 2010. new for the 2010 season, With the purchase of the OB Sports Golf Card, cardholders and their accompanied guests (three per day) save substantially on green fees at four popular local golf facilities – Aliante Golf Club, Angel Park Golf Club and the The Legacy Golf Club. New in 2010 cardholders may now play PGA Golf Club Coyote Springs at preferred rates. Clark County residents may purchase the OB Sports Golf Card during August’s early bird sale for only! $99 and after August 31 for $149.  Residents outside of Clark County may purchase the card for $249.  Golfers who purchase during the August early birds sale will reap its benefits for a total of 17 months from August 2009 through December 31, 2010.

Dick’s Sporting Goods & Golf Galaxy Interviewing Professionals on Site

A golf industry career fair will be staged for the first time at the 2009 PGA Fall Expo, September 1 and 2, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and produced in partnership by PGA Golf Exhibitions, The PGA of America and leading golf industry employers.

DICK’S Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy are announcing recruitment efforts and company informational sessions throughout the two-day industry gathering.

The initial career fair at this year’s PGA Fall Expo will include PGA Professional employment workshops, recruitment services by leading industry employers, on-site interviewing for a variety of industry positions, PGA Employment Services, industry job boards and a resume posting service.

Whether it’s a flashy diamond-studded belt buckle, a bright orange camouflage hat or a pair of loud pants, today’s image-conscious golfers have fallen in love with products that allow them to express both their personality and individuality on the golf course.

If you’re looking to add a new colorful component to your golf bag, look no further than Shaft Skinz - decorative wafer-thin plastic sleeves for your shafts that have the added benefit of protecting the surface from the day-to-day knocks and scrapes that they take. 

Mike Malaska, worldwide director of instruction for Nicklaus Academies, has been ranked by his peers as the 24th Best Instructor in the United States. The complete rankings are featured in the August 2009 issue of Golf Digest.
 
Malaska is a regular contributor for Golfer's Guide Arizona and Golfer's Guide Las Vegas.  He is one of TaylorMade-adidas’ lead staff instructors, contributes to The Golf Channel, writes for Golf Magazine and other International golf publications. 

On June 29, 2009, at 1 p.m., the brand new home of the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame will be unveiled during a special ceremony featuring members of the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame, committee members, dignitaries, area golf professionals, tour players and amateurs.

The new home is located within the clubhouse of the historic Las Vegas National Golf Club, a Las Vegas golf course that has hosted events on both the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour. The new home features a museum-quality exhibit designed by Las Vegas' Cypress Architecture with input from current Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame committee members and other golf community leaders.

A $10,000 first-place prize, among the largest offered by any PGA Section event, is the main drawing card of a new golf tournament exclusively for PGA Professionals at the 2009 PGA Fall Expo.

The new tournament will be staged simultaneously with the PGA Fall Expo Amateur Shootout (formerly the PGA Fall Expo Golf Outing and Product Testing event) on August 31 at the award-winning Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort.