There are so many people over the years who have helped out Louie Euer in golf. There is Bud Perkins and Dale Smith at Diamond Oaks Golf Course in Roseville. There is Angie Dixon, Executive Director, and Megan Fidler, Director of Competitive Activities, of First Tee â Greater Sacramento. There is the Morton Golf Foundation…. Continue reading →
Itâs been a fantastic year for Hannah Harrison and Anika Varma, with the two golfers accomplishing so much in the game. Harrison qualified for the U.S. Girlsâ Junior and played in the U.S. Golf Association event in July at Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She also represented First Tee â Greater Sacramento at… Continue reading →
Itâs the one phone call that Aaron Beverly wishes he could have made. Itâs the one conversation that he wishes he could have had with the one person who was beside him every step of the way â through junior golf, high school and college golf, and now as a professional. Beverly wanted to express… Continue reading →
Jason Sitterud didnât say a whole lot during a practice round for the Granite Bay High School girls team at Poppy Hills Golf Course on Monday. He didnât say much at a team dinner later that day. What he did tell his team is simply this: Just enjoy the experience. âThey relaxed,â said Sitterud, the… Continue reading →
Sports were big for Nick Wallace as a youth and in high school at McClatchy in Sacramento. He went year-round, season to season, playing soccer, basketball, and baseball. He went on to play soccer in college, both at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento and then at San Francisco State. He took his game to another… Continue reading →
Janette Vine did not have a lot of time for golf in the mid-1980s, as she was raising a family and running her own business. It was during that time when Vine heard from a friend of hers that was a member of a club in the area â the Haggin Oaks Business Womenâs Golf… Continue reading →
Rudy Danzinger didnât know a thing about golf when he was growing up in his hometown of Cincinnati. He didnât know anybody in the area that played golf. He didnât know where any of the courses were located. All of that changed for Danzinger when he left town, headed west, and ended up in the… Continue reading →
Richard E. Dixon did all he could to get his son, Bill, into golf at a young age. âHe was an avid golfer, a good player, a single-digit handicap in those days,â Bill Dixon recalled of his father recently. âMy dad tried to get me to play when I was really young, all the way… Continue reading →
Take it from Jean Taylor. Itâs never too late to take up golf. âYou can play it later in life. But it does take work,â said Taylor. âI took it up late in life, and thatâs why I appreciate golf.â Taylor turned to golf after playing a lot of tennis â a combination of Sacramento… Continue reading →
There is a lot that has changed for Patrick Raber since his days of playing on the golf team at Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento. Raber was 160 pounds when he was competing in matches for the Falcons. He is now 6-foot-2 and 245 pounds. He is also driving the ball much, much farther… Continue reading →