Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Welcome Our New Head Golf Professional!
Welcome, Taylor!
Attention all Fairgrounds golfers!! The Sonoma County Fairgrounds Golf Course is pleased to announce the arrival of our new Head Golf Professional Taylor Battaglia. Taylor is currently an Associate of the PGA Professional Golf Management Program working hard towards his goal of becoming a PGA Class A Golf Professional.
He was a former player for the Santa Rosa Junior College as well as the #1 player at Casa Grande High School. He was also the Head Coach for the Casa Grande High School Golf Team after he graduated. Moving on to bigger and better things he has landed the position as the Head Golf Professional here at the Fairgrounds and is excited to be a part of the team. Feel free to stop by the Pro Shop to welcome Taylor to the facility and sign up for a lesson! Below are Taylor’s lesson rates and junior lesson rates.
Golf Lesson Rates
Adult 30-Minute Lesson: $45
Adult 60-Minute Lesson: $70
Package of 5 Adult 30-Minute Lessons: $180
Package of 5 Adult 60-Minute Lessons: $280
9-Hole Playing Lesson: $100
Junior Lesson Rates (ages 17 & under)
Junior 30-Minute Lesson: $40
Junior 60-Minute Lesson: $65
Package of 5 Junior 30-Minute Lessons: $160
Package of 5 Junior 60-Minute Lessons: $260
9-Hole Playing Lesson: $90
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Want to Learn How to Golf? Check Out Some of Our Classes!
GOLF CLASSES
Check out some of the golf classes that we offer at Fairgrounds Golf Course!
Junior Golf School
April 11th-May 30th
Wednesdays 4pm-5:15pm
$175 per junior for the 8 week class
Daniel Stewart & new lead golf instructor Tayor Battaglia will teach the school. Each Wednesday juniors will go over a life skill, a golf rule, and a skill of the day. For more Information or to get your junior signed up please email Taylor by clicking below.
Spring Ladies Golf Class
Wednesdays 5:30-6:30
April 11th-May 9th
$100 per person for the 5 week class
Daniel Stewart and new lead golf instructor, Taylor Battaglia will teach the class. Each class ladies will go over a golf rule and a golf skill. It’s a great environment for beginners and even intermediate players that are looking to get their game back into shape! For more Information or to get signed up, please email Taylor by clicking below.
Spring Thursday Adult Golf Class
Thursdays 5:30-6:30
April 12th-May 10th
$100 per person for the 5 week class
Daniel Stewart and new lead golf instructor, Taylor Battaglia will teach the class. This class is for everyone. In the class the instructors will go over a golf rule and a golf skill. It’s a great environment for beginners and even intermediate players that are looking to get their game back into shape! For more Information or to get signed up please email Taylor by clicking below.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Raining? No worries! Check Out Our Covered Range!
Home on the Range… Our Range!
With rain a reality these days, it’s difficult if not impossible to play golf or even hit balls on the range. But when you have a driving range that is not only covered, but lighted, it gives you options not available at other golf facilities.
Now open til 9PM!
Fairgrounds Golf Course has such a range and we want you to find out for yourself!
In addition to a protected driving range, we also offer the best practice green in the area, complete with two large bunkers, as well as a putting green. Our nine-hole course — seven par-3s, two par-4s — with alternate tees on each hole drains better than perhaps any course in the area. If you call, we will give you an honest assessment of conditions on the course or you can come and check it out before teeing it up.
Late Nights, Early Mornings.
We are open early in the morning and stay open until and after dark. Local golfers are discovering when they can’t practice elsewhere, they can practice at Fairgrounds! Before work, after work, lunch time… any time.
Come out and take advantage of the unique qualities we offer at Fairgrounds. We want you to make Fairgrounds Golf Course your go-to practice place.
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Monday, March 19, 2018
WATCH: Tiger Woods making a run at Bay Hill, birdies three of four to start back nine
Tiger Woods is making another run at Bay Hill, a place he has won eight times in his PGA Tour career.
Woods made the turn in nine under, five off the lead, and then made three birdies in a four-hole stretch to jump to 12 under and get within one of co-leaders Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson.
Check out Woods’s birdies on the 10th, 12th and 13th below, and follow the final round here.
Moving on up the leaderboard.
@TigerWoods gets the back nine started off right. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/BLFrJl6voB
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 18, 2018
Another GREAT bunker shot. Another
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Tiger Woods is just two back. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/7yVr7hHgrA
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 18, 2018
A vintage Sunday charge.@TigerWoods is 3 under thru four holes on the back nine. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/0aePOvXVrC
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 18, 2018
Source: Golf.com
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Tiger Woods helped NBC grab the biggest non-Masters TV audience since 2015
There might be a few misguided souls that question the relevance and attraction of Tiger Woods in 2018. But they sure aren’t advertisers.
On Monday NBC Sports released its audience numbers from the Valspar Championship, where the 42-year-old Woods came this close to winning for the first time in five years. And according to the Peacock, viewers flocked to the broadcast in record numbers. The Golf Channel PR department reports that the final round at the Copperhead course drew a 5.11 overnight rating. A figure that is the highest non-major audience since the 2013 Players Championship (won by, you guessed it, Tiger Woods), and the highest non-Masters rating since the 2015 PGA Championship.
The group also announced that the final round lead-in on Golf Channel earned a 1.65 rating, becoming the highest-rated Golf Channel tour lead-in on record.
Wow, what an amazing week…people, atmosphere, adrenaline, back nine on Sunday, man I’ve missed this. Getting better. Thank you for all the support!
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) March 12, 2018
As for the digital front, only the last two Open Championships and the 2016 Ryder Cup drew higher than the 27.2 million minutes streamed on Golf Channel and NBC Sports platforms.
This is not particularly a surprise; two of Tiger’s other outings—the Farmers Insurance Openand Honda Classic—tied for the best TV marks of the season.
“He may be the biggest name in sports, matched only by Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali,” Neal H. Pilson, former president of CBS Sports and president of Pilson Communications, Inc., told Golf Digest after the Famers Insurance Open. “Does he still move the needle? The answer is yes.”
Tiger Woods is scheduled to play at this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, an event he’s won eight times in his career.
Source: golfdigest.com
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Check Out Our St. Patrick’s Day Special! 🍀
St. Patrick’s Weekend
March 16 – 18.
Purchase a Range Value Card for only $40 ($56 value)
If you purchase the card Friday March 16 through March 18, 2018, you will receive a FREE sleeve of Titleist DT TruSoft soft with each card purchase ($6.50 value).
BONUS:
If you pay for 18 holes of golf same weekend and receive a FREE sleeve of Titleist DT TruSoft Golf Balls.
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Monday, March 5, 2018
Wie sinks incredible birdie putt at last for win in Singapore
Michelle Wie keeps putting herself back together again.
Broken down by injury or illness or slump so many times in her career, she keeps finding ways to overcome.
She did it again Sunday in brilliant fashion, coming from five shots behind in the final round to win the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore with a dramatic putt at the final hole, a 36-foot birdie from just off the front of the green.
Wie thrust her fist into the sky when that last putt fell, and then she punched the air twice more in giddy delight.
“I think that has to be the best putt of my career so far,” she said.
Four long, frustrating years after winning the U.S. Women’s Open, Wie was finally able to claim her fifth LPGA title.
“It’s been a tough journey since 2014,” she said. “It’s been kind of well documented. I’ve had some injuries, had a really bad year, just lost a lot of confidence. I’m just really proud of myself for pulling myself out of it.”
Wie’s parents, B.J. and Bo, were in the gallery following, as they always are. Her parents have been scrutinized and criticized as much as any in the sport over their handling of the former phenom. Wie, 28, said they were on her mind when that last putt dropped.
#LPGAWinnerSelfie with @themichellewie
#HWWC pic.twitter.com/GHxQIL3M08
— LPGA (@LPGA) March 4, 2018
“When I made the putt, I could just picture my parents kind of celebrating,” Wie said. “My family believed in me relentlessly, and with that, I started to believe in myself.”
Wie beat a star-studded lineup Sunday that included 19 of the top 20 players in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings.
“This is Asia’s major,” Wie said.
With a bogey-free 7-under-par 65, Wie prevailed in a crazy afternoon of high drama, breaking out of a four-way tie for the lead with that birdie at the last. She finished at 17 under overall, a shot ahead of Brooke Henderson (67), Danielle Kang (70), Nelly Korda (71) and Jenny Shin (65).
“Everyone was really clustered up there on the leaderboard,” Wie said. “I’m just really proud of myself for making a lot of birdies, and [to] keep going.”
So many players got in the mix on the back nine, with one player after another mounting charges. The course record was 64, but five players equaled or broke the mark in the final round.
After her closing birdie, Wie had to wait in the wings and watch Korda and Kang miss birdie chances at the last that could have forced a playoff.
The victory was sweet for Wie for a lot of reasons, including her inability to close out a 54-hole lead in this event a year ago.
“I just wanted to get revenge after last year a little bit,” Wie said. “I kind of came with a slight chip on my shoulder in the morning.”
Wie overcame so much winning that U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst in 2014, when she finally looked ready to realize all her potential in a run to No. 1. But, she was derailed by a finger injury later that summer, and then by hip, knee and ankle injuries that led to an awful slump after that. When she finally looked as if she was turning a corner again last year, neck spasms and an emergency appendectomy derailed her in the summer.
“Definitely, my team and my family and my friends have pulled me out of the hard times and kept me going,” Wie said. “There have been moments where it was hard. It was hard to keep going and to keep playing.”
Wie’s longtime swing coach, David Leadbetter, has been there through all the challenges with her since she was 13.
“I can’t list all the injuries Michelle has had in her career,” Leadbetter said at year’s start. “I don’t think there is one joint or bone in her body that hasn’t had some sort of injury or issue.
“The main goal this year is really to see if she can go injury free.”
Leadbetter believes Wie hasn’t reached what she’s really capable of yet, but he’s hopeful this might be the year. There was promise loaded in Sunday’s victory.
Source: http://www.golfchannel.com/
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Friday, March 2, 2018
Read Our March Newsletter!
Stay up to date with all our events, classes, tips, and tournaments at Fairgrounds Golf Course by reading our monthly newsletters.
Our March Newsletter is available now!
Feel free to check out our website at Fairgroundsgolfcourse.com for more information, news, & upcoming events!
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Home on the Range… Our Range!
Home on the Range… Our Range!
With rain a reality these days, it’s difficult if not impossible to play golf or even hit balls on the range. But when you have a driving range that is not only covered, but lighted, it gives you options not available at other golf facilities.
Fairgrounds Golf Course has such a range and we want you to find out for yourself!
In addition to a protected driving range, we also offer the best practice green in the area, complete with two large bunkers, as well as a putting green.
Our nine-hole course — seven par-3s, two par-4s — with alternate tees on each hole drains better than perhaps any course in the area. If you call, we will give you an honest assessment of conditions on the course or you can come and check it out before teeing it up.
Late Nights, Early Mornings.
We are open early in the morning and stay open until and after dark. Local golfers are discovering when they can’t practice elsewhere, they can practice at Fairgrounds! Before work, after work, lunch time… any time.
Come out and take advantage of the unique qualities we offer at Fairgrounds. We want you to make Fairgrounds Golf Course your go-to practice place.
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