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Finding His Way Mike McGetrick went from being Colorado’s top golf professional and the visionary of Colorado Golf Club to a man with no income, no home and a family in crisis. In his own words, he shares how the arc of his life produced a profound and positive lesson.
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Forethoughts
It’s an Open Mike
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y the dawn of this millennium, Mike McGetrick had
become synonymous with golf instruction in Colorado. Students of all ages flocked to his academy at Meridian Golf Club, which national magazines ranked among the top in the country. Major champions Meg Mallon and Juli Inkster credited him for much of their success. Ditto PGA Tour player Brandt Jobe. A lesson from Mike or one of his instructors appeared every Friday in The Denver Post. One the first meetings I scheduled when starting this magazine in 2002 was with Mike and his associate, Lana Ortega, who, like Stan Sayers, Trent Wearner and dozens of other McGetrick Academy alums, would eventually establish her own successful instruction business. He appeared on the cover of our July 2003 issue as his new academy opened at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club. Ten years later, Mike McGetrick no longer owns the McGetrick Golf Academy. Nor does he still have a stake in or even an honorary membership at Colorado Golf Club, the internationally acclaimed project he left his academy in 2004 to build and develop. He lost the Highlands Ranch home he shared with his wife, Sara Anne—from whom he’s now separated—and their six children, one of whom twice attempted suicide and required extensive and expsensive treatment. He has left Colorado for South Carolina, where Sara Anne and most of their children now live. Yet when Mike shared with me over lunch the details of his Icarus-like fall, I did not hear the bitterness or resignation one might expect from someone in his predicament. He didn’t blame the recession, credit crunch, his partners, members, banks or anyone else. He owned it. His self-assessment was so vivid, honest, captivating and instructive that he agreed to share it with the readers of Colorado AvidGolfer. “I can’t believe he is going to open up so publicly about such personal stuff,” one of my more image-conscious colleagues averred. “He wants to share what he’s learned,” I said. “It’s kind of a ‘There but for the grace of God go I’ story. He wants people to identify with it, to benefit from what he’s experienced and gave him the strength to soldier on.” What I find so refreshing is that Mike doesn’t seem to ascribe this strength to the game of golf. Not once during our conversations did he toss out a platitude about golf rescuing him or saving his life. While I’m sure the “life lessons” of the game helped inform his self-reliance and accountability, his spiritual fortification came from his deepening religious faith, entrenched family values and solid, unwavering friendships. Ultimately, the most significant and enduring lesson this renowned golf instructor might ever give concerns the path of his life, not the path of a swing. His story, “Finding His Way,” begins on page 56, and I hope it rivets you as much as it did me. There’s plenty more riveting material in this issue, including Contributing Editor Sam Adams’ profile of Wyndham Clark; celebrations of City Park, Hiwan, Ironbridge and Arrowhead; gift ideas for Father’s Day; and a lesson, appropriately enough, on how to get up and down from the “wrong side” of the green. —JON RIZZI
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enver’s City Park Golf Course kicked off its yearlong centenary celebration with a TeeOff Breakfast April 27, 2012. Amid vintage trophies and photographs of City Park’s men’s clubs and the African-American East Denver Golf Club, speakers regaled the assembled with elegiac stories paying homage to the 6,704-yard course at 25th and York Street and the more memorable characters in its history. Among them: Colorado Golf Hall of Famer and 10-time City Park Club Champion Dan Hogan; course record holder (61) and current Foothills Parks and Recreation PGA Director of Golf Tom Woodard; and Colorado Golf Association Executive Director Ed Mate—all of whom honed their golf chops at what more than one attendee called the “home of heroes, hustlers and hard luck.” Colorado PGA Executive Director Eddie Ainsworth, PGA Golf
Manager for the City and County of Denver Scott Rethlake and City Park Head PGA Professional Keith Soriano also spoke, with Soriano handing out a handsome commemorative “challenge coin”—a tradition dating to World War I—to the attendees. “You must present this when someone challenges you to present it,” said Soriano. “Otherwise, you buy the drinks.” The festivities culminated on the eighth tee when the aforementioned VIPs joined other luminaries including City of Denver Parks and Recreation managers Lauri Dannemiller and Scott Gilmore, Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Gary Potter and City Park institution “Chubbs” Harden (after whom City Park’s First Tee course is named) symbolically drove balls towards the skyline of the city that has grown up around the course. cityofdenvergolf.com/ citypark; 720-865-3410
TEE PARTY: Colorado golf VIPs prepare to split the eighth fairway at City Park’s 100-year gala.
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theGallery Golden Boy The Colorado School of Mines Orediggers have struck gold. Led by team captain and Colorado’s number one-ranked collegiate golfer, senior Jim Knous, the team captured the RMAC Spring Championship—its first since 1968—at Arizona’s Wigwam Golf Club April 16 and 17, crushing the rest of the RMAC by 15 strokes. Knous, who is in his final year with the Orediggers, received individual medalist at the tournament shooting a total score of 220 (71-74-75), his fourth individual title this season. The Basalt resident earned Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s Golfer of the Year honors and first team All-RMAC for the fourth consecutive year, after tying for the conference lead with a 71.3 stroke average. He never finished outside of the top six at any tournament. “This has been the best season for me in my time here at Mines,” Knous says. “Not only are my teammates my best buddies, but this is by far the best team with respect to talent that we’ve had in quite a while.” In addition to Knous, senior Cory Bacon and sophomores Michael Lee and Kyle Grassel have all played exceptionally well. Head coach Tyler Kimble
copped RMAC Coach of the Year honors. The team finished third at the NCAA Division II West/Central Super Regional May 7-9 at Wigwam and competed in the National Championship May 15-19 at the Cardinal
Club in Louisville, Ky. “We believe the National Championship is definitely within reach for the Orediggers golf team,” Kimble said after winning the RMAC championship. Whether Knous will turn pro before the 2012 U.S. Amateur remains a question. He competed in last year’s event at Erin Hills after carding a course-record 63 in the opening round of the Sectional Qualifying event at Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club. (He also shot a course-record 60 at Boulder Country Club during the 2010 CGA Stroke Play Championship.) With the Amateur at Cherry Hills this year, there could be no better stage for him to cap off a stellar amateur career.
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theGallery A Lesson from Emma Nine-year-old Emma Ross says her favorite golfer is Phil Mickelson “because he takes Embrel, the same medicine I do.” Emma suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, a diagnosis she got four years ago. It saps her strength but not her spirit. The Colorado Springs fourth-grader loves golf, a sport to which her father, Scott, introduced her during a vacation in Scottsdale and which he and his wife, Sarah, have vigorously encouraged. Sarah comes to every junior clinic and lesson, where she applauds every shot; Scott, a doctor specializing in pain medicine, caddies on Emma’s regular three-hole loops. “It’s the only sport she can really do,” says her instructor, National PGA Junior Golf Leader Ann Finke of the Country Club of Colorado, who has worked with Emma for about four years. “When she started, she had very little strength in her
hands, but after she switched medicines about a year ago, her velocity improved and she could hold onto the club.” The most gratifying aspect, Finke says, is “there’s always a smile. Any bit of good, she basks in it. We can all take a lesson from that. She knew she wasn’t going to be as good as some big, strong kid. Just doing it at all was good enough for her.” Emma plays her loops from the forward tees, “which is long for a little girl like her,” says Finke, who admires her student’s grasp of golf ’s fundamentals. “You never have to create analogies for her like you do for other kids.” Finke is convinced Emma will play a nine-hole round by summer’s end. “She has more energy, and she’s such a great student of what she’s doing,” says Finke. “Every time she makes contact she just grins at you. Is there anything better than that?”
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theGallery The Rush of Gypsum Creek In Gypsum, on the western edge of Eagle County, the skier’s loss is the golfer’s gain. Gypsum Creek Golf Course—which until 2009 operated as the semi-private Cotton Ranch Golf Club—opened March 12, the earliest in the course’s 15-year history. “And we’ve been jamming ever since!” reports General Manager Susie Helmerich. “We even had to purchase more rental clubs because we were overwhelmed by the number of people who had planned to ski, but decided on golf instead due to poor snow conditions.” Those guests are in for a double-black-diamond treat. The 6,980-yard Pete Dye design, located 35 minutes west of Vail, begins in the tree-studded, stream-crossed Cottonwood Valley before climbing 200 feet to the top of a rocky, sage-covered mesa lined by piñon and juniper. This is where the scenic 411-yard fifth menaces like a beautiful assassin—a teeny-weeny target fronted by a sprawling native area leads to an island-like green dangling over a ravine flanked by trees and rocks. On the tee of the 164-yard par-3 8th, views of the Red Table Mountains, Castle Peak and the New York Mountains reveal themselves.
Dye’s devilish bunkers abound and his swift, rippling greens make getting on in regulation no guarantee of par. Wind, wetlands and Gypsum Creek figure into many of the holes on the back nine, ultimately delivering you to the testy 196-yard 17th, 389-yard par4 finisher and 12,000-square-foot clubhouse, which warmly welcomes the public, including budding droves of juniors who have participated in one of the Colorado PGA’s most successful Golf In Schools programs. The home course of two-time CGA MidAmateur Champion Keith Humerickhouse, Gypsum Creek boasts the longest season in the Vail Valley. “It’s been a record-breaking season so far,” says Helmerich. “We hope our momentum carries through to December!” gypsumcreekgolf.com
STEADY STREAM: Golfers have flowed into Gypsum.
TOOT SWEET: Broadmoor bagpiper Kent Hiestand.
Piper Active Somewhere in the heavens, Scotsman Donald Ross is smiling. The Dornoch native designed The Broadmoor’s original 18 holes in 1917, and so it seems fitting that the august Colorado Springs resort has brought the history full circle with “Bagpipes on the Lake,” running May 1 through October 21. Similar to rituals at Turnberry and Spanish Bay, each evening at dusk, solitary piper Kent Hiestand begins lakeside by the first tee box of the West Course and travels to several locations around Cheyenne Lake. broadmoor.com
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theGallery A Quick Nine With Meg By Tom Ferrell The dramatics of the 2013 Solheim Cup will unfold at Colorado Golf Club next August 13-18, 2013, but US team captain Meg Mallon knows how little time 14 months really can be. On the Monday after the Masters, Mallon, who played on eight Solheim Cup teams, flew in to have a look at the course and entertain hospitality clients and prospects. She also sat down with Colorado AvidGolfer.
You’ve won four majors and done everything an LPGA player can do. How does the Solheim captaincy rank in your career? It’s the ultimate achievement. The Solheim Cups I’ve played in are some of my favorite experiences. And to know what all of those great captains who came before me have done and try to learn from them. It’s the biggest honor of my career.
What’s on the top of your agenda?
Obviously I’m watching tournaments, seeing how players who get into contention handle it. Because you take the pressure of a normal tournament, and the Solheim Cup is about 10 times that pressure. Beyond that, a lot of preparation. Picking out clothing, putting together menus. I want to take care of as many details as possible now, so that when it’s time to prepare for the matches themselves, that’s all we have to concentrate on.
Will you take time to scout the course?
Absolutely. The more information I can collect, the more I can help the players and the caddies, the easier the week is going to be for them. I’m lucky I’ve been coming to Colorado Golf Club for a long time, and I know some people who know the course very well.
How does losing the Cup in 2011 factor into the preparations for the US team? I don’t worry about them being motivated. My job is to help them focus that energy and that motivation. I want to ease them into the
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week, help them be comfortable. You can’t get the Cup back simply by wanting it.
How do you evaluate those who might thrive in this kind of pressurized environment? You have to look for the ones who love the pressure, even when it doesn’t go their way. There are certain types of players who crave pressure situations, and at the Solheim Cup they learn that they can play at the highest level, and sometimes their careers just take off. The tour seems easier after that. You can see it in the ones who just get it.
Colorado golf fans have seen a lot of major championship golf. What is going to surprise them about the Solheim Cup? The volume, the absolute patriotism and volume. We actually call it “football golf.” If you haven’t been there, you simply haven’t seen anything like it. The screaming and cheering and singing. Especially the singing.
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This is the obligatory Lexi Thompson question. You must be pretty excited about the potential for her to make her Solheim Cup debut. Lexi is an amazing young talent, that’s for sure, and you have to think she’ll be on the squad. But she’s not the only one. Don’t forget that Jessica Korda won the first event of the year, and she’s barely 18 years old. We have a great group of veterans and young players that could be a really nice mix for my team.
What’s your favorite Solheim moment?
Well, it’s really two moments. My very first Solheim Cup was in 1992. The Europeans won on my singles match, and the feeling of being alone with all of them celebrating around me is something I will never forget. And then, the full circle moment came at my very last Solheim Cup in 2005, and we were fortunate enough to win on my match, and I got to experience the feeling of my team celebrating around me. It was thrilling.
You’ve spent time in the Denver area. What are your favorite spots or activities? I was here the year Coors Field opened. It’s beautiful, and I know I’ll spend some time there. Denver is such a great sports town. One thing that’s tough is that I’m a big Detroit Red Wings fan. That doesn’t go over real well with Avs fans. I’m looking forward to spending more time in Denver, and I’d love to get any good restaurant recommendations. Co l o r a d o A v i d G o l f e r. c o m
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to one are the estimated odds of an amateur golfer shooting two aces on par-fours. Compound that by the aces occurring on the same course and within 10 months of each other, and you have a Powerball-level probability. On April 25 at Broomfield’s Omni Interlocken Golf Club, scratch player Brent Warkentine, 41, scored his second hole-inone on a par-4 on the Sunshine No. 4, hitting his Callaway Razr driver 341 yards. Ten months earlier, on June 26, 2011, he jarred one on the Omni’s Vista No. 3, for 319 yards using his driver. This one was made during the Club’s Four-Ball Match Play tournament.
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round competition, 17 strokes better than runner-up Middle Tennessee. The win qualified DU for the 2012 NCAA West Regional Championship at Colorado National Golf Club in Erie May 10-12, where the Pioneers finished a disappointing 19th.
University of Colorado women’s golfers made the All-Pac-12 Conference team. Senior Emily Talley and sophomore Alex Stewart both made the second-team, while senior Jess Wallace was an honorable mention selection. This year marked the team’s best ever, as its fourth-place finish in the NCAA West Regional Finals clinched a spot in the NCAA Championships May 22-25 at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tenn.
Level 3 Certified Titleist Performance Institute instructors practice in Colorado. That’s three more than we reported in the May issue. In addition to Dee Tidwell, Dillon Johnson, Ruston Webb and Tyler Ferrell are also Level 3s. Tidwell, however, is the only one in Colorado with all four of TPI’s Level 3 certifications: Junior, Golf Instructor, Fitness and Medical. mytpi.com
years ago, Aspenite Boone Schweitzer started The Trashmasters—perhaps the most bizarre and byzantine golf tournament in the world. The event, which rewards the weird occurrences during a round of golf, has attracted numerous celebrities and has generated more than $1.5 million in college scholarships for 58 students. This year’s
straight Sun Belt Conference championships have now been won by the University of Denver women’s golf team. Led by Scottish freshman Rachael Watton, who took home medalist honors after winning in a playoff at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals, DU finished 8-over for the three-
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