Green Valley Offers Unique Dining

The Green Valley Smokehouse and Oyster Bar, the ranch’s most unique attraction for golfers and visitors, is open and ready to feed both players and spectators.

The restaurant will be providing the food once again at the Inspirato Men’s Open and Inspirato Women’s Open this year. The restaurant continues to cook up a wide variety of food, from barbeque to fresh seafood and is sure to have something that everyone can enjoy.

The locally owned restaurant is famous for their low country boil, barnyard burger, and whole fried snapper. All of their specialty meat spends up to 14 hours in the on-premises smoker. Their showstopper chicken wings are rubbed with spices and slow-smoked. The seafood is shipped directly from the coasts for freshness.

Desserts include banana pudding, peach cobbler, a classic brownie sundae, or the restaurant’s most well-known dessert – the key lime pie.

To contact the restaurant or to check out their menu visit greenvalleysmokehouse.com or call 303–357–7880 with any questions or to make a reservation.

was very up and down and this year so far it’s been up and down,” she said after the rain-soaked victory. “We’ve had some good finishes, but last week in the LPGA event, I missed the cut and didn’t do well.”

She fended off a fierce challenge by Huffer as well her final-day partner, Amy Lee of Brea, CA. Lee nearly drove the green of the 314-yard par 4 14th hole in a last ditch effort to catch up. Lee chipped close, but missed the birdie putt.

Harford went to the 18th tee needing a bogey or better to win. She stayed conservative, and when her third shot on the par 5 ended up in a green-side bunker she calmly chipped out, chipped close again, and tapped in for the win.

“I mean, it’s amazing,” she said. “I’m still in shock because to have an equal first for men and women, that’s just, it’s so inspiring. And companies that are really backing women’s sport, that just means so much to us. We, you know, we grind, we work hard week in and week out and to be able to get rewarded like this for a win is unbelievable.”

The winning purses for the men’s and women’s Colordao Opens is $100,000 each, a rarity in U.S. golf.

David Kallery, president of Inspirato, the Denver-based luxury travel subscription service, said his company signed on as a sponsor primarily because it allowed them to be part of bringing that parity to reality.

“To be affiliated and be a part of that, I was in from that moment forward,” Kallery said.

Seniors Play in August

The 2023 Inspirato Colorado Senior Open, Aug. 23 to 25, will see the return of familiar faces. Harry Rudolph of La Jolla, CA, the back-to-back winner in 2020 and 2021, is scheduled to return. Rudolph did not play last year, and the title went instead to Guy Boros of Fort Lauderdale, the son of PGA great Julius Boros. The purse is remaining at $100,000. Also scheduled to return is Bob May, best known as the man who lost in a three-hole playoff to Tiger Woods in the 2000 PGA Championship. May has run the Bob May Golf Academy in Las Vegas for many years.