Tucson’s struggling golf industry is going to get a boost of attention this week when the Scottsdale-based Media Golf Classic moves to Southern Arizona for the first time.
More than 60 golf writers, bloggers and media sources will be here to help mark Thursday’s opening of course designer Notah Begay’s Sewailo Golf Club at Casino del Sol.
In the lead-up to the Sewailo opening, reporters from Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Golf Magazine and outlets in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Toronto and Chicago, among other precincts, will play Dell Urich Golf Course, the Gallery Golf Club’s north course, and at the Tubac Golf Resort.
Brent DeRaad, president and CEO of Visit Tucson, arranged for the media blitz of Southern Arizona’s golf properties, which have forever been obscured by the vast Phoenix-area golf and tourism business.
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DeRaad did his homework. The Gallery North is fabulous; Dell Urich is the area’s top muni course; Tubac is a unique setting; and the new Sewailo course is an attention-getter.
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