{"id":104655,"date":"2016-06-11T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rob-yates-memorial-golf-tournament-thriving\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T01:32:13","slug":"rob-yates-memorial-golf-tournament-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rob-yates-memorial-golf-tournament-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Yates Memorial Golf Tournament thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=962c7125-69fa-4a69-86e8-8096dac6ff2a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=962c7125-69fa-4a69-86e8-8096dac6ff2a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=962c7125-69fa-4a69-86e8-8096dac6ff2a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=962c7125-69fa-4a69-86e8-8096dac6ff2a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1669\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"Hudson McLain tries to take a stroke off his golf score by testing his roping skills during the rodeo golf tournament at Conquistador Golf Course. Helping him out is the Miss Colorado Rodeo Queen Madelaine Mills.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Hudson McLain tries to take a stroke off his golf score by testing his roping skills during the rodeo golf tournament at Conquistador Golf Course. Helping him out is the Miss Colorado Rodeo Queen Madelaine Mills.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The third annual Rob Yates Memorial Cowboy Golf Tournament went off without a hitch on Friday at Conquistador Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Keesee, Keiran Keesee, Bo Wagoner and John Gross were the big winners, finishing in first place with a 55.<\/p>\n<p>And then the team of Geno Thompson, Boss Wright, Steve McGill and Randy Wright tied with Steve Broetsky, Garry Miller, Adam Schrum and Dean Cunningham for second with a 59.<\/p>\n<p>The first tournament in 2014 was held on a Thursday, but for the past two years, it\u2019s been moved to Friday, which organizer Marti Spitzer said has helped the event grow.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the tournament had 48 sponsors, a silent auction and donated prizes to dole out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just such a big community effort,\u201d said Spitzer. \u201cIt\u2019s really amazing how many people embrace it and do what they can even if they\u2019re not really golfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spitzer also noted that the memorial event serves as a way to remember the positive impact that Yates had on the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was instrumental in the Ute Mountain Oil Classic, he was a cowboy and he was our chairman of the rodeo,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>And with increasing community support, Spitzer hopes the event will continue to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rodeo committee is just made up of all these people that are just so selfless,\u201d said Spitzer. \u201cWe just want it to grow and be a good event and for it to get better every year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>event brings in 48 sponsors, silent auction and loads of prizes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6328,6313],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-104655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2-more-sports","category-sports-2","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104655"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=104655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}