Ken van Vechten

2 months ago | foremagazine.com | Ken van Vechten

Kestrel alights at Indian Wells Golf ResortTHERE’S A SOARING NEW TAKE on one of the Coachella Valley’s grandest 37th holes at Indian Wells Golf Resort. Welcome Kestrel. “I’m thrilled to get to the Coachella Valley,” says Richard Blais, chef/proprietor. “It’s a pinch-me moment.

Oct 16, 2024 | foremagazine.com | Ken van Vechten

Once A Staple of Coachella Valley Play, New Management is Bringing the Course and Community Back to LifeThe desert returns every fall, notably around November. You see it all across the Coachella Valley: In bustling stores, on packed tee sheets and for year-round locals in the renewed need to get dinner reservations well in advance. There is a another return this fall, one long awaited and long overdue. It’s really more a renaissance: Hello, Trilogy Golf Club at La Quinta.

May 6, 2024 | foremagazine.com | Ken van Vechten

Forget out of bounds stakes, waste areas and murky ponds, the greatest threat during summer golf is right overhead, our otherwise good friend Sol. Here are some tips to help you make it through those thermo-popping summertime rounds. The first line of defense is sun-protection apparel. The material is really helpful for areas where we never apply sunscreen — hello, back — and it doesn’t need to be reapplied during the round.

Jan 29, 2024 | foremagazine.com | Ken van Vechten

“I told Tiger we had something in The common, we both started our careers at the Riv in 1992.”Yep, Jeff Cushanick, Tiger Woods, Riviera Country Club, Los Angeles Open … first time in the field for each of them. You were thinking the line came from 1992 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Mark Carnevale? If you’re confused, it’s cool. Cushanick is a caddie, an amateur caddie, at that.

Oct 21, 2023 | foremagazine.com | Ken van Vechten

Get fit. Get new clubs. Or maybe not. “I think that was the aha thing about the whole experience: that the clubs I have, some I didn’t think I could hit, I actually can play them, and play them well. I just need to play them more frequently. If you stop playing the clubs you don’t think you hit well, your chances of hitting them well decrease.”So says avid, high-handicap golfer Terri Gallavan, capturing golf’s great Catch-22 following a recent fitting session at Club Champion in Palm Desert.