TWIN WARRIORS GOLF CLUB AT HYATT REGENCY TAMAYA RESORT & SPA TO HOST THE WOMEN'S PGA CUP IN 2022 By Brian Weis

TWIN WARRIORS GOLF CLUB AT HYATT REGENCY TAMAYA RESORT & SPA TO HOST THE WOMEN'S PGA CUP IN 2022

Women PGA Club Professionals Play For Their Countries in Biennial Team Event

By Brian Weis

The PGA of America announced today that Twin Warriors Golf Club at Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, will host the 2022 Women's PGA Cup*the premier international competition for women PGA Club Professionals*October 24-29, 2022.

The Women's PGA Cup is not played for prize money; rather, teams vie for bragging rights and the honor of winning the Cup. Win or lose, all teams will bask in the pride that comes with representing one's country in a distinct and unique competition.

Twin Warriors Golf Club, designed by Gary Panks and opened in 2001, plays through the high desert, and is routed in and around 20 ancient cultural sites. Other features include beautiful grassy knolls, ridges dotted with Juniper and Pinon Pine, dry washes (arroyos) and eroded land features, along with the sacred butte known as Tuyuna or "Snakehead," all framed by spectacular views of the Sandia Mountains.

The United States team won the inaugural Women's PGA Cup by four shots in October 2019 at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa/Foothills Course in Austin, Texas.

"We're very excited to welcome the top women's golf Professionals from around the globe to Twin Warriors and the beautiful state of New Mexico," said PGA of America President Jim Richerson. "The inaugural Women's PGA Cup in 2019 was well-received globally and the tight margin of victory enjoyed by the U.S. Team showed the women's game is rich in international talent, especially at the professional level."

The inaugural Women's PGA Cup attracted five-member teams from Australia, Canada, Great Britain & Ireland, Sweden and the United States.

These five PGA Associations shared a vision and mindset that the Women's PGA Cup can serve as a catalyst to grow golf internationally and promote the role of the female professionals within it.

Each national team will again be composed of five players and one Captain. Each country has the option of allowing its Captain to compete, as well. Each team's lowest three scores will be counted after each round and the victorious country will have the lowest 54-hole aggregate total.

Those eligible to represent their country in the Women's PGA Cup must be Members in good standing with their respective Professional Golfers Association (PGA). They also must be active in the game, be it as a teacher, coach or working as Club Professional/Assistant. Tour professionals who primarily compete for a living are not eligible to participate.

Twin Warriors has hosted a variety of notable events and tournaments, including the PGA Professional Championship in 2003 and 2009.

"We are honored to be hosting the Women's PGA Cup at Twin Warriors Golf Club next October," said Derek Gutierrez, PGA General Manager/Director of Golf at Santa Ana Golf Club, Inc. "As a two-time past host of the PGA Professional Championship, we are confident Twin Warriors will offer the same challenging test of golf for women PGA Professionals representing their countries in this international competition. To pair the 2022 Women's Cup with the historic Santa Ana Pueblo and Twin Warriors Golf Club is certain to create excitement, drama and history."

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.