{"id":742680,"date":"2026-07-04T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742680\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:52:11","slug":"tucson-golf-pro-makes-it-to-the-u-s-senior-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/742680\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson golf pro makes it to the U.S. Senior Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSubscriber Exclusive \u2014 Unlocked This Weekend Courtesy of Tucson Appliance.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen years ago, 2010, Skyline Country Club golf pro Chris Dompier shot a 59 at Skyline, becoming just the fifth Tucsonan to break 60 and become part of the city&#8217;s rich golf history.<\/p>\n<p>Dompier took it to a higher level this week, qualifying for the ongoing U.S. Senior Open, winning a playoff in the final qualifying round in Denver. Dompier has probably been the top Tucson club pro of the last decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of six to break 60. The others: Armen Dirtadian shot 59 at Dell Urich in 1977; Willie Kane shot 58 at Dell Urich in 1989; Rich Barcelo shot 59 at Arizona National in 2000; Chris Nallen shot 58 at Arizona National in 2003; Dompier shot 59 at Skyline in 2010; and Mike Russell shot 59 at the Stone Canyon Club in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscriber Exclusive \u2014 Unlocked This Weekend Courtesy of Tucson Appliance. Sixteen years ago, 2010, Skyline Country Club golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[319040,319041,1017,427,35769,79875,79872,155058,319045,47076,319046,319042,319044,319047,319039,99,17375,5052,319038,319043],"class_list":["post-742680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-amateur-golf-tournaments","tag-amateur-sports-competitions","tag-arizona","tag-golf","tag-golf-tournaments","tag-grass-field-surfaces","tag-lawn-games","tag-pga-tour-champions","tag-pga-tour-champions-events","tag-professional-golf","tag-professional-golf-tours","tag-professional-sports-organizations","tag-senior-golf","tag-senior-golf-tournaments","tag-senior-major-golf-championships","tag-sports","tag-sports-competitions","tag-tucson","tag-u-s-senior-open","tag-united-states-golf-association-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}