Davy Evans was a golf pro from an era of decades

There was a time in the Coachella Valley – and perhaps this was true in golf across the country – when the head golf professional at a course would stay at their course for decades.

In the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, there were men like Bill Ogden at Bermuda Dunes Country Club, Don Fairfield at Eldorado Country Club, Ellsworth Vines at Tamarisk and Claude Harman at Thunderbird and Morningside who were at the same club for a decade, sometimes two decades. Sally Mahoney was at O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs for three decades.