Talk:Cactus Tour

tables of results
It would be nice to compile a table like the one for Epson Tour at Epson_Tour. In the past there apparently were cumulative results available for at least one year, 2008, at an "archive" page within the Cactus Tour website, http://www.thecactustour.com/archive/results2008.html. That just shows Error 404 to me now. But that was captured by the Wayback Machine, and an archived copy is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20111008044923/http://www.thecactustour.com/archive/results2008.html. It lists all prizes given in all 26 events held in 2008, though it is not clear what monetary prize, if any, that winner Anne Nordqvist garnered in the last event. She won "the trophy".

So far I get, from that and from :

https://web.archive.org/web/20140528004106/http://www.thecactustour.com/images/tourlogo.jpg is a logo of the tour.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141019124507/http://www.thecactustour.com:80/archive.html Mike Brown, Tour Director phone number in 2014

--Doncram (talk) 05:02, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://thecactustour.com/archive/* suggests results for 2006 then each year to 2012 should be available.

Note: the above table is a work in progress. What was sitting in the draft article, when it was just reviewed by AFC editor User:Nosebagbear was the following very incomplete table (and it was reasonable to remove that, which they did):
 * Historical tour schedules and results

Cactus Tour contact, and summary data not available
I successfully contacted the Cactus Tour, asking specifically for previous years' results, and was told they changed computer systems and did not keep them. Actually there probably hasn't been public interest, due to the relatively low dollars and informal nature of this tour. However, maybe sometime I or someone else could use the archived raw data that I was in fact able to find, and tally up years' total prizes, etc. That would be okay I think, as long as carefully done, as that would be working with primary documents and there would be no way to check the totals, as there exists no other source. --Doncram (talk) 20:52, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

another source, including about how women experience the tour
Another source to use:

--Doncram (talk) 21:55, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

to add about McNichols idea/offer and last-minute organizing of first winner-take-all event in 2020
Economic data/claims about golf in Arizona available around page 35 or so in https://issuu.com/onmediaaz/docs/azgolf_feb21_book_issuu, Arizona Golf Insider - February 2021, Published on Feb 12, 2021, which is a glossy colorful book thing for this issue. pp 18-19:

"The Cactus Tour owner Mike Brown thought Bob McNichols was kidding. During a phone call early last December, the developer of Longbow Golf Club in Mesa made Brown, who has run the women's professional women's golf mini-Tour since 1911, an offer he couldn't believe. "He said to me, 'What do you think about a $10,000 winner-take-all over 18 holes at Longbow for your top four money-earners,'" recalled Brown. "I said, yeah right...

McNichols would raise the money. The event was organized in just 2 weeks. Longbow had had 2 tour events already.

it was a great event. It was Bob's baby.... --Doncram (talk) 23:49, 22 September 2022 (UTC)