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Charles Blanchard ('60) ~ Doctor of Golf

Original Release: 9/1/2025

Charles Blanchard ('60) ~ Doctor of Golf

Class of 1960's Dr. Charles Blanchard recently received a proclamation from the State of New Mexico Lieutenant Governor as a “Doctor of Golf”. Dr. Blanchard's business card titles him as a performance psychologist, speaker, and golf writer. The following is an excerpt written by Richard Coltharp, opinion columnist for the Las Cruces Bulletin.

“Charlie has written for the Las Cruces Bulletin since 2006, and has written in the range of 800 columns. Those columns typically take up about 50 square inches, which in the current size of the Bulletin is about a half page. In terms of square footage, that's roughly .35 square feet per column. All told, Charlie has written around 300 square feet in columns. I recently saw a video of a 300-square foot apartment in New York City... it's 300 square feet. The monthly rent for that apartment? $2,300!

I've gotten to know Charlie over the years, and really appreciate him as a person, as well as a golf expert. Not only is Charlie a clinician in terms of the sport, he is also an actual doctor, and has done work in sports psychology. I regularly find useful concepts in Charlie's columns, not necessarily to help my shoddy golf game, but to apply in business and everyday life. In one of his columns, Charlie included this quote from the late architect and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller: 'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.' That rings true in so many walks of life.

In the walk of the golf course, Blanchard regularly does one of the hardest things for anyone to do in golf: Hit your age.

Blanchard is 80, an age where many people are under the green grass instead of walking on it with a golf club. And his score at the end of a round is almost always under 80 these days.

Congrats, Doc Blanchard, and we at the Bulletin express our sincere appreciation for your contributions to our newspaper, and to the Las Cruces community these many years.”

STATE OF NEW MEXICO
Lieutenant Governor

Does Hereby Extend His Recognition and Acknowledgement to

Charles Blanchard
“Doctor of Golf”

WHEREAS, Charles Blanchard resides in Las Cruces, New Mexico and is a long standing member at Picacho Hills Country Club in Las Cruces; and

WHEREAS, Charles Blanchard, since turning 80 years old has maintained a score well under his age; and

WHEREAS, Charles Blanchard began writing golf articles for the Las Cruces Bulletin in 2006 and has written over 880 articles and counting, and is known by his readers as “Doctor of Golf”; and

WHEREAS, Charles Blanchard along with Hall of Fame Coach Herb Wimberly organized the Performance Golf School and for 15 years offered amateur golfers courses to improve their golf skills; and

WHEREAS, Charles Blanchard was an all American swimmer at the University of Notre Dame where they now award the Charles Blanchard Award for Leadership.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that recognition be given to Charles Blanchard and be recognized by the state of New Mexico as “Doctor of Golf”.

Signed and Sealed at the Capitol in the City of Santa Fe
this 23rd day of June 2023

Howie C. Morales
Lieutenant Governor