PNW Golfer May 2010 - Pacific Northwest Golf Association

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MAY 2010
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
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111 years
as Guardians
of the Game
Fred Couples
Man in Full
Old Macdonald
Bandon’s foursome
is complete
Precious Metals
Product review
Final Tour
Byron Nelson
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Nature
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Centennial Golf Club
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Vol. 16 No. 2 • May 2010
MAY 2010
BRITISH
GOLFCOLUMBIA
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An official magazine of the Pacific Northwest Golf
Association, British Columbia Golf Association,
Idaho Golf Association, Oregon Golf Association,
Washington State Golf Association and the
Pacific Northwest Section PGA
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28
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| Publisher’s Essay
Championship summer
in the Northwest
8
| Chip Shots
Highlights from around
the Northwest
16
| SOUTHERN BELLE
Centennial Golf Club sizzles
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| NEW COURSE, OLD SCHOOL
Old Macdonald Golf Links to open
22
| RETURN OF THE KING
Fred Couples – more than game
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| A RECORD REMEMBERED
Byron Nelson’s eclipse
at Broadmoor
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| BACKYARD GENIUSES
Northwest product review
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| WORK IN PROGRESS
Preparation continues
at Chambers Bay
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| BACKSPIN
Q&A: We asked, you answered
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| Distinguished
service award
PNGA honors recipients
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| ASK THE EXPERT
Making the turn at 50
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| LINKS to THE PAST
Origins of Senior National Open
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| RULES OF THE GAME
DMD if you dare
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| GREAT HOLES OF
THE NORTHWEST
White Horse Golf Club
Kingston, Washington
| ON THE COVER
The par-4 13th hole at
Medford, Oregon
Photo by Tom Breazeale
Photo by Rob Perry
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United States Amateur
The first United States Amateur ever to be
conducted in the Northwest was held in 1937 at
Alderwood Country Club in Portland, another
A.V. Macan gem that sadly no longer exists,
having been replaced by Portland International
Airport many years ago. Former U.S. Open
champion Johnny Goodman of Omaha,
Nebraska emerged victorious.
Then in 1952 there was an epic dual at Seattle
Golf Club between Everett golf legend Jack
Westland and Spokane phenom Al Mengert. The
47-year-old Westland defeated
Mengert by a 3&2 margin to
become the oldest National
Amateur champion in history.
Ironically, Westland lost in the
1931 final at Beverly Country
Club in Chicago to Francis
Ouimet, who would reign as the
eldest champion until Westland
would break his record 21 years
later. Westland attempted to
defend his title in 1953, but lost in
the first round to a young upstart
named Arnold Palmer. Mengert
would go on to a stellar career as
a club professional competing in
more than a dozen major championships.
Waverley Country Club hosted the
Championship in 1970 and future World
Golf Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins returned a
72-stroke play score of 279 to win by one over
Tom Kite. Seattle’s Jim McLean finished third.
The Rose City again hosted the event in
1996 at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club and Tiger
Woods made Championship history by capturing
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With the 110th United
States Amateur at Chambers
Bay and The Home Course
August 23-29 and the
31st U.S. Senior Open at
Sahalee Country Club July
29-August1, it promises to
be an exciting championship
summer in the Northwest. If
history is destined to repeat
itself, then the region’s golf
enthusiasts are in for a treat.
Photo from PNGA Championships & Friendships history book
| Exciting Championship Summer Ahead
Al Mengert (left) and champion Jack Westland during the
1952 U.S. Amateur at Seattle Golf Club.
his third consecutive National Amateur title over
Florida’s Steve Scott in an exhilarating nationally
televised playoff.
Chambers Bay and The Home Course are
making final preparations for the world’s finest
amateurs as another page in golf’s history book is
about to be written. It will mark the first United
States Amateur conducted on a municipal golf
course (Chambers Bay). The Home Course,
owned by the PNGA & WSGA, will also be
the first association course ever to host a USGA
national championship.
Visit www.2010usamateur.com for tickets
and information.
U.S. Senior Open
While the U.S. Senior Open is not a century
old, its list of past champions reads like a Who’s
Who of golf, including Arnold Palmer (1981),
Gary Player (1987, ‘88), Lee Trevino (1990),
Jack Nicklaus (1991, ‘93), Tom Weiskopf (1995),
Hale Irwin (1998), and Peter Jacobsen (2004), to
name just a few. Judging how well 60-year-old
Tom Watson played at last year’s British Open
and Fred Couples played in the recent Masters
tournament, it should be an exciting shootout
on “High Heavenly Ground,” which is the local
Native American translation for Sahalee.
Seattle’s favorite son Couples is also the
Honorary Chairman and will give a Junior golf
clinic for youngsters on Tuesday, July 27 as part
of Championship week.
The only other time the U.S. Senior Open
was held in the Northwest was in 1982 at
Portland Golf Club, as Miller Barber took home
the honors. Tacoma’s Dr. John Harbottle earned
low amateur honors.
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Chip Shots
HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE NORTHWEST
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You could
be here now
(except without
all that gallery
staring down at
you, making you
nervous).
Pictured is the
par-3 17th hole
at Sahalee.
Enter to win a tee
time at Sahalee
Now’s your chance to play Sahalee
Country Club the way the pros play
it. You can enter to win one of two
available spots to play Sahalee under
championship conditions in the
Championship Invitational, held August
2, the day after the conclusion of the
2010 U.S. Senior Open Championship.
Tough hole locations, thick rough, plenty
of sunshine (we hope) and gawdawmighty all those trees! The same
course set-up as will be played during
the final round of the championship!
Go to www.thepnga.org and enter to
win your tee time at a USGA championship course. Or call 800-643-6410 for
more information.
NW golf history
on display at USSO
The PNGA will be showcasing the
history of golf in the Northwest this
summer at the 2010 U.S. Senior Open
Championship, being held at Sahalee CC in
Sammamish, Wash. on July 26-August 1.
The Founders Museum, made
possible by a donation from Gene Lynn,
one of the founders of Sahalee, will
highlight the players, personalities,
championships and friendships that
have made golf unique in our part of the
world.
Admission to the museum will be free
to all of the estimated 140,000 guests
during that week. Trophies, prints,
and photo exhibits will be on display,
and exhibits will include replicas of
the Wanamaker and Ouimet Trophies,
the respective trophies of the PGA
Championship and U.S. Senior Open, as
well as items from the BC Golf Museum
and other donors.
Visit www.thepnga.org for updates.
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Royal Oaks
Banner Flies
In Afghanistan
Royal Oaks Country Club has
supported families of deployed soldiers
through an annual fund raising event called
the American Turkey Shoot Out. Funds are
dispersed through Operation Homefront,
a not-for-profit organization providing
emergency and morale assistance for troops,
the families they leave behind, and for
wounded warriors when they return home.
At the 2009 Turkey Shoot Out, held last
November, flags were exchanged with the
162nd Engineering Company prior to their
deployment. The 162nd is now stationed
somewhere in the province of Helmand, Afghanistan and flies the ROCC banner as a constant
reminder of our support.
An excerpt from a note recently sent to Royal Oaks by Captain Baca, the unit’s
Commander, reads, “Please send my best to the folks at the Club. Your flag is flown daily
next to ours. I cannot count how many times I have explained the story of why 162nd
Company flies that flag. Every time, bar none, the remarks are positive and disbelief that your
organization provides that kind of support.”
Thanks to Eric Yaillen/OGA
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Chip Shots
WESTON Passes
In late March, golf in
the Northwest lost a giant
with the passing of C. Harold
Weston, Jr. He was 93.
A fine player, Weston
won the 1956 Oregon Coast
Invitational, and later was
champion of the JuniorSenior Division and Senior
Division of the Oregon Coast
Invitational. He was twice
the Grand Champion of the
Northwest Seniors’ tournament annually held at Victoria Golf Club. He
played in three U.S. Amateurs and a U.S. Senior Amateur.
Weston served as President of Portland Golf Club and the
Northwest Seniors’ Golf Association. He was Oregon’s representative to
the USGA and Chairman of the U.S. Senior Amateur in 1964 at Portland
Golf Club. Weston was also President of the Oregon Junior-Senior Golf
Association.
In 1963 Weston was awarded the annual George Bertz Award for
his service to golf in Oregon and the Northwest. He was President of
the PNGA for three terms, from 1959 to 1961, and was inducted into the
Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Fame in 1997.
Harold was a huge proponent of the PNGA Evans Caddie
Scholarship program. In his honor, donations may be made to the PNGA
- Harold Weston Memorial Fund, 1010 S. 336th St., Suite 310, Federal
Way, WA 98003. Call 800-643-6410 for more information.
Visit www.thepnga.org for a fuller bio of Mr. Weston.
Carrying a Torch
Alan Kristmanson, the Director of Golf at Whistler Golf Club,
carried the Olympic Flame through Whistler for the Torch Relay
leading up to the recent Winter Olympics. Kristmanson, a former
Olympian who played for the Canadian Men’s National Basketball
Team in the 1988 Summer Olympics, was the co-mayor of the
Athletes Village in Whistler for these Winter Olympics. “Being
able to run down Main Street of my hometown (carrying the Torch)
is something I’ll never forget,” he said. “It was the experience of a
lifetime carrying the flame with my two kids running beside me.”
Golf writer
Achenbach honored
Portland golf writer Jim Achenbach
was honored last month at the Masters with
a Masters Major Achievement Award. The
award was presented by Billy Payne, chairman
of Augusta National GC and the Masters
Tournament.
Achenbach, an associate editor of
Golfweek magazine, was covering his 40th
consecutive Masters.
Achenbach is just the second journalist from the West Coast to
receive this award. He travels more than 150 days a year for Golfweek,
specializing in coverage of modern golf equipment and the USGA. A
member at Pumpkin Ridge’s Witch Hollow course, Achenbach regularly
plays in the Oregon Senior Amateur.
Why
do
you
love
golf?
Is it because of the challenge of it? The
quirkiness of it? The time spent with friends? The golf trips? The 19th hole? Is it because it gave
you your best memory? The time spent alone with your parent, or your child? The impossibility
of the game? The outdoors? The scenery? The history?
What is it about this game that makes you absolutely, unconditionally, without shame
or remorse, love it? Send us your story. Send us your photos. Let’s hear it. Let’s see it. Email your
submissions to [email protected].
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Chip Shots
For 16 years, Pacific Northwest Golfer has been the
Northwest’s premier golf magazine, and we thought we’d shed
some light on a few of the award-winning writers and contributors who have
made this possible. They are the finest golf and sports writers in the Northwest;
and yes, they write about golf, but they also play it, breathe it, shout to the sky
about it, and are otherwise knee-deep in it.
We, and they, wouldn’t have it any other way.
If you want more of what you see in these pages, read their work on www.thepnga.org
and www.pacificnorthwestgolfer.com.
Tom Cade, Editor
President, Northwest Golf Media Association
[email protected]
PEOPLE
IN THE
NEWS
A former British PGA apprentice
professional and member of the
University of Liverpool golf team,
Tony Dear is an award-winning
freelance golf travel writer now
living in Bellingham, Wash. He
contributes to numerous golf
publications on both sides of the Atlantic, and is
the editorial director for Golfwashington.com. He
has authored several books on golf, most recently
The Golfer’s Handbook. His own web site - www.
thebellinghamgolfer.com – went live last month.
Guy Generaux
Jay Blasi is a Project Architect with Robert Trent
Jones II, Golf Course Architects, based in Palo Alto,
Calif. Jay worked with Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and Bruce
Charlton on the design of Chambers Bay – this was
Blasi’s first design. When he first learned of Chambers’
selection as the site of the ’10 U.S. Amateur and ’15
U.S. Open, he told us, “This is the greatest day of
my life.” Visit www.rtj2.com for more info on Jay.
When not pretending
to be a decent golfer,
Canadian native (and
lefthander, and we like
him anyway) Crai S.
Bower writes more than
75 travel articles a year
for over 25 publications,
including golf stories
for Alaska Airlines
Magazine, MSN.com and
Journey magazine, among others. He appears monthly
on National Public Radio as a travel commentator. Visit his site at www.FlowingStreamWriting.net.
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is the immediate
past president of
the Northwest Golf
Media Association. He
is a course rater for
Golfweek magazine
and writes for the
Journal Newspapers
in the North Seattle
area. Generaux also
taught high school
English and journalism
courses for 15 years,
and coached high
school golf teams. A
two-sport letter winner
(football & baseball) and graduate of Western
Wash¬ington University in Bellingham, he also holds
a Master’s degree from the University of Washington.
Jim Moore has been the “Go 2 Guy” on the
Northwest sports scene for many years. A graduate
of WSU (he’d want
us to mention that),
he was a long-time
sports columnist for
the Seattle P-I, and
currently writes for
SeattlePI.com and is
a regular guest host
on ESPN Radio.
Blaine Newnham started as a
sportswriter for the Oakland Tribune,
covering the Raiders from 1965-71.
He was then the Sports Editor for
the Eugene Register-Guard until
1982, before moving to Seattle to
become the Times’ Associate Editor
and sports columnist from 1983-2005. He covered
the 1966 U.S. Open, following Ben Hogan around
the Olympic Club. He covered his first Masters in
1987, when Larry Mize won it in a playoff with an
unlikely chip shot. He covered the four majors of the
“Tiger Slam”, when Woods won his four consecutive
championships. In 2002, Newnham wrote a book
entitled Golf Basics. Opinions? Yes, he’s got ‘em.
Seattle-native Dan Raley was
the sports and outdoor editor at the
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from
1977-79, and returned to Seattle to
become a design editor, sportswriter
and enterprise writer for The Seattle
P-I from 1980-2009. While there, he
wrote more than 6,000 stories, winning 60 national,
regional and Hearst awards. Our favorites were his
“Where Are They Now” pieces, in which he chronicled
the later years of Northwest sports legends.
A graduate of the University of
Oregon, Paul Ramsdell has
been a sportswriter for the Tacoma
News Tribune, the Seattle Times
and the Eugene Register-Guard, an
online editor for ESPN.com, and is
a past editorial director for Pacific
Northwest Golfer magazine. Paul has also been the
editor for many regional tournament programs,
including the 2006 U.S. Amateur Public Links and
the 2007 U.S. Girls’ Junior. He is a past president of
Fircrest Golf Club (near Tacoma), and spent six years
as president of the Northwest Golf Media Association.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12
Bob Robinson started covering
golf for The Oregonian in the mid1960s. He has covered 24 major
championships, two Ryder Cups,
and more than 30 LPGA Tour events.
With Robinson leading the way, The
Oregonian had the most complete
and detailed year-round golf coverage of any media
outlet in the Northwest. His knowledge of the game
made him one of the most well-known sportswriters in
the region, if not the country. During his career, Bob
has been named the Oregon Sportswriter of the Year,
and has been awarded the Dale Johnson Media Award
by the Oregon Golf Association and the Distinguished
Service Award by the Northwest Golf Media Association.
Jeff Shelley has over 20
years experience in golf writing
and research. He co-founded
the Northwest Golf Media
Association, has been editorial
director of Cybergolf.com and
golfconstructionnews.com since
2000, and authored three editions of the book, Golf
Courses of the Pacific Northwest. Jeff established
Fairgreens Media, Inc., a company that that publishes
books, magazines and consulting materials. A
former editor of Golfing the West and Back Nine
magazines, Shelley co-authored the history book,
Championships & Friendships: the First 100 Years of
the Pacific Northwest Golf Association. He is a regular
member of the Golf Writers Association of America.
public relations, he’s promoting the Celtic Manor
Resort in Wales, site of the 2010 Ryder Cup. Wood
tells us with a straight face that he is now working
on his next book, a golf murder mystery.
Chris Wood has been covering
Idaho for Pacific Northwest Golfer
for two years. He began covering
golf in 1985 as a sportswriter at the
Idaho State Journal in Pocatello.
He has covered the IGA Men’s
State Amateur on location every
year since. Wood was the editor and publisher of
Intermountain Golf Magazine from 1995-2006.
David Wood is a stand-up comedian who has
appeared on the David Letterman Show and now
makes public appearances as a keynote motivational
speaker. He took a year off to travel the world,
golf clubs in tow, which he chronicled in his book,
Around the World in Eighty Rounds. Now working in
Arnold Palmer Golf on 3600 Acres
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The 193-yard par-3 14th hole at Centennial Golf Club
Photo by Rob Perry
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olfers “in the know” about golf in
Southern Oregon are privy to the
fact that Centennial Golf Club in
Medford is a must-play that doesn’t
disappoint.
Centennial burst onto the
Rogue Valley golf scene in May of 2006, boasting
a spectacular 7,309-yard, par-72 layout, designed
by two-time PGA Tour winner and 1977 U.S.
Amateur Champion, John Fought. The golf course at
Centennial was designed in the classic Donald Rossstyle and takes full advantage of the spectacular views
of the Rogue Valley and the surrounding mountains.
Just last fall, Centennial Golf Club ranked No. 6
in the country in Golf World’s Readers’ Choice Awards
amongst the “Top 50 Public Courses in the Country.”
Centennial debuted in this ranking ahead of notables
such as Edgewood Tahoe, Bethpage Black and Trump
National Los Angeles, to name a few. In this same
national ranking, Centennial also made the top 10
“Best of the Best” list in course condition (voted No.
5) and in quality of course (voted No. 9). The Golf
World Readers’ Choice Awards recognizes the top
public, resort, and private golf facilities throughout
the country, with ratings based entirely on reader
reviews and input.
Golfers within the region had already come to
their own conclusion, putting the Centennial golf
experience on a pedestal when they voted the layout
as the “No. 1 Best Golf Course” in the region in the
Medford Mail Tribune.
Located on the former site of a historic pear
orchard more than 100 years old, Centennial
Golf Club is an affiliate of Medford-based Pacific
Retirement Services, Inc. (PRS), and is located
adjacent to another PRS affiliate, Rogue Valley
Manor. The Rogue Valley Manor is a premier
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
and has received numerous national awards for
providing outstanding services to residents and
active seniors.
Other amenities at Centennial include
Southern Oregon Unlimited Golf Packages
The 233-yard par-3 4th hole at Centennial Golf Club
an expansive practice facility and “The
Pavilion” clubhouse that is home to the
popular Centennial Grille. Centennial
Golf Club is managed by industry leader,
Scottsdale-based OB Sports (the same
management group that runs Tetherow in
Bend and Langdon Farms in Aurora).
OB Sports also manages the Manor’s public
9-hole Quail Point Golf Course. Quail Point
serves up mountain vistas, picturesque ponds
and rolling tree-lined fairways. Commonly
referred to as “The Best Conditioned 9-hole
Course in Southern Oregon,” Quail Point is
known for its fun-filled layout, mountain vistas,
picturesque ponds, and family oriented setting,
all at an exceptional value.
And speaking of families, they are going
to love the new Putting Course at Quail
Point. Currently boasting 9 holes (with plans
to expand to 18), this fun-filled natural grass
putting course is a perfect venue to practice
with the flat stick or settle any bets. The
putting course is just $5 for nine holes and
$8 for 18 (lower rates are offered to juniors,
Rogue Valley Manor residents, cardholders and
replay rounds).
Both Centennial and Quail Point are located
just minutes off I-5, in the heart of Medford,
and in the heart of your next golf trip.
Photo by Tom Breazeale
The 492-yard par-5 8th hole Quail Point
Photo by Rob Perry
Centennial Golf Club, Quail
Point and Homewood Suites
by Hilton team up to provide
the best value in the region,
with packages featuring
UNLIMITED GOLF starting at
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The John Fought-designed Centennial
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Course and Homewood Suites by HiltonMedford recently announced their continued
commitment to delivering unique and valueoriented golf packages for golfers looking to
escape to Southern Oregon.
The Southern Oregon Unlimited Golf
Package is being continued throughout
2010 and provides traveling golfers with a
one-stop unique opportunity to experience
spectacular Southern Oregon golf along with
casually elegant accommodations. These
unique packages include accommodations at
the Homewood Suites by Hilton-Medford,
daily Suite Start® breakfast at the hotel and
the popular inclusion of unlimited golf. On the
first day take advantage of unlimited golf at
Quail Point Golf Course followed by unlimited
golf the next day at the “No. 1 Best Course in
Southern Oregon,” Centennial Golf Club.
“For golfers looking to get away without
going too far, the Southern Oregon Unlimited
Golf package offers spectacular unlimited
golf at two Southern Oregon favorites
(Centennial and Quail Point) combined with
great accommodations at the Homewood
Suites by Hilton – right in the heart of
Medford and close to the quaint town of
Ashland,” said Kris Strauss, Director of Sales
and Marketing for OB Sports, management
firm for both Centennial and Quail Point.
“Last year when this package was unveiled
we got a tremendous amount of interest and
traffic from not only golfers in Washington
and California, but also from those who
live in Oregon that were looking for a quick
getaway within easy driving distance. We
are pleased to continue to partner on the
Southern Oregon Unlimited Golf Package and
deliver golfers what they want – a great golf
package value and great golf…and lots of it.”
The Southern Oregon Unlimited
Golf Package includes
• Two nights in a spacious king suite at the
Homewood Suites by Hilton-Medford
• Unlimited Golf at Quail Point on Day One
for one player (additional rounds for
second golfer are available for purchase)
• Unlimited Golf at Centennial Golf Club
on Day Two for one player (additional
rounds for second golfer or additional
play dates are available for purchase)
• Daily complimentary Suite Start®
breakfast at the hotel
• Welcome Home® Reception featuring
dinner with beer and wine (Mon-Thurs
only) at the hotel
• Shared cart fee daily
Rates start at $139.50 per night. Guests
must stay a minimum of two nights with this
package. Unlimited golf is based on a booked
tee time for the morning round, with second
and additional rounds based on a same
course, standby, space available basis. Based
on availability, package is available now
through December 31, 2010.
As an alternative, golfers can also select
the Quail Point Golf Package that
includes accommodations at Homewood
Suites by Hilton-Medford and golf at the
impeccably groomed 9-hole Quail Point Golf
Course. The Quail Point package includes:
• Luxurious accommodations at Homewood
Suites by Hilton-Medford
• Suite Start® breakfast at the hotel
• One round of golf at Quail Point – “The
Best Conditioned 9-hole Course in
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• Shared golf cart
The Quail Point Golf Package starts at
just $119 per night based on availability now
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To reserve either the Southern Oregon
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Ancient Game, Modern Times
Owner Mike Keiser and designer Tom Doak trace their
golf-mad spiritual lineage to famed architect C.B.
Macdonald in creating Old Macdonald Golf links, the
fourth course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
by Eric Yaillen
THE SHORT OF IT
There are rumors that
Bandon Dunes is moving
ahead with plans for a
12-hole par-3 course to
be built near the opening
hole of Bandon Trails. The
small layout will cover 27
acres, and will be designed
by Bill Coore, who (along
with Ben Crenshaw)
designed Trails.
There is currently
a 9-hole par-3 course
at the south end of the
resort’s driving range.
Called Wee Dunes (or
Shorty’s, after the land’s
longtime caretaker),
it was designed by
David McLay Kidd, who
designed the resort’s
Bandon Dunes course,
and he shaped some of
the short course’s holes
to mirror the holes on
the Dunes course. Open
only when the practice
facility is slow, there is an
“honor box” on the first
tee to drop your donation,
with proceeds benefiting
junior golf programs such
as the Evans Scholars
Foundation.
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M
ike Keiser is more than just your
typical amateur golf enthusiast.
Along with his passion for the
game, he also had a dream that
became what we know as Bandon
Dunes Golf Resort.
In Old Macdonald, the resort’s fourth course set
to open June 1, Keiser has created a course that pays
homage to the roots of the game as well as paying
respect to some of the great golf holes of the world.
Keiser’s story, and that of Tom Doak – the
architect behind the resort’s Old Macdonald and
Pacific Dunes courses – are quite similar to that of
the namesake for which the new course is christened,
Charles Blair (C.B.) Macdonald.
Macdonald may be one of the most influential
persons in American golf history. His grandfather,
a member of the Royal & Ancient, introduced his
impressionable grandson to Old and Young Tom
Morris, where he learned the game.
When he returned to his Chicago home in 1875
finding the game to be non-existent, he developed a
single-minded determination to introduce the game
in this country. In 1892 he organized the Chicago
Golf Club, the first formal 18-hole golf course in
America. Soon five golf clubs, including Macdonalds’
Chicago GC, formed what was later to become the
United States Golf Association. Macdonald would
win the USGA’s first amateur championship in 1895.
Macdonald was also a vocal protector of the
game’s roots. Golf was a game to be honored, he
would say. It molded character. He insisted that the
game could only develop if the USGA ensured the
traditions, customs and most importantly the rules,
Photo by Eric Yaillen/OGA
Photo by Blaine Newnham
The Ocean Hole at Old Macdonald Golf Links.
would strictly adhere to the
model created by the R&A.
Macdonald would become
obsessed with building courses
that would compare favorably
with the finest links in Great
Britain. He established a
benchmark and standard for
golf course design upon the
opening of his National Golf
Links on Long Island, NY, in
1910.
A similar passion developed
in Keiser after experiencing
the game in the British Isles,
Charles Blair (C.B.) Macdonald
where course design evolved naturally from the given
terrain. Here was another Chicago native who was
determined to bring that unique Scottish and Irish
links experience closer to home.
Keiser was an “armchair” course architect who
appreciated the minimalist spirit of course design.
The last thing he wanted was a course shaped by
earthmovers and bulldozers with manufactured
elements and artificial features.
Like Macdonald, Keiser longed to create a course
in the minimalist spirit of course design that evolved
naturally, to create an experience similar to what
he enjoyed when playing the legendary courses of
Scotland and Ireland.
Macdonald’s first course, Chicago Golf Club, was
near his home. Similarly, Keiser’s initial attempt was
a 9-hole course by the shores of Lake Michigan near
his Chicago home. Both hoped to achieve something
even better.
Photo courtesy KemperSports
While Macdonald ventured east to the
populous New York metropolitan area to
construct National Golf Links, Keiser found
his opportunity on the remote southwest
Oregon coast. Many thought Macdonald’s
missives on bringing a non-existent game to
the New World were delusional, and many
considered Keiser’s golf business prospects in
Bandon delusional as well.
The only real difference between
Macdonald and Keiser is that while Macdonald
became a great golf architect himself, Keiser
preferred to be the impresario behind the
scenes, organizing and directing a team of
both undiscovered and proven talents.
If Keiser is the impresario, then Tom Doak
is his maestro, now considered an eminent
composer of great golf holes, creating music
unto its own.
Both Doak and Macdonald developed
their passions at St. Andrews. Both became
students of the golf courses they visited and
played, and both felt a responsibility to build
courses that reflect the ideals of the game as
the Scots played it.
Initially, Doak earned his stripes in the
field working for the “father of post-modern
design,” Pete Dye. It was during this time that
he became known as a controversial critic of
modern golf course designs and author of the
book, “Anatomy of a Golf Course.”
Brothers in arms – Mike Keiser, Tom Doak and design assistant Jim Urbina (L-R) on the site of Old Macdonald.
Doak named his own design firm
“Renaissance Design” in deference to the
period when great thinkers and writers drew
their creativity, energy and inspiration from
classical sources. Instead of drawing his
inspiration from the Greeks and Romans,
Doak drew his from the classic golf courses
from his studies that stood the test of time.
It was a philosophy that paralleled
Macdonald’s.
Doak has said, “My ideas on golf course
design are shaped by having seen nearly every
great course in the world. It still fascinates me
how different good courses can be from one
another. The more that a course seems to be
an integrated part of nature rather than an
artificial construct, the more likely players are
to come away from a round feeling exalted.”
The greens are some of the largest you’ll
ever encounter, averaging more than 15,000
square feet – more than twice the size of the
typical PGA Tour green. The “Biarritz Hole”
(named after the 3rd hole at the Biarritz club
in France), has a deep swale creating a puttable
“chasm” between the front and back of a
green that might be a world-record holder,
measuring 114 feet wide and 222 feet long
(more than 25,000 square feet)!
Some of the other holes of note include a
“Long Hole” reminiscent of No. 14 at St. Andrews
and the 9th at National Golf Links. And there’s
the “Bottle” hole that takes its lead from the
16th hole at St. Andrews by incorporating a
“Principal’s Nose” bunker complex.
There’s even a “Road Hole,” one of the most
famous (or infamous) holes in golf. While there’s
no road or buildings to navigate, it is a supremely
difficult and long par four. In fact, the Caddies
Training Yardage Book notes “The Road Hole
is regarded as the best par-4 ½ hole”...in other
words, it’s okay to play it as a par-5.
While walking Old Mac, know that it was
Macdonald who helped bring this game to our
shores, visionaries like Mike Keiser who honor
amateur golf and maestros like Tom Doak
who choose to return golf course design to its
original roots where nature is honored.
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old macdonald golf links
Old Macdonald Golf Links, the fourth course at Bandon Dunes, pays homage to golf course architect C.B. Macdonald by asking
one simple question: What would Macdonald have created had the Oregon Coast been his canvas? Inspired by Macdonald’s
iconic work, Tom Doak and Jim Urbina have crafted a course that seeks the answer upon vast greens, among myriad angles of
play, and from the depths of fierce bunkers. By celebrating these classic concepts of design, we honor the traditions of this
game we love, and celebrate golf as it was meant to be.
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Pure. Golf. Experience.
The Ghost Creek clubhouse sits behind the 9th hole, a 469-yard par-4.
A world apart, Pumpkin Ridge is the best of both worlds
AT A GLANCE
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club
12930 Old Pumpkin Ridge Road
North Plains, Oregon 97133
503.647.4747
888-594-4653 (Ghost Creek course)
www.pumpkinridge.com
Pumpkin Ridge features a 17-acre
Learning Center featuring customized
instruction and state of the art, hightech club fitting, all led by PGA Director
of Instruction Jerry Mowlds, named
by Golf Digest the No. 1 instructor
in Oregon and “Top 100” instructor
nationally.
Awards
• “Golfweek’s Best Modern
Courses”(post-1960) – 2010
• “America’s Best Modern Courses”,
Golf Digest, 2007-2008
• “Top 100 Places You Can Play”,
Golf Magazine, 2009
• “Best New Public Course”,
Ghost Creek – Golf Digest, 1992
• “America’s Second-Best New Private
Course”, Witch Hollow,
Golf Digest, 1992
This is what we think of when we think
of the game of golf.
Stand on the putting green next to Pumpkin Ridge’s
Ghost Creek clubhouse and look in every direction – all
you see is 36 holes of artwork laid out before you in the
fertile soil of the rolling foothills of the Tualatin Mountains
outside of Portland.
No houses. No roads. No kidding. Maybe an
occasional deer.
Pure golf. The way it should be.
Built to host major events, the Robert Cupp-designed
complex had it figured out from the beginning, and the
idea, really, was simple – build two courses, one public
and one private, which will allow the club to host large
tournaments with minimal impact on public or private
play on either course.
Each hole is different. Each hole is memorable. On
the private Witch Hollow course, the front nine ends not
by the clubhouse but out on the far reaches of the property.
Old style.
The public Ghost Creek course is subtle and
cunning, a great mixture of holes. Short par-4s, long par4s, reachable par-5s and devastating par-3s. And that
phantom creek, winding everywhere.
Membership at the private Witch Hollow course allows
for preferred tee times at the public Ghost Creek layout.
Photo courtesy Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club
In 1996, Tiger Woods brought notoriety to Witch
Hollow when he won his unprecedented third consecutive
U.S. Amateur Championship in a dramatic come-frombehind finish over Steve Scott in what is considered one of
the greatest match play confrontations in the last half of
the 20th century.
The event put Pumpkin Ridge on the map of the
golf world, and set the tone for an impressive run of
championships over the next several years – the U.S.
Junior and Junior Girls’ Championships, a U.S. Women’s
Amateur and a couple of U.S. Women’s Opens. The list
goes on. Pumpkin Ridge was also the site of the first two
Nike (now Nationwide) Tour Championships, in 1993 and
‘94. The walls of both clubhouses are covered with framed
photos of its already storied history.
And this August it will again be the site of the LPGA
Tour’s Safeway Classic.
The Best of Both Worlds
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Hailed as one of the nation’s premier golf courses, Ghost Creek has
Designed by Robert Cupp, this members-only course is nestled in
tested some of the game’s best. A Robert Cupp-designed layout, it
the shadows of the Tualatin Mountains surrounded by dense stands
emulates traditional golf course architecture with gently rolling terrain
of fir, maple, oak, and ash. Its challenging and scenic layout was
and a creek that reappears throughout the 18 holes. Ghost Creek will
the site of Tiger Woods’ historic three-peat win of the U.S. Amateur
host the LPGA Tour’s Safeway Classic in August and is consistently
Championship in 1996 and was rated in 2008 in Golf Digest’s
rated in Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Places You Can Play.
America’s 100 Best Modern Courses.
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A Star in Alignment
Newly dominant on the Champions Tour with a golf
swing for the ages, Fred Couples returns to the
Northwest this summer as an icon ascendant
by Blaine Newnham
Fred Couples on his way
to winning the 1976 PNGA
Junior Boys Amateur.
Couples competed, and
competed well, at this
year’s Masters.
H
Photo copyright PNGA
as one golfer ever meant more to one
tournament?
If the Pacific Northwest got the short stick when
the PGA of America inexplicably took the 2010 PGA
Championship away from Sahalee CC in Sammamish,
Wash., then the golf gods who live in those towering
trees found a way to fight back.
They gave us Fred Couples and a maiden season
not to be believed – three Champions Tour wins in his
four starts – and his whole-hearted commitment to play
not only in the U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee in July, but
also the TELUS World Skins Game at Bear Mountain
Resort in Victoria, BC in June and the Boeing Classic at
TPC Snoqualmie Ridge in August.
We forget now that after the success of the PGA
Championship at Sahalee in 1998 the PGA America
promised its 2010 championship to the “High
Heavenly Ground.”
It later rescinded the bid, claiming too many
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sponsorship dollars would be spent on Vancouver’s Winter
Olympics, only to promise Sahalee a future date.
Into the Valley of Forgotten Commitments rode
the United States Golf Association with a proposal
to play its Senior Open – the No. 1 event on the
Champions Tour – in Seattle.
The season that Fred Couples turned 50.
What a concept.
“To have my first Senior Open at Sahalee will be
a great, great week,” said Couples. “I’m going to do
everything I can to be ready to play. Seattle is special
for me. It’s where I’m from and where I learned the
game.”
He surely has done everything so far to get ready.
Tom Watson had to birdie the last two holes in Hawaii
to keep Couples from winning the first four Champions
Tour events in which he played.
Couples has simply overpowered Champions Tour
courses – after four events he had yet to shoot a round
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Photo by Ed Kageyama
Dynamic Duo - Fred Couples and longtime
bagman Joe Lacava at last month’s Masters.
Honorable
Couples
Fred Couples is the
Honorary Chairman of the
2010 U.S. Senior Open
Championship. He will also
be hosting a Junior Clinic
at Sahalee on Tuesday, July
27 of Championship week.
Admission is free all week
for kids 17 and under when
accompanied by a ticketed
adult.
For tickets, visit
www.2010ussenioropen.com
or call 877.281.6736.
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Couples, able to soothe any furrowed brow, played
with Tiger Woods in Woods’ first public round of golf
upon his return to golf – the first practice round at
this year’s Masters at Augusta National.
Photo copyright Getty Images/David Cannon
worse than 68; he’s first in driving distance,
second in greens in regulation, third in number of
putts and 1-2-3 in popularity.
Walk through the galleries of any PGA Tour
event – and especially a Major – and it is clear
that besides Tiger Woods and possibility Phil
Mickelson, the guy they come to see and most
identify with is the languid, loveable image that is
Fred Couples.
For Woods’ first full round back after rehab,
who does he choose to play with? Fred Couples,
of course – Fred who is not only fun to be around,
but who would deflect attention for the practice
round at Augusta.
“I sent a text asking him if he wanted to play
and he said yes,” said Couples. “No big deal.”
Now, on the Champions Tour, he is even more
relaxed, if that is possible. At Cap Cana he was
wearing golf shoes that looked like deck shoes and
were without socks.
But unlike his Champions Tour mates whose
swings are restricted by age, Couples’ made-inthe-backyard move remains as gorgeous as ever.
Photo copyright Getty Images/Harry How
Mostly, he seems devoid of pressure and able
to produce unlike anything since 1992 when he
won the Masters and was ranked World’s No. 1.
He is playing the Champions Tour as if it were
a desert skins game, where his successes are
unparalleled. He admits to feeling less pressure to
be perfect.
“I feel better on this tour, it is where I belong,”
he said of life after 50. “On the regular tour there is
pressure not to make mistakes. I know I can’t keep
this game up forever. No one can.”
Couples went to the belly putter in 2003.
If nothing else, it allows him to practice more
because he doesn’t have to bend over as much and
put stress on his back.
And then he is hitting a draw off the tee,
swinging easier and hitting the ball farther.
“All my life,” he said, “I’ve looked left off the tee
(where he expected to hit the ball before it moved
right with a slight fade). Now I’m looking right
(playing for a draw). It’s strange, but I actually don’t
have to swing as hard as I did hitting a cut.”
Right now, winning on the Champions Tour is
simple.
“I pretty much birdie all the par-5s,” he
said, “so then I need only one other birdie in
nine holes to be three under at the turn.”
In fact, of the 45 par-5s he played the
first four tournaments this year, he was 44
under par. At Cap Cana, he had 10 birdies
and an eagle on the 12 par-5s.
“Sounds like Fred,” said John Bracken,
his long-time Seattle friend and competitor.
“I remember in high school I shot three or
four-under and Fred eagled back-to-back
par-5s to beat me by three or four strokes.”
Since leaving for college at Houston in
the late ‘70s, Couples has not lived in the
Northwest. But he remains close from afar,
cheering for the Seattle sports teams, ever
crediting his early golf here for his success,
and willing to help with local promotion
and charity (he recently gave $20,000 to
The First Tee chapter at Jefferson Park GC
in Seattle, Couples’ boyhood course).
Couples’ grandparents immigrated
to Seattle from Italy and changed the
family name from Coppola to Couples. His
father, Tom, worked for the city’s parks
department and the family lived on Beacon
Hill, near Jefferson Park.
“You are as a golfer where you came
from,” he said. “Jefferson Park had tight
fairways and small greens. My iron play has
always been the strongest part of my game
and I realize it is good because of the golf I
had to play as a kid.”
Can it be 32 years since Couples
won the Washington Open at Glendale
CC (Bellevue, Wash.) as an 18-year-old
amateur, playing the final round in his
tennis shoes?
Meanwhile, Sahalee is doing just
fine selling tickets for the Senior Open,
running 20 percent ahead of last year’s
championship at Crooked Stick in Indiana
and 25 percent ahead of the 2008 event.
Billy Rodgers, marketing director for
the championship, said the increase was
due in large part to an offer that included
an option to buy tickets for the 2015 U.S.
Open at Chambers Bay.
“But the ‘Freddie Factor’ definitely
helps,” said Rodgers. “The sports fan, not just
the golf-specific fan, will become engaged,
especially with Couples in the field.”
In one final attempt to understand his
commanding and yet carefree profile on the
Champions Tour, Couples said, “Well, I’m
relaxed because my time (in the spotlight
on the PGA Tour) has come and gone.”
Or, it’s now just beginning.
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Byron Nelson stands at the scoreboard of Broadmoor
Golf Club in 1945 after setting the scoring record.
Byron Nelson’s
senior moment
B
Photos courtesy the Nelson family
While in Seattle in 1998 for the PGA Championship, Nelson played a nostalgic round at
Broadmoor Golf Club, site of his then-tour-record score, shot in 1945
by Dan Raley
Byron Nelson was under direct orders to serve his country
during World War II, but he wasn’t required to shoot anyone.
Low scores would do just fine. He was asked to play golf with a purpose
and keep the professional game going, to provide people across the
country with a sporting diversion to offset the agony overseas.
He couldn’t have been any more accommodating at the 1945 Seattle
Open. On Oct. 14, two months after the Japanese had surrendered,
Nelson broke the PGA Tour’s low 72-hole score by two strokes,
furnishing a pinpoint 21-under-par 259 at Broadmoor Golf Club.
His effort was hailed as a world record. The smiling Nelson posed
for photos next to a large, handwritten sign outside the Broadmoor
clubhouse indicating as much. Yet for the tall, soft-spoken Texan, this
moment was merely a response to a highly competitive situation. It was
his volley, so to speak. Three weeks earlier, Ben Hogan had established
the previous record in Portland, firing 261. Nelson felt it was his
responsibility to break it.
“As you know, Hogan and I were great competitors, friendly
competitors,” said Nelson shortly before his death in 2006 at 94.
“Hogan shot 261 and that really got me to go to work. I said, ‘He’s not
going to do that to me.’ I said that in a polite way.”
Over Broadmoor’s compact 6,270-yard layout, Nelson turned in
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rounds of 62, 68, 63 and 66, finishing 13 shots better than his nearest
pursuers, Harold “Jug” McSpaden and hometown entry Harry Givan.
Nelson pocketed $1,500 in cash rather than accept the option of $2,000
in war bonds, with the vouchers proving difficult to use for hotel bills
and other travel essentials.
Nelson and McSpaden had been designated as golf’s wartime
ambassadors, nicknamed the “Gold Dust Twins,” only too happy to
oblige and put their public profile to good use on the home front. They
flew coast to coast four times in one year, visiting USO camps and
rehabilitation centers, anything to cheer up those in uniform. Nelson
estimates he made 110 appearances on behalf of the country’s ongoing
war effort.
That also meant teeing it up as much as possible. Nelson played in
38 tournaments in 1945, winning a record 18 events, including a record
11 in a row, with the Seattle Open among his consecutive conquests.
The Washington Athletic Club organized the $10,000 Seattle Open.
Weekly tickets cost $5.50, daily tickets from $2 to $3. A wartime
presence was obvious with Navy shore patrol providing security and
directing traffic.
A tour event hadn’t been played in Seattle for nine years, and
wouldn’t return for another 16 years, but Nelson left everyone with
plenty of memories. He always looked forward to playing in the Pacific
Northwest. He won the 1945 Spokane Open at Indian
Canyon and finished as runner-up in the 1944 PGA
Championship at Spokane’s Manito G&CC. In 1951 and
1952, he barnstormed through the state, taking on
all challengers in exhibitions arranged by McGregor
Sporting Goods, which he represented, and held in
a variety of cities and smaller stops, among them
Aberdeen, Soap Lake, Tacoma and Seattle.
“I played some of the best golf there I’ve ever
played,” Nelson said of the impromptu Northwest
matches. “I always played against the pro or club
champion. We always played the back tees and holed
all putts.”
His record-breaking score in ’45 was a standard
that held up for 10 years, when Mike Souchak shot
a 257 total in the Texas Open. Tommy Armour III now
holds the record, at 254. “Whenever somebody else
does something, sometimes (the Seattle Open) is
brought up, which honors me,” Nelson said before his
death.
This precise, record-breaking outing marked
Nelson’s second visit to Seattle. In 1936, he played
in the city’s first pro tour golf event at Inglewood
Country Club, finishing eighth.
In 1998, Nelson toured the city one last time,
joining the festivities for the PGA Championship at
Sahalee Country Club, which he did for all majors
held across the U.S. back then. To add to the trip to
the Northwest, Nelson’s wife, Peggy, suggested they
call Broadmoor and ask if the aging golfer could play
another round at the scene of his best score.
Five decades had passed and the course was largely
unfamiliar to him. Eighty-six in 1998, Nelson played
from the red tees, the shortest set. His younger
spouse placed his ball on a tee for him each time.
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The best part about his return visit came at the
end of the nostalgic round. While Nelson hadn’t
remembered all the course nuances, the private club,
with a membership older than most, hadn’t forgotten
him. After putting out on the final hole, he received
unexpected validation.
“When we finished the 18th hole, there were
two ladies and four men standing at the back of the
green, and they all said they saw me shoot the 259,”
Nelson recalled.
Wife Peggy with Byron in the late 1990s at the
PGA Tour event that bears his name.
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Local Knowledge
Right in our own backyard
are some of the most creative,
motivated, demonstrative and
contemplative golf product
innovators on the planet
The Quiet Giant
Miura Golf, with its North American headquarters
in Vancouver, BC, has quietly become one of the
finest clubmakers in the business
by Tony Dear
True connoisseurs of golf equipment know Miura makes what
are reputed to be the finest forged irons in the game. They have no
doubt tried them and been instantly seduced not only by the look of
the club but also the exquisite feedback from a shot well hit.
The less informed might have seen the Miura logo at some
point in their life and are vaguely aware the Japanese manufacturer
does not design clubs for the likes of them.
Miura irons, you understand, are more than a bit special.
Built in Japan in limited quantities, they are not inexpensive either
and have a reputation for being suitable only for “players.” It’s not a
reputation the company disputes.
Each club is a work of art, science, devotion and skill, and created from soft 1025 carbon-steel using a 14-step forging process conceived by Katsuhiro Miura who grew up in the Japanese city of Himeji
where master craftsmen once built swords for Samurai warriors.
Miura began forging club heads at the age of 16. At 23 he set up
his own manufacturing company which, 45 years later, still adheres to
the same basic principle – that quality is everything.
Precision is a big deal at Miura. The company’s forging process
is similar to that of other company’s but differs in one crucial area.
After the cylindrical steel billet has been heated to 1200˚C, it is fashioned into the shape of the
clubhead but without a hosel. Most first forgings incorporate the hosel, but Miura believes this
is a significant flaw.
“Mr. Miura believed the hosel should be made separately from the clubhead and
needed to be heated and hammered differently to how the face was treated,” says Bill
Holowaty, the company’s Vice-President of General Operations who is based in Vancouver,
BC. “By making it separately, we are able to treat the face without compromising the quality
of the hosel and vice versa.”
And because only 500 or so are made during a typical day by 34 skilled technicians
on the factory floor, there is never, Holowaty repeats never, a risk that quality may be
compromised.
Starting this year, Miura intends marketing its products a little more aggressively than
in years past when it relied on a select number of green grass sites to create awareness, though
Miura himself seems unconcerned by the success or failure of marketing programs.
“The good golfer will always find me,” he says.
Some devotees around the world may have to wait for their clubs, however, as Holowaty
estimates the foundry can produce only 20,000 sets a year.
“We are a relatively small family-run business,” he says. “Mr. Miura’s two sons,
Yoshitaka and Shinei, are master clubmakers themselves and work with their father, and if you
visited the foundry you’d probably see Mrs. Miura painting or inspecting clubheads. But it’s not
so much about the size of the foundry or the staff. We wouldn’t really want to make more than
20,000 because at some point you’d start compromising quality.”
And, as we know, Miura would never do that.
For a full transcript of this article, visit www.thepnga.org.
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Rolling with the Rock
The man behind Nike Golf’s transformational golf balls –
Rock Ishii, Product Development Director
by Eric Yaillen
After completing a Masters Degree in
Mechanical Engineering in 1989, Hideyuki
“Rock” Ishii joined Bridgestone Tire and was
the only new engineer to take the leap into
their very small sports division. He has been
focused on golf ball technology ever since
and has been the pioneer leading most of the
major shifts in golf ball technology over the
past two decades.
While working with players such as Nick
Faldo and Nick Price, it was Ishii who invented
the first competition two-piece ball.
So when Nike decided to enter the golf
market full-bore in 1996 and chose to tackle
the golf ball first, they turned to Ishii to lead
the way.
While continuing to work at Bridgestone Sports in Georgia, Ishii designed the
first Nike golf ball which was used by Tiger
Woods in his 15-stroke victory at the 2000
U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
“That was an historic and transformational moment for the golf ball industry,”
says Ishii. It was also the year the wound ball
would disappear; more than 100 years after it
(the Haskell ball) was invented.
“For me, Nike is first and foremost a
science, research and development company
that happens to focus its efforts to just about
everything related to every sport,” said Ishii.
“We needed fresh blood and new ideas and
I felt Nike was the only company that could
spend money to really change the nature
of golf balls. I also knew they had lots of
resources, knowledge and expertise in other
areas with technology that might be applied
to golf balls.”
For instance, injection molding for running shoes meant there was a mold shop on
campus so they could make the molds they
needed for golf ball.
Cross-pollination of discoveries is
common at Nike. In fact, you’ll find Ishii’s
knowledge of dimple aerodynamics in the
end caps of baseball bats. That came about
after he joined Nike Golf as its only ball
engineer and moved to Oregon in 2002.
Today, Nike Golf’s Research and
Development team has expanded globally to
more than 35 engineers as well as additional
outside manufacturing consultants. Their R &
D facility, presently located in Tigard, Oregon
(soon to move to Beaverton), has complete
research, prototype and testing capabilities.
“We create our golf balls using science
first,” noted Ishii. “What are we looking to
do? Hit the ball farther, straighter, spin it
more, spin it less, hit it high or keep it low?
We prove it in a lab environment first, then
prototype it using the science we’ve proven
out. Next, we take it into the field for testing
so golfers can touch and feel it.”
Taking a golf ball to market is the final
step, with the ultimate goal to increase
market share.
“Too many golfers, especially mid to
high handicap golfers, play a ball without
knowing what it is or does. They’ll choose
the most expensive golf ball thinking it’s
the best golf ball – but it’s not. It depends
on what they need the golf ball to do. If you
need extra distance, then get a ball that
provides the best opportunity to achieve the
right launch angle and spin.”
The key is using science to maximize
your potential.
“We call the first step ball-fitting but
really it’s education,” said Ishii. “We give
them a chance to test different balls with
their clubs and then show data to help them
understand what is good and bad about each
one. That is the first step.”
Ishii works regularly with the likes of
tour players Stephen Ames, Justin Leonard,
Paul Casey, Stewart Cink and of course Woods.
“Ninety-nine percent of golfers out
there don’t have the consistency they want
for both center and off-center shots and they
are always looking for ways to improve their
game,” says Ishii. “We believe we can improve
it with technology. That’s the fun part.”
For a full transcript of this article, visit
www.thepnga.org.
Lepp of faith
James Lepp, the former NCAA champion and 4-time BC
Amateur Champion from the University of Washington and
Abbotsford, BC, has put his professional golf career aside to
jump into something even more competitive – the business
world of golf shoes and apparel.
Lepp is the founder and president of Kikkor Golf, which
is set to release its first set of shoes and hats this spring with a
wider range of apparel to follow in the coming years.
Lepp is doing everything to encourage the young
masses to embrace golf as they have snowboarding with
Shaun White and skateboarding with Tony Hawk.
Even the name of the company – Kikkor – is geared
toward the younger set.
Lepp’s business degree at UW concentrated on
entrepreneurship, so being the founder and president of a
company at the age of 26 seems natural. What might seem
unnatural at age 26 is to give up on a professional golf career
that was so promising with the NCAA title in 2005. He won on
the Canadian Tour as an amateur in 2003, and then won the
Greater Vancouver Classic again as a professional in 2007. In
2008, he lost one title in a playoff, and in 2009 played just
twice, but still tied for third once.
“I still plan on playing some Canadian Tour events this
coming year and I still haven’t discarded the idea of playing
more seriously down the road,” Lepp said.
Visit www.kikkor.com for more information.
- Paul Ramsdell
“Well, people call their shoes ‘Kicks,’ so that’s part of
it. Also, the name of any jump in the skate, surf and snow
world is called a kicker,” said Lepp. “While the style of
Kikkors is street-like, they will possess all the needed
functionality of a typical golf shoe,” Lepp said.
Absolutely Fabulous
at Chicks Golf, Too
There’s a Golf
App for that….
by Troy Andrew
I am the first to admit, I am a
gadget man. I keep my eyes peeled
for any new technology that can
help me be more productive (or, in
some cases, less productive).
One area of technology that
seems to be moving at the speed of light
is mobile phones. Other than checking
emails, surfing the web, listening to music,
or watching videos on my iPhone, the
applications you can download on your
mobile phone now number in the millions.
When you do a search on golf
applications you will receive over 400 results.
I have downloaded several mobile golf
applications and use them quite frequently.
Here are a few that I found to be worthwhile.
Swing At’em (iPhone only)
This one I find to be pretty amazing.
Swing At’em is a swing video analyzer
application that was created with the
thought of professional instructors
and serious golfers. The most complete
swing video analyzer app you’ll find for
the iPhone. It was designed with the
help of PGA Teaching Professionals.
Worth noting
GHIN.com has gone mobile. You
can now go to ghin.com and easily post
scores, view scoring history, and look up
handicaps from your mobile phone.
The PNGA’s web site is now compatible
for mobile phones. Just visit www.thepnga.
org on your mobile phone web browser and
you will get the easy to navigate pages of
the PNGA web site at your fingertips.
Recommend a different app? Let
us know at [email protected].
We found it – a store devoted exclusively to women’s
golf apparel and accessories. Located in Puyallup, Wash.,
Chicks Golf, too is a fun, inviting store for women that
provides functional and fashionable outerwear, rain
gear pieces, a selection of really cute shoes, fabulous
handbags and an array of accessories. Brands include
Vancouver (BC)-based LIJA and also Sport Haley.
Visit www.ChicksGolf2.com or call 253.845.0554.
Feel the Glove
Created by longtime PGA
professional Joe Holdridge
of Bellingham, Wash.,
The Glove Connection
helps golfers who have a
tendency to disconnect at the top of the backswing
to maintain a solid and effective hold on the club
from address to impact to follow-through.
Price tag: $29.99.
Visit www.thegloveconnection.com or call 800.260.3245.
AirVue Golf (iPhone only)
This GPS rangefinder has over 18,000
courses in their database. You can search
nearby courses, search by name, or simply go
to your recently played list. If you can’t find a
course, you can ask AirVue Golf and they will
process your course for you, free of charge.
You can measure distances from anywhere on
the course by simply touching the screen.
The Majors
All of golf’s majors now offer an app for
almost every mobile phone. You get realtime leaderboard results, pairings, live
video and more. This is a must have
for anyone who wants to stay up
on the latest news for each major.
ClubGlider
Invented by Gary Sherrell of Maple Valley,
Wash., the ClubGlider has made it all
the way onto the PGA Tour, where 80 touring
pros now travel a little more smoothly. Sherrell
debuted his invention a couple years ago on the
Golf Channel’s “Fore Inventors Only” series, where
he was a finalist. He later partnered his product with
Sun Mountain golf products, based out of Missoula,
Mont. And the rest is golf luggage history.
Price tag: starts at $229.99.
Visit www.theclubglider.com.
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A lot of preparation is going into
the golden-fescue banks along
Puget Sound. Pictured is the par-4
16th hole at Chambers Bay.
Photo by Rob Perry
Magnificent Municipal
In preparing for this summer’s U.S. Amateur
Championship, Chambers Bay has rolled up its
sleeves and gone to work, and gathered support
from its own back yard by Blaine Newnham
WHERE & HOW
CAN I SEE THIS?
O
The 2010 U.S. Amateur is
being held at Chambers Bay
in University Place, Wash. on
August 23-29. The first two
rounds, on August 23 and 24,
are stroke play qualifying,
alternating between Chambers
Bay and The Home Course in
nearby DuPont. After the two
qualifying rounds, match play
will then begin at Chambers
Bay on August 25.
Daily tickets to the
championship are $25, and
weekly passes are $65. Kids 17
and under are admitted free when
accompanied by ticketed adult.
For tickets and information,
visit www.2010usamateur.com,
or call 253.798.2573.
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n a sunny spring day, Chambers
Bay couldn’t have looked
better, or played better, suggesting
vividly that it is ready to host America’s
oldest golf championship, the U.S. Men’s
Amateur.
The upstart links course on the edge of
Puget Sound will be not only the first municipal course to
hold the Amateur, but at 7,700-plus yards the longest.
It all seems so evident, and yet both in and outside the
ropes so much happens that you can’t see in the preparation
for a significant golf championship.
The next time you play Chambers Bay notice that every
bunker has been etched by hand, or by shovel in most cases.
That scotch broom has been yanked from waste areas and
that hillsides are newly covered with fescue that this summer
will be a knee-high explosion of wavy dry grasses.
The greens, once glacially slow, are now about as fast as
their contours and the Geneva Convention will allow.
Outside the ropes, nearly 1,000 tickets
have been sold for the Amateur. More than
100 folks have volunteered their homes to
house many of the 300-plus players, and more
than 600 people have signed up as volunteers.
In addition, area corporations have
bought nearly two-thirds of the tents and
tickets available to them.
“Chambers Bay gets high marks,” said
Robbie Zalzneck, director of the championship
for the USGA, who was on site in March.
“Clearly, they understand what the
Amateur is all about and are treating it as a
special event.”
The Amateur is different, all right.
A case can be made for it being the most
difficult championship in golf to win. The
tournament begins with more than 7,000
golfers (anyone with a USGA handicap index
of 2.4 or lower) from around the country
playing at 100 various qualifying spots in a
harrowing elimination process that leaves 312
standing for two rounds of qualifying here,
one at Chambers Bay, the other at The Home
Course in nearby DuPont.
The two qualifying rounds cut the field to
64, who then enter sudden-death match play at
Chambers Bay that only one player, who must
win five matches, will survive.
Bobby Jones won the championship five
times, Tiger Woods three times. The first was
won in 1895 by C.B. Macdonald, the famed
architect whose work is being masterfully
recalled in the opening this summer of the Old
Macdonald course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort
in Oregon.
Besides the tradition and the young
talent, there is a proximity of spectator-toplayer that just doesn’t happen in other major
championships.
Spectators – tickets are $25 a day or $65
for a week – are inside the ropes because there
are no ropes.
“They have a better look at seeing and
hearing what is going on than everyone but the
caddie,” said Zalzneck.
“Everyone in the USGA is excited about
this place,” he continued. “We think the
Amateur will be that much better here this
year because the U.S. Open will be played here
in 2015.”
Don’t get caught up in the Amateur
being a dress rehearsal for the Open. The two
championships are that different.
First of all, they don’t play the Amateur
just anywhere. Last year it was held at Southern
Hills in Oklahoma, the year before that at the
Olympic Club in San Francisco, and before that
Pinehurst and Merion. Mighty and venerable
courses, all.
And match play is certainly more
combustible and less predictable than
stroke play.
While the Open is generally sold out
years in advance and USGA officials believe
Chambers Bay can accommodate nearly
60,000 fans a day, the Amateur is played
before a few thousand fans.
“The interest shown by the local
community in providing housing for the
players indicates that this will be a wellattended Amateur,” said Zalzneck. “Anything
close to 5,000 spectators would be excellent.”
Unlike for the Open when the USGA
pays for everything, Chambers Bay must
generate nearly $1 million from ticket sales and
corporate involvement to stage the Amateur.
“I think we’ll do that,” said Matt Allen,
the general manager at Chambers Bay. The
behind-the-scenes and outside-the-ropes
activity is directed by Kathleen Pope, who
worked with KemperSports, the management
company at Chambers, at the Curtis Cup
matches at Bandon Dunes in Oregon.
“We’re getting great response from the
community,” she said. The Amateur admittedly
focuses on the competitors more than the customers, providing housing and transportation
for the 300 or so who make it here.
“The Pacific Northwest Golf Association
has been a perfect partner in the use of The
Home Course,” said Allen.
Certainly, Chambers Bay is not shortchanging the Amateur. It is spending money
promised from the USGA for the staging
of the Open to get the course ready for the
Amateur, including the work in the bunkers
and the hydro-seeding that will cover the
dunes with eye-pleasing tall fescue grasses.
Even in a poor economic climate,
Chambers Bay made more than $1 million on
its operation last year but came up more than
$1 million short of paying off the debt incurred
to build the course.
Pierce County covered the shortfall with
the promise that money from the USGA –
some $5 million in all – would pay the debt.
There will be nothing lacking for the
Amateur. The course will have the same basic
layout as for the Open, changing the 13th and
18th holes from par-5s to par-4s, while leaving
the option open to use a second green on the fifth
hole and letting the first hole play as a par-5.
Mike Davis of the USGA will set up the
course. In adding nine new tees, he said he has
never had as many options of play as he has at
Chambers Bay.
He also said he sees no reason that the
USGA won’t be back for both the Amateur
and the U.S. Open. Again and again.
BEHIND the SCENES
Kathleen Pope – the right person,
the right time, the right event
In January of 2009,
Northwest native Kathleen
Pope joined the KemperSports
team at Chambers Bay as the
Championship Coordinator
for the 2010 U.S. Amateur
Championship.
Raised in Eugene, Ore. and graduating
from the University of Oregon, Kathleen had
a 15-year career at Price Waterhouse Coopers
before joining KemperSports to work on the
2006 Curtis Cup held at Bandon Dunes Golf
Resort.
Kathleen’s organizational skills then
carried her to work on the 2007 U.S. MidAmateur Championship, also held at Bandon
Dunes, and then to the 2008 U.S. Women’s
Amateur held at Eugene Country Club.
The 2010 U.S. Amateur is in good hands.
Matt Allen, the General
Manager at Chambers Bay,
brings to this summer’s
national championship his
experience of handling highprofile events while working as
operations manager at Bandon
Dunes Golf Resort earlier in this decade.
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Backspin
WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED. Q&A FROM THE BEST OF THEM
Lefty versus righty versus lefty, and going mano a mano with
an alligator. It’s all in the game, you see.
THE STRANGEST THING I’VE EVER
SEEN ON A GOLF COURSE...
Gregoire In reaching for my ball from a
water hazard on a course in South Carolina, I saw an alligator pop up his head.
We were eye ball to eye ball. There was
an “aha!” moment for both of us!
Larsen This is a toss up – Greg Norman hitting a shot so pure with a
3-wood off a cart path at Nicklaus
North that his metal spikes didn’t
even move; OR the righties hitting
left and the lefties hitting right during a Skins Game at Predator Ridge,
all successfully landing on the green
and Phil Mickelson within two feet of
the pin. I wonder what the gang will
do this year at the TELUS Skins Game
at Bear Mountain Resort.
Simpson On the day I got married,
I was playing golf with my dad and
brother when a deer ran across the
fairway.
Thurmond At the 2007 NCAA Regionals
at Arizona State, Zach Bixler made a
birdie on the par-4 second hole with
a lost ball. The search for the first
ball was called off quite quickly and
excitedly.
It should be legal in golf to…
Have my dog, Trooper, advance the ball without a penalty stroke.
Larsen Play ready golf in all circumstances, including ladies club
championships.
Gregoire
Husband of Washington Governor
Christine Gregoire, Mike Gregoire
(also known as “First Mike”) was
born and raised in Everett,
Wash. After graduating
from the University of
Washington in 1968 he
was drafted into the
military, where he was
commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the air defense
artillery corps, and served a
tour of duty as a platoon leader and
convoy commander in Vietnam.
Mike met Christine when they were
both working for the Department
of Social and Health Services and
were married in 1975. Mike is the
Honorary Co-Chairman (along with
Ryan Moore) of the 2010 U.S. Amateur
Championship, being held this summer
at Chambers Bay.
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Carry 20 clubs.
I think you should be
allowed one “throw” per round. I also
wouldn’t mind some heckling to come
into play.
Simpson
Thurmond
It should be illegal in golf to…
Gregoire Have certified sandbaggers
accept prizes in tournaments.
Larsen Urinate on the golf course. Oh,
wait a minute – it is illegal to do that. Yes
guys – it is a serious breach of etiquette!
Simpson Have your cell phone and
blackberry on – no phone calls, no
e-mail.
Thurmond Play in more than four
hours. Anyone who plays in more than
four hours should be banned.
The other members of my
“Dream Foursome” are…
Arnold Palmer, Robert Trent
Jones, Jr. (Bobby), and Coco (not to be
confused with Chi Chi) Rodriguez.
Larsen Barack and Michelle Obama,
and my husband Claus. How truly
“un-Canadian” of me, I know, and
I don’t think Michelle even plays,
however that’s not the point – they are
a fascinating couple.
Simpson Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer
and Fred Couples.
Thurmond My dream foursome and I
get together at Bandon every year in
December. This year we are headed to
Scotland. The group is three longtime
best friends from the Skagit Valley (in
Gregoire
TRISHA LARSEN, Director of Marketing
for Golf Vancouver Island, has been
in the golf industry since 1994,
never as a golf professional
(as her colleagues will
attest), but rather as a
marketing professional
who’s got some game.
Her career has taken her
from the opening team
of the Harvest Golf Club in
Kelowna in 1994; to Predator
Ridge Golf Resort in 2000 for the
transition to 27 holes and hosting their
first TELUS Skins Game; to the Golf
Vancouver Island team in 2004, seeing
them through to a Multi-Faceted
Advertising award in 2005, record
sales in 2006, a Power of Partners
Award in 2009 and her own Tourism
Vancouver Island Employee of the Year
Award in 2009.
northwest Wash.): Paul Walker, Keith
Wilson and Craig Wilson.
People who cheat in golf
should…
Gregoire Be sent to the lowest level of
Dante’s Inferno.
Larsen Be ashamed of themselves.
What is the point, really? To look better
than you are? To take some money from
your friends? Egad.
Simpson Be paired with others who
cheat in golf.
Thurmond Be publicly humiliated on
a large billboard downtown. I would
respond with the same answer for
many bad things people do.
You’ll never catch me on a
golf course wearing…
Ridge comes a close second – my husband and I were married on one of the
greens overlooking Okanagan Lake.
Simpson I grew up playing golf at the
Blackfoot Golf Course (in Blackfoot,
Idaho), and to this day it is still one
of the best and most difficult courses
around.
Thurmond Skagit Golf & Country Club
(Burlington, Wash.). I played thousands of rounds there growing up. My
love for golf was born and developed
there. Our former school superintendent, Paul Chaplik, used to tell a story
about how a little blond kid playing by
himself played through him and his
wife two times in one round. That was
me playing 36 one day. I played a lot
of golf at Skagit. I love it.
John Daly apparel.
Plaid pants – shorts perhaps,
but never plaid pants!
Simpson Knickers.
Thurmond A glove. Old Tom Morris
didn’t wear a glove (at least I assume
he didn’t).
Gregoire
Larsen
Your favorite sentimental
golf course and why…
Gregoire Everett (Wash.) Golf &
Country Club – my father built houses
around the course; my brother was a
caddie there; and they allowed me a
junior membership.
Larsen The Springs at Radium and
I’ll never tell why! However, Predator
MIKE Simpson is serving his sixth term
in the House of Representatives for
Idaho’s Second Congressional District.
His political career began
in 1980, when he was
elected to the Blackfoot
City Council. In 1984,
he was elected to the
Idaho Legislature where
he served until 1998,
the last six years serving
as Speaker. Simpson was
born in Burley, Idaho and raised in
Blackfoot. After earning his DDS from
Washington University School in St.
Louis, he joined his father and uncle at
the Simpson Family Dental Practice in
Blackfoot. He has been married to his
wife Kathy for 39 years and they live
in Idaho Falls. And he still had time to
answer our questions.
No surprise that Lefty could
put a shot to within two feet
swinging right-handed – a
natural right-hander, Mickelson
learned the game watching his
right-handed father swing the
club and mirroring it.
Matt Thurmond is in his eighth year
as the coach of the men’s golf team at
the University of Washington and has
driven the program to the higher
echelons of college golf, and
among the favorites to win
the NCAA title this year. He
has coached the Huskies
to top-10 NCAA finishes
in five of the past six years
with a best of third in 2005,
when Abbotsford (BC) native
James Lepp won the individual title.
His own golf exploits growing up in
Burlington (Wash.) led him to a stellar
playing career at Brigham Young
University. Washington will be the host
school for the NCAA West Regionals
this year, May 20-22, at Gold
Mountain Golf Club near Bremerton.
PNGA honors recipients of 2010
Distinguished Service Award
Three individuals who have each given over 20 years of
service to the game of golf were honored at the 111th PNGA
Annual Meeting Banquet on April 30th at Bellingham Golf
and Country Club
Derek Glazer,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Richmond Country Club
If you have ever played in a
PNGA Championship, chances
are you have been fortunate to
have had Derek Glazer as your
starter. There is something
eloquent and traditional about
his British accent that makes the first tee start
special.
Derek has been a tremendous supporter
of the PNGA and the British Columbia Golf
Association over the years. He moved to
Canada from England in 1952. He became a
BCGA Director in 1975 and has given back to
the game of golf ever since. He became part
of the PNGA family in 1981 when he was
appointed as a PNGA Club Representative
from Richmond Country Club, his home club.
Derek continues to volunteer for many
PNGA and BCGA championships around the
region. His enthusiasm and selfless devotion to
the game of golf has impacted many people on
and off the golf course.
Sharon Johnston,
University Place, Wash.
Fircrest Golf Club
Sharon Johnston has played
a major role on both sides of the
ropes of the Northwest golf scene. She has
participated and volunteered at many PNGA
and WSGA championships, meetings, and
activities for more than two decades.
She became the first female President
in the history of the Washington State
Golf Association in 2007. She has been a
WSGA Board Director since 1996, a Club
Representative for 21 years, and served as
Chairwoman of the WSGA Championship
Committee for over a decade. Sharon has been
a USGA Course Rating women’s team leader
for WSGA Course Rating Committee and has
rated hundreds of golf courses over the years.
She served as Chairwoman of the PNGA
Women’s Division in 1995 and was a PNGA
Director from 1995-1997. She has been a
member of numerous PNGA committees
including the Hall of Fame and Championship
committees. She has also served as Chairwoman
of several PNGA championships. Sharon
currently serves on the Board of Directors that
oversees The Home Course, which is owned by
the PNGA & WSGA.
Sharon is also a three-time winner of the
PNGA Senior Women’s Team Championship
(1995, ‘96 & ‘01), a nine-time champion of the
Puget Sound Women’s Golf Association crown,
and won the 1998 Washington State Women’s
Golf Association Amateur Championship.
She is a six-time winner of the women’s
club championship at Fircrest GC, her home
club, and 2007 she was inducted into their
Hall of Fame.
Judy Thompson
Kent, Wash.
Meridian Valley Country Club
Judy Thompson has given
back to the game of golf since
1982 when she first started as
one of the lead volunteer coordinators for the LPGA Safeco Classic at Meridian Valley Country
Club, her home club. She was dedicated to that
event for its entire run of 17 years.
Furthermore, Judy has been one of the
true leaders of the PNGA Women’s Division.
She was chair of the PNGA Women’s Division
in 1998, but has also chaired numerous
championships for the last decade and a half.
Judy has also given her time as a member
of the USGA Regional Association Committee.
This includes administering USGA Qualifiers
in the Northwest and fostering the relationship
that the state and regional golf associations
have with the USGA.
Judy is a longtime member of Meridian
Valley Country Club. She is rolling up her
sleeves again in 2010 as the PNGA Senior
Women’s Chair.
Visit www.thepnga.org for a full list of
accomplishments as well as videos of presentations.
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Ask the Expert
We could continue to bump our heads against the darkness, or we can ask someone who actually knows something.
Hitting 50, and hitting it hard
And what is wrong with looking in the mirror –
looking past the pain, sorrow and disappointment, the three-putts and the shanks (yes,
we have said that word out loud) – and embracing the half-century mark? After all, with
Fred Couples tearing up the Champions Tour, it is obvious that 50 is the new…50.
Well, what does it take to
be able to do that, and can it
work for us everyday bogey
golfers? The expert to ask is
Jeff Coston, a teaching pro
at Semiahmoo Golf & Country Club in Blaine, Wash.
who has dominated the Northwest scene for
the past decade or so. He’s 54 years old, and
has played in three major championships in
the past decade, something he didn’t accomplish when he played on the PGA Tour in his
20s and 30s.
What’s most important for
better golf in your 50s?
Coston has a quick answer.
“When you get on the wrong side of 50, the
body is as important as any club in your bag.”
Exercising and stretching are key. “Some
kind of workout is huge. It doesn’t have to be
with weights. It can be with an elastic band or
surgical tubing,” he said. And if all else fails,
try to at least walk 30 to 40 minutes a day.
“Walking is really good for your heart and
your back, your lower back.”
And stretching is something that is easier to find time to do than one might think.
“You might stretch on the floor while you’re
watching TV.”
How should the swing
change once someone hits 50?
Most people’s bodies have changed between the ages of 25 and 50. Coston has a
swing suggestion that could help.
“If someone is having a hard time, maybe
gained some weight and they are not as flex-
ible, if you flare your right foot out at address,
bio-mechanically you’ll turn more,” he said.
“If you drop your right foot back a little bit,
especially on a longer club, you’ll get deeper,
which will make a little bit bigger turn and
make you come more from the inside instead
of over the top.”
What equipment changes
should be considered at age 50?
If your body has changed from age 25 to
age 50, it would make sense your equipment
should change as well.
“They play with shafts too stiff and drivers
that are too long and they don’t have enough
loft on them,” Coston said about common
blunders among golfers in their 50s.
He suggests drivers that are a little shorter, with a little softer shaft, with a loft ranging
from 10.5 degrees to 12 degrees. And players in their 50s should also consider graphite
shafts in their irons.
Bottom line
For Coston, the bottom line is winning
tournaments, regardless of the age of the competition. He is the current Pacific Northwest
Section PGA champion, beating a multitude
of players half his age.
“I understand the game better now. I understand better why my golf ball does what
it does and how to fix it. I understand better how to prepare for a golf tournament. I
understand how to break down a golf course
better,” he said.
Something about age and cunning beating youth and untested talent….
- Paul Ramsdell
From the ‘Because
we thought this is
cool’ department:
The R&A
has announced
changes to the
entry criteria in
time for The Open
Championship’s
150th Anniversary,
to be played at
Watson made a run for
St. Andrews’ Old the ages and the aged at
last year’s British Open.
Course in July.
A new exemption
category has been introduced.
Condition F(4) exempts from
qualifying any past Open
Champions who finished in the top
10 and ties in any of the previous
five Open Championships.
“We have introduced this
exemption as a direct response
to seeing two of our great Open
Champions (Greg Norman in ’08
and Tom Watson last year), both
in their fifties, challenging to win
our championship these last two
years,” explained Peter Dawson,
Chief Executive of The R&A.
Don’t you love it when
they get something right?
May the best player win,
regardless of….anything else.
What does the Man on the Street say?
“Over 50? Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. What of it? It’s just a number anyway,
right? Just like my score. But sometimes, if I stand just so, I can make myself aware
of the rotation of the earth. And I remember how good it feels to walk a fairway.”
Still playing after 50? What do you enjoy most about it? Send us a note at
[email protected].
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Links to the past
The Origins of the Senior National Open
The championship comes full circle this summer
Well, let’s talk
Fred Wood
about Fred Wood for
a minute.
Fred, you see, grew up
in the 1920s in Vancouver,
BC, working as a caddie at
Vancouver Golf Club.
It turned out that
he had something of a
golden golf swing, and after
winning four consecutive
club championships at
Vancouver GC and finishing
runner-up in the 1929
Canadian Amateur, he
started winning everything else in sight. Twotime Vancouver & District Champion, BC
Amateur Champion (held at his home course,
Vancouver GC, in 1930), three-time BC Open
Champion in the ‘30s, two-time Alberta Open
Champion, Western Canada Open Champion.
You get the idea.
Fred did turn professional – working
as the club pro at both Old and New
Shaughnessy from 1945-72 – and perhaps
his finest hour of many fine hours came in
August of 1957, when he defeated
Gene Sarazen on the first playoff
hole to win the inaugural Senior
Men’s National Open. Sarazen and
Wood had tied at 270 after four
rounds at the Esmeralda Golf
Course in Spokane, Wash.
The inaugural Senior Men’s
National Open? Yes. This was
before the USGA took over
the administration of the
event – the USGA marks 1980
as the first U.S. Senior Open
Championship, and considers
this summer’s event at Sahalee
CC in Sammamish, Wash. to be the 31st
annual rendition.
The 1957 event was organized by the
Athletic Round Table of Spokane, and the
golfers played for a total purse of $12,000. It
was held the next year at Esmeralda as well.
Evidently, it turns out that Wood was
something of a pioneer in the creation of the
U.S. Senior Open in the Northwest. With
those two events at Esmeralda, and the 1982
event being held at Portland Golf Club, this
STAY on
COURSE
The flyer from the
inaugural Senior
Men’s National Open,
held August 15-18,
1957, at the newlyopened Esmeralda
Golf Course in
Spokane, Wash.
Thanks to Rex Schultz,
Esmeralda’s current PGA
Head Professional.
summer at Sahalee is something of a coming
home for the championship.
Wood has since faded into the history
books, but rejoined us recently when he
was inducted into the BC Golf Hall of
Fame in 2007.
Well earned.
Thanks to Mike Riste, PNGA Historian and
volunteer extraordinaire of the BC Golf Museum.
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RULES O F THE G A M E
| Get Smart From Lasers to GPS to Smart Phones – is your DMD legal?
by Craig Winter
OGA Manager of Rules Education
The changes follow the twoyear review cycle by the R&A
and the USGA.
It has been six years since
the USGA first permitted the
conditional use of electronic
Distance Measuring Devices
(DMDs) by Local Rule but
unfortunately most golfers still
believe it is categorically legal to
use any laser rangefinder, GPS
device or Smart Phone during
the round.
If you look at the scorecard
or Local Rules sheet and don’t see
permission to use DMDs, you can not use it. If you
do, you face disqualification.
While less than half the courses in the
Northwest adopt this Local Rule, you still need to
determine whether your device is legal in and of
itself. Not all are.
If your device is capable of measuring anything
other than distance that might assist you in play
such as slope or gradient, temperature, compass,
altitude and club suggestion, then any use of the
device as a DMD during a round would result in
your disqualification, regardless of whether or not
you plan to use the additional features.
A new wrinkle involves multi-function
devices like Smart Phones for which there are
endless applications, and you must understand
two distinctions – the entire phone is “the
device” (not just the application you are using
to measure distance); and there is a difference
between an “application” installed on your
phone that provides additional information
that might assist you in play (like a compass,
altimeter, weather application or level) and
being able to access this same information
through your device’s internet browser or
phone line.
Here are two examples that illustrate what
you should consider before using a Smart Phone
From the Nordstrom’s
Rules for Employees:
“Rule #1: Use your
good judgment in all
situations. There are
no additional rules.”
Hmm. Sounds like
Page One from the
Rules of Golf.
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Rules large……
when a Local Rule permits using DMDs:
1) Your phone has an application that only
measures distance, however you also have a
compass application such as an installable version
of Google Maps and another that provides local
weather such as Weather Bug. Because the entire
phone is the DMD and both installed applications
provide information that is not permitted, you
would be disqualified the moment you begin
using your phone as a DMD during the round,
even if you do not use those applications.
2) Your phone has an application that only
measures distance with no other applications
that provide information that might assist you
in your play. But, during the round you look
up local weather via your internet browser. As
soon as you access this information you are in
breach of the Local Rule and are disqualified.
That said, your phone is your phone and a
browser is just a browser. It’s how you use it
that matters. Calling a friend or checking email
would not be a breach unless either reveals
information that is not permitted.
One last word of caution. It’s common for
companies advertising DMD applications to
claim it conforms with the Rules of Golf when
it may not. We strongly encourage you to check
with the USGA or your local golf association
before you use it.
To view a questionnaire and flowchart to
help you determine if your DMD conforms, visit
rules.oga.org.
Craig Winter achieved the rare feat of scoring a
perfect 100 at a PGA/USGA Rules of Golf Workshop
held recently in Portland. The average score in this
particular workshop was 78.2. Of the 1500 people who
attend PGA/USGA Rules of Golf Workshops each year,
only a handful earn a perfect score.
Skeena Valley Golf Club in Terrace, BC played
host to the 2009 BC Senior Men’s Championship.
One interested spectator had a penchant for collecting golf balls – unfortunately stealing them
while they were in play.
The bandit kept an eye on the 11th green.
When balls came onto or near the green, he would
dash out, pick up the ball in his mouth and scamper
back to his den.
The Rules Official was kept busy either chasing the fox away from the green or dealing with
players who had fallen victim to the thief.
Rules 18-1 and 19-1 deal with this situation (“Ball at rest moved by an outside agency or
ball in motion deflected or stopped by an outside
agency”).
When the ball was at rest and subsequently
removed by the fox, Rule 18-1 came into play. If
the ball was deflected or stopped by the fox, Rule
19-1 provides reference. In either case, there was
no penalty to the player, and the player must drop
the ball (or a new ball) as near as possible to the
spot from which the ball was stolen.
One of the challenges of this situation dealt
with it being known or virtually certain that a ball
that has not been found had been taken by the
fox. If there was any place else the ball could have
been, the player would have to treat the ball as lost
and proceed accordingly under stroke and distance
(Rule 27-1).
So, in order for the ball to be treated as
moved by the outside agency, the player or someone else would have to witness the action of the
fox, or the wily rascal would have to confess to his
thievery – perhaps by coughing up the evidence.
Thanks to Susan White, BCGA Director of
Rules, Competitions & Education
……and small
At Pebble Beach Golf Links, Local Rule No.
1 states: “The ocean shall be played as a lateral
water hazard.” Which, we guess, means we can’t go
to Hawaii to take our drop.
Futures so bright
Northwest students receive Evans Scholarships
Thirteen young students in Oregon and Washington who have spent a portion of the past
two years working as a caddie will be attending college in the fall on an Evans Scholarship.
At separate meetings this spring in Oregon and Washington, nominees were awarded
the four-year scholarships, which covers tuition and on-campus housing.
Evans Scholars will attend the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, University
of Washington, or Washington State University.
More information and application guidelines are available at www.oga.org, www.
thewsga.org, www.thepnga.org or www.westerngolfassociation.com.
Stephanie Bernard
Three Rivers GC
Tudor Bertea
Portland Golf Club
Dayna Feller
Everett G&CC
Michael Gritzmacher
Waverley CC
Tyler Klein
Bandon Dunes GR
Nicholas Lamberger
Portland Golf Club
Rachel Ledig
Bandon Dunes GR
Caitlyn McLauchlin
Bandon Dunes GR
Maddisson Hawk
Riverside G&CC
David Medin
Seattle Golf Club
Hunter Hensler
Bandon Dunes GR
Jessica Iwuoha
Seattle Golf Club
Play in the
Evans Cup
Support the local Evans
Scholars by playing in these
first-class fundraising
events.
• Evans Cup of Oregon,
September 27, Portland
Golf Club, Portland, Ore.
• Evans Cup of Washington,
October 11, Tacoma
C&GC, Tacoma, Wash.
For entry forms and
information call 800-6436410 or go online at www.
thewsga.org and www.
thepnga.org.
Andy Santos
Bandon Dunes GR
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| Green 366 yards
|
Black 338 yards |
Having choices in life can at times be a good thing. In
this case, however, the number of choices offered on the tee
shot of this short par-4 crowds your head and fills your mind
with impure thoughts.
Hit a hybrid to the left side and it leaves you with a good
angle into the elevated and angled green – but the approach
shot will be long.
Hit a metal wood to the right side, leaving only a wedge
into the green, but the angle on the approach will be terrible,
with nothing behind the green but a large collection area – just
sitting there, waiting for you.
PAR 4
White 290 yards |
Gold 275 yards
Or, just pull out the driver and hit it as far as you can.
Maybe you’ll find grass where the fairway ends short of the
nest of bunkers. Maybe you’ll find sand. Maybe. Either way,
it will lead to an awkward stance on an awkward lie and an
awkward moment.
So play your game. Use good judgment. Enjoy the thrill of
the hole. Remember that we are mortals on the earth.
After you finish this hole, you will want to walk back and
play it again, play it differently.
And either way you play it, it will be the right way.
Blue 316 yards |
White Horse Golf Club Kingston, Washington
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