Thoroughbred - Pacific Northwest Golf Association

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Northwest caddies ascending
Q&A – Don’t get me started
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
MAY 2008 • www.pacificnorthwestgolfer.com
Thoroughbred
WHITE HORSE
already in full stride
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Vol. 14 No. 1 • May 2008
W H A T ’ S
I N S I D E
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 | BASEBALL LEGEND
AT PEACE
Bill Buckner builds life in Idaho
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30 | YOUNG MAN ON COURSE
Caddie programs on upswing
34 | Q&A WITH THE
BEST OF THEM
We asked, you answered
8 | PUBLISHER’S ESSAY
Top 10 PNGA memories
36 | NINE HOLES WITH....
Traveling golfer, David Wood
10 | CHIP SHOTS
Highlights from around
the Northwest
16 | FRONT RUNNER
White Horse already
a must play
38 | MEET THE CHAMPION
Fred Couples – 30 years later
40 | LINKS TO THE PAST
Colorful past of Ocean Shores
42 | ASSOCIATION NEWS
20 | SPAS AT GOLF RESORTS
Distinguished Service Awards
Combination drawing them in
24 | RULES OF THE GAME
Always carry proper ID –
on your ball
46 | GREAT HOLES
OF THE NORTHWEST
Mill Creek Country Club
Mill Creek, Washington
ON THE COVER
The par-4 15th at White Horse Golf Club
Photo by Rob Perry
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Eyes on Chambers Bay from start
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Top 10 PNGA
Memories
The rain and sleet were
pelting my windshield on a
recent dark March evening as
I made my way up Interstate
5 after spending a few days in
Portland on PNGA business.
JOHN BODENHAMER
Earlier in the afternoon I had
PUBLISHER
enjoyed a “get acquainted”
meeting with new OGA
Chief Executive Officer, Barb Trammell at
their offices at the OGA Golf Course in
Woodburn, Ore.
As I recalled my discussions with Barb,
who was only a few months into her new
position, it dawned on me that just a few
days earlier I had commenced my 19th year
as PNGA Executive Director. After heaping
on the appropriate self pity for time gone by,
I reflected on many fond PNGA memories,
with a few of them eliciting a chuckle.
Here are my “Top 10” memories.
No. 10 - My first PNGA Championship
It rained so much leading up to and
during the week of the 1990 PNGA Senior
Men’s Amateur Championship at the Resort
at the Mountain, in Welches, Ore. that we had
to cancel the event after only one round of
play. Dr. John Harbottle’s (Lakewood, Wash.)
first round of 64 earned him his second PNGA
Senior crown. I could not help but wonder if
this rain-out was some sort of sign from above
about my future as Executive Director.
No. 9 - Insult to injury
At the 1991 PNGA Master-40 Amateur
Championship at Spokane’s Manito G&CC,
I was observing a player hit a shot from the
greenside bunker on No. 2 as he proceeded
to skull it into the nearby parking lot. He
not only lost the hole in his match, he soon
discovered that upon retrieving his golf ball,
the windshield he had broken was that of
his own car!
No. 8 – A little spilled wine
USGA dignitaries were at Broadmoor
GC (Seattle) in 1996 to honor retiring
USGA Executive Committee member Jim
Curtis. I was seated with Mr. Curtis, as
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well as the club’s president,
general manager, head golf
professional Bill Tindall,
and each respective spouse
attired in expensive evening
wear. As we sat talking, the
waitress approached with
a tray of red wine. As she
approached, yes, you guessed
it, she tripped and we were
all soon wearing the wine.
As he dabbed his shirt with
a napkin, Tindall didn’t miss
a beat and in jest commented,
“Yep, that Julie, she WAS
a good employee.” As it turned
out, it was Julie’s first day on the job!
No. 7 - Welcome Southern Idaho
When the Board of Directors of the
Idaho Golf Association voted in 1995 to
join the PNGA, it marked a new era of
cooperation amongst the IGA, PNGA and all
Northwest allied amateur golf associations.
No. 6 - Madame President
When Lynda Adams (Olympia, Wash.)
assumed the presidency of the PNGA in April
of 2000, it was fitting to have the Association
led into its second century by its first ever
female president.
No. 5 – Pacific Northwest Golfer
It was gratifying to open that very first
issue of our PNGA magazine in September
of 1994. While there were many sleepless
nights in those days wondering if we would
attract the necessary advertising dollars and
member addresses to make a go of it, we
are still going strong 15 years and 110,000
addresses later.
No. 4 - Distinguished Service Award
There was not a dry eye in the room at
Fircrest GC (near Tacoma, Wash.) in April
of 1997 as 200 PNGA Club Representatives
presented PNGA patriarchs and brothers
Carl and Ernie Jonson with our inaugural
Distinguished Service Award. Had it not
been for Carl and Ernie carrying the PNGA
through the 1960s and ‘70s, there might be
no PNGA today.
No. 3 – 100th birthday party
It was a grand, black tie night at the
historic Paramount Theatre in Seattle in May
of 1999 when 650 attendees celebrated 100
years of “Championships & Friendships” at
Tiger Woods shakes hands with Corvallis native Ted
Snavely prior to their final match at the 1994 PNGA Men’s
Amateur Championship at Royal Oaks CC. Woods went
on to defeat Snavely later in the day. In the center is
M.G. Davis, the Championship Chairman at the time.
the PNGA Centennial Gala. Fred Couples and
Peter Jacobsen were on hand to receive PNGA
Lifetime Achievement Awards and JoAnne
Carner and Anne Sander were inducted into
the PNGA Hall of Fame, in a Broadway-like
production coordinated by KIRO TV.
No. 2 - Tiger’s tale
Greatness was on display in July of 1994
as then 17-year-old Tiger Woods defeated
University of Oregon star Ted Snavely 11
& 10 in their historic 36-hole final match at
the PNGA Men’s Amateur Championship at
the venerable Royal Oaks CC (Vancouver,
Wash.). Snavely, who was one-under-par,
could not tame Tiger, who was a blistering
13-under-par when their match concluded
on the 26th hole. It was Tiger’s first nonjunior amateur win, and for all of us who
witnessed it we knew it was a precursor of
things to come.
No. 1 - Home at last
After 18 years of working towards the
dream of creating a permanent home for
all that is good with Northwest amateur
golf, the PNGA and WSGA acquired The
Home Course in DuPont, Wash., from
the Weyerhaeuser Company and opened
the new course overlooking Puget Sound
to public play on June 29, 2007. With
construction on Northwest Golf House
beginning later this year, the dream will
soon become a reality and the future of the
game in our area will be enhanced.
The next time you find yourself on a
long drive, think back on your fondest golf
memories. You may find you will reach you
destination a little sooner!
C H I P
S H O T S
<< Safeway Classic moving
to Pumpkin Ridge
Starting in 2009, the
LPGA’s Safeway Classic will
take its show to Pumpkin Ridge
Golf Club. The pro-am and
tournament proper will be held
on Pumpkin’s Ghost Creek layout,
with the amateur events being
held on the Witch Hollow course.
Reason for the move? The
event has grown too large, and
Pumpkin’s 36-hole facility allows
the staging of everything on one
property. In recent years, the
tournament’s events had been
staged at Columbia-Edgewater
and Riverside Country Clubs.
“Columbia-Edgewater
has been a great partner,”
said Tom Maletis, president of
The par-4 18th at Pumpkin Ridge’s Ghost Creek
Tournament Golf Foundation,
Inc. (TGFI), owner and organizer
of the Safeway Classic. “They
and Riverside have been vital to
the event’s success.”
Pumpkin Ridge can handle
big events. Since opening in
1992, it has twice hosted the
Nike (now Nationwide) Tour
Championship; the 1996 U.S.
Amateur, when Tiger Woods
won his third consecutive title;
simultaneously hosted the
2000 U.S. Junior Boys’ and Girls’
Amateur; twice hosted the U.S.
Women’s Open; and in 2006
was host of the U.S. Women’s
Amateur.
Not too shabby.
CADDIES (AND QBS) 4 CURE >>
During last month’s National Multiple Sclerosis
Awareness Week, former Oregon State quarterback (and
current Cleveland Browns quarterback) Derek Anderson
was on hand to present long-time National MS Society
client and volunteer Bill McPherson with a new scooter,
purchased with proceeds from last year’s Caddies 4 Cure
Celebrity Golf Classic, which Anderson played in.
Portland-based Caddies 4 Cure has raised more than
$70,000 for the care and support of local residents with
MS, and toward finding a cure for the disease.
The 2008 Caddies 4 Cure Celebrity Golf Classic kicks
off Thursday, June 19th, at the Tiger Woods Center on
Nike’s Beaverton campus, with golf the next day at Royal
Oaks Country Club in Vancouver, Washington.
Derek Anderson signs a few autographs for Bill McPherson
<< SHAUGHNESSY, EARTH, AND MUSQUEAM CREEK
The remodeled
bunkering along
Shaughnessy’s
3rd green
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In late April, Shaughnessy
Golf & Country Club hosted
a dinner and auction to raise
money to help save Musqueam
Creek, which is Vancouver,
BC’s last wild salmon stream.
The creek runs directly
through Shaughnessy. In
conjunction with Earth Day,
the event featured scientist
and environmentalist Dr. David
Suzuki as the keynote speaker.
At one time there were 52
wild salmon streams running
through Vancouver. Shaughnessy
and Pacific Salmon Foundation
together have donated $100,000
to the Musqueam Ecosystem
Conservation Society in the
effort to save the creek
Shaughnessy renovated
much of the bunkering around
the green on their 3rd hole, with
the project reclaiming more than
600 meters of in-stream habitat.
Shaughnessy has hosted
several Canadian and Pacific
Northwest championships, and
in 2005 hosted the PGA Tour’s Bell
Canadian Open.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Allen new GM at Chambers
MATT ALLEN has started his duties as
the new General Manager of Chambers Bay in
University Place, Wash. And he will have his
hands full in prepping the bare bones facility
to hold the large events in its future (a little
ol’ tourney called the U.S. Open, with a U.S.
Amateur thrown into the mix).
Allen comes to Chambers from his
position as Assistant General Manager of
Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, where he worked
for ten years. He had been with the Oregon
Golf Association for four years prior to that,
when JOSH LESNIK, the first General Manager
at Bandon Dunes, plucked him from the OGA
staff. Allen is a former Evans Scholar who
went to the University of Oregon.
Lesnik is now serving as president of KemperSports,
Bandon’s management company, but will continue to focus on
overseeing all development, operations, and marketing activities
at the resort. Hank Hickox remains the GM at the resort.
BIG BREAK, TAKE TWO
Born and raised in Tacoma, Wash., DANA
BATES is making a second run at her big break.
She is one of the 12 contestants on the Golf
Channel’s current “Big Break Ka’anapali”.
Her first chance came earlier in life. She
lettered on the varsity men’s golf team at
Tacoma’s Wilson High School, then attended
the University of Hawaii and the University of Arizona on full ride
golf scholarships.
“My Dad got me into the game,” said Bates, of her start at
Fircrest Golf Club. “And I had two brothers who played.”
She turned pro in 1987, made three attempts at the LPGA
Q-School, got married, had a child, and settled down in Palm
Springs, where she is currently an LPGA Teaching Professional at
La Quinta Country Club.
Single again, and with her daughter now 19, she figures it’s
her turn again for her big break.
The contestants are playing for an exemption into the ’08
Navistar LPGA Classic, as well as all entry fees waived for the
entire ’09 season on the Duramed FUTURES Tour.
How does Bates fare in the series? She wouldn’t say. But
she did say one of her more memorable moments came during
her audition, which was held at LA’s Trump National. A Will Ferrell
movie was being shot at the course, and while trying to get a
glimpse of the comedian, Bates wound up standing in the wrong
place and interrupted the filming.
“People started yelling at me that I was in the shot,” said
Bates, laughing.
Well, she gets her own shot now. Again.
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BRYAN FISHER, the Assistant Manager
at Portland’s Waverley Country Club, is the
recipient of the 2008 Willmoore H. Kendall
Scholarship, which was awarded at the Club
Managers Association of America’s world
conference in Orlando, Fla.
Fisher has been at Waverley since July of 2002. He graduated
from Portland State University with a degree in Finance
Management.
The purpose of the scholarship is to provide support to
those pursuing their Certified Club Manager (CCM) designation.
Out of five scholarship winners in 2008, Fisher is the only
recipient west of the Mississippi. He is the first person in Oregon
ever to be awarded this scholarship.
Walters chosen for
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame
The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and the
Royal Canadian Golf Association has named
LISA WALTERS a 2008 inductee into the
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
Throughout her playing career, Walters,
48, distinguished herself as one of Canada’s
top female professional golfers. Among her accomplishments,
the native of Prince Rupert, BC, is a three-time winner on the
LPGA Tour. Prior to turning pro, Walters was a three-time winner
of the BC Ladies Amateur Championship (1978-81) and former BC
Junior Champion (1977), as well as being named an All-American
in 1981 while attending Florida State.
Walters becomes the 62nd member of the Canadian Golf
Hall of Fame. She is the Hall of Fame’s 19th female inductee.
Walters will officially be inducted in August during the CN
Canadian Women’s Open at the Ottawa (Ont.) Hunt & Golf Club.
IDAHO’S DAVIDSON ON BOARD
AT CIRCLING RAVEN
TOM DAVIDSON has started his new
position as Director of Golf at Circling Raven
Golf Club in the Idaho Panhandle.
Davidson, 44, was previously the General
Manager at the Coeur d’Alene public golf
course. He has been working in the industry
for more than two decades.
“We had many qualified applicants from across the country,
and we’re confident we selected an outstanding person to lead
Circling Raven,” said Coeur d’Alene Resort CEO David LaSarteMeeks. “Tom has a strong professional history and exemplary
reputation.”
A native of Utah, Davidson earned his bachelor’s degree at
Utah State University where he was also a member of the varsity
golf team. He and his wife, Pauline, have been married for 20
years and have three children. The family lives in Hayden, Idaho.
Dave Hobson is the new Director of Golf at Coeur d’Alene
public golf course.
The odds of
drawing two
pairs of aces
Canadian Tour’s Greater Vancouver
Charity Classic - June 19-22
Defending champion James Lepp, of Abbotsford,
is also a 4-time BC Amateur Champion
Hazelmere CC, South Surrey, BC
The same two
players, each shooting a
couple holes-in-one in
the same tournament.
Tim Feenstra
The par-5 9th at Gold Mountain’s Olympic Course
Good golf?
Here it is over the next two months....
Adam Hagen
NCAA West Regional - May 15-17
Best college teams in West play
for berth in NCAA Championship
Gold Mountain GC, Bremerton, Wash.
Rocky Mountain PGA Pro-Pro Shootout - May 19-20
One of the Section’s largest purses
Idaho Falls CC, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Photo by Eric Yaillen/OGA
Toyota of Bellevue Washington Open
Invitational - May 19-21
82nd year for storied event
Glendale CC, Bellevue, Wash.
James Lepp
Canadian University/College
Championship - May 26-30
Cordova Bay GC, Victoria, BC
Photo courtesy Canadian Tour
TELUS World Skins Game - June 16-17
Fred Couples and Greg Norman headline event
Predator Ridge GR, Vernon, BC
Aspen Lakes
Oregon Open Invitational - June 24-26
PGA Section continues successful event
Aspen Lakes, Sisters, Ore.
WSGA Washington State Amateur - June 24-27
30th anniversary of Fred Couples winning title
Links at Moses Pointe, Moses Lake, Wash.
Photo by Rob Perry
99th Oregon Amateur - June 16-21
2007 OGA “Golfer of the Year” Adam Hagen
looks to defend
Bend G&CC, Bend, Ore.
From Webster’s
Unabridged (and Google):
googol (goo-gawl); noun;
a number that is equal to 1
followed by 100 zeros. Coined
in 1938, supposedly by the
nine-year-old nephew of U.S.
mathematician Edward Kasner,
when asked for a name for
an enormous number. The
nephew then proposed the term
googolplex, which would be “one,
followed by writing zeroes until
you get tired”.
Google: the World Wide
Web search engine that indexes
over two billion web pages in less
than a second.
No matter how you spell it,
it means a big number. The odds
of the following happening are
“googolplex worthy”:
During the first round of
the 1994 Oregon Open, held at
Sunriver Resort’s Woodlands
course, PGA Professional Von
Smith aced the 149-yard third
hole, and Eugene’s Casey Martin
(an amateur at the time) aced the
188-yard 14th hole later in the day.
During the second round
the following day, Martin aced
the third hole, and Smith then
aced the 168-yard 16th hole.
You might as well write
those zeroes until you get tired.
Thanks to Jared Stewart,
Director of Communications, Pacific
Northwest Section PGA
www.thepnga.org
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C H I P
S H O T S
g a l l e r y
Giustinas underwrite OSU
turfgrass faculty position
The Giustina family has donated $1 million to endow a faculty
position in turf management at Oregon State University. The N.B. and
Jacqueline Giustina Professorship in Turf Management will help recruit
Giustina family to honor the late Nat Giustina, a 1941 OSU graduate.
SURF’S UP
In the mid-1960s Giustina established the Tokatee Golf Club near
Northwest native Jeff
Gove gets set to tee
it up at Spyglass Hill
during the PGA Tour’s
AT&T Pebble Beach
National Pro-Am.
his cabin on the McKenzie River in Blue River, Ore. The club is still a
family business headed up by Nat’s son, Larry Giustina. In the 1980s,
Nat was the primary catalyst behind the effort to create the Trysting
Tree Golf Club, a championship 18-hole golf course in Corvallis, Ore., the
proceeds of which benefit OSU.
“Golf was one of my father’s greatest loves, and he had strong ties
to Oregon State University ever since he graduated,” said Larry Giustina.
“He would be very pleased with this gift.”
FEHR NOW PLAYER MANAGER
Rick Fehr, the Seattle native who is a former PNGA Men’s Amateur
champion, former WJGA champion, and was the low amateur at the 1984
Masters and U.S. Open, has started a player management company. His
first client is Champions Tour player Loren Roberts.
Fehr played a couple stints on the PGA Tour, and has worked as a
club manager and a teaching professional. He now is based outside of
Phoenix, Ariz.
‘CLUBS FOR TROOPS’ MAKES IT TO IRAQ
Fort Lewis’ Andrew Reeves takes dead aim during a
trip around the course he and his company created while
stationed at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
Reeves and his fellow soldiers are playing with clubs
gathered and donated by the “Clubs for Troops” drive put
together by a few of the WSGA’s Men’s Clubs. The troops
even held a tournament on their makeshift layout.
More information on the “Clubs for Troops” program
can be found at www.thewsga.org.
OH THE IRONY – LANZA GOES LOW
WITH THE RIGHT EYEWITNESS
In case you missed it, a couple months ago Joe Lanza, of
Bainbridge Island, Wash., shot a lights-out 12-under 60 in the second
round in winning a mini-tour event down in Arizona. His playing
partner that day was Troy Kelly, the Tacoma native who won everything
in the Northwest as a junior golfer back in the ‘90s before starring on
the UW golf team. Lanza set a new course record that day in Arizona
Who held the previous course record? Kelly.
A new study by Statistics Canada reveals that for the first time since
1998 the game of golf has replaced hockey as the sport most Canadians
prefer to play. By 2007, almost 1.5 million adult Canadians were golfers,
three-quarters of them men. Hockey drew 1.3 million.
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Photo by Paul Lester
MAYBE THIS IS WHY GRETZKY
IS SPONSORING GOLF TOURNAMENTS NOW?
Peter Jacobsen
and Fuzzy Zoeller,
winners of the
Wendy’s Champions
Skins Game, held at
the Ka’anapali Golf
Resort on Maui.
JACOBSEN WIN A VICTORY
FOR THE FIRST TEE OF PORTLAND
Back in February, Peter Jacobsen and Fuzzy Zoeller
rallied to win the Wendy’s Champions Skins Game,
beating defending champions Jack Nicklaus and Tom
Watson. However, it turns out that the real winner is The
First Tee of Portland, based at Portland’s Heron Lakes
Golf Course, who recently received a $16,000 contribution
from Jacobsen as his designated charity for the event.
Photo courtesy Monterey Herald
a top faculty member to the program. The gift was a decision by the
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O N
T H E
C O V E R
All the
Pretty Horses
The beauty and brawn of White Horse BY BLAINE NEWNHAM
I
IF YOU’RE ON THE SEATTLE SIDE OF PUGET
SOUND, YOUR WHITE HORSE ADVENTURE
CAN BEGIN with a walk-on ferry ride to Kingston
and end on what may be the finest finishing hole in
the state of Washington.
The 20 minute ferry ride and free shuttle
to the golf course are not the only things that are
different at White Horse Golf Club, now nearing
its first full year of play.
Also different are playing conditions that are
so dry, regulars play summer rules all winter long.
First-timers aren’t sure they should drive their
carts on the fairways during wet winter weather
even though they are told they can. Different too
is the double-ended practice range which has over
two acres of natural grass hitting area.
A surprising difference is that White Horse
was designed by a woman, and not a man.
And not just any woman.
“I didn’t consider it a gutsy move to hire
Cynthia (Dye McGarey) to design the course,”
said Bob Screen, the owner. “Not after I saw that
the work she had done with her brothers, cousins
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and uncle was better than
anything else I looked at.”
Screen’s
decision
was validated by Golf Digest
magazine, which selected White
Horse one of America’s “Best New
Courses of 2007” in their “Best New
Public Under $75” category.
The “Best New” recognition of White Horse
was the first given to a course designed solely by
a woman in Golf Digest’s 25 years of rating new
courses. Cynthia Dye McGarey is the niece of
world-famous designer, Pete Dye, and works for
Dye Designs Group.
Although White Horse has been very popular
with women – Dye designed it that way – there is
no questioning that she also built a man’s course.
White Horse is clearly one of the toughest
tracks in the region from its back tees, with a
rating of 74.9 and a slope of 144. Already, Pacific
Northwest Golf Association officials have reviewed
the course and deemed it worthy of consideration
for one of its championships.
Photo by Rob Perry
The par-4 9th hole
at White Horse
HOW IT BEGAN...
Looking for pasture
land for his daughter’s
horse, Bob Screen bought
456 acres on a ridge
between Kingston and
Indianola in the 1980s.
It had been cleared of
prime fir trees in the
lumber industry’s rush
to send logs to Japan.
Looking for the
property’s best-use
scenario, Screen read
a comment by Karsten
Solheim, the inventor of
the Ping clubs, that there
was need for more good
golf in the stretches of
north Kitsap County.
Screen sought Solheim
out in a restaurant in
nearby Suquamish run by
Solheim’s sister. Together,
they walked the property.
Solheim saw the gracefully
undulating landscape and
its makeup - sand - and
gave a quick thumbs up.
“Perfect,” he said.
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ver the past 5 years, Apple Tree has become the
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While much of the country is mired in a depreciating
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Located three miles south of the
Kingston ferry dock, between Kingston and
Indianola on the Kitsap Peninsula, White
Horse is the centerpiece of a residential
development, but is open to the public with
green fees that range from $47 to $63.
Almost every hole is separate from
every other hole, with trees lining large,
welcoming fairways and framing bunkersurrounded greens.
Because the course was built primarily
on a deep sand base, White Horse and
Chambers Bay are two of just the handful
of courses in the region that played summer
rules all winter long.
Although White Horse
has been very popular
with women – Dye
designed it that way
– there is no questioning
that she also built a
man’s course.
Screen said, “I had an e-mail from a
group that played Chambers Bay, then played
White Horse. They said ‘We enjoyed White
Horse even more,’ adding, ‘It was definitely
worth the trip.’”
Like all new courses, the greens at
White Horse were at first reluctant to receive
approach shots, but they are improving.
There has also been a campaign to keep the
fescue rough surrounding greens and tees at
a manageable height.
Screen said he was surprised how
many players are taking advantage of the free
shuttle service from the Kingston ferry dock,
which is just five minutes away.
On some weekend days, upwards of 60
players have arrived on foot by ferry, cutting
not only their costs, but eliminating time
waiting in line to drive on and off the ferry.
“Golfers are coming from all over the
Pacific Northwest,” said Screen. “The positive
response has exceeded our expectations. And
everyone loves the practice range. All in
all, it has been a great first year, especially
when Golf Digest chose White Horse one
of America’s Best New Courses of 2007.
That’s like the ‘Good Housekeeping Seal of
Approval.’”
Oh, and the finishing hole? It can be
about as daunting as Doral’s, a long par-4 that
snakes around a huge lake and offers plenty
– as much risk as reward.
The reward, though, is just being at
White Horse.
Choose Your Club
AT A GLANCE
2008 Best Courses
You Can Play
– Golfweek
WHITE HORSE GOLF CLUB
22795 Three Lions Place NE
Kingston, Washington 98346
360-297-4468
206-842-9000 (Seattle area)
www.whitehorsegolf.com
YARDAGE
GREEN TEES
7,093 yards
BLACK TEES
6,693 yards
BLUE TEES
6,234 yards
WHITE TEES
5,673 yards
WHITE TEES
5,673 yards
GOLD TEES
5,022 yards
RATING/SLOPE
74.9 /144
72.9/138
70.7/133
68.2/125 Men
73.7/133 Women
70.5/117 Women
Green fees
$47 - $63; Twilight rates available
PGA DIRECTOR OF GOLF
Bruce Christy
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT
Erik Linsenmayer
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Hand in
(golf)glove
Resorts see the
compatibility of spa
facilities and great golf
The Spa
at Semiahomoo
F
by Kris Fay
OR MOST GOLFERS, THE BEST KIND
OF VACATION INVOLVES a destination
with plenty of great courses and maybe a
few good restaurants. But what happens if
your spouse doesn’t play golf? How do you
convince your significant other that there
will be plenty to do while you’re on vacation?
For those of you with a spouse who loves a
good massage or a day at the spa, well then,
keep reading.
Spas and golf resorts are starting to go together like
green eggs and ham. Nearly all of the Northwest’s top resorts
have dedicated money and resources to building top-notch spa
facilities. No matter which area you’d like to visit, you’ll be able to
find great golf coupled with an amazing spa experience.
One of the first full-scale spas at an Oregon resort opened
several years ago at Salishan, at Gleneden Beach on the southern
Oregon Coast. Part of the resort’s renovation, the spa was a great
addition to an already popular destination.
“This will be our fourth season and we’ve seen the response get
better and better each year,” said Salishan Spa Director, Don Richardson.
Visitors to the spa can expect to find an array of different
massage styles, face and body treatments, hand and foot therapies
and salon services. Each guest receives a plush robe and slippers
and can store their belongings inside the separate men’s and >>
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EMERGE MEDICAL
SPA OFFERS MORE
More than a boutique
salon, Emerge Medical
Spa in Tigard, Ore., brings
over 21 years of combined
experience from their
medical esthetician team
in providing state-of-theart services.
Emerge is a Board
Certified Medical Clinic
specializing in anti-aging
solutions. They combine
therapeutic medical
spa treatments with
pampering, similar to
what you would find at a
five-star day spa. Emerge is
a national training center
for all medical equipment
used on site – all other
physicians come to them
for training.
Emerge not only assists
individuals by providing
personalized and nonsurgical approaches to
anti-aging skin and body
solutions, they also
care about your overall
skin health. During your
consultation, your skin
will be analyzed using
VISIA, an advanced
technology for analyzing
your dermis and
epidermis. All of this
will be accomplished
while respecting your
privacy and creating an
environment which is as
comfortable as your home.
Call 503-802-7546 or visit
www.emergemedicalspas.
com for more information
on complete services
available.
women’s locker rooms.
In the time you’re out for a round of golf, your
spouse could have just about every part of their body
treated in the spa before you meet up for a popular sideby-side massage.
“A lot of times, the ladies will come in nice and
early, when the men tee off, and go from service to service
and then even have a little time to explore the shops that
are near the spa,” added Richardson. “For some, it’s just
relaxing to finish their treatment and sit down with a book
in our Hearth Room.”
The Hearth Room is one of the unique aspects of
the Spa at Salishan because its enormous glass walls look
out onto the tranquil Siletz Bay.
Additionally, Richardson said that more and more
men are working spas and treatment rituals into their
vacations. “We have individuals or even groups of men
traveling together that will come into the spa before
a round to get loosened up. Then, they come back
afterwards to unwind in the steams and saunas and
sometimes get an athletic massage.”
If you’re looking for a trip on the east side of the
Cascade Mountains and you’re headed to Sunriver, the
Sage Springs Spa has received rave reviews since it
opened. Located near the resort’s main lodge, the spa
offers a full complement of services as well as a fitness
facility and lap pool.
The spa’s signature treatment – The Sage Escape
– features a 50-minute Wellspring Essential facial, a
Sage Springs Essential (eye or peel treatment) and a 50minute riverside massage. The spa is centrally located,
making it the ideal place to start or end a quick run or
walk on any of the resort’s many trails.
Now, if you’re headed further north and east, the
Coeur d’Alene Resort is an excellent option for a couple
looking for great golf and spa services in the same place.
And, this year, the Spa Coeur d’Alene has re-opened as
a completely renovated 30,000 square foot facility. The
new facility means that even more revitalizing treatments
are available to the guests making reservations there.
Coeur d’Alene takes things to a new level by allowing
the spa spill out onto the golf course. Golfers will find
themselves on the receiving end of a five-minute driving
range massage just before they tee off. It’s a great mix.
Finally, if a trip to western Washington is in order,
the Semiahmoo Resort should be at the top of your
list. Like the other resorts discussed here, Semiahmoo
offers a full complement of services and styles. There’s
something for everyone looking to be pampered while
away from the golf course.
Other resorts with spa services include Skamania
Lodge, Resort at the Mountain, Suncadia and Whistler.
Word is that a spa could soon be in the works for the
Bandon Dunes Resort, but we’ll keep you posted.
Clearly, the resorts in our region have found that
the combination of great lodging, golf and spa services
go hand-in-hand. The question is whether or not
travelers have figured that out. Some have, and more are
making that discovery every year.
According to Richardson, spa visits have nearly
tripled at Salishan. With increased usage comes greater
demand for advanced reservations at the spa of choice.
At Salishan, for example, Richardson suggests making
reservations at least 48 hours in advance. However, if
you’d like to visit Friday or Saturday, up to a week in
advance may be necessary.
I know, the spa and golf combination sounds really
good on paper, but does it really work for real couples
taking a trip together? Vacationer Aaron Stelle booked
a trip last year for Sunriver with his girlfriend, Liz
Robbins. He wanted to play Crosswater, but she’s not
ready for that kind of challenge. So, she got a trip to the
Sage Springs Spa.
“I wasn’t happy about spending a day of our vacation
on my own, but the trip to the spa was fantastic. I got
pampered all day and when Aaron was done, we got a
couple’s massage and were both ready to go out for the
night. It turned out to be a great idea.”
Still not convinced? The only way to find out
if the golf and spa combinations are for you and your
significant other is to give it a try. Most reservations are
as easy as making a tee time at the region’s destination
resorts. I recommend you try it;
the experience could net you a
few extra rounds this year.
Kris Fay is a long-time
travel writer for this magazine.
He also owns Northwest Golf
Adventures, a travel company
(nwgolfadventures.com).
The Spa Coeur d’Alene
FOR THE FULL TREATMENT
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800-684-514 - www.cdaresort.com
Shibui Spa at Five Pine Lodge
541-549-6164 - www.shibuispa.com
The Spa at Semiahmoo
800-770-7992 - www.semiahmoo.com
Spa at Eagle Crest Resort
800-682-4786 - www.eagle-crest.com
The Salishan Spa
800-452-2300 - www.salishan.com
Spa at Black Butte Ranch
888-592-9110 - www.blackbutteranch.com
Sage Springs Club & Spa
800-801-8765 - www.sagespringsspa.com
Healing Springs Spa at Harrison Hot Springs
866-638-5075 - www.harrisonresort.com
Sandhill Spa at Running Y Ranch
877-893-6526 - www.runningy.com
Sunmore Ginseng Spa
250-372-2814 - www.sunmoreginseng.com
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SPA FOR MEN
– BELIEVE IT
For a lot of guys, getting a
spa treatment for the first time is
like entering a dark forest. There’s
apprehension and uneasiness. A
little on edge. Vaguely threatening.
Well, resorts are starting to
address this, uh, delicate situation.
“Spas have focused on women
clients for years, but we now are
seeing more and more growth in
clients who are men,” says Berni
Campbell, Director of Idaho’s Spa
Coeur d’Alene, which now has a full
line of Gentlemen Only services.
Men account for 20 percent of
the clients at Spa Coeur d’Alene,
which follows the national trend
of 31 percent of all U.S. spa goers
being men.
They’ve been creative in coming
up with programs tailored to men.
A men-only area within the 30,000
square-foot spa. The “Mineral Man”
treatment, which consists of a
full-on array of mineral baths, deeptissue massage, and facial. A Barber
Room, which is something of an
ultimate barbershop – a Ferrari-red
barber chair, a huge TV screen, and
everything from a simple haircut
to a pedicure or manicure and hot
towel and neck massage.
They’ve also created the “Sticks
and Stones” package for men
– a round of golf with a full spa
treatment of hot stones, stretching,
and deep tissue massage. Not bad.
“We’re all about helping our
guests enjoy their experience,” said
Campbell.
Okay guys, dip your toe in the
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R U L E S
O F
T H E
G A M E
Can I see your ID?
New rule allows for proper identification
by Scott Crouthamel, PNGA Director of Rules and Competition
Rules large.....
While playing the par-3 6th
hole during the final round of last
year’s PGA Championship, Corey Pavin
blasted long from a greenside bunker.
The shot was headed for a water
hazard when his caddie moved a rake
that would have blocked Pavin’s ball
from rolling into the water. Pavin was
assessed a two-stroke penalty for
violating Rule 21-1 (Obstruction Rule),
and a one-stroke penalty for hitting
his ball into the hazard. He made an 8
on the hole.
On the same hole, Tim Herron,
Pavin’s playing partner that day,
was allowed to drop his ball without
penalty after his tee shot came to
rest against a rake. Herron ended up
making a 7 on the hole anyway.
....and small
At the Lewis & Clark Golf and
RV Resort in Astoria, Oregon, Local
Rule No. 2 states:
“Dress code
– at least something”.
B
efore January 1, 2008, if your ball
was in a bunker or water hazard you were
not allowed to mark and lift your ball for
identification purposes. You also could not
be penalized for playing a wrong ball out of
a hazard if you made a stroke at a ball that
was not yours.
Prior to the 2008 Rules of Golf change,
let’s say you hit your approach shot into a
greenside bunker. When you walk up to the
bunker, you notice a ball almost completely
submerged in sand. You take three hacks at
it before finally knocking it out of the bunker
and onto the green. When you mark the ball
on the green you notice that it’s not your
ball. You then take that ball out of play and
go back to the bunker and see another ball
slightly buried a few yards from where you
last played from. You hit that ball out of the
bunker in one stroke and make the putt. So,
what is your score on the hole? Your score
would be a 4 because the strokes you made
at the ball in the bunker that did not belong
to you do not count towards your score for
the hole because you could not hit a wrong
ball out of a hazard.
Now, in 2008, the Rules of Golf read
differently. If you find a ball in a water
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hazard or bunker that you believe to be
yours, but cannot tell for sure, you now have
steps that you can follow to properly identify
the ball prior to making a stroke at it. If you
play a wrong ball out of a hazard you will be
assessed a two-stroke penalty for playing a
wrong ball and you must correct your error.
RULE 122. IDENTIFYING BALL
The responsibility for playing the
proper ball rests with the player. Each player
should put an identification mark on his ball.
If a player has reason to believe a ball
at rest is his and it is necessary to lift the
ball in order to identify it, he may lift the
ball without penalty in order to do so.
Before lifting the ball, the player must
announce his intention to his opponent
in match play or his marker or a fellowcompetitor in stroke play and mark the
position of the ball. He may then lift the
ball and identify it, provided that he gives
his opponent, marker of fellow-competitor
an opportunity to observe the lifting
and replacement. The ball must not be
cleaned beyond the extent necessary for
identification when lifted (Rule 12-2).
If the ball is the player’s ball and he
fails to comply with all or any part of this
“What goes up must
come down. Just don’t
expect it to come down
where you can find it.”
– Comedian Lily Tomlin
procedure, or he lifts his ball in order to
identify it when not necessary to do so, he
incurs a one-stroke penalty. If the lifted
ball is the player’s ball, he must replace it.
If he fails to do so, he incurs the general
penalty for a breach of Rule 12-2, but there
is no additional penalty under this Rule.
If the original lie of a ball to be placed
or replaced has been altered, see Rule 20-3b.
RULE 203B. PLACING AND
REPLACING. LIE OF BALL TO BE
PLACED OR REPLACED ALTERED.
ii) in a water hazard, the ball must be
placed in the nearest lie most similar to the
original lie that is not more than one clublength from the original lie, not nearer the
hole and still in the water hazard.
iii) in a bunker, the original lie must be
re-created as nearly as possible and the ball
must be placed in that lie.
For complete information, visit www.
thepnga.org or www.usga.org.
Photo courtesy Chambers Bay
Chambers
MUSIC
S
by Blaine Newnham
USGA had eye on Northwest site from beginning
SO HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
OF ALL THE GOLF COURSES BUILT IN THE
PAST 45 YEARS – courses by Dye and Nicklaus and
Doak and Fazio, courses like Spyglass Hill, Whistling
Straits, and Kiawah Island – only one built in that
span of time has been selected to host a United States
Open Championship.
Chambers Bay.
The odds of the nod going to a course less than
a year old and in the shadow of Tacoma, Wash., were
longer than long.
But there are reasons that began as early as the
first visit by a USGA official, even before a shovel of
sand had been turned on the 900 acres bordering
Puget Sound.
“My gosh,” said Mike Davis, the man responsible
for staging the Open for the USGA. “To think that
we could have an Open in the Northwest on a course
next to the water and built on sand and with fescue
grasses. It was a staggering proposition.”
From the beginning, Chambers Bay, the
outrageous idea of Pierce County executive John
Ladenburg, wanted the USGA, and the USGA wanted
Chambers Bay.
“We were good listeners,” said Tony Tipton, the
project manager for Pierce County. “We did things
with having the U.S. Open in mind.”
In a sense, they designed the course together,
making sure there was no reason that the Open
couldn’t be contended there, and every reason that it
should.
Give Pierce County officials credit for the vision.
They, not the USGA, hired Robert Trent Jones II to
design the course and give him the money to move
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How many times has
the U.S. Open been
held in the Pacific
Northwest? Zero, nada,
zilch, zippo, goose egg,
nil, etc, etc...
The U.S. Amateur has
been held in the Pacific
Northwest four times.
>> 1937, at Alderwood
won by Johnny
Goodman
>> 1952, at Seattle
GC, won by Jack
Westland
>> 1970, at Waverley
CC, won by Lanny
Wadkins
>> 1996, at Pumpkin
Ridge, won by
Tiger Woods
Moving mountains –
an early construction
scene in creating
Chambers Bay
more than a million cubic yards of sand to create
Turnberry in Tacoma.
“I told them they could have as much land and
as big a budget as they needed,” said Ladenburg. “We
wanted to do something that could last 100 years.”
Something, too, that would prove to produce the
biggest sporting event in Northwest sports history, the
2015 U.S. Open.
There was the vision, and of course, the vicinity.
“You just don’t find those conditions in an urban
setting,” said Ron Whitten, the architectural editor of
Golf Digest.
Here we were, 30 minutes from Sea-Tac airport,
and only an hour from Seattle, with the real possibility
Photo courtesy USGA
TIGER, TORREY, AND YOU
– BRING IT ON
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Photo courtesy RTJ2
CC (no longer exists),
of patrons getting off dedicated trains at a temporary
station near the 18th tee.
There were mountain and water views for
television, benevolent weather for players, and,
mostly, room – room for corporate and media
compounds, room for parking, room for as many as
70,000 spectators a day.
There was no reason to think that Chambers
Bay won’t be the most well-attended – and most
profitable – U.S. Open in history, perhaps tripling the
number of spectators who will watch the 2014 Open
at Merion outside Philadelphia.
“Both we and the USGA think we will have
the largest crowds they’ve ever had at an Open,” said
Ladenburg. “We think there will be an economic
impact to the area of $100-$150 million.”
Bethpage Black in New York handled 60,000
spectators a day. It was the first municipallyowned course to host the Open, paving the way
for Torrey Pines in San Diego, this year’s site,
and Chambers Bay.
After losing the Whistling Straits course to the
PGA of America for its championship, the USGA
wasn’t messing around this time.
The opening to grab Chambers Bay came when
Winged Foot’s members decided they couldn’t do the
championship in 2015.
And, besides, Chambers Bay was the real
deal, sand-based and with fescue grasses that would
produce a firm, fast track unlike any other U.S. Open
ever held.
“We desperately wanted to be in the Northwest,”
said Davis.
How many strokes would Tiger
have to give you at Torrey Pines if
played on the U.S. Open setup? Well,
we did a little checking.
At PGA Tour sites, the normal
USGA Course and Slope Ratings
are irrelevant and have to be
recomputed. Touring pros play the
course from tee boxes used only by
them, the rough is higher, and the
greens are slicker. So, based on the
setup for the U.S. Open, the ratings
for Torrey’s South course will be
adjusted by the USGA to 79.7/153.
Tiger’s Handicap Index is
+9.3 (this is not a typo). This was
figured using 20 of his tournament
rounds, from the Deutsche Bank
Championship through the Buick
Invitational. Scott Crouthamel,
the PNGA’s Director of Rules &
Competition, has a Handicap Index
of 2.6. If the U.S. Open were a net
event, and Scott and Tiger played
from the same set of tees, how many
strokes would Scott get from the
World’s No. 1?
Scott: 2.6 index, 153 slope = USGA
Course Handicap of 4
Tiger: +9.3 index, 153 slope =
USGA Course Handicap of +13
Tiger would have to give Scott 17
strokes.
Tee it up, guys.
Thanks to Ron Gaines, Handicap
Chairman, Golf Association of Michigan
The Northwest, which has never had
an Open, offers not only a respite from
thunderstorms and humidity, but virgin live
audiences here and better TV times back East.
Davis said the USGA hopes to preview
its Open setup in the 2010 U.S. Amateur at
Chambers Bay. He admitted it won’t be like
any other Open, most of which have seen
narrow fairways, deep rough and fast greens.
This Open will break considerable new
ground, set up like a British Open, not a U.S.
Open. The challenge to Chambers Bay is to
make the layout firm and fast, to keep the
purity of the fescue grasses. And to hope the
wind blows.
Davis said some fairways would be
narrowed, and there would be consideration
given to switching No. 13 and No. 18 from
par-5s to par-4s, making it a par-70 stretched
to 7,600 yards.
“But, we basically like it the way it is,”
said Davis.
They always have.
Blaine is the former sports editor of the
Seattle Times, and has covered several U.S.
Opens. He will, he tells us, be covering the
2015 championship.
BRINGIN’
IT TO THE
PEOPLE
Next month’s
U.S. Open is being
held at Torrey Pines,
a muni where a San
Diego resident can
play the mighty
South course for $42.
Bethpage Black,
another muni, hosted
the Open in ’02, and
will again in ’09.
Chambers Bay
is in good muni
company.
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Buckner
at Rest
Legend at peace under the
open skies of Idaho
BY KEITH ANDERSON
MY DREAM OF PLAYING BASEBALL IN THE BIG
LEAGUES FADED LONG AGO, although once
in a while, memories of my youth playing
at Washington Playground and pretending
that I was Willie Mays at Candlestick Park
still dance across my mind.
One of the legends from my
hometown was Bill Buckner. Buckner and
his brothers were from the same area of
California. During my playground days, in
the early 1970s, Buckner was playing for
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In 1977 I headed to Boise State
University on a football scholarship. I fell
short of a dream of playing in the NFL, and
settled down to build a life in Boise.
Several years later, I was singing
at the church I was attending. After the
service I was selling my latest cassette,
when a man walked up to the table and
said he enjoyed my music. When I look at
him I thought I recognized him. “Where are
you from?” I asked.
He said, “Boston”.
“I know you. You’re Bill Buckner. We
grew up in the same part of California”.
There I was, standing in front of a man who
had been where most guys like me had only
dreamed of being. He had spent 22 years in
the major leagues.
Then over the next few years, besides
attending the same church, Bill and I golfed
together a number of times. He scored
better, but he couldn’t out-drive me. Once,
when he was coaching with the Chicago
White Sox, I met up with him in Seattle
when they were playing a three game
series with the Mariners. For the game, he’d
gotten some good seats for me and a couple
of my former college teammates. Later that
weekend, he’d made arrangements for he
and I to play golf at a local country club.
He spent a lot of time on the road,
coaching with the team, and I didn’t really
see him much. However, one summer day
I was on the golf course when my cell
phone rang. It was Bill and he wanted to
know if I’d like to go nine holes with him. I
finished my round and got across town to
the private course to which he belonged.
Right away, I could tell there was
going to be something different about
this early summer evening. The course
was quiet. Watching his swing was always
a thing of beauty. It was so smooth and
effortless. Swinging a bat for all those years
would probably make a guy’s swing appear
effortless. He once told me that the golf
swing and a baseball swing was the same
swing, but on a different plane.
There was one fairway where our
balls were almost equal in distance. In fact,
he may have been a foot or so in front of
me. He tried to brag, so I reminded him that
I had hit a 3-wood, while he hit driver.
“You must get all that power from
that big butt,” he said.
“Until I get a real golf game, I’ll rely on
my big butt power,” I answered.
After we were done playing, Bill didn’t
seem to be in a hurry. He drove his golf cart
onto the trailer. I stood on one side of his
pickup truck with my foot on the bumper
and he was on the other side. I decided to
take advantage of the situation and ask
Any true baseball fan would gladly accept his one
unfortunate moment, in exchange for a chance to play
22 years in the major leagues. I’m one of them.
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him questions I was dying to hear the
answers to. I asked him what was it like
to play in the big leagues? The detailed
answers I got were a dream for this wannabe major leaguer.
It has been said that the eye is a
window to the soul. Well, in the golf course
parking lot, I saw Bill Buckner’s soul. Talking
about baseball brought a glow to his face.
The war-torn man leaning against a pickup
was again a little boy playing baseball, the
game he loved for so long.
He could tell I needed to hear his
stories. I knew he needed to tell them.
And so he talked.
As the sun went
down Bill talked about
my favorite player, Willie
Mays. A few years ago he
ran into Mays as they were
shooting a commercial
with Michael Jordan (he
had later played a round
of golf with Jordan).
He then began to
tell me about some of the
THE LONGEST WALK
Buckner heads to
great baseball players
the dugout after
he had met during his
the fateful inning
in Game 6 of the
playing days. His stories
1986 World Series.
were sometimes funny,
sometimes sad and
sometimes larger than baseball.
There were a couple of things I
wanted to ask before it got too late. I had
read someplace that when Hank Aaron hit
his 715th homerun, it was Bill who was
trying to climb the fence in the outfield.
“What would you have done with Aaron’s
715th shot, had you got it?” I asked.
He smiled and said, “I would have
given it to him.”
In my younger years, I remembered
watching Aaron’s homerun on television.
I remember reading about the threats he
and his family received.
“I think it has affected Aaron to this
day,” Bill said.
As Bill talked about fun times with
his teammates in the dugouts, playing
card games on red-eye flights, I thought
about his batting title in 1980. He had
shown me the award. It was the last silver
bat they gave out.
He explained to me one of his
proudest achievements. “I went back to
Boston (in 1990) and the fans accepted
me back and I earned a spot on the team.
Despite the ankle injury and the memory
of Mookie Wilson’s ground ball (the costly
error during the 1986 World Series), the
fans wanted me back. When the season
started I was hitting great. I could see
every pitch.”
Sadly, while he earned a spot on
the team, an early season injury kept
Bill from getting the hits he needed to
reach the magic 3,000, which would have
meant a sure ticket to the Hall of Fame.
He was released by Boston in the middle
of the 1990 season. He
never played another
game.
Buckner was only 89
games from cracking the
top 25 in most games
played. He finished with
2,715 hits, only 115 away
from the top 25 hitters of
all-time.
In the five years I’d
known Bill, this was the
first time Wilson’s ground
ball had ever come up
in conversation. I could
tell he was at peace with
his past. It was only a
paragraph in a 22-chapter novel. Any true
baseball fan would gladly accept his one
unfortunate moment, in exchange for
a chance to play 22 years in the major
leagues. I’m one of them.
Just like waking up from daydreaming
in centerfield at Washington Playground,
the realization of darkness brought us
back to reality. It was time to go home. I let
Bill know how much of a treat listening to
his stories had been for me. Even though
he had again beaten me on the course, this
evening I was the winner.
As I drove away I called my wife on
my cell phone. She told me I sounded
funny. I was silent for a moment. “I have
just seen the soul of a big leaguer,” I
told her.
Keith Anderson has a Ph.D. in
Educational Leadership and is an adjunct
professor at Boise State University. He is a
freelance writer and author of the baseball
book, “A Field Day”.
Mookie Wilson and Buckner, now friends,
attend autograph shows together.
FAR FROM THE
MADDING CROWD
After many
years on the road,
after the successes,
after the trades and
the injuries, after
the many slings and
arrows, Bill Buckner
is at home in the
middle of Idaho. He
owns a car dealership,
and has built a par-3
in his backyard. He
donates his time to
the community. He
coaches. He attends
autograph signings.
Time passes. It’s
a full life.
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“SO, I GOT THAT GOING
FOR ME, WHICH IS NICE”
Walk
this
way
Young caddie finds his place
I HAVE NEVER SEEN
THE MOVIE, CADDYSHACK.
SHOCKING, BUT TRUE. SO SOME
OF YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW
THIS BIT OF TRIVIA, WHICH I JUST
FOUND OUT AND THOUGHT IT
WORTH PASSING ALONG TO THE
OTHER TWO OR THREE PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD WHO ALSO HAVE
NOT SEEN THE MOVIE.
BILL MURRAY, WHO PLAYS
THE HAPLESS GREENSKEEPER,
IS THE BROTHER OF BRIAN
MURRAY, WHO CO-WROTE THE
MOVIE’S SCRIPT AND WHO ALSO
PLAYS THE CADDIE MASTER IN
THE MOVIE. BRIAN WROTE THE
SCRIPT BASED ON THE STORY OF
ED MURRAY (BROTHER OF BRIAN
AND BILL), WHO WAS A CADDIE
AND AN EVANS SCHOLAR,
GRADUATING IN 1971 FROM
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
by Paul Ramsdell
- EDITOR
There’s no doubt about it, it can
community involvement and financial
be a nervous experience – being a
need.
youngster in your first job situation.
“It’s an incredible gift for any
“I was nervous that I was going
of the kids who get it, and we’ve had
to do something wrong and they
kids get it in the past,” Ferrier said of
were going to yell at me,” said Trent
the scholarship that’s worth four years
Gardner, now a veteran caddie, at
of tuition and housing at the major
the age of 15, at Avalon Golf Links in
universities in the Northwest.
Burlington, Wash.
“I’ve thought about it a lot, and
Did anyone yell at him the first
the Evans Scholarship would be great,”
time he was caddying for someone he
said Gardner, a freshman at Sedrodidn’t know?
Woolley High School.
“Nope,” he said. “The guy said I
While Avalon is joined by several
did a wonderful job, so I was excited.”
other facilities around the Northwest
“EVERY YEAR,
Gardner was well prepared for
in re-establishing the popularity of
THERE SEEMS TO
the job after going through the caddietaking caddies, it’s been a struggling
BE ONE OR TWO
training program at Avalon. A major
aspect of golf overall.
KIDS OUT OF THE
part of the training is just dealing
“The cart has become increasingly
12 TO 15 WHO
with the initial interaction before the
more infused in the game,” Ferrier
HAVE CHARACTER said. “We really try to make steps to
round even starts, says Eric Ferrier, the
AND CHARISMA,
assistant golf professional at Avalon
get people to take caddies. In some
who oversees the caddie program.
cases, we’ve even knocked some bucks
AND A LEVEL OF
“If you can look somebody in the
off the green fees to get somebody to
RESPECTFULNESS
eye when you’re shaking their hand, FOR NOT JUST THE take caddies.”
or smile when you’re shaking their
“We’ll show up around 7:30 in
GAME, BUT FOR
hand, these are the things that are
the
morning,
” says Gardner. “We put
THE PEOPLE THEY
going to help you beyond caddying,”
on
our
vests,
grab a towel, then we sit
CADDIE FOR...”
Ferrier said.
by the log, carry each bag up and if
And something else that can help beyond they want a caddie they’d tell the pro and then we’d
caddying is the Evans Scholarships, which are get called into the pro shop and meet them,” Gardner
awarded each year to youngsters in Washington, said about the successful mornings.
Oregon and British Columbia who have met certain
“On some days, we’d show up at 7:30 and leave
requirements for caddying, school academics, (on a job) by 8:30 or 9,” he said. “But some days you
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PLAY IN THE EVANS CUP
Each year, the Oregon
Golf Association and Pacific
Northwest Golf Association
join together to conduct the
two Evans Cups, first-class
fundraising events which support the local Evans Scholars.
The Evans Cup of
Washington will be held
August 18 at Meridian Valley
Country Club, and the Evans
Cup of Oregon will be held
September 22 at Riverside
Golf & Country Club.
For entry forms and information on playing in either
the Evans Cup of Oregon or the
Evans Cup of Washington, call
800-643-6410. Entries for participating in these two events will
also be available online in late
May at www.thewsga.org and
www.thepnga.org.
EVANS NOW IN
BRITISH COLUMBIA
ON APRIL 26, THE VICTORIA
GOLF CLUB OFFICIALLY MADE
AVAILABLE TO THEIR CADDIES
THE EVANS SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAM. WITH A CADDIE
PROGRAM ALREADY IN PLACE
AT THEIR CLUB, THEY EXPECT TO
HOLD SELECTION INTERVIEWS
FOR SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
AS EARLY AS NEXT SPRING.
Where are
THEY NOW?
FORMER SCHOLARS REMAIN INVOLVED
Pictured (l to r) are Pat Zuk, Miami ‘81, Executive Director of The First Tee of Greater Kansas
City; Ed Murray, Northwestern ‘71, founding Board member of The First Tee, Central Coast;
Joe Louis Barrow, CEO of The First Tee and the World Golf Foundation; Julie Bryant, Colorado
‘92, Program Director of The First Tee of Green Valley Ranch; CRAIG BRUYA, WASHINGTON ‘80,
WGA DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER SEATTLE; Kevin Laura, Colorado
‘85, Trustee and Marketing Director of The First Tee of Green Valley Ranch; and Steve
Czarnecki, Missouri ‘97, Assistant Director of Grants and Fellowships for the USGA.
AN EVANS SCHOLAR
‘PAYING IT FORWARD’
TO THE PROGRAM
CRAIG BRUYA
Western Golf Association
Director, and President of First
Tee of Greater Seattle.
BUSINESS CAREER
Trained as a CPA, he started his
career at Arthur Andersen and
went on to a 15-year career in
finance at Microsoft. Now he
does consulting work and serves
on one for-profit and five nonprofit Boards of Directors.
CADDIE CAREER
Spokane Country Club and
Downriver Golf Course, Spokane,
Washington
COLLEGE
University of Washington
How has the Evans Scholarship
benefited you?
First and foremost, it made it
possible for me to attend college.
I am the oldest of five, and was
the first to attend college in my
family. It was a huge relief when I
received the Evans Scholarship. I
am sure I would have found some
way to make it to college, but it
would have been a struggle.
In order for me to attend the
Evans interviews at Seattle Golf
Club, I took my first ever plane
ride from Spokane to Seattle.
That’s how big of a deal this
was! Plus, I thought my chances
were pretty slim to even get the
scholarship.
How were you introduced to golf
and becoming a caddie?
I will never forget. I went
to Sundance Golf Course near
Spokane with my dad to caddie
for him. It was the first time I
had ever been on a golf course.
I wasn’t aware, but the first tee
was in close proximity of the
18th hole driving area, especially
for someone with a slice. Well,
someone sliced it off the 18th tee
and it barely missed my head. I
could actually feel the buzz of the
ball skim through my hair. That
was my first experience on a golf
course and as a caddie.
How will the Evans Scholarship
experience affect your role with
the First Tee?
As I got older, I realized I
wanted to give back to the
program and I guess I now think
of the scholarship as more of a
loan and there is, maybe, a moral
imperative to pay it forward.
I continue to participate in
selecting the new Washington
Scholars and am active in the
national program.
My role with The First Tee of
Greater Seattle is a little different,
because it’s more local than the
Evans Program. But, I would
like try and associate these two
programs. The First Tee does not
have scholarship opportunities
for these young men and women
like the Evans Program. I think if
we could bring these programs
together it would attract more
kids to both programs.
Just a few hours from Seattle or Spokane, yet
worlds away from stress and worry: Lake Chelan.
With 300+ annual days of sunshine, enjoy teeing
off at the beautiful Lake Chelan Municipal Golf
Course. After, relax and enjoy our shopping,
dining, scenic boat tours, apple orchards and
numerous local wineries. Fill your senses—
and your score card, at Lake Chelan.
Visit LakeChelanGolf.com for more
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F I L L
Y O U R
S E N S E S.
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by Troy Andrew, PNGA Assistant Executive Director
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FUTURES SO BRIGHT
Northwest students receive
Evans Scholarships
Fourteen high school seniors 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
cover tuition and on-campus housing.
Since 1930, the Western Golf
Association (WGA) has sponsored and
funded the Evans Scholars Foundation,
which administers the nation’s largest
privately funded college scholarship
program.
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.
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Katherine Burr
Clackamas, Ore.
Waverley CC
Copeland Downs
Portland, Ore.
Waverley CC
Maxwell Gorman
Hood River, Ore.
Indian Creek GC
Brian Haueter
Bandon, Ore.
Bandon Dunes GR
Craig Minkler
Bandon, Ore.
Bandon Dunes GR
Thomas Nixon
Coos Bay, Ore.
Bandon Dunes GR
Cameron Winfrey
Coos Bay, Ore.
Bandon Dunes GR
Danielle Bennett
Auburn, Wash.
Seattle GC
Kellen Blukis
Seattle, Wash.
Seattle GC
Sarah Hardy
Sequim, Wash.
Cedars at Dungeness
Sten Karlholm
Seattle, Wash.
Seattle GC
Rachel Pendergast
Vancouver, Wash.
Royal Oaks CC
Darcie Richmond
Bothell, Wash.
Overlake G&CC
Jordan Wall
Mountlake Terrace, Wash.
Seattle GC
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sit up there all the way to 12:30.”
Before Gardner or his buddies are
qualified to sit on the log and wear the caddie
vest, they are put through a training program
at Avalon headed up by Ferrier.
“We’ll take them through something I
like to call “Caddie Commandments”, which
I made up a while ago, and it starts with the
moment we come and grab you and you
make eye contact with your player. What you
should do before the round, things you should
do on the tee box, in the fairway, around the
green, at the end of the round and after the
round,” Ferrier said.
Gardner remembers a lot of the
commandments.
“Picking up divots, replacing divots,
not walking in people’s lines on the green
and holding the flag because you don’t want
the flag waving in the wind, so he’d have us
hold the flag and be out of the line of sight,”
Gardner said.
“A lot of kids,” Ferrier said, “if they
have golf experience, I try to relate to them
that basically what you’re doing is doing
for somebody else what you would do for
yourself during a typical round of golf.”
However, there are some elements
of the game Gardner has learned that
don’t necessarily fit under the Caddie
Commandments.
“One guy I caddied for was really a nice
guy all around, but he’d miss a putt and he’d
just blow up and then it would throw off his
whole game,” Gardner said. “But then if you
kind of talk to him a little more he would start
to settle down. For me, it made the experience
a little better.”
Which, in turn, helps Garner make the
round a better experience for his golfer.
This summer, Avalon is going to try something
else to make it a better experience for the
golfer – the use of forecaddies.
“Because people are riding,” Ferrier said,
“it’s still well within their benefit to take a
forecaddie who is going to be out in the
landing area, marking your ball for you and
still raking traps, all of those things you’d still
have to do with a cart.”
And Ferrier expects Gardner to be a big
part of the project.
“Every year, there seems to be one or two
kids out of the 12 to 15 who have character
and charisma, and a level of respectfulness
for not just the game, but for the people they
caddie for,” Ferrier said, “and that’s Trent.”
Paul Ramsdell is a former editor for
ESPN.com. He is on the board of the Northwest
Golf Media Association.
CADDIE PROGRAMS
IN THE NORTHWEST
NUMBER RECOMMENDED
OF CADDIES
WAGE*
AVALON GL
Burlington, Wash., 360-757-1900
15 to 18
$15
Training includes a four-week program working with
the staff professionals. The club is going to emphasize a
forecaddie program this season. Assistant Pro Eric Ferrier
runs the program.
BANDON DUNES GR
Bandon, Ore., 541-347-5741
350
$55
The three courses at the resort are walking-only so
there’s plenty of opportunities for caddies. There’s an
extensive training program that begins with a required
instruction class at the local community college.
CHAMBERS BAY
University Place, Wash., 253-460-4653 200
$35
Another walking-only course. Instruction emphasizes
customer service as well as basic golf knowledge. The
caddie masters to contact are Brian Haines and Nathan
Spitzer.
EASTMORELAND GC
Portland, 503-775-2900
Two to six $8hr
HERON LAKES GC
Portland, 503-289-1818
Two to six $8hr
RED TAIL GC
Beaverton, 503-646-5166
Two to six $8hr
ROSE CITY GC
Portland, 503-253-4744
Two to six $8hr
Part of the Portland city program to promote the Evans
Scholarship, with the program paying the hourly wages.
Also includes some work in and around the pro shop.
Training program includes going out with the staff pros.
GRAYS HARBOR CC
Aberdeen, Wash., 360-532-1931 Two to four $20-$30
Program in place to help instruct potential caddies and
assist youngsters in obtaining the Evans Scholarship.
Head Pro Ronnie Espedal is the best contact.
ROYAL OAKS CC
Vancouver, Wash., 360-256-1350
NA
NA
A new program is in the works and just starting for the
peak golf season. Head Pro Scott Leyritz is the best
contact.
SEATTLE GC
Seattle, Wash., 206-363-5444
45
$20-$35
The program is mostly with youngsters 14 to 18 years old.
Training includes videos and seminars and then training
rounds with staff and select members. Art Legreid is the
caddie master.
THREE RIVERS GC
Kelso, Wash., 360-423-4653
Four to five
NA
Course wants a two-year commitment from a caddie,
which is necessary for the Evans Scholarship.
VICTORIA GC
Victoria, BC, 250-598-4322
NA
NA
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B A C K
S P I N
&
The Good, the Bad,
and the “Excuse me,
but is that an X-out
you’re playing?”
MARK JOHNSON is the main news
anchor at Boise’s KTVB-TV. When
not trying to tame the elusive
game of golf, Mark’s goals are to
someday learn the nuances of
scoring in bowling and to win a
game of computer “Limbo Elmo”
against his young twin daughters.
In an effort to make real news,
Mark answered our newsworthy
questions.
by David Wood
STRANGEST
IT SHOULD BE
THE
THING
I’VE EVER SEEN ON A GOLF COURSE...
A cow walking across a green on my home course
growing up on the thirteenth hole at Columbia-Edgewater.
One of the players in my group laughed so hard she wet
her pants.
MULFUR
Dogleg-right hole at SunLand in Sequim. Buddy of
mine tried to cut the corner but faded it a bit much (Okay,
probably sliced the heck out of it). We heard a crash and
weren’t sure what his ball had hit. Sounded like a roof or a
window. We got down there and found out it was a glass
patio table. There were shards of glass everywhere and the
two things I remember most were the owner was on the
patio screaming at my buddy, while my oblivious buddy
paid no attention and kept looking in her flower beds for
his ball. Then when he found it, he took a drop next to her
yard while this woman continued her rant in front of him,
attempting to prevent him from taking his next shot. She
was standing right in front of him. My buddy somehow hit
his shot and we proceeded to the green while the ranting
continued behind us. I can’t remember how this turned out.
MOORE
A five-some all in their own privately owned carts
parked in a single file next to the tee box in a sort of Indy
500 starting grid.
JOHNSON
MARTIN In 1996 during a Hooter’s Tour pro-am one of the
Hooter’s girls removed her top and danced around on the
green after someone dropped a long putt.
LEGAL IN GOLF TO...
MULFUR To be removed from the golf course for sloooow
play - it has gotten ridiculous! .
Remove your ball from a fairway divot, and if there’s
some question whether it’s a divot or not, take a vote in
your foursome.
MOORE
JOHNSON Ground your club in the hazard. Come on! You’re
already punished enough with the lie and the stance and
the snakes wiggling around your feet. Why double the
punishment?
CASEY MARTIN A native of
Eugene, Oregon, Casey Martin
went to Stanford University
where he was selected threetimes all Pac-10. He won the 1993
Sahalee Players Championship,
and was a member of Stanford’s
NCAA Championship team
in 1994. After stints on the
Nationwide and PGA Tours,
the genial Mr. Martin is now
the men’s golf coach at the
University of Oregon.
Replace your ball on the putting green if it moves
after you address it. I don’t believe that should be a
penalty.
MARTIN
IT SHOULD BE
ILLEGAL IN GOLF TO...
To play in more than four hours. See a trend here?
MULFUR
Have dress codes at golf courses and driving ranges.
The collared shirt thing really bugs me, as does the rule
against jeans, excuse me, denim. Tank tops and shorts
should be allowed at all times, even encouraged.
MOORE
JOHNSON
MARTIN
To take more than a double par.
To take over four hours to play 18 holes!
THE OTHER MEMBERS OF MY
“DREAM
FOURSOME” ARE...
MULFUR
JIM MOORE As one of the great
guys of the Pacific Northwest
sports scene, Jim Moore’s funny
and insightful columns grace the
pages of the Seattle P-I. When
not chatting up members of the
Sea Gals or hanging with his
beloved golden retriever, you’ll
find Jim playing eighteen and
then enjoying a beverage at the
nineteenth hole.
My dad, Jack Nicklaus, and Lorena Ochoa.
Greg Norman for sure – my one and only golf hero.
Halle Berry – I don’t even know or care if she plays golf. And
a completely hammered John Daly, although that might be
redundant.
MOORE
JOHNSON 1st choice: my wife (when she hits a good one she
does a dance), my dad (when he hits a good one you can
hear “I love this game!” in Montana) and my brother (more
intense than Craig Stadler...and whatever you do, don’t talk
politics or stand behind him on the tee box). Second choice:
Hogan, JFK and Sinatra.
FORE!
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MARTIN My wife and two kids (all of whom are yet to be
determined).
MARY LOU MULFUR is in her 24th
season as the woman’s golf coach
at the University of Washington.
Twice during Mulflur’s career
she has been named the Pac-10
Conference’s Coach of the Year.
She has built the Husky program
into one of the nation’s most
consistently competitive teams.
PEOPLE
WHO CHEAT IN GOLF SHOULD...
Leave the game and play something
MULFUR
else.
Be publicly ridiculed and banished from
ever playing again. Is there anything worse
than sandbaggers or foot-wedgers or golfers
who play winter rules in the summertime or
miraculously find their hopelessly lost ball
when one falls out of their pocket?
MOORE
JOHNSON
Be forced to play with my brother.
Take a long hard look in the mirror and
then ask God for forgiveness.
MARTIN
NEVER CATCH ME ON A
WEARING...
YOU’LL
GOLF COURSE
A towel hanging out of my back pocket
MULFUR
- tacky!
Probably a tight-fitting shirt because
it will restrict my swing and expose my gut.
Plus as a proud Coug, I never wear anything
anywhere that’s purple and gold, and that
counts for the golf course, too.
MOORE
JOHNSON
MARTIN
Golf sandals.
Orange!
SENTIMENTAL
YOUR FAVORITE
GOLF COURSE AND WHY...
MULFUR Astoria Golf & Country Club – lots of
good memories of being a kid and running
around in the evening to see how many holes I
could play before it got dark.
Augusta National. Had the privilege
to play there twice on Media Day, the day
after The Masters. I didn’t get misty-eyed or
anything, but just to be there and have my
own caddie and to play the holes I’d seen so
many times on TV, was something I’ll never
forget, nor this: I played my entire first round
with a single Ultra X-out. Forget all of Tiger’s
and Jack’s records - I like to think that I was the
first and still the only player to use an X-out
ball at Augusta.
MOORE
You’ll try but you won’t be able to
suppress the emotion on the first tee. I watched
golfer after golfer reduced to tears walking down
the 1st fairway as memories and stories of the
legends and pictures of the birthplace of golf
came to life. My caddie asked me how I ended
up spending my 50th birthday at St Andrews.
When I attempted to answer he stopped me and
said, “Aye, Mark...there’ll be plenty of time for
blubberin’...now is the time for golf.”
JOHNSON
The Eugene Country Club. I grew up there
and am a member to this day. There is not a
better course in the world to play everyday
and call your home.
POOL
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Nine Holes with....
David Wood
BY TONY DEAR
David Wood has just published his book,
“Around the World in 80 Rounds” (St. Martin’s
Press), a chronicle of his year-long journey to
play golf in its most magnificently unusual
locales. I chatted with him recently over nine
holes at Seattle’s West Seattle GC.
By the middle of 2004, David Wood
was done with mortgages. And his IRA and
car payment were giving him nothing but
grief. Fed up with the never-ending cycle of
working in order to pay the bills, the then
47-year-old confirmed bachelor sold most of
his possessions, stored the rest, and set off on
a year-long global golfing quest to put an end
to his never-ending
cycle of curiosity and
the need to satisfy it.
“I couldn’t imagine getting to be 70 or 80
years old and not having seen the world,” he
says. “I would never have forgiven myself.”
What better way to see it than through
the eyes of the local golfers with whom he teed
it up?
“I met so many wonderful, friendly
people playing golf in some very strange,
not to say rough, places,” Wood remembers.
“Many times I didn’t understand a word
my companion was saying and he likewise
couldn’t understand me. But we all had one
thing in common – golf. And most of the time
David Wood playing
through the shadow
of history, next to the
Great Pyramid
that was enough.”
He may have had trouble communicating
with some of his newfound golf buddies,
but Wood felt right at home on the less
than pristine courses they played. A longtime fan of muni golf, Wood has always
preferred mucking in with like-minded
souls than forking over large green fees to
play somewhere more exclusive.
With so strong an affinity for public
tracks it’s no surprise Wood chose West
Seattle for our game, and on a glorious spring
morning last month I listened while he
reminisced about his expedition, recounting
fascinating story after fascinating story.
There was the one about being arrested
in the Ukraine, supposedly on the grounds of
having the wrong visa, and the subsequent
night in jail. The chance meeting with former
Argentina President Carlos Menem followed,
and my favorite – dodging bombs (“only
small ones,” his taxi driver assured him) in
Kathmandu during Nepal’s civil unrest – took
up at least three holes’ conversation. If we’d
had time for 36 holes I’ve no doubt Wood
could have filled the time with material. And I
would have enjoyed every word.
For the record, Wood’s favorite country
was New Zealand for its gracious people and
remarkable scenery, while India ranked last,
although that had a lot to do with an unholy
bout of food poisoning that saw him moving
swiftly between bedroom and bathroom for
several days. His most memorable moment,
besides the two-hour foot massages in Thailand
and those Kathmandu explosions, was playing
golf in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of
Giza, while Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe got his
vote for most beautiful place.
Back at West Seattle, our game ended
with Wood several strokes ahead (with an
index of seven, he’s a very handy player) and
over a beer on the patio he thanked me for
the opportunity to relive moments of his
incredible journey. In his book, Wood often
refers to himself as crazy for even considering
it. But if you and I lock ourselves into a grind
and never consider the possibility of living the
thrills, spills and yes, near death experiences
that filled Wood’s time overseas then, really,
who are the crazy ones?
Originally from England, Tony has lived
in the Northwest for four years. He has written
travel stories for the New York Sun and Golf
Magazine.
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HEY...ISN’T THAT....
From the movie Goldfinger,
golf-loving Sean Connery
(left) matches wits, and
par, with his cheating archenemy at the Stoke Poges
Golf Club in England.
What happens on the course stays on the
course, except when it’s published
BY DAVID WOOD
With golf-loving celebrities running
the gamut from Alice Cooper to Donald
Trump, you never know who you might
see out on the links. Here in the Pacific
Northwest, I once spied Bill Gates when
our respective foursomes crossed paths
while playing in a tournament at Willows
Run Golf Course in Redmond, Wash.
I walked within a few feet of the then
“World’s Richest Man” (now No. 2 to his pal,
Warren Buffett) as he was deep in thought
while taking a few practice swings and
checking his positions. No matter how
many zeros in your bank account, golf
requires constant tinkering.
Once while playing on the Old Course
at St. Andrews, I met 007 himself. Sean
Connery – a golfing member of the R&A
–had just finished holing at the last as I
was preparing to tee-off on the nearby
first hole. As I’d seen the movie Goldfinger
probably a hundred times, I quickly ran
over, introduced myself, and told him what
a huge fan I was. Thankfully, Mr. Connery
was gracious and didn’t get a restraining
order slapped on me for my behavior.
My ultimate celebrity run-in
happened at the Lakeside Golf Club in
Burbank, Calif. Adjacent to both Universal
and Warner Brothers studios, Lakeside has
long been a hotbed of golfing celebrities.
Humphrey Bogart, W.C. Fields, Bing
Crosby, John Wayne, and Gene Autry were
members there. Today, members include
Ray Romano, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester
Stallone.
Back in the early 1990s, I was a
Los Angeles-based, golf-loving, stand-up
comedian. Every year I was invited to play
in and then perform at the Maury Luxford
Memorial Tournament at Lakeside. Mr.
Luxford had been the longtime professional
at the storied club and a yearly benefit
was held in his honor. It was always the
highlight of my golfing year to get to play
at Lakeside with its old-fashioned, smallish
greens and rich showbiz history.
The festivities of the tournament
included a scramble format of golf and a
banquet afterwards at which I and a couple
of my stand-up comedy friends would do
our acts. The audience always laughed as
we told the same jokes year after year. The
fact that most of the attendees were in
their eighties, and mostly sporting hearing
aids, didn’t hurt.
While out on the course one year,
I had sliced a terrible drive off the par-5
4th onto an adjoining hole. From the tee,
I could see my ball sitting there in the
middle of the other fairway. As my group
wasn’t going to use my poorly struck shot, I
went to retrieve my still-fairly-new Titleist.
As I was about twenty yards from my ball, a
single golfer in a golf cart pulled up, looked
at the ball, and picked it up. I quickly ran
over to tell the other golfer, in no uncertain
terms, that the ball was mine.
Then I realized that the gentleman
was Bob Hope.
Startled, I said, “Hello Mr. Hope.”
He said, “Good morning son.”
I replied, “Great day for golf, isn’t it?”
Mr. Hope said, “Yes, it is.”
He then drove away as he whistled
a tune with my ball resting snug in his left
hand.
I’m one of the few golfers in the
world who can proudly say that Bob Hope
pilfered my golf ball.
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And it was on these trips that he
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So Janho left the corporate financial
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and founded his own caddie service, Pin
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“There is a legitimate pool of
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Janho sees much of his business
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M E E T
T H E
( P A S T )
C H A M P I O N
Fred Couples
by Blaine Newnham
CAN IT BE 30 YEARS SINCE FRED COUPLES
WON THE WASHINGTON OPEN AT
GLENDALE COUNTRY CLUB AS AN 18YEAR-OLD AMATEUR, PLAYING THE
FINAL ROUND IN HIS TENNIS SHOES?
“I think I shot 65 the final round,” said
Couples, “but that was a long time ago.”
“All I remember,” said John Bracken, a longtime friend and rival of Couples, “is that he had a
Tommy Armour 3-wood and drove it 280 yards
– 30 yards past his opponents.”
The tournament – now called the Toyota
of Bellevue Washington Open Invitational, and
begins May 19 – is back at Glendale, in Bellevue,
Wash., and Couples actually considered an
invitation to play once again.
“I’d like to, there’s a chance,” he said, “but I’m
under contract with my sponsors to play 16 PGA
Tour events this year, and last year I only played two.”
Couples would be choosing between the $6.1
million Colonial in Forth Worth and the $75,000
Washington Open. Who knows with Couples?
“I’d have a good time with the guys, I know
that,” said Couples.
Famous for avoiding publicity and social
contact in general – “I don’t answer the phone
because there might be someone on the other end”
– Couples talked for nearly an hour about his life,
and particularly his early life in Seattle.
“Wow,” he said, “we used to play our high
school matches at Earlington Golf Course (in Renton,
Wash.). I’m sure it is not even there anymore.”
It isn’t, but there remains with many of us
the image of young Fred Couples, that languid but
fearless swing the same then as it is now.
“I was playing for O’Dea High School (in
Seattle), and we played in the Olympic League,
and got to go to Bremerton to play Gold Mountain
(the Cascade Course, of course), Kitsap Country
Club and Port Ludlow,” said Couples.
Bracken played at Lakeside High, whose home
matches were at Wayne Golf Course in Bothell, Wash.
“We played O’Dea two matches a year and
I was always paired against Fred,” said Bracken.
“My senior year he made back-to-back eagles on
back-to-back par-5’s on the back nine. I shot 2 or
3-under and lost by four or five shots.”
These are good days for Couples. A new
HIGHLIGHTS
• 1976 PNGA Junior Champion
• 1978 BC Junior Boys’ Champion
• 1978 WSGA Washington State
Amateur Champion
• 1978 Washington Open
Champion
• 1979 BC Amateur Champion
You can’t make this stuff up
• 1988 and 1990
Northwest Open Champion
Dale Johnson, former OGA Executive
Director, relates the following story.
“Fred Couples first played in the PayLess
Golf Classic while still a high school student. I
think he was 16. He was paired with Rick Acton
and Fred Haney, two of the best-ever players
among Northwest club professionals.
“Acton and Haney teed off on the first
hole at Columbia-Edgewater Country Club. They
• 15 PGA Tour wins
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were much longer than the average hitters.
Then young Couples steps up to the tee, tosses
his ball on the ground, took his four-wood and
swung. The ball sailed past those of the two
pros and finished some 50 yards ahead, around
the 300-yard mark. The looks on the faces of
Haney and Acton were priceless.”
Source: the PNGA’s “Championships &
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Ian Woosnam
helps Fred
Couples into his
Green Jacket
after Couples’
victory in the
1992 Masters
doctor has him on a new
regimen for his aching
back. Be active and play as
much as possible, he’s told.
Couples was pointing toward the Masters,
where he has made the cut for 23 years. He said
he wasn’t going just to keep the streak alive, but
to challenge for the championship as he has
so many times in the past.
“That’s my favorite place to play and
because they’ve toughened up the course
you don’t have to shoot a ridiculous round to
compete any more,” he said.
Besides just feeling better, Couples
was very pleased by his selection as captain
of the American Team for the Presidents
Cup in October of 2009 at San Francisco’s
Harding Park. His opposite, the captain of
the International Team, is Greg Norman.
“I just realized that I will turn 50 that
week and start playing the next week – I think
in Houston – on the Champions Tour,” he said.
All of which means that he will be in
Seattle the following summer for the 2010
U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee.
“The Northwest was a great place to
learn to play golf,” said Couples, who lives
now in Palm Springs and has Butch Harmon
as his swing coach.
“You have to hit fairways,” he said, “and
the greens in the Northwest were small and
I still consider my iron play as the strongest
part of my game. I hit greens in regulation. I
learned how to carve shots, move the ball.
For Couples, it all began at the driving
range at Seattle’s Jefferson Park, where he
was casually employed. He’d whack them
out there, and whack them back. He’d flop
shots away from the netting before there
was such a shot.
“It was boring to hit one 7-iron after
another,” he said. “So I tried everything.
Maybe my game got a little handsy, but I was
confident I could hit almost any shot at any
time. It was fun.”
Which, really, is the point.
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L I N K S
T O
T H E
P A S T
U S G A
N E W S
SPIRIT OF THE GAME,
CHAPTER TWO
The USGA recently released the sequel
DVD to its golf etiquette program, Spirit
of the Game. The interactive DVD features
segments on the game by celebrities and
golf professionals, addressing the game’s
etiquette in an educational and humorous
manner.
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information.
HIGH
TIDE AT
A COASTAL
COURSE
THE FIRST QUESTION, OF COURSE,
would be “Why”. Why Ocean Shores? It’s
not particularly on the way to anywhere,
was not incorporated as a city until 1970,
and in 1966 the area had a population of
less than 900 souls. The coastal weather
can be hostile. The Ocean Shores Golf
Course had opened in 1961 with just six
holes, not becoming a full 18 until ’66.
Pat Boone, a crooner, was friends
with the King of Crooners, Bing Crosby,
who since 1937 had been staging his
own little celebrity golf event at another
oceanside course down the coast a little
bit – the Crosby Clambake, held at
Pebble Beach. So, was that it? Boone
wanted to have his own coastal celebrity
golf shindig?
Boone had invested in some property
in the area, and bought a place of his own
there in 1966. Maybe he was trying to
promote interest in the region?
Whatever the reasons may have
been, they did indeed come for the three
years the event was held – 1966, ’67,
and ’68. Actors and entertainers Milton
Berle, Clint Eastwood, Fred MacMurray,
Max Baer, Bill Bixby, David Janssen, Jackie
Coogan, and Michael Landon; sports
legends Dizzy Dean, Rick Barry, Joe
Namath, and broadcaster Keith Jackson.
They were all flown in on small
planes and helicopters, coming from the
larger airports in Seattle and Portland.
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MUSEUM TO REOPEN
After three years of renovations, the
USGA Museum and Arnold Palmer Center
for Golf History will reopen on June 3rd. The
museum has entered the multi-media age,
allowing visitors to view the game through
displays, video presentations, photos and
touch screen kiosks.
Since the USGA began collecting
historical materials in 1936, the collections
have grown to encompass more than
42,000 artifacts, a library of more than
20,000 volumes, more than half a million
photographic images, and several thousand
hours of film and video footage. The USGA
Museum is now home to the premier
collection of golf memorabilia in the world.
UPDATE ON USGA GRANTS
Top: The program cover
from the 1967 event.
Above: Max Baer, Jr.
(center, “Jethro” on the
Beverly Hillbillies), and
Joe Namath (right) at
Boone’s event.
Right: A young Clint
Eastwood signs
autographs while playing
in Boone’s event.
The USGA has awarded 52 grants across
the nation totaling nearly $1.5 million for the
first quarter of 2008.
Three Northwest recipients are the Idaho
Youth Golf Association, Inc., Boise, Idaho
($15,000); Eugene Family YMCA, Eugene,
Ore. ($25,000); and Metro Parks Foundation,
Tacoma, Wash. ($2,500).
The USGA has awarded more than $59.7
million since it implemented the Grants
Initiative, “For the Good of the Game”, in 1997.
RCGA ENTERS SPONSORSHIP ARENA
The Pat Boone Celebrity Golf Classic
was a big event among local top amateurs,
giving them their annual chance to play with
not-so-local big-name draws.
Then in 1969, the LPGA Tour put
the tournament on their calendar, calling
it the Wendell-West Invitational. And in
1970, the event was won by tour rookie, and
Northwest native, Joanne Carner.
But that was the last year the event
was held, in any of its formats. Not sure
why. Funding? Scheduling? They just stopped
coming.
Now, if you walk into the course’s
clubhouse, the walls are lined with photos of
its colorful and storied past.
Much like the USGA did when it
partnered with sponsors Lexus, American
Express, and Rolex, the Royal Canadian Golf
Association has signed a three year deal with
TaylorMade adidas Golf (TMAG) to become
the official golf equipment and apparel
partner of the RCGA.
As part of the agreement, TMAG will
be the exclusive supplier of volunteer
uniforms for both the RBC Canadian Open
and CN Canadian Women’s Open. TMAG
will also supply golf equipment, golf balls
and footwear for Pro-Am gifting at both of
Canada’s national Open championships.
The agreement will also have TMAG as
the official headwear supplier for the RCGA’s
amateur championships; and the exclusive
supplier of all RCGA staff and governor
uniform apparel.
JIM CURTIS, FRIEND
OF GOLF, PASSES AWAY
Former USGA and
PNGA Director Jim A.
Curtis passed away
on March 6 at the
age of 80 after a long
illness.
During the 1980s,
Curtis, a Seattle
resident and golf
enthusiast, served
a stint on the PNGA
Board of Directors. He would later
be elected to the USGA Executive
Committee, the governing body of
amateur golf in the U.S., where he
served from 1992-1995. While with
the USGA, he chaired their centennial
celebration throughout 1995. He
was also instrumental in the USGA’s
decision to bring the 1996 U.S. Amateur,
won by Tiger Woods, and the U.S.
Women’s Open to Pumpkin Ridge Golf
Club in the Portland area.
Curtis was a great friend to
Northwest amateur golf, maintaining
close ties to the PNGA and state golf
associations during his term on the
USGA Executive Committee. He was
also a member of Seattle Golf Club and
Broadmoor Golf Club, where he was a
past president. He was also a member
of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St.
Andrews, Scotland.
A single-digit handicapper for
much of his golf career, Curtis was also
an avid pilot, jazz musician and salmon
fisherman. He served as president and
CEO of Milliman, an influential Seattle
actuarial firm. When not predicting
future pension benefits, he also
supported numerous civic groups,
including the Museum of Flight and
Seattle Rotary.
USGA Executive Director, David
Fay said, “Jim was a class act . . . with
Renaissance Man type qualities.”
A U.S. Navy veteran, Curtis was
buried at Tahoma National Cemetery in
Kent, Wash., on March 11. A celebration
of his life is planned for late May.
Remembrances may be made to
the Jim Curtis Memorial Fund at the
Museum of Flight, 9494 E. Marginal Way
S., Seattle, WA 98108.
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A S S O C I A T I O N
N E W S
PNGA honors
Distinguished Service
Award recipients
GARY NIELAND
LACEY, WASHINGTON
Gary Nieland was always a significant
contributor to the ideology of the PNGA
and his role on the PNGA Board of
Directors. But, in the eight years that
Nieland was Chairman of the PNGA
Championship Committee, he singlehandedly took the PNGA Championship experience to its
highest levels. It was his vision to give the players a true
championship experience with all amenities, such as starter
tents on the first tee, 10-foot flags surrounding the practice
putting green that represented each state and province in
the PNGA territory, stake and roping around the first tee
and 18th green, and his most enduring project, the PNGA
championship trailer.
Nieland took tremendous pride in making sure all the
championship equipment was in good working order. In the
winter months, he spent countless hours in his shop at home
handcrafting starter boxes, painting flag poles, and laying out
the plans for the inside of the championship trailer. The 32-foot
trailer now holds supplies and
• PNGA Club
serves as a traveling office for
Representative
the championship staff. When
1990 – present
summer arrived, he attended and • WSGA Club
volunteered at the majority of
Representative
1992 - present
PNGA and Washington State Golf
Association championships.
Nieland’s
level
of
dedication reached a peak in
2001. The PNGA Championship
Department was shorthanded
heading into that season, and
Gary stepped forward and
volunteered to attend every
PNGA Championship and help
with all necessary administration
work. He made that season
possible for the rest of the staff,
and for all the players that year.
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• Chairman, PNGA
Championship
Committee 1998-2006
• PNGA Director
1997 – 2006
• PNGA Vice-President
2005-2006
• WSGA Championship
Committee member
1997 - 2006
• Continually builds
new equipment for
PNGA and WSGA
championships
RUSS WHITE
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
When it comes to supporting the
game of golf, it’s easy to make the case that
no one has done more in British Columbia
than Russ White. He has been involved in
every aspect of golf in the Northwest and
throughout Canada, from Tournament
Chairman, to Rules Officiating, to serving
on local and national Boards of Directors, and developing
senior and junior golf programs.
White has the reputation of being one of Canada’s top
Rules Officials. He has volunteered his time on national,
regional, and local levels of officiating. He was a Rules Official
for over 25 years with the RCGA, 30 years with the BCGA, and
over 20 years with the PNGA. He has also been credited with
helping develop other Rules Officials through mentorship and
rules seminars all over British Columbia.
White has already been recognized throughout Canada
for his many contributions to the game. In 1999 he received
the RCGA’s Distinguished Service Award, which acknowledges
those who have contributed significantly to the growth
of the game in Canada. He
was also awarded the BCGA’s • PNGA Club
Representative 1971
Distinguished Service Award
– 1998
last year.
•
PNGA Director
White has been very
1990 – 1998
supportive of the PNGA,
serving as a PNGA Club • BCGA Director
Representative for 27 years
and was a PNGA Director for
eight years, and chaired the
PNGA Junior Boys’ Amateur
when it was held at his home
club, Chilliwack Golf and
Country Club.
White’s unconditional
devotion and giving spirit
shifts to the mountains during
the winter months, where he
works with local, provincial,
and national ski associations
at Whistler Resort. He is
known as the “Old Man of
the Mountain”, and has been
inducted into the Whistler Ski
Hall of Fame.
• BCGA Rules Official
for over 30 years
• BCPGA Rules Official
for 20 years
• Responsible for
developing BC
Seniors Tour
• RCGA Director
for 8 years
• RCGA Rules Official
for over 25 years
• Regional Secretary
Treasurer and
Tournament Director
for numerous RCGA
Championships
• Very supportive of PNGA
and BCGA junior golf
over the years
MYRICK ELECTED OGA PRESIDENT
At its annual meeting
held at Tualatin Country Club
on March 7, OGA Directors
representing more than 300
member clubs formally elected
Lynn M. Myrick of Grants Pass,
Ore. as President of the Oregon
Golf Association.
Myrick will preside over
the 15 member OGA executive committee and
its subsidiary organizations including OGA
Properties, Inc., OGA Golf Course, Inc. and Oregon
Junior Golf Fund, Inc. He has served on the
volunteer OGA Executive Committee since 1989.
Pacific Northwest Golf Association
“Guardians of the Game since 1899”
Through its championships, member benefits, and services, the PNGA
has benefited the game of golf and amateur golfers of all ages and
abilities throughout the region for more than a century.
Just ask Freddie Couples, the 1976 PNGA Junior Boys’ Champion, current
member of the PGA Tour, Masters champion, and course designer.
NEW BOARD
MEMBERS FOR IGA
Join the PNGA. Play the game for life.
The Idaho Golf Association
welcomed newly elected board
members Tom South from
Crane Creek CC and Jack Dies
from Blue Lakes CC. Also,
Bill Cole from Lakeview GC
has been re-elected and
continues as the president of
the IGA Board of Directors.
South is a former treasurer
at Crane Creek, where he
has been a member for over
10 years. He is a CPA with
LeMaster Daniels.
Dies joined Blue Lakes
last year, and is the past
president of The Valley
Club. He lives and works in
Sun Valley.
Your membership benefits include:
• Eligibility for PNGA championships for men, women, junior boys,
junior girls, senior men, and senior women
Jack Dies
• Subscription to Pacific Northwest Golfer magazine
• Special Association green fees at The Home Course, in DuPont, Washington
• Support of the Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Fame, PNGA Player of the
Year Awards, PNGA Distinguished Service Awards, Junior Golf programs,
Evans Caddie Scholarship Program, and Environmental Turfgrass Research
benefiting Northwest golf courses
• And much more!
Tom South
OGA STAFF CHANGES
Barb Trammell, CEO of the Oregon Golf
Association, has appointed Mike Whiles to act as
her Chief of Staff. Whiles started his career in the
golf industry with American Golf Corporation as
General Manager of Corvallis Country Club. Brent
Whittaker has been promoted to Director of
Tournament Operations. Whittaker had been the
Assistant Director of Competitions.
Craig Winter has rejoined the OGA staff
by accepting the new position of Manager of
Rules Education and Special Events. Winter was
last year’s P.J. Boatwright intern. Eric Yaillen
has been promoted to Director of Marketing
and Communication with the responsibility
of overseeing the marketing of the OGA Golf
Course and Orchards Grille in addition to his
communication responsibilities for the OGA.
ANDREW PROMOTED
AT PNGA & WSGA
Troy Andrew has been
promoted
to
Assistant
Executive Director of the
PNGA & WSGA. Andrew also
continues his duties as Sr.
Director of Communications
for both associations. He started in the PNGA &
WSGA offices in 1999 as the Director of Rules &
Competition.
To become a member
contact your local club
or course, or your state
or provincial golf association
in Washington (WSGA),
Oregon (OGA), Idaho (IGA),
and British Columbia (BCGA).
Call 800-643-6410, or
visit www.thepnga.org.
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Support
The pngA
give to the
Patrons of golf
Program
The par-5 15th at Pronghorn’s Nicklaus Course
PNGA CUP TO BE HELD AT PRONGHORN
The 3rd annual PNGA Cup Matches are being held May 7-9 at the
Pronghorn-Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in Bend, Ore. Each of the
region’s golf associations – the BCGA, IGA, OGA, and WSGA – sends a 12member team to compete in the Ryder Cup-style matches.
The Oregon Golf Association has won the first two matches, and will
look to make it three in a row this year.
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GO TO www.thepnga.org
or Call 1-800-643-6410.
Championships & Friendships since 1899
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ROXBURGH RECEIVES
LIFETIME EXEMPTION
TO BC AMATEUR
At last month’s BCGA
Recognition Awards luncheon,
the Board of Directors of the
BCGA announced that 13-time
BC Amateur Champion and
Canada Golf Hall-of-Famer Doug
Roxburgh has been extended
a lifetime exemption to the BC
Amateur Championship.
“The decision to award Doug
a lifetime exemption was not difficult,” said Kris Jonasson, executive
director of the BCGA. “We are proud to have a player of Doug’s stature
in British Columbia and we look forward to seeing him play as long as he
feels he is competitive.”
Roxburgh was at the pinnacle of amateur golf in Canada for more
than two decades, starting with his first victory at the BC Junior Boys’ in
1969. He has won the Canadian Amateur four times and the BC Amateur 13
times, while representing his country on six World Amateur Teams.
IJGF AUCTION BEING HELD SOON
The 12th annual Idaho Junior Golf
Foundation auction and dinner will be held
May 2nd at Eagle Hills Golf Course in Eagle,
Idaho. More than $100,000 has been raised
at these auctions, for the advancement of
junior golf in Idaho. The annual fundraiser
allows for the opportunity to award the
Cody Hayes Scholarship to junior golfers
entering their first year of college. It
also provides financial support to junior
players who would otherwise be unable to
travel and participate in junior programs or
tournaments.
Call the Idaho Golf Association at 208-342-4442 for more information.
BCGA RECOGNITION AWARDS
During last month’s Recognition Awards
luncheon, held at Marine Drive Golf Club, the
BCGA gave to the BC Golf Museum its annual
donation, which is provided by members and
facilities. From left to right in the photo are Doug
Ferne, Chapter Executive Director of the National
Golf Course Owners Association; Dorothy Brown,
Executive Director of the BC Golf Museum; and
Anne Peabody, President of the BCGA.
At the luncheon, Nick Taylor of Abbotsford and
Kira Meixner of Richmond were recognized as the
top male and female amateur golfers in 2007as the
BCGA awarded the BCGA Order of Merit.
A Championship
Experience Awaits You!
Among
Among the
the Top
Top 8
8
Golf
Golf Courses
Courses in
in Oregon
Oregon
Digest
Golf
Best Places to Play, 2004-2007
“Top
“Top 10
10 Affordable
Affordable
Golf
Golf Courses
Courses in
in the
the U.S.”
U.S.”
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One
One of
of 16
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Public Always Welcome
CANADIAN AMATEUR
NOW STROKE PLAY
For the first time in nearly 15 years, the
Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship will
be contested as a stroke play event over 72
holes. The century-old tournament was a match
play event from 1895-1968 and then again from
1995-2007. Canadian National Men’s Amateur
Team member Nick Taylor, who is a sophomore
and number one player on the University of
Washington golf team, will look to defend his
title under the new stroke play format August
10-14 at the Paradise Canyon Golf Resort in
Lethbridge, Alta.
2850 Hazelnut Drive z Woodburn, OR 97071 z 503-981-4653
www.ogagolfcourse.com
FAR AND WIDE
AT THE MEXICAN AM >
At the recent Mexican
Amateur, 32 two-man teams from
19 different countries and six state
golf associations competed at the
Club de Golf Mexico. The BCGA
duo of Craig Doell and Sandy
Harper (standing L-R under the
th
British
z Columbia flag) finished 11 .
th
The WSGA team finished 12 , and
the OGA team finished 21st.
PNGA & WSGA MOVE OFFICES
The offices of the PNGA &
WSGA are moving. The new
address, which will be effective
beginning May 12th, is:
1010 S. 336th Street, Suite 310
Federal Way, WA 98003
The contact phone numbers
remain the same, 206-526-1238,
and toll-free 800-643-6410.
Please feel free to contact
them at any time with questions.
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H O L E S
O F
T H E
N O R T H W E S T
Blue
White
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337 yards
318 yards
299 yards
It seems innocent enough on the scorecard
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the tee shot. But standing on the tee box
and surveying the situation, all kinds of evil
thoughts start swirling around. A huge pond
sits on the right side along the landing area,
a steep embankment goes steadily uphill on
and is shallow and over a hundred feet wide,
with bunkering behind. A hole placement on
the right side would require a delicate touch,
and a bailout to the left or middle of the green
will leave you with a long putt over a humped
surface. Good luck with that.
Mill Creek, Wash. | Par-4
the left side of the fairway, with the fairway
sitting in a pocket and narrowing as it gets
closer to the green.
What to hit off the tee? Three-wood?
Hybrid? Sounds easy. Then, with a wedge in
your hand for the second shot, it’s still no
bargain. The green sits hard against the pond,
Mill Creek Country Club No. 15
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