A Work of Art

Chambers Bay No. 15

Scott Mulholland didn’t choose to be a painter of golf courses … well, not exactly. But, as anyone who makes their living in the creative arts will tell you – be they a painter, writer, film director, etc. – your best work comes when you paint (or write, or direct) what you know.

Raised in Ayr, Scotland, Mulholland picked up golf at an early age, playing at the junior ranks in Kilmarnock and caddying at Royal Troon …

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Home on the Range

Eagles Pride Golf Course Range at Fort Lewis (Photo by Rob Perry)

Every summer, the golf range at Fort Lewis’ Eagles Pride Course is filled with hundreds of military children participating in golf camps.

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Every golfer needs a good place to practice. Here are a few of our other favorite places to fine-tune our swing in between summer road trips:

Puetz Golf • Seattle11762 Aurora Ave N • (206) 362-2272Covered stalls with custom-fitting on-site

Interbay Golf …

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Let’s Play Two

Nobody understood the beauty of summer like Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks. With a smile that infected all of those around him, and a childlike love for the game of baseball, Banks was best known for how he would walk out of the Cubs’ locker room, look around at the sun brightening the ivy-covered walls of Wrigley Field and utter his famous catchphrase, “It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame … Let’s play two.”

I may choose to reach for a …

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High Tech Transformation

In the past, some serious Northwest golfers have flown to California and Arizona for high-tech custom club fittings. The folks at Puetz now hope these golfers stay home and drive to the Puetz stores in Seattle and Southcenter for the same service — and that a lot of other golfers join them.

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Diamond in the Rough

Swiftwater Cellars and Rope Rider's No. 9 green, directly above the old No. 9 coal mine.

Kittitas County’s famous coal mines are getting a second life this summer in a new golf course and winery at Suncadia Resort

I’ve come to Roslyn, Wash., to visit a brand new golf course and winery opening at the nearby Suncadia Resort, but I can’t pull myself away from the city cemetery.

It’s the names that jump out at you first — Tomac, Muratti, Dragecevic, Mattila, …

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Whip It Good

The Orange Whip

As the producers of golf magazines, golf shows, tournaments and other golf-related enterprises, we’re used to seeing a lot of “interesting” products that make a lot of promises. Clubs that come unhinged when your swing isn’t on-plane, tees that somehow make you more accurate and consistent (Tees. Seriously. How desperate do people think we are?) — you name it, we’ve seen it. Needless to say, we tend to look less to funky gadgets for swing improvement, and …

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Pacific Amateur Goes to Pronghorn

When officials at Sunriver Resort decided to redo the greens at their famed Crosswater course this August, it left managers of the acclaimed Pacific Amateur Championship, the Northwest’s top amateur golf tournament, with a dilemma. Crosswater has hosted the championship round of the event — featuring nearly 700 golfers from across the globe competing over 54 holes at Central Oregon’s top courses — for 14 years. If it was not going to be available, where would they possibly find another course of comparable quality to hold the final?

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