Archive for December, 2008

Sandbagger Golf Shoes, Sandals

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE (starting at) $99.95
There might be no single aspect of a woman’s golf wardrobe as important as her shoes. Of course, this comes as no surprise to the husbands and boyfriends who have spent years trying to determine the difference between a black pump and a strappy black high-heel. That said, some major [...]

Nike SQ SUMO Hybrid

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $149.95
Just released in November of 2007, the Nike SQ SUMO Hybrid has caused quite a stir among the golf community — not because of the technology Nike has committed towards making it the top hybrid on the market, but simply because of its shape. While high-MOI drivers have become all the rage [...]

Square Two Selene Learning Set

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $99.95 (3-piece set) $249.95 (7-piece set)
Maybe you’re not ready to commit to a full set of clubs just yet. Fortunately for you, leading women’s golf manufacturer Square Two has come out with its Selene 3-Piece Learning Set, allowing you to dip your toe in the water, so to speak, before deciding to [...]

Precept Lady 180 IQ

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $19.99/dz
While Lorena Ochoa deservedly receives most of the headlines, perhaps no women’s golfer is as much of a trend-setter in 2008 as Paula Creamer. So when Creamer chooses to play one ball exclusively, it’s almost certain that ball will jump to the top of the national sales list. That said, the reasons [...]

Eye Candy – Resort at the Mountain

To Everything... There Is A Season
OK, so maybe the day pictured here isn’t the best for golf. But that’s what’s great about Oregon’s Resort At The Mountain — whether it’s a beautiful midsummer afternoon or the fairways are blanketed with a thick, white snow, there’s a world-class experience to be had. Driving to the Resort [...]

Road Holes: Inland Empire

By Tony Dear
With some of the nation’s most-acclaimed courses and new ones opening every year, a trip through the Palouse and Western Idaho should be on every Puget Sound golfer’s itinerary.
Day 1: Spokane, Wash.
Indian Canyon & Chewelah Golf and Country Club

Indian Canyon Golf Course

Designed by 1904 and 1905 U.S. Amateur champion H. Chandler Egan, [...]

Callaway LR 550 Rangefinder

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $299.95
You’re probably asking … how can a rangefinder differ in use between men and women? The truth is, no matter what Callaway tries to tell us by labeling this version of the LR 550 Rangefinder a “women’s” version, we can’t find anything from a technical perspective that differs from the standard [...]

No Car? That’s Harley A Problem

“I like riding my Harley, and I like playing golf,” says Johnny Humphreys, founder of Washington-based Bike n’ Golf. “One day it was beautiful outside and I wanted to do both, so I thought, ‘Why choose? There has to be a way I can do both.’”
Such was the genesis for Bike n’ Golf, an astoundingly [...]

A Girl’s Survival Guide

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $19.99
So you’ve decided to take up golf. You’ve picked up your Mizuno SORA club set, your Sandbaggers shoes and a gem-studded rangefinder. Now what? That’s where A Girl’s On Course Survival Guide: Tee to Green and In-Between comes in. Author Christina Ricci (no, not the actress) has designed a full-color, easy-to-follow guide [...]

By Air, Land & Sea

By Dan Raley
Full of imaginative and beckoning golf courses, the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas sit across from Seattle like oversized greens, surrounded by water on three sides.
The trick is reaching those greens, selecting the proper approach shot and landing in the middle of all of that bliss.
With six highly decorated courses serving as destination targets, [...]

Skins Game Rounds Out Foursome

It’s rare enough that Northwest golfers have the chance to watch a PGA pro in action, without turning on the TV. But four?
That’ll be the case at the 2008 BMW Northwest Skins Game next month at The Classic Golf Club in Tacoma, where Puget Sound golf fans will be able to walk alongside four of [...]

Put Your Best Foot Forward

Alias' brand new "Limo"

We buy golf products for a lot of different reasons. Certain clubs might help us hit the ball farther; some balls might fly a little straighter. A lighter-weight bag might ease the strain on our shoulder, while certain shirts are designed to keep us cool and dry.
Sometimes, though, we just don’t care [...]

Sun Mountain Superlight 3.5

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $139.95
It’s right there in the name — 3.5, as in, three and a half pounds. Sun Mountain’s latest offering to the golf world is not the lightest bag there is … that would be Sun Mountain’s Superlight 2.5. But at less than the weight of a 14-week-old kitten, I don’t think you’ll [...]

Summer Is Upon Us

By Rick Jusko, PT, Direcor and Phil Vande Pol, PT, Therapeutic Associates Canyon Park Physical Therapy
Time to hit the range and finally put together that perfect swing that is going to improve consistency, lower your score and eliminate those aches and pains. Improper swing mechanics may not only be harmful to your score, but could [...]

Eat, Drink, Breathe Golf

Here in the Northwest, we pride ourselves on being able to multi-task.
What the Northwest golfer really needs, therefore, is a year-round indoor training facility allowing us to combine our love for golf, coffee and wireless internet, a place where we could rip through a 9-hole round on one of the world’s top courses, bang out [...]

PING Freestyle

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $134.95
When golf manufacturing giant PING set out to make a new golf bag in 2007, they knew that women represented a growing part of their customer base. Thus it is that when PING’s designers emerged from their planning, they had crafted the most multi-purpose bag then available – the Freestyle. At just [...]

Risk vs. Reward: Kayak Point Golf Course

By Simon Dubiel
Hole #9 • Par 3
The Setup: 505-yard, par-5 from the blue tees. The fairway will kick everything to the right. Your approach shot offers you two options — lay up to the left of the tree island for a level lie and the best angle to the green, or let it fly and [...]

OGIO Diva Stand Bag

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE $129.95
The OGIO Diva certainly passes the eye test – which, when it comes to bags, is important. After all, your bag is the one piece of equipment that everyone you play with will get a good, long look at, and the one with which you can make the biggest statement about yourself. [...]

Give Your Neighbors Tailpipe Envy

Dahl's carts are all street-legal, and have gained popularityas alternative vehicles in small residential communities.

Maybe you’ve always dreamed of owning a Roadster or a Hummer, but never had the money — or the garage space. Or maybe you’re just looking for a way to save a few bucks on gas.
That’s right — the carts pictured [...]

Mizuno SORA

*PUETZ GOLF PRICE: $799.95
Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good. We started our research into the world of women’s golf gear by trying to answer the question … just what is it that makes women’s clubs different from those made for men? Turns out, the folks at Mizuno have already done the research for [...]

Eye Candy – Wildhorse Resort and Casino

Links Golf in the Prairies? That's what they're trying to do at the Wildhorse Resort and Casino, just east of Pendleton in Eastern Oregon - with apparent success.
Wildhorse has most of the signatures of a links course — rolling terrain, tall grass, infuriating rough and lots of unimpeded bump-and-run approaches. The only thing missing is [...]

Buying A Ball Has Never Been So Easy – Or So Cool

Given today’s technologies, just about every aspect of a golfer’s game can be customized — club fitters can match a golfer’s particular swing to a precise set of clubs, shafts can be interchanged to compensate for weather and swing conditions, putters come with adjustable weights designed to correct off-plane swings … heck, even grips, gloves [...]

The Makings of a Classic

By, Bob Sherwin
A rare glimpse behind-the-scenes at the people and organizations behind the Boeing Classic, Washington’s only PGA Tour event

Every year around this time, Chuck Nelson, a former investment firm officer, crunches numbers.
As the executive director of the Boeing Classic golf tournament, a fixture on the PGA Champions Tour (age 50-plus, formerly known as the [...]

Ladies First

Brian Beaky, CG Editor
In April, we asked our readers to tell us what products you’d like to see reviewed in the pages of Cascade Golfer. We received a terrific response, and in June — at your request — presented an entire section of products culled from the hours of TV infomercials and product showcases.
In addition [...]

No Kidding Around: Oregon’s New Links Gem

It would seem that the Northwest might just be turning into the world’s “other” links golf capital.
Just over a year after Chambers Bay put the state of Washington on the cover of just about every major golf magazine in the world, Oregon has joined the links golf fray with its latest 18-hole masterpiece, Bend’s Tetherow [...]

Live Where You Play

At the end of five hours out on the course, the last thing any golfer wants to do is fight evening traffic on the freeways. That’s why a growing number of courses are teaming up with real estate developers to provide affordable housing options for golfers — right alongside the fairway.
Imagine stepping off the 18th [...]


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