December 11th in Places, Road Holes.
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, Indian Canyon is about as good as municipal golf gets in America, barring perhaps Torrey Pines, Bethpage and Chambers …
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December 11th in Gear, In The Bag.
*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 LR 550. Creative marketing aside, though, the LR 550 is one of the industry’s top long-range (LR) rangefinders, able to accurately measure distances of …
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December 11th in News, Short Game.
“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 simple invention that has become a sensation at golf shows and motorcycle shows throughout the nation since its initial public launch in January.
Indeed, the product …
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December 10th in Gear, In The Bag.
*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 to walk the novice female golfer through the basics of playing the game. Using the same simple concepts she outlines in the book, Ricci …
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December 10th in Courses, Features.
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, lumping two together at a time, the following are three recommended trips to escape the big city rat race …
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