December 6th in Places.
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 the ocean breeze — some things you just can’t simulate. Best of all, with 18-hole rates cheaper than the cost of the gas to get …
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December 6th in News, Short Game.
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 and shoes can all be customized to meet a particular golfer’s needs.
Yet until recently, there was little to no customization available for the most important …
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December 5th in Features.
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 “Senior Tour”) since 2005, he narrows his focus on a precise tally of the numbers needed, from hotel rooms …
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December 5th in Gear, In The Bag.
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 to learning about the product “news and views” that interested you, the responses we received further illustrated an increasingly …
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December 5th in News, Short Game.
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 Golf Club, which held its grand opening celebration July 26, and began allowing limited guest play July 27.
The photos alone tell you as much as …
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