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By Simon Dubiel
Hole No. 7 • Par 4
The Setup: A slightly uphill par-4, 281 yards from the blue tees. Water off the tee to the left. Bunkers bracket a short right-to-left ridge separating a two-tiered fairway. From the lower tier, it’s about 100 yards to the pin; from the upper, about 40. Trees dot anything [...]
Most acute low back injuries that occur during a round of golf take anywhere from a couple of days to several weeks to improve. Research suggests that golfers with a history of low back pain demonstrate less range of motion through their hips and lumbar spine than their pain-free colleagues.
A little effort to prevent back [...]
Where designers at Cleveland went traditional with the Launcher, they’ve completely thrown tradition out the window with the HiBORE XLi irons. Truthfully, if you find yourself in the Cleveland booth at the PGA Show next year, you may have a hard time believing the two clubs came out of the same design shop — of [...]
If you’re a traditional golfer — the kind who prefers the classic look of the rounded clubhead — you’ll appreciate the latest release in Cleveland’s successful Launcher series. Most notable in this year’s Launcher is the increased size of the clubface — a full 21 percent larger than the original Launcher 460. That extra surface [...]
If the PING Rapture V2 is a rocket, Callaway’s FT-iQ is a finely tuned sports car – which, in at least one small part, it is. According to Callaway designers, the back side of the FT-iQ was designed to mimic the tail end of a Lamborghini Reventon (see cover). The FT-iQ may not blow your [...]
It’s rare that a new ball generates a significant amount of buzz — after all, while decades of technological advances have contributed to significant changes in the appearance and construction of drivers, putters and irons, a golf ball is still a golf ball. Therefore, when we heard rumors flying across the internet this fall about [...]
Building upon its popular X series, which has been updated every 2-4 years since the X14 changed the way irons were played more than a decade ago, Callaway has stayed true to a reliable brand, keeping the best qualities of the X20 while further developing the MOI technologies that have swept the golf world since [...]
Regular readers of Cascade Golfer know that when it comes to bags, we love our Sun Mountains. So naturally, we were eager to find out what the Missoula, Mont.-based innovator was planning for 2009. As it turns out, the company has two major releases — the Swift X and the Four 5, both of which [...]
There’s little question that when the pros hit the PGA Show in Orlando, they’re going to head for the TaylorMade hitting cages. That’s because everyone is clamoring to get their hands on the latest releases in the company’s vaunted r7 and Burner line of drivers. Back in 2004, TaylorMade pioneered the idea of Moveable Weight [...]
When PING founder (and Ballard native) Karsten Solheim first emerged from his garage with a putter he promised would change the way the game was played, PGA pros were skeptical. Of course, that skepticism lasted only as long as it took for them to drain a few 15-footers, and 50 years later, PING Golf – [...]
By, Brian Beaky, CG Editor
Without a doubt, the single most significant event of the year in the golf world is not the Masters, the U.S. Open or any of the game’s major tournaments. Indeed, the event that does more to shape the way the game will be played over the next 12 months does not [...]
The game of golf is a far cry from what it was in grandpa’s day: “woods” have been replaced by space-age composite metals, GPS range finders have replaced stakes and sprinkler heads as the preferred means of gauging distance, and lessons have moved from the traditional driving range to the high-tech performance center. So why [...]
As much as the Northwest golf landscape has changed over the past 60 years, there are two things Puget Sound golfers could always depend on — damp weather and Puetz Golf.
Locally owned and operated, Puetz has for the last six decades been the beacon that hundreds of thousands of Northwest golfers have turned to for [...]
Cascade Golfer celebrates a landmark year for Northwest golf
With more and more Americans reporting increased stress levels in the wake of this fall’s economic meltdown, it can be easy to go into survival mode, dedicating all available resources to simply getting through each day.
While locking in on present concerns is certainly understandable, there’s something to [...]
Not only was 2008 a great year for golf in the Northwest, it was a pretty good year for us, too. Over the course of our four issues this year, we featured 62 different Northwest courses, reviewed more than 50 of the hottest products and services on the market, and took our readers with us [...]
There’s nothing like the rush of stroking a 30-footer for birdie to take money out of your best friend’s pocket.
At least, that’s what we thought before we called it quits barely halfway through a particularly soggy round in October and headed over to the Muckleshoot Casino to try and salvage a good time out of [...]
Just because you can’t afford a trip to Palm Springs, Arizona or Hawaii this winter doesn’t mean that you are doomed to another four months of wet fairways, slow greens, puddle-filled sandtraps and muddy lies.
Several Northwest courses (see list at bottom) boast terrific drainage and are playable any time of year. Heck, given the excellent [...]
By Brian Beaky, CG Editor
As well as many courses manage the weather, winter is not the ideal season for the Northwest golfer. Wet fairways, cold temperatures and limited daylight are a three-headed monster that drives many golfers indoors until spring.
Which is exactly where Gregg Rogers wants them.
Rogers, 45, is the owner of Bellevue’s Gregg Rogers [...]
Golf getaways are the best — just you, your clubs and a bevy of beautiful courses in which to lose yourself for the weekend. Of course, your family probably enjoys getting away, too — only, depending on their ages and interest in the game, their idea of a vacation may be more Disneyland than Palm [...]
In the Pacific Northwest, we love the feeling of being on the leading edge of something big. Maybe it’s grunge rock, maybe it’s personal computers, or maybe just the natural wonder in which we live … we like being a part of something special, something secret we can keep to ourselves until the time is [...]
If you want a Southern California golf getaway that puts you closer to the action in L.A. and San Diego, we recommend SAN LUIS REY DOWNS GOLF RESORT (800-78-DOWNS, www.slrd.com), located about halfway between the two metropolises in tiny Bonsall, Calif.
Surrounded by eucalyptus-covered hills and back country views of the San Luis Rey River Valley, [...]
At Cascade Golfer, we have a tendency to focus on public golf courses — they’re generally more accessible, more affordable and, by and large, are the ones most frequented by our readers. That said, an increasing number of snowbirds are choosing private course membership, not only for the quality and exclusivity, but for another, more surprising [...]
By Brian Beaky, CG Editor
Once the private retreat of Old Hollywood, Palm Springs is now a golfer’s paradise
“There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home …”
Judy Garland’s famous words from The Wizard of Oz ring as true to Pacific Northwest residents today as they did to Kansas’ Dorothy [...]