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By Brian Beaky, CG Editor
For more than 200 years, humans have continued to find ways to reinvent the golf club. You’d think they’d eventually run out of ideas – I mean, how many different ways can you really repackage a grip, a shaft and a clubhead?
Well, until we are all able to hit that little [...]
You’ve heard the phrase, “Everything and the kitchen sink.” At Camaloch, on Camano Island, they have a slightly different idea of “everything.”
“Our new construction homes have granite counters, hardwood floors, new tile — even golf cart garages,” says real-estate agent Dave Hyatt, who also serves as Vice President of the Camaloch Association. “And these homes [...]
That was the feeling of a recent visitor to The Fairview, the new condominium community that was completed in September just a chip shot from the first tee at Harbour Pointe in the fast-growing town of Mukilteo. Walking into one of The Fairview’s stunning homes, with their 10-foot or vaulted ceilings, granite countertops, fireplaces, private [...]
By Tony Dear
For a world-class international golf getaway, there’s no need to look past our own Northwest Borders.
The minutes from Arbutus Ridge’s Nov. 14 Greening Committee meeting say a lot about where the course’s priorities lie. Sprinkled liberally throughout the document are words and phrases like “composting,” “recycling, “habitat management,” “Audubon certification” and “aggressive conservation [...]
Not every golfer’s big break happens on Tour.
The 10th season of “Big Break X: Michigan” — the Golf Channel reality competition show that promises winners sponsorships and exemptions into PGA, LPGA, Nationwide and Futures Tour events — for the first time paired male and female golfers into teams, both seeking a shot at pro golf [...]
The most pressure-inducing shots in golf aren’t made to win majors — after all, a U.S. Open title can certainly define a career, but that second-place paycheck of $810,000 goes a long way towards salving your wounds.
But when a shot can mean the difference between $40,000 and $400,000 in income for the coming year? That’s one [...]
Kudos to University of Washington head coach Matt Thurmond, who recently was named the head coach of Team USA for this summer’s Palmer Cup, the annual Ryder Cup-style showcase matching up the top collegiate golfers from the United States and Europe.
Coaching the U.S. squad is about the highest honor an American collegiate coach can receive, [...]
By Bob Sherwin
Tucked into a rain shadow just across the Cascades, four stunning courses beckon soggy Sound golfers
Imagine a drive that doesn’t plug in the fairway, but one that bounces high over a ridge and rolls past the 150-yard marker, leaving just a short iron to the green.
For many golfers on the west side of [...]
OK, so maybe Bellevue “went” high-tech a long time ago.
In late December, however, the eastside city that has become synonymous with pushing the technological envelope finally went “TEC” — as in, GolfTEC, which opened a second Puget Sound location in downtown Bellevue.
“Honestly, the location came available and we just couldn’t pass it up,” says Brett [...]
Golf is rarely in the news when snow is on the ground and bowl games are on TV, so it’s possible you missed the New Year’s Day report that Oki Golf — owners of 10 of the Northwest’s top courses — added an 11th club to its roster by purchasing Trilogy at Redmond Ridge.
Besides a [...]
The year was 1995.
Tiger Woods won his second of three-straight U.S. Amateurs, Ben Crenshaw completed an improbable Masters win, and Mukilteo’s Dan Murnan lugged a large computer to Northwest golf courses, trying to convince them of the value of this new thing called the Internet.
“The usual response we had was, ‘I’ve heard of the Internet, [...]
By Tom Ferrell
Bandon Crossings and Wine Valley architect Dan Hixson on what it takes to turn a hole in the ground into a hole-in-one
The sky over Walla Walla — eastern Washington’s wine country — is big, stretching over the rolling farmlands and the Blue Mountains and coming alive with color at the end of another [...]