April 20th in News, Short Game.
Paige Mackenzie
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 that’ll start your knees knocking.
Such is the case every December in the final stages of the PGA and LPGA Tour Qualifying Tournaments, where …
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April 18th in News, Short Game.
Thurmond (left) will serve double-duty in 2009, coaching the Huskies and preparing to coach Team, USA in the Palmer Cup.
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, so it was certainly big …
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April 16th in Courses, Features, Places, Road Holes.
Chelan’s Bear Mountain Ranch
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 the Cascades, that would be what we call an “August moment.” Such is our plight. We are undeniably wet …
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April 15th in News, Short Game.
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 Allen, owner of both Puget Sound GolfTEC locations, including the new Bellevue store and the original at South Lake Union. The new location at 108th …
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April 13th in News, Short Game.
The Golf Club at Redmond Ridge
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 slight twist to the name — it will henceforth be known as The Golf Club at Redmond Ridge — …
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