April 11th in News, Short Game.

‘Net Profits: How Mukilteo’s Murnan Took Golf Online

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, but I’ve never been on it,’” recalls Murnan.

Working out of a spare bedroom in their home, Murnan and his wife, Amy, went from course to …

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April 9th in Features.

A Beautiful Mind

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 design shouldn’t tell golfers how to play the hole. It should reward any well-executed strategy,” says golf course architect Dan Hixson, whose preliminary sketch for famed Bandon Crossings is shown here (and above, as it looks today from Google Earth).

The sky over Walla Walla — eastern Washington’s wine country …

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