July 22nd in Features, News, Short Game.
Meridian Valley Country Club
The down economy has created a bull market for golfers considering country club membership, with initiation fees and dues at record lows.
by Mike Allende
The traditional image of a country club is well known. Gated community, swanky and certainly unattainable for anyone not on the wealthy side of the ledger. It’s the world of business tycoons, pro athletes and movie stars.
Of course, that was before the United States economy tanked.
Today, country club membership is something …
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July 22nd in Courses, Features.
Western Washington’s wet spring weather has pushed a planned soft opening this fall back to Spring 2011, giving golfers an extra few months to straighten their drives before tackling Salish Cliffs’ narrow fairways.
Just as the economy begins to recover, the Squaxin Island tribe prepares to open a stunning new Gene Bates-designed course among steep bluffs and towering pines in Shelton
by Craig Smith
So, here I am, stuck in the mud with a famous …
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July 22nd in Features, Places, Road Holes.
You don’t have to be a VIP to get some TLC at these four Northwest resorts
It’s about this time of year that we start to feel the road calling to us, teasing us with visions of trails unhiked, vistas unseen and — indeed — golf holes unplayed. Even if it’s just a long weekend, taking 3-4 days at the end of the summer to put your daily responsibilities in the rear-view mirror, sleep in a bed you don’t have to …
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July 20th in Features, Short Game.
After using the trainer to fine tune their stroke, golfers switch to the identically weighted mallet to head out on the course.
Mike Lee walks onto the practice green at Seattle’s Jackson Park Golf Course, pulls out his putter, and immediately my mind starts racing.
What is this thing? How does it work? And perhaps the strongest and clearest thought of all, What on earth is that mirror for?
Lee can tell just from looking at me what I’m thinking. …
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May 25th in Features, People.
Ryan Moore struggled for three years, doing his best to compete with the world’s best golfers with a surgically repaired wrist. Now, pain-free at last, and with custom-made clubs from new partner Scratch Golf, he is making the changes necessary to contend at the game’s highest level.
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