June 6th in Save Some Green.
Riverbend Golf Complex
Operated by the city of Kent, the Riverbend Golf Complex — featuring a championship, 18-hole course, plus a par-3 course, driving range and mini golf course, is one of the best values in the region.
The best news is, if you’ve played it before, you’re in for a treat — after more than six months of closures to move back levies along the Green River, Riverbend is scheduled to reopen its front nine Mar. 28. Original architect John …
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April 23rd in Courses, Features, Places, Travel Bag.
Victoria, B.C.’s Bear Mountain Golf Club
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 program.”
Chairing the Greening Committee is Gracie Wilcox, who works in the golf shop and who is clearly …
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December 8th in News, Short Game.
Here in the Northwest, we pride ourselves on being able to multi-task.
What the Northwest golfer really needs, therefore, is a year-round indoor training facility allowing us to combine our love for golf, coffee and wireless internet, a place where we could rip through a 9-hole round on one of the world’s top courses, bang out a report for our boss at “the turn,” then complete our round — all in less than two hours.
Of course, no such place exists — …
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December 5th in News, Short Game.
It would seem that the Northwest might just be turning into the world’s “other” links golf capital.
Just over a year after Chambers Bay put the state of Washington on the cover of just about every major golf magazine in the world, Oregon has joined the links golf fray with its latest 18-hole masterpiece, Bend’s Tetherow Golf Club, which held its grand opening celebration July 26, and began allowing limited guest play July 27.
The photos alone tell you as much as …
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July 11th in Places.
It’s a bear market out there — and no, we’re not talking about the housing crunch. We’re talking about Lake Chelan’s Bear Mountain Ranch Golf Resort, which in just three years has already become a Cascade Golfer favorite for those days when we’re willing to drive the extra mile for an unbelievable round. And we’re not alone —The 2008 PGA Professionals Guide to Travel also recently named Bear Mountain one of their six favorite new courses in the entire country, …
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