From the magazine
10 years after the Open
10 years after the Open The world watched, crowds came, millions of dollars were generated — will it happen again? By Bob Sherwin • CG…
Great White North Turns Green
Great White North turns green Golf’s master designers deliver true mountain golf north of the border in Whistler By Bart Porter • CG Staff Writer…
10th Anniversary of the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay
University Place’s Permanent Sandcastle A ‘Sound’ dream built on a sand and gravel mine, the Chambers Bay story and legacy endures By Tony Dear…
Globetrotting Gems
Globetrotting Gems Travel There & Back outlines North American and North Atlantic spots to ponder and play By Bob Sherwin • CG Staff Writer …
Seattle Golf Milestones
Centenary! Tukwila’s Foster Golf Links turns 100 and Beacon Hill’s iconic muni celebrates a Seattle pioneer and hero By Tony Dear • CG Editor…
Tour of Tri-Cities
Tour of Tri-Cities Horn Rapids GC, countless golfing options, wineries and lodging make this growing area one of the most well-rounded destinations in the Pacific…
Golf at the edge of the Earth
On May 15, 2018, it’s likely your eyes widened, your heart stopped beating for a moment, and you mouthed the words “What the…” when you saw an incredible photograph somewhere on the internet of a man hitting a golf shot with a volcano erupting behind him.
The gentleman was dressed in dark grey shorts and an orange polo shirt, and was wearing an orange baseball cap. He’d just hit his ball and was posing nonchalantly at the end of his follow-through assessing its flight. He didn’t seem at all bothered by the huge plume of smoke and ash billowing 30,000 feet into the sky just a mile or so away.
The Great Indoors
Consistently poor weather can make golf outdoors thoroughly unpleasant to the point of actually CHOOSING NOT TO PLAY! Okay, it takes particularly nasty conditions to prevent a typical western Washingtonian from downing their clubs, but it happens.
We need a golf fix, though. Winter might be the time to do jobs around the house that have needed doing for months, but somewhere in amongst the painting, building, caulking, erecting, rewiring, tiling, cleaning, repairing, flooring, etc., we have to squeeze in some golf time.
High & Dry
Yes, we love golf 24 hours a day for 365 days of the year. It’s what we do, and a lot of who we are. We’ll play golf in cold, heavy rain, if the course is worthy and the company is good.
As a Pacific Northwesterner, you probably often have friends or family from other parts of the country tell you that — because it rains so often up here — you must love donning the old waterproofs, raising an umbrella, and running a towel (often drenched) up and down your grips in an ultimately fruitless attempt to keep them dry. Surely you relish the sight of another grim cloud moving into position overhead and depositing its liquid contents all over you and the golf course.
Top 10 Best Public Courses in Washington
Top 10 Best Public Courses in Washington Thanks to our loyal readers, we present to you the public’s view of the top places to play…