Free Rules of Golf Webinars
With golf season starting to open around the country, the USGA Rules Team is putting on two free Rules of Golf webinars that are open to WA Golf members. These webinars will cover two of the most widely used rules…
USGA Selects Chambers Bay for Two More Amateur Championships
Photo: USGA/Robert Beck LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (March 6, 2023) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that Chambers Bay, in University Place, Wash., has been selected to host the 2027 U.S. Junior Amateur and 2033 U.S. Amateur Championships.…
USGA Launches U.S. National Development Program to Strengthen American Golf Pipeline and Foster Top Junior Talent
LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (Feb. 24, 2023) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today launched the U.S. National Development Program, creating the country’s first unified pathway to nurture the potential of America’s top players, starting in competitive junior golf and…
Mike Riste – region’s foremost golf historian talks about A.S. Kerry, past PNGA and WA Golf president who launched the Northwest onto the national golf scene in the early 20th century
Mike Riste serves as the historian for the BC Golf Museum, and is the official historian for the PNGA. He assembled the initial research for “Washington Golf: 100 Years of Growing the Game,” the centennial history book of Washington Golf,…
Register now for Drive, Chip and Putt Championship
Registration for the 2024 Drive, Chip and Putt season is officially open! Registration is free and open online at DriveChipandPutt.com. Six locations across WA Golf territory will host local qualifiers throughout the summer, two will host sub-regional qualifiers and Chambers…
What to do with that spare room: For many do-it-yourselfers in the golf community, the answer is oh-so-obvious
After many months of work, Patrick Scoccolo can now spend the cold Northwest days practicing on his Foresight GC2 simulator. by Doug Miller It’s a dark and damp October afternoon in Seattle. Whitecaps dot an angry Puget Sound. Fallen leaves…
2022 Score Posting Fun Facts
It was another great year for WA Golf members. The game continued its surge in popularity and golfers continued to do what they know best, play lots of golf! Here are some fun facts from the 2022 Washington Golf season:…
Past champion Lohman named SoCal PGA president
Eric Lohman has been named the new president of the Southern California PGA Section. Eric Lohman, who won the 1993 Washington Men’s Amateur, was named president of the Southern California PGA during the Section's Annual Meeting on December 12, 2022…
Sahalee to host 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
The PGA of America has announced that Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash. has been selected as the site of the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Brooke Henderson won the 2016 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Sahalee in a one-hole…
PNWPGA expands PGA HOPE program with Jeff Bojanowski as first ambassador
by Tom Cade, Editor The Pacific Northwest Section PGA (PNWPGA) has contracted Jeff Bojanowski to be its first ambassador to oversee the Section’s PGA HOPE program. Taught by local PGA professionals, PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) is a free, adaptive…