Given the recent CDC guidance and the evolving dynamics of the Coronavirus pandemic, the USGA announced today that it has canceled its first two 2020 championships, the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball, originally scheduled for April 25-29 at Quail Creek Country…
by Rob Lundgren (As seen in the pages of Pacific Northwest Golfer magazine) After spending nearly a quarter of century on the Nike, Web.com, Korn Ferry, and PGA tours, 48-year-old Jeff Gove is now the director of instruction at The…
The ANA Junior Inspiration and the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) announced Lauryn Nguyen of Seattle, who is a junior at West Seattle High School, as the 2020 Seattle Gateway City Qualifier for this year’s ANA Junior Inspiration. In Nguyen’s…
Two-time Washington Golf Player of the Year Sam Warkentin walks away from the University of Washington golf team to learn and to grow – and has no regrets by Blaine Newnham He was, by most accounts, a natural. In his…
Please join us in welcoming Jacob Leonard aboard as a new staff member at Washington Golf. (more…)
The USGA and The R&A have issued the Distance Insights Report, which provides comprehensive research and analysis on the contributors to, and long-term impacts of, hitting distance in golf. (more…)
Two-time WA Golf Junior Boys’ Player of the Year Ian Siebers (Bellevue, Wash.) won 2.5 points for the U.S. team en route to a 13-11 victory over the International Team (more…)
Jo Ann Washam, who was inducted into the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2011, passed away on December 6, 2019 from complications of diabetes. She was 69. A native of Auburn, Wash., Jo Ann won the club…
The USGA and the R&A are conducting a review of the Rules of Amateur Status to make them easier to understand and apply. (more…)
by Tony Dear Golf in the Pacific Northwest has a rich history, full of characters, frontrunners, visionaries, boom-and-bust epics, and too-good-to-be-true (but mostly they really are true) tales. This is the sixth in a series of articles, highlighting the people…