The 26th Washington Senior Women’s Amateur and 12th Washington Super Senior Women’s Amateur will be held this week, August 19-20, at Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club in Union, Wash, marking the first time Alderbrook has hosted the Senior Women’s Amateur since the inaugural 2000 championship, and the first time the club has ever hosted the Super Senior Women’s championship.
From playing professionally, to paramotoring, to baking pizza, to golf course ownership – Levi Venn doesn’t hold back. The game of golf has taken Venn on an adventure with an itinerary that matches his personality: all over the place, in the best of ways.
Twenty-seven years after Vijay Singh hoisted the Wannamaker Trophy after winning the PGA Championship there, Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash., remains a championship-caliber venue.
As many golf practitioners know, the game can just find a way into people’s lives for any rhyme or reason. When it does, it takes hold, for months, years and eventually, decades.
They came from far away, literally and figuratively.
The duo of Taya Battistella and Dane Renkert (both from Bellingham), combined to shoot 3-under par 66 to capture the 8th Washington Mixed Chapman Championship.
Father-son duo Robby and Lincoln Hipp of Kirkland shot 6-under-par 65 to win the 2025 Washington Parent-Child Chapman.
There is some serendipity in everyone’s journey, and for Maisie Walker, a chance encounter led her to spend this summer serving an internship at a golf course and creating her future.
Jonny Larson of Bellingham, Wash., shot rounds of 66-71-71 to go wire-to-wire in winning the 16th Washington Men’s Mid-Amateur.
Jonathan Larson of Bellingham, Wash. shot a 1-under par 71 in the second round of the 16th Washington Men’s Mid-Amateur.
