Man With a Plan
Dennis Roque has The Home Course in top shape to host the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball by Tom Cade, Editor When the United States Golf Association brings the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball to The Home Course on May 13-17,…
Category: WA Golf News
Unlikely Twosome: Youth on Course and a pandemic
A newfound love for the game leads to PGA Management study at U of Idaho by Crai S. Bower When four-year-old Ford Negri raked his first bunker at Seattle’s Sand Point Country Club, he had no idea the role groundskeeping…
The USGA And The R&A Announce Proposal To Introduce Model Local Rule Option For Golf Balls Used In Elite Competitions
LIBERTY CORNER, N.J., USA AND ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (March 14, 2023) – The USGA and The R&A have proposed a Model Local Rule (MLR) that gives competition organizers the option to require use of golf balls that are tested under…
Two For the Show
Local boys Jermaine Kearse and Greg Bodine make good in their careers, and then make good on their wish to create opportunity for others to enjoy a better game Kearse (left) now plays to a 4 handicap index, while Bodine…
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…
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:…
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…