Tumble Creek Club in Cle Elum, Wash. hosted 118 competitors all hopeful to earn one of eight qualifying places into the U.S. Open Sectionals. Players were treated to sunny skies and pristine course conditions throughout the day. Tim Feenstra of…
View PNGA Cup photos online! The Washington State Golf Association’s (WSGA) Championship Selection Committee has recently named this year’s team to represent the association at the 6th Annual PNGA Cup, to be held at the historic Eugene (Ore.) Country Club…
The Board of Directors of the Northwest Turfgrass Association announced at its Feb. 15 meeting that it has hired Paul Ramsdell to be the executive director of the association that provides turfgrass research grants throughout the Pacific Northwest. Ramsdell…
At the PGA Merchandise Show, held in Orlando, Fla. in late January, PGA Director of Golf Tom Davidson, of Circling Raven Golf Club in Worley, Idaho, received his award as the 2010 PGA “Merchandiser of the Year” for resort facilities.…
by Tony Dear The Friday of PGA Show week gives the best indication of the state of the industry. On Wednesday, probably only half the people registered for the event will be present and everyone wants to hit the…
by Tony Dear (A former British PGA apprentice professional and member of the University of Liverpool golf team, Tony Dear is an award-winning freelance golf travel writer now living in Bellingham, Wash. He contributes to numerous golf publications on…
Our frontline man, Tony Dear, is on the scene at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, the ‘Center of the Golf Universe’ every year in late January. He’ll be sending us updates while he’s there. Ailing? Yes. Dead?…
After going winless in 2010 (the first winless season of his career), Woods moves forward into a golf world that might not recognize him any longer by Blaine Newnham For the first time in more than a decade – like…
The Washington State Golf Association has announced the 2010 Player of the Year recipients. The winners include: Andrew Putnam of University Place who received the Men’s award; Erynne Lee of Silverdale received the Junior Girls’ award as well as the…
The University of Washington just landed the Royal & Ancient’s 51st ranked amateur in the world, Cheng-Tsung Pan of Bradenton, Fla., he signed with UW, November 10. Pan’s ties to the Northwest run deep having played in the 2009 Western Swing…