We are pleased to welcome two new staff members to our team at Washington Golf! Please join us in welcoming Joe Hayford and Oliver McKenna. Joe joins the championship department as a manager of rules & competition, while Oliver joins…
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 [caption id="attachment_3277298" align="alignright" width="800"] Kearse (left) now plays to a 4…
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…
[caption id="attachment_3227695" align="alignright" width="600"] After many months of work, Patrick Scoccolo can now spend the cold Northwest days practicing on his Foresight GC2 simulator.[/caption] by Doug Miller It’s a dark and damp October afternoon in Seattle. Whitecaps dot an angry…
[caption id="attachment_3214608" align="alignright" width="240"] Eric Lohman has been named the new president of the Southern California PGA Section.[/caption] Eric Lohman, who won the 1993 Washington Men’s Amateur, was named president of the Southern California PGA during the Section's Annual Meeting…
Tacoma, Wash. – Washington Golf (WA Golf) has announced the Player of the Year award recipients for 2022. The category winners are as follows: Men’s, Andrew Von Lossow of Spokane; Women’s, Lauryn Nguyen of Seattle; Men’s Mid-Amateur, Andrew Von Lossow;…
After more than six-months of competition, the Second Annual WA Golf Net Four-Ball Match Play tournament is officially complete. The event, which featured a Men’s and Women’s field broken up in to four divisions of two-person teams competing in a…
Whether you are new to the game or even if you’ve been playing all your life (and not admitting it), it can be confusing to look at. What do all those numbers mean? What does “HCP” mean? I see different…
The Washington State Women’s Golf Association (WSWGA) is celebrating its centennial year in 2022. One hundred years ago, a woman by the name of “Frank” Patterson decided that women golfers in Washington should be able to compete for the title…
Golf is a challenging game. No two course designs are the same. Weather elements change by the day (if not hour or minute). Mental acuity could be spot-on one round and out of bounds the next. And then throw in…
