It used to be just an old-guy technique, something you might grasp at when all else failed with your putting stroke. Now young guys are using it, and winning with it, and the subject is a matter of international debate, compelling sports fans to learn words like “bifurcation.” Gee whiz, Craig … [Read more...]
Melanoma finally stills Terry Lee
LACEY, Wash. – The wide world of friends and family of Terry Lee gathered Saturday at Saint Martin’s University, where he played basketball 30-odd years ago, to celebrate his life and mourn his death. Lee, 56, died Nov. 14 of the cancer he had battled for years. That the deadly melanoma claimed … [Read more...]
Liquidation of a golf-store dream
OLYMPIA – You’ll find him tucked back off an alley in a neighborhood of warehouses and empty buildings, and it’s by appointment: He’s the guy with the key. His vocation is golf teaching pro. These days, he’s a liquidator. He’s making a little something off each sale he makes of the marked-down golf … [Read more...]
The spin on negative ions
Now comes Paul Azinger on video, urging me to try a golf shirt that promises to make me run faster and jump higher … no, no, that’s PF Flyers, still making cool sneakers in throwback styles with a modern vibe ... It all begins to run together, out there in the socialsphere, but what I … [Read more...]
It’s Pink Golf Glove Awareness Month
If it seems like Breast Cancer Awareness Month has gone on for a lot longer than its 31 days, as of its official final day today, well, it has, since at least the April part of the month, when Bubba Watson packed the pink driver and won The Masters with it. All this awareness is a good thing, in … [Read more...]
Livin’ life on the bottom shelf
In those long ago days before June 1, the bottom shelf of the liquor store kept to itself and I to mine own self. That day, everything changed. That day, the state of Washington was officially shoved out of the liquor arena, and hard liquor sales were fully given over to the private … [Read more...]
Oki Golf: The golfer as customer
There are people who would rather be fishing than playing golf… I don’t understand it, but there it is. At Oki Golf’s Trophy Lake Golf and Casting in Port Orchard, Wash., you can choose one or the other, or both. It’s a fun, tough golf course … can’t vouch for the fishing, but you can fly fish … [Read more...]
Range pickers keep the target moving
This wasn’t a “get every weed in the garden” assignment, this time, my first time … so I left a few range balls out there on the acreage at Tom’s Golf Center. You have, because you play golf, been at the practice range when the picker was on the beat, making back-and-forth, out-and-back and purely … [Read more...]
Where the salmon are safe and the golf is good
SHELTON, Wash. – A golf round, almost by definition, is a walk in fields of green grass, through wildlife habitat, alongside rivers, lakes, ponds or seas. If it sounds pristine, it pretty much is. There remain disbelievers -- those who think the beauty and unstinting green must have … [Read more...]
The Six Niner Tour, Day Three: Surf and turf
The Morning: Surfside Golf Course, Ocean Park, Wash. 3,098 yards, par 36 Surfside has evolved in recent years. It used to be a course that could bend your irons and dent your golf balls when you clanged off the flint-hard fairways. Now, the earth on the fairways is softer, firm … [Read more...]
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