First of all, boys and girls, yes, there is a blimp at the U.S. Open. You might have seen it. It's big. It says Goodyear on it. It's called "The Spirit of America," one of three semi-rigid airships in the Goodyear fleet. It was launched in 2002. It's 246 feet long, 65 feet wide, and 58 feet … [Read more...]
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‘A thinking golfer’s championship as well as a shotmaker’s?’
by Bart Potter UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – The early line on who will win the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay Golf Course is … Chambers Bay Golf Course. The world’s best players might leave the course in shreds – four days of play will tell – or leave the tournament in tears. Nobody is betting much on … [Read more...]
The Open comes to Grey Goatee Nation
Grey Goatee Global Headquarters, this week, is the media center at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash., which for geographical exactitude is south and west of Tacoma but is better described, this week, as the center of the golf universe. They'll play a … [Read more...]
Sahalee Country Club a major forerunner in the Northwest
Sahalee Players Championship carries on legacy of premier championship golf in the region by Craig Smith WHEN YOU LOOK at how much Pacific Northwest golf history has been made at Sahalee Country Club, you might think the course opened in 1869, when Washington was a territory, instead of … [Read more...]
U.S. women’s four-ball comes to Pacific Dunes
BANDON, Ore. – I've gotten stupidly lucky the two previous times I played Pacific Dunes – sunny and mostly calm, the best way to appreciate its ingenious routing and seaside splendor. Who can say what the southern Oregon coastal weather will be May 9-13? That’s when the United States Golf … [Read more...]
The Masters: Why not Dufner?
It’s not the first tournament on the PGA Tour schedule … but it’s first in the hearts and brains of U.S. golf fans. For many of us, it’s the real Opening Day of golf, notwithstanding that scary-warm day in January when you had to shed layers. Note: Global climate change is clearly a … [Read more...]
The Tiger ruling, by the Rules, under the circumstances
AFTER THIS, a lot of us will take a fresh look at the Rules of Golf, and that's not a bad thing. For me, if I was taking a drop like Tiger Woods did today on No.15, I would have, in all righteous ignorance, added "no closer to the hole" to my mental computation of where … [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...]
Gold Mountain Olympic: Just your everyday championship golf course
BREMERTON, Wash. – The roughs are long and sticky and will only get longer. The greens are fast, and might get faster. And while members and visiting players battle through – and maybe curse – the challenging setup at Gold Mountain’s Olympic Course, it’s all in the game plan as Gold Mountain … [Read more...]
At Sahalee, it’s about the trees
You can’t go over them, and you can’t get through them. You will be in them, but it wouldn’t be Sahalee Country Club without them. It’s the trees – mature, lush, resplendent. They’ll be in evidence and almost certainly in play when the U.S. Senior Open comes to Sahalee July 26 – Aug. 1. The … [Read more...]
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