FLORENCE, Ore. -- Bob Rannow hasn't been around Florence-area golf courses nearly as long as the ocean, you know, that one, which you can sniff on the breeze at his current place of work, Ocean Dunes Golf Links. Dude's only 50. The ocean is, like, a kabillion-and-fifty, but it's not talking … [Read more...]
Road Holes
There's no golf course like your home course … but the world is big, and the best places in it have the coolest golf courses. Check here for courses out of town, up the road, off the path and down the highway … and the road trips that get you there.
The Tri-Coastal Links Tour
FLORENCE, Ore. – In the most southernmost slash yet of our annual search for sentient life in the Leftist Coast regions of Grey Goatee Nation, we Roadies are thinking we might get a little fine-grained sand between our wee little toes. Here in Florence, which you can find after many hours of … [Read more...]
Northern Ports postscript
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- First, we need to correct a misimpression we might have left you with. The Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival is many things -- a week full of workshopping and jamming among teacher-musicians and earnest students, performances by really good players on multiple stages … [Read more...]
Day Three: Zen, and Then …
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- There are no judgments, my brothers and sisters, on the journey. That is, there is only what is, and what is, is. Our scorecard we forgot to remember, which is to say it and we achieved pure being and nothingness as we walked through Port Townsend Golf Club in tranquil … [Read more...]
Day Two: Wherein we discover
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. -- The front nine at Discovery Bay Golf Course looks like a couple guys got together, took a walk through the land and laid down a golf course. It was the early 1920s, and they weren't professional architects, and they did a damn good job. The back looks different. It … [Read more...]
Day One: The Ludlow leg
PORT LUDLOW, Wash. – The amenities are top-shelf, the on-course constructions – the cart paths and tee boxes and practice areas -- are well-thought-out and well-tended. And even with that, the word that comes to mind at Port Ludlow Golf Course is “rough.” Rough, as in nature in all its unruliness … [Read more...]
The Northern Ports Tour
PORT HADLOCK, Wash. -- Rhythm is key in the golf swing, we hear, and it sure is for good blues musicians, but maybe not so much for appreciators of the art form, especially when they're drunk, which means the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival on Saturday, its biggest performance night in … [Read more...]
The Inland Nation Tour: Postscript, obscured by smoke
"Sketchy" was the word that kept coming up, and even filtered through our hardcover-dictionary brains we knew what they were talking about when they talked about the Tiki. We'd read the online ratings and comments about the Tiki Lodge, which give you the truer truth if you read down far enough. … [Read more...]
The Inland Nation Tour, Day Three: The long view
Aug. 7, 2017, Circling Raven Golf Course, Worley, Idaho The Creek at Qualchan looks like no other golf course you'll see, and it's not Circling Raven. Esmeralda is a golf course with 18 decent holes, and doesn't aspire to be Circling Raven. When this Gene Bates design opened in 2003 at the Coeur … [Read more...]
The Inland Nation Tour, Day Two: The Esmeralda experience
Aug. 6, 2017: Esmeralda Golf Course, Spokane I'd been warned, see, that Esmeralda Golf Course was all about old people and kids in flip flops and tank tops and foursomes too thickly placed on the course to contemplate anything less than a five-hour round. It's the most popular course in … [Read more...]
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