Herding the herd: The evidence is there, and we can hope you only saw it and didn’t step in it. The elk herd is large and healthy and, by the evidence, eating okay, not that we’re an expert in wildlife biosolids. Gearhart Golf Links GM Jason Bangild says it was originally thought there were three … [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.
Teacher’s Corner: Zdravko Barbic
GEARHART, Ore. -- His first name is Zdravko, which maybe you can pronounce, but he lets people off easy -- he's "Z" throughout coastal northern Oregon. Zdravko Barbic, 54, was born in Croatia in central Europe, moved to Southern California when he was 12, and now lives around here, where he is … [Read more...]
World History Tour, Day 3: Gearhart Golf Links
GEARHART, Ore. – It took 200 dump-truck loads to cart away the trees, uprooted so as not to leave stumps behind on the golf course. It looked like a war zone, they say, but the course never closed for a minute, even during the thick of it, and this week, more than a year and a half after the … [Read more...]
World History Tour, Day Two: Nines of our lives
In the morning: Highlands Golf Club, Gearhart, Ore. Relentlessly well-groomed, and a tidy routing through nine holes of ups and downs, and nothing much easy. You'll get all the golf you want at Highlands, the "other" course in Gearhart, in sniffing distance of the Specific Ocean. Play the blues … [Read more...]
World History Tour, Day 1: Twisting in the Astoria wind
ASTORIA, Ore. -- It looked benign, through the window, like even if you weren't straight you wouldn't lose a ton of golf balls. Lots of land to land on. From that pre-round perch, in the bar at Astoria Golf and Country Club, we couldn't read the greens, but then we never read 'em all day after that, … [Read more...]
The World History Tour
ASTORIA, Ore. -- There aren't a lot of towns with any more history than Astoria, here at the confluence of the mighty Columbia and the Ocean Pacific. Think John Jacob Astor, the fur trade, exploration and discovery by land and sea. Let it be said that Astoria has managed to honor its … [Read more...]
A last look at The Lone Fir Tree
It survived a working gravel and sand mine. It lived on through the abandoned site's conversion to a championship golf course. It's a Douglas fir tree, not very large or symmetrical, but now that the U.S. Open is here (and soon to leave), it makes No. 15 at Chambers Bay Golf Course the postcard … [Read more...]
Grey Goatee Nation walks the Open walk
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...]
‘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...]
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