Along about the time we were getting serious about making plans, weighing dates and times and all the minutiae, one of us had a medical episode. It wasn't serious, though it could have been, and it was timed so badly I had to laugh. This is the same guy who often says, We gotta do these things, … [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.
Returning to the fore at Southern Oregon’s Eagle Point
This article appeared first in LocalGolfer.com. by Jack Seybold The development of golf courses in the early-to-mid-’90′s was part of the phenomenon described by Jim Kopenhaver in the September 2013 issue of The Pelucid Perspective as the “build-a-course-a-day decade.” The supply of golf … [Read more...]
The regal and rugged beauty of Royal County Down
This article appeared first in LocalGolfer.com. by Jack Seybold About 10 years before his death in 1908, the legendary four-time British Open Champion Old Tom Morris worked on the design of one of his 75 courses, Royal County Down in Newcastle, Northern Ireland. At that time, the course occupied … [Read more...]
Golf tours with tips and tippling
LAYING UP MIGHT BE the smart play on a given hole on a given day at a given golf course. Playing it safe, however, is not in the business plan for Charlie Thurston's entrepreneurial golf venture. Thurston, a 45-year-old PGA professional, recently fell victim to a downsizing at Spokane Country … [Read more...]
Gold Mountain: A high value on quality
This article appeared first in LocalGolfer.com. by Bart Potter BREMERTON, Wash. – Let’s open the argument with a grand claim: In the greater world of municipal golf courses in the Great Pacific Northwest, the greatest value of all lies in deeply wooded foothills in the southern reaches of the … [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...]
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...]
The Six Niner Tour, Day Two: Sublime to ridiculous
The Morning: Highlands Golf Club, Gearhart, Ore. 1,794 yards, par 31 It wends its way through an upscale waterfront neighborhood, its five par-3s and four par-4s up tight to the houses. It's short and narrow, and long on challenge. They take care of the golf course at this club, and the … [Read more...]
The Six Niner Tour, Day One
The Morning: Manzanita Golf Course, Manzanita, Ore. Par 32, 2192 yards There isn't much bad to say about this nine-hole golf course. Narrow fairways, with tree trouble to either side, but straight works, on any hole. A skilled golfer will have no lack of challenge, and a scrambler can find his … [Read more...]
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