In The News

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  Highlands Golf Course set to celebrate its 90th

  The Highlands Golf Course in Tacoma is celebrating its 90th Anniversary in 2021 and the new owners are planning as much excitement as COVID-19 pandemic will allow. If their first year...

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  Golfing Gorilla passes away at age 70

  South Puget Sound native and “trainer” to local celebrity golfer The Golfing Gorilla, Tom Tuell passed away in December after a brief battle with cancer. He was 70. Tom was a...

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  Boeing Classic back on the schedule for 2021

  PGA Tour Champions announced the 2021 tournament schedule, featuring 25 events and culminating with the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs in November. The Tour will contest tournaments in Canada, England and 19...

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  After a fire scare, Oregon’s Tokatee course getting back to normal

  by Steve Mims, Special to Inside Golf Newspaper • Editor’s note: Printed by permission from he PNGA. One month after Tokatee Golf Club was threatened by the Holiday Farm Fire in...

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  PNW PGA awards Sharp, Coston and Prante as 2020 Players of the Year

  Brady Sharp, Jeff Coston and Shane Prante have been named the Omega Players of the Year by the Pacific Northwest Section PGA. All three had terrific seasons, despite limited in play...

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  Pro tip: To work on those major swing changes, use a mirror or window and take good notes, too

  Editor’s note: This is part two of Ryan Young’s column about working on swing changes during the winter months: Pro-Tip #1: To help during Phase 1 of major swing changes, work...

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  WinCo Foods Portland Open is no more

  After seven years, the WinCo Foods Portland Open at Pumpkin Ridge’s Witch Hollow course has come to an end. When the Korn Ferry Tour came out with its 2021 schedule, the...

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  LPGA Legends Tour event will be back at White Horse

  After having to sit out the 2020 golf season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the LPGA Legends Tour will return in 2021 with the Suquamish Clearwater Legends Cup Presented by Boeing...

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  Monica Vaughan goes low with 58

  Pacific Northwest native and former Arizona State player Monica Vaughan went lower than low in a recent college fundraiser at Eugene Country Club. Vaughan fired a 58, but she did want...

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  Pro tip: How to implement a major change in your swing

  The off-season is here and so being the time to implement major swing changes. Before the PGA Tour created the wrap-around season, most tour players spent the off-season making any swing...

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  Home Course’s Justin Gravatt is named Golf Professional of Year

  Justin Gravatt, PGA General Manager of The Home Course in DuPont, Wash., has been named the 2020 Golf Professional of the Year by the Western Washington Chapter of the Pacific Northwest...

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  Lake Wilderness has some major improvements planned for future

  Lake Wilderness Golf Course has always been known for nice greens and since CourseCo took over the management several changes and improvement have occurred, like new sod, leveling and reshaping of the...

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  If it’s November, time to stop posting in the NW

  As you may know, Washington Golf and the Oregon Golf Association both observe an inactive score posting season during which rounds played in the area are never acceptable for handicap computational...

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  USGA awarding Senior Women’s Am to the Anchorage Golf Course

  The USGA announced that Anchorage Golf Course in Anchorage, Alaska, will host the 60th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur. The championship is scheduled for July 30-Aug. 4, 2022 and will mark the...

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  Riverbend Golf Course begins to show off its newly remodeled range

  After several months of construction, the Riverbend Driving Range reopened in late September.  The improvements include an expanded all natural grass field, new target markers, new netting and poles and a new...