Tournament News

The Washington State Golf Association will host a serious of Winter Tour events. The 2012 host courses include: • February 24, 2012: Oakbrook Golf and Country Club • March 23, 2012: McCormick Woods. • April 13, 2012: Palouse Ridge. The entry fee of $70.00 per player, per event will cover green fees, range balls, championship [...]

The University of Oregon men’s golf team was never able to completely shake off a slow start, but the No. 2 Ducks did climb back to a third place finish at the Gifford Collegiate Championship at CordeValle. Led by its top golfer Eugene Wong (third place overall) Oregon ended the 54-hole event at 20-over par [...]

The Husky men’s golf team closed out its fall portion of the schedule by finishing fifth as a team in the Gifford Intercollegiate at CordeValle Golf Club. All-American Chris Williams, who finished fourth out of 72 golfers, led Washington. Williams shot his third-consecutive round of 70 at the par-71 course to end up at 3-under [...]

The top amateurs in the Pacific Northwest did something at this year’s Hudson Cup that no other amateur team had done since 1978 – they beat the professionals. The amateurs held off a late rally by the top professionals in the Northwest winning 10 1/2 to 9 1/2 in the 63rd edition of the Hudson [...]

The Boeing Classic announced that the 2012 tournament will be held August 20-26 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, maintaining its position on the Champions Tour schedule during the final week of August. The complete 2012 Champions Tour schedule will be announced at a later date by TOUR officials. The 2011 Boeing Classic was the most impressive [...]

Kimberly Santiago of Lynnwood, Wash., has been named an HP Scholastic Junior All-American, the American Junior Golf Association and HP announced Wednesday. This is the second year she has been named an HP Scholastic Junior All-American. Sponsored by HP since 1988, the team consists of 12 young men and 12 young women who demonstrate the [...]

Alison Murdoch of Victoria, BC battled strong winds and an even stronger field to win the 26th Pacific Northwest Senior Women’s Amateur Championship conducted by the Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) held at Victoria Golf Club in Victoria, BC. Competitors were treated to a scenic October week to remember at the historic golf club located [...]

Tom Brandes of Bellevue, Wash. entered the final round 1-stroke behind Jim McNelis of Gig Harbor, Wash. and used a final round of 1-under par 71 to force a playoff. Brandes carded rounds of 72 and 70 earlier in the week to finish the Championship at 3-under par 213 and win the WSGA Senior Men’s [...]

Chris Bae of the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge shot a second-round 66 and went on to win the Oakbrook Amateur by six shots at Oakbrook Country Club in Tacoma. Bae finished with a two-round total of 136 – far ahead of second-place finisher John Eisentrout who was at 142. Craig Larson of Oakbrook was third at [...]

Dave Talcott opened with a 68 and cruised from there in winning the Twin Lakes Amateur Presented by Michelob Ultra at Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club in Federal Way. Talcott, from Oakbrook Country Club, finished with a two-round total of 140 – 4 under par. Talcott won the tournament by five shots over Ryan [...]

Adam Cornelson of Vancouver, B.C. fired a three-round total of 197 to win the 2011 Tri-City Budweiser Pro-Am Championship at West Richland Golf Course. Cornelson also pocketed a first-place check of $10,000 for claiming the championship. He opened with a 63 and stayed in the lead shooting rounds of 66 and 68 the rest of [...]

Cheng-Tsung Pan announced to the rest of the college golf world his presence by firing a 7-under 65 in the final round of The Prestige at PGA West to beat a daunting field of competitors and help Washington to a second-place team finish. Oregon won the tournament by two shots over the Huskies. Pan, golf’s [...]

PGA Professional Brian Thornton of Meridian Valley CC and amateur Todd Densley won the Pro-Amateur Championship by seven strokes over first round leaders PGA Professional Mike DeLong of Coeur d’Alene Resort with his amateur Bob Christensen. Thornton and Densley fired a nine under par 63 at the new Rope Rider course at Suncadia Resort. Thornton [...]

Mark Calcavecchia defeated Russ Cochran on the first playoff hole to get his first Champions Tour victory at the Boeing Classic. It was a thrilling finish in front of record crowds at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge as 30,000 fans cheered our new Champion. “Even if I hadn’t won or even if I finished 20th or 30th, [...]

Wade Bittle of Leavenworth, Wash. won the championship of the Golf World Pacific Amateur with a net score of 63. The tournament, which featured nearly 600 players, had a two-way tie for the top of the championship round with Bittle and Jerry Taylor of Golf, Calif. Bittle won the playoff to earn the championship, where [...]