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Little Creek Casino hosts tournament at new Salish Cliffs

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The Little Creek Casino in Shelton will host its 11th annual Squaxin Island Museum Golf Tournament June 4, 2012 at its own Salish Cliffs Golf Course. The tournament proceeds help benefit the Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center. The tournament costs $200 per player and $800 per team. The entry includes golf, dinner and [...]


Professional tours that will be played in the Pacific Northwest this year

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The Pacific Northwest will welcome the LPGA and Champions Tours this summer with a pair of tournaments in the Seattle and Portland areas. First on the tee will be LPGA Safeway Classic, set for Aug. 17-19 at Pumpkin Ridge’s Ghost Creek Course. It marks the fourth straight year the event has been held at Pumpkin [...]


GolfWorld Pacific Amateur taking entries for August event

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The 16th annual GolfWorld Pacific Amateur is set for Aug. 26-31 at some of Central Oregon’s best golf courses. The event is expected to attract over 600 players from around the country. Players will be divided into flights for a three-day, stroke-play event with handicaps being used. There will be a gross division for players [...]


Olympia’s Gonzales wins on Nationwide

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Olympia’s Andres Gonzales completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Soboda Golf Classic, beating Andrew Svoboda by two strokes for his first Nationwide Tour title. Gonzales closed with an even-par 71 to finish at 8-under 276 on The Country Club at Soboda Springs. The 28-year-old former UNLV player earned $135,000. Last September at Soboda Springs, Gonzales [...]


In Northwest college golf news

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

• Washington junior golfer Chris Williams has been named the Pac-12 Men’s Golfer of the Month for March. Williams, from Moscow, Idaho, finished first at the Bandon Dunes Championship with a 9-under par 204 (71-67-66) to lead Washington to a tie for first in the team race. He finished six shots better than runner up [...]


Ballinger Lake to hose Sue Gifford Melanoma Memorial Golf Tournament

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Hardy LLC will be hosting the sixth annual Sue Gifford Melanoma Memorial Golf Tournament May 19 at Ballinger Lake. The event has a $60 entry fee and includes golf, breakfast and lunch. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society. Call 425.697.4653 for information about the event.


Kyle Stanley will join Umpqua Bank field

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The Umpqua Bank Challenge, set for Aug. 26-28 at the Reserve near Portland, has added Northwest PGA star Kyle Stanley to the field. Stanley, a native of Gig Harbor, Wash., earned his first victory earlier this year at the 2012 Waste Management Phoenix Open. Stanley’s victory followed a playoff loss to Brandt Snedeker at the [...]


Boeing Classic tickets on sale for August event

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

It is a sports experience like no other in the Northwest and an affordable option that the entire family can enjoy. The Boeing Classic will be held August 24-26 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. With Tickets starting as low as $20 per day and kids 14 and under receive free admission with a paid adult, it [...]


Keating comes from behind to win Senior Players Championship

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Mark Keating of Astoria G&CC won the Senior Players’ Championship at Indian Summer G&CC in Olympia. He came from two strokes behind to shoot a second round 70 – and a 142 total to win by one stroke over first round co-leader Tom Staskus of Tom’s Golf Center in Olympia. Jeff Coston of Semiahmoo G&CC [...]


Oswego Lake team wins Pro-Assistants golf crown

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

The Oswego Lake Country Club team of PGA Professionals Brent Murray and Scott Erdmann came from behind to win the Pacific Northwest Pro-Assistants Championship at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland. Murray and Erdmann were two shots back after the first of the two tournament rounds but came up with a 9 under par 133 [...]


Registrations are open for 2012 Junior Champions Tour

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Registration for the 2012 Inaugural Junior Champions Golf Tour opened in March at www.JrChampionsTour.com. The Tour kicks off with the first tournament event at West Seattle Golf Course on April 21, 2012 and concludes with the 3-Day, Seattle Junior Champions Classic tournament in August. The Junior Champions Tour is a nonprofit association established to foster [...]


University of Washington’s Chris Williams sets record

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Washington junior Chris Williams stands alone atop the Husky record books for career wins after running away from the rest of the field on Sunday for his fifth career victory. At the same time, the Huskies saw a comfortable lead whittle away and ended up tied with Long Beach State for the Bandon Dunes Championship [...]


Cascade Golfer Cup sets dates for 2012 tour

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

The third annual Cascade Golfer Cup returns this year with a solid series of tournaments. The tour starts off with an event at Chambers Bay on April 28, the first of seven events for the Cascade Golfer Cup. The series features team-scoring formats and over $100,000 in prizes awarded to the top net and gross [...]


Gig Harbor’s Kyle Stanley gets his first PGA Tour win after a week of heartache

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

At the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines near San Diego, Gig Harbor native Kyle Stanley seemed on his way to the winner’s circle. But something happened along the way. Stanley tripled-bogeyed the final hole and then lost in a playoff to Brandt Snedeker. But a week later, Stanley proved that he could come right [...]


Northwest college teams kick off spring golf season in Hawaii

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

The Washington men’s golf team opened its spring season by finishing seventh in the Ameri Ari Invitational at Waikoloa’s Kings’ Course on the Big Island of Hawaii. The Huskies ended up 9-under for the 54-hole tournament, 21 strokes behind the winners – top-ranked Texas. Oregon, ranked second in the country, finished 12th in the tournament [...]