Tournament News

PGA Professional Ryan Benzel of Battle Creek Golf Course in Tulalip, Wash., will join a group of 19 other PGA Professionals who qualified for the 92nd PGA Championship, Aug. 9-15, at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis.
Benzel, 31, will be competing in his fourth PGA Championship. He qualified by finishing in the top 20 on June [...]

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Peter Uihlein of Orlando, Florida captured the 17th Sahalee Players Championship firing a final round of 4-under par 68. Uihlein, a junior on the Oklahoma State golf team, shot a tournament record 17-under par 271 to beat Andrew Putnam by seven shots. Uihlein was under par in each of his four rounds this week and [...]

Jeremy Wendelken fired a final round of 2-under par 70 to capture the 84th Washington State Golf Association Men’s Amateur Championship held at White Horse Golf Club in Kingston, Wash. Wendelken finished the championship at 2-under par 286 overall and was the only player in the field to break par bettering 2nd place finisher T.J. [...]

The American Junior Golf Association will return to Wenatchee, Wash., Aug. 9-12. Ninety-nine junior golfers will compete in a 54-hole stroke play tournament at Wenatchee Golf & Country Club. This is the third year that Wenatchee has welcomed the AJGA to the Pacific Northwest.
Some of the best junior golfers from Washington and the United States [...]

Riverbend Golf Course in Kent will host its annual Riverbend Amateur Aug. 14-15 in Kent, Wash. The two-day event is open to all players with individual format. Call 253.854.3673 for more information.
The Twin Lakes Amateur, Presented by Auburn Volkswagen and Walker’s Renton Subaru, will be held Oct. 9-10 and feature two days of play for [...]

Brett Drewitt of Invernell, Australia wins the 109th PNGA Men’s Amateur Championship held at Royal Colwood Golf Club in Victoria, B.C. Drewitt defeated Cory Renfrew of Victoria, B.C. in the 36-hole final match 4 and 3. Maybe Drewitt’s most impressive stat all week was that in all six of his matches, he never trailed an [...]

In both the Men’s and Women’s Division, it came down to dramatic finishes at the 22nd Oregon Mid-Amateur Championship at Brasada Ranch Resort in Powell Butte, Ore. Both Brie Stone, 29, of Veneta, Ore. in the Women’s Division and Kasey Young, 34, of Vancouver, Wash. in the Men’s Division saw their first round leads [...]

Rachel Morris of Carlsbad, Calif. captured the title at the 109th PNGA Women’s Amateur Championship beating 2008 champion Cyna Rodriguez 8 and 6 in the 36-hole championship match at Clarkston Golf and Country Club in Clarkston, Wash.
Morris put on an impressive display of golf, dominating the match the entire way and never held a deficit. [...]

The University of Oregon’s historic run came to an end on The Honors Course as the Ducks bowed out against Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships.
The Cowboys, seeded No. 1 in the match play portion of the championships, defeated the fifth-seeded Ducks, 3-1-1 before losing to Augusta State in the [...]

Defending champion, Pamela Burneski of Surrey, B.C. and a member of Homestead Farms Golf Resort successfully defended her Washington Women’s Amateur championship title but it did not come easily.
Burneski bogeyed holes 17 and 18 for a final round of 3-over par 75 and a 54-hole total of 4-over par 220 which forced a playoff [...]

Former UW All-American Brock Mackenzie birdied three of the final four holes of the Times Colonist Open to win the first Canadian Tour event of his career in June.
Mackenzie entered the final round at the par-70 Upland Golf Club on Vancouver Island with the lead, but spun his wheels on the front nine to fall [...]

Oregon State senior Diego Velasquez, University of Oregon sophomore Eugene Wong and Washington senior Nick Taylor were among those honored as PING First Team All-Americans for Division I announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America.
Velasquez, a senior from Bogota, Colombia, becomes Oregon State’s third All-American in men’s golf and first ever first team selection. [...]

T.J. Bordeaux of Fircrest Golf Club in Tacoma put together a two-round total of 137 to win the championship of the Pepsi/Bremerton City Amateur at Gold Mountain’s Cascade and Olympic Golf Courses.
Bordeaux opened with a 68 and then followed up with a 69 to win the tournament by one shot over Jeremy Wendelken who shot [...]

Both the Men’s and Women’s teams from TPC at Snoqualmie Ridge were victorious at the 5th Annual WSGA Member Club Team Championship held on the Prospector Course at Suncadia Resort in Roslyn, Wash.
In the Men’s Championship, team members Rob Bringardner, Mike Duckham, Hani Imam, and Larry Geist of TPC at Snoqualmie Ridge came from [...]