Tournament results

Highlands Golf Course crowns Washington Par-3 champion

Brett Manke started low and went lower to win the Washington State Par-3 Championship at Highlands Golf Course in Tacoma, Wash. Manke opened with a 3-under 51 in the first round and then followed it up with a 1-under 53 for a 104 total. He only led by three shots after the first round but widened his advantage in the second round eventually winning the championship by 10 shots. John Francis Connelly was second at 114 while Kris Casselman was third in the tournament at 115.

Highlands Golf Course is ranked among the top par-3 courses in the country with all nine holes playing as par-3’s. The tournament featured a full field of players.

Sam Highsmith finished fourth at 116 while Harry Stenberg rounded out the top five of the tournament at 117.

Makenna Kelpman won the ladies division of the Washington State Par-3 Championship with a two-round total of 122. Avery Marie Renggli was second with a 131 total.

Thailand golfer captures the title at Wildhorse’s Epson Tour event

Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand went low to win the Wildhorse Ladies Classic, part of the LPGA tour’s Epson Tour. Phatlum, a 34-year-old golfer who previously represented Thailand in the 2016 Rio Olympics, moved to No. 7 in the 2024 Race for the Card.

This was the third year in a row that Wildhorse has hosted the Epson Tour event.

The 2024 Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic attracted more than 140 professional golfers from around the world. Phatlum broke the 54-hole scoring record at Wildhorse Golf Course and claimed her first Epson Tour win with the 21 under par score.

 Phatlum beat last year’s event winner, Daniela Iacobelli and current tour leaders Fiona Xu and Lauren Stephenson, to achieve the victory. Her best previous tour result was a tie for second at the 2024 Casino Del Sol Golf Classic in Tucson, Arizona.

The tournament win earned Phatlum 500 points, which propelled her to No. 7 in the 2024 Race for the Card.

American golfer Amy Lee took the second spot at the 2024 Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic and previous University of Oregon golfer Hsin-Yu Lu finished third. Two additional golfers with local ties, Haley Greb and Gabby Lemieux, did not make the event’s final cut. Haley Greb competed on the Pendleton High School golf team and at the University of Tulsa. Gabby Lemieux, who is the first female Native American professional golfer in the country, grew up in Caldwell, Idaho.

The Epson Tour started in 1999 as the LPGA Futures Tour. It is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA. This year, 15 of the top golfers will receive LPGA Tour cards for earning the most points on the 20-event tour.

Arizona golfer wins Pacific Coast Am

Chaz Aurilia from Scottsdale, Ariz., shot rounds of 71-70-65-66 and won a sudden-death, one-hole playoff to claim victory at the 57th Pacific Coast Amateur Championship, hosted at Chambers Bay.

Aurilia entered the final round four shots back of round three leader Simon Hovdal from Sweden, teeing off in the second-to-last group of the day. Aurilia had some work to do to get back in the mix, and he did just that with a bogey-free final round of 66, jumping up the leaderboard to finish the championship at 12-under par, tying with Sam Sommerhauser of Sacramento, Calif., who fired a final round 65 to grab a share of the lead.

The two players, Aurilia and Sommerhauser, who were college roommates at the University of Arizona, found themselves in a sudden-death playoff at the end of the round. Aurilia knocked in his par to take home the title.

Oregon State golfer goes low, wins title at Northwest Open over defending champ

Amateur Collin Hodgkinson of Oregon State University won the Pelzer Golf Northwest Open Invitational at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash.

Hodgkinson fired an impressive three-day total of 67-65-66-198, 18 under par to win by one over defending champion PGA Professional Daniel Campbell of North Bellingham G&CC (Bellingham, WA). Campbell finished at 199, just coming up short.

Hodgkinson made his move on the final nine holes of the tournament. He finished the back nine of the final round five under, including making birdies on four of his last six holes to win by one shot.

James Hall of the PNW Golf Academy finished third at 13 under par while Josh Scothorne of Interbay Gold Center finished fourth in the tournament.

Montana’s Malby claims third straight Senior Oregon Open championship

PGA Professional Ryan Malby of Kalispel, MT won his third straight Senior Oregon Open Invitational today at Wildhorse Resort.  Amateur Russell Humphrey of Woodbridge G&CC (Woodbridge, CA) placed second and won low amateur honors.

The team led by PGA Professional Tom Sovay with amateurs Chris Bae, Ryan Jupiter and Ted Foster won the team competition with an impressive 37 under par for the 36-hole competition.

Malby shot rounds of 65-73-63 to win the tournament by two shots.

Sovay of the Golf Club at Redmond Ridge finished three shots behind in third place at 204 while amateur Ryan Welborn of Tacoma Country and Golf Club finished fourth at 205. Rounding out the top five was David Christenson of the Golf Club at Black Rock at 206.

Tacoma assistant wins championship

Mason Koch of Tacoma C&GC won the National Car Rental PNW Section Assistant PGA Professional Championship at Rainier G&CC.

Mason Koch, Shane Prante, and Cole Lorenz all earned spots to represent the Pacific Northwest Section at the 48th National Car Rental Assistant PGA Professional Championship at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida – November 14– November 17, 2024.

Texas golfer wins PNGA Mid-Am

Andrew Lawson of Dallas, Tex. shot rounds of 71-75-69 and then survived a two-hole playoff to win the 39th PNGA Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship, held at Jug Mountain Ranch in McCall, Idaho.

Lawson defeated Jesse Hibler of Meridian, Idaho, in the playoff to take the title.

The 54-hole stroke-play championship featured a strong field of the top men’s mid-amateur players from across the Pacific Northwest – and the country with the winner being from Texas.