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PRESORT STD FREE JULY U.S. Postage PAID COPY 2013 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Scotland: Taking a once in a lifetime trip to golf’s home Inside Golf sometimes gets to travel to exotic locations for stories and pictures. But there’s nothing like a trip to Scotland, the home of golf. With courses like the Old Course at St. Andrews (right), Scotland is a place that is on most golfer’s bucket lists. Inside Golf takes you on a whirlwind tour. See second section for more. WHAT’S NEW USGA heads to Portland for 2015 Women’s Am The United States Golf Association (USGA) announced Portland IN NW GOLF (Ore.) Golf Club as the host site of the 2015 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship. The dates of the championship are Aug. 10-16. This will be the 33rd USGA championship conducted in the state of Oregon and the third held at Portland Golf Club. In 1982, the club hosted the first of Miller Barber’s record three U.S. Senior Open Championship Pacific Amateur set for victories, while Bill Ploeger won the 1999 USGA Senior Amateur. Nestled along Fanno Creek, Portland Golf Club was established September in C. Oregon in 1914 by a small group of businessmen who built the initial course based on its proximity to frequent passenger rail service from downtown If you are looking to get those competitive Portland via the Oregon Electric Railroad. Today, the course features juices flowing, then look no further than the century-old trees, rolling hills and undulating and lightning-fast greens 17th annual Lithia Pacific Amateur Golf Classic. The event will take place at some of Central throughout its 18 holes of play. Oregon’s top golf courses Sept. 21-26, 2013 Portland Golf Club hosted the 1946 PGA Championship, which was with the top finishers of the individual flights won by Ben Hogan, but it is perhaps best known for helping to revive meeting at Sunriver’s Crosswater course for the Ryder Cup by hosting the 1947 matches after a 10-year hiatus for the tournament championship. World War II. The three-day event, produced by the Central Oregon Visitors Association, offers divisions for golfers of every skill level including the open/gross division for golfers looking to NBA radio announcer Kevin Calabro: Amateur player play without handicaps. There is no shortage of gifts when you sign up for the Lithia Pacific Amateur, including the Talks a good game and plays one too from Portland three rounds of golf, a Pac Am gift bag valued at more than $200 See www.pacamgolf.com for more info. captures crown Troy Kelly’s season ends at Oregon Open early with knee surgery Amateur Hans Reimers of Columbia Pacific Northwest PGA Tour pro Troy Kelly Edgewater CC (Portland) got hot at the of Bremerton had his 2013 season cut short right time at the Oregon Open Invitational because of knee surgery. Kelly had been at Juniper Golf Club in Redmond. hobbled before, having undergone hip replace- Reimers fired a third-round 66 to finish ment surgery back in 2010 and missed some with a 210 total for the three rounds and win time during that season as well. Kelly had surgery to repair a torn meniscus one of the major champions in the Pacific and some ACL damage in his right knee and Northwest for professionals and amateurs. is out for the rest of the 2013 season. The 34- Reimers, who played college golf at the year-old Kelly played in 10 events this year mak- University of Portland, turned back chal- ing three cuts and winning $32,350. His best lenges from professionals Darren Black of finish was a tie for 62nd at Pebble Beach. Rainier Golf and Country Club and Scott He might be able to get a major medical Erdmann of Oswego Lake as well as amateur exemption from the PGA Tour, which would Mike Haack of Meridian Valley. Those three allow him 13-15 events next year. finished at 211, one shot back. Rob Gibbons of Arrowhead Golf Club in Molalla, Ore. started hot with a 69 in the Paige Mackenzie named opening round but finished in fifth place, Spirit Cup team captain three shots behind the winner. See Oregon Open, Page 6 LPGA member Paige Mackenzie accepted the role of USA Team Captain for the 2013 Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship, October 30 – November 2 at Whispering Pines Semiahmoo Resort Golf Club in Houston, Texas. Mackenzie was a member of the 2005 Spirit International USA Team, which finished courses, hotel sold in second place to England. The competition For months there have been rumors, but features a country’s top two men and women now Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, Wash. amateur players competing in the event. has a buyer and new life after being sold to Resort Semiahmoo and Wright Hotels for $19.5 million. The deal includes the Semiahmoo Re- Rules Quiz sort hotel and both Semiahmoo Resort and Loomis Trail golf courses. On a very windy day a player plays his tee shot The hotel closed for business last December to a par 3 but the wind carries it about 10 yards left You might not know the face, but if you are a sports fan you certainly but the golf courses remained open. The new of the green. It ends up down a hill and behind a know the voice. Kevin Calabro is the former radio and television an- owners say the hotel will re-open soon and bunker. He played his second shot up to the green and the ball comes to rest some 10 feet above the nouncer for the Seattle SuperSonics and now works for ESPN and the it will be business as usual at both the resort hole. While he is some ten feet behind the ball and Pac-12 Network. He had broadcast the Sonics for years before they and Loomis Trail golf courses. yet to have addressed the ball a gust of wind causes The new owners plan to spent $6 million the ball to move and in fact the ball roles down the bolted for Oklahoma City and he decided not to go along with the team. on improvements to the resort hotel and hope slope into the hole. What is the player’s score for Instead he makes Seattle his home and works national broadcasting to have it re-opened in August as well as the the hole? See Page 2 for the answer. gigs. And his golf game isn’t too bad either. See inside for more. resort’s spa. Wright Hotels operates more than 40 hotels in 15 states. Printed in U.S.A. • • • INSIDE GOLF NEWSPAPER • • • ©All Rights Reserved • Page 2 • • InsIde Comments • • Inside Golf - July Issue 2013 • St. Andrews Old Course: Taking a step back in the golf history time machine As you stand on the first tee at the Old Course at St. Andrews, you almost don’t want to hit the tee shot. You look around and see the Royal & Ancient headquarters, you see golfers heading up the 18th hole and the Bob Marlatt Valley of Sin, you see the burn winding its way Publisher in front of the first green. It’s almost surreal. But then the starter and your partners ask what the hell you are doing Steve Turcotte and you fire away. In this case, my drive on Editor-Advertising the opening hole at the Old Course sliced Steve low right, but managed to stay in the fairway. Which should be an easy task considering Turcotte Kathy Marlatt that you can use the 18th and first fairways Operations Manager with your opening tee shot. The Old Course is golf history right on front tee shot. We went and paid for our round of of your eyes. The course is 600 years old golf, which was 155 pounds and another 5 Contributing Writers and has played host to British Opens, British pounds for a trolley. (That is a pull cart to those Jeff Coston, Amateurs and any other kind of championship who don’t speak European golf). And that is Kathy DeNeui, Mike Peluso, you can think of. Surely you’ve seen the Open $240 American dollars for those who can’t do Brett Wilkinson Championship (yes, that’s what the locals call the translation. I had to ask how much. It took Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein it) on television. There’s Hell Bunker, the Road everything I had to break out the Visa card. Hole, the Swilcan Bridge, the Coffin Bunkers. But after that, it was golfing nirvana. As Subscription rates: It’s a place where everything has a name and I walked down the first fairway, I thought of everything has a story. In fact, how about this all the Open Championships I had seen on $17-one year and $30-two story: The course is closed on Sunday’s so television and had a little extra in my step. Of years (U.S. funds). it can serve as picnic grounds for the locals. course I knocked my second shot into the You can eat, walk your dog, play Frisbee …. burn (that’s creek for those who need some Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- anything on the Old Course on a Sunday. help) on the first hole but saved a bogey. come, however we will accept no liability It’s also a place that is tough to get a tee The rest of the round was like a history les- for their loss or damage, and will only time.