PRESORT STD U.S. Postage OCTOBER FREE PAID Port Townsend, WA 2008 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS COPY Permit 262 PGA Tour stars put on a show for NW golf fans at BMW NW Skins Northwest native and PGA Tour star Ryan Moore invited three of his PGA Tour friends Bubba Watson, Aaron Baddeley and Ben Crane to the BMW North- west Charity Skins Game at the Classic Golf Club and Chambers Bay. They put on quite a show. See inside for more. WHAT’S NEW NW courses get IN NW GOLF ranked nationally Nine courses in the Pacific Northwest, including Chambers Bay (right) and Pacific Dunes (far Classic set for event right) have found their way into • The Fall Classic Presented Golf Magazine’s top 100 listing by The Emerald Queen Casino, of the best courses you can play. will fill a void Oct. 25-26 at the Chambers checked in at No. 8 Classic in Spanaway. Page 6. while Pacific Dunes topped the list. • For more, please see Page 4. New at Fort Lewis • Fort Lewis Golf Course, just south of Tacoma, has a new name to go by in Eagle’s Pride at Fort Wenatchee pro Lewis. Page 12. Golfing the Olympic Peninsula • takes the title at BMW NW Skins Game • Four PGA Tour stars, led by the host Ryan Moore, teed it up Northwest Open for charity at Chambers Bay. Page Rob Clark of Wenatchee Golf and 16. Country Club won the Northwest Open Invitational in a two-hole playoff, beating Pat Howard of Overlake Golf and Country Former Washington Club. Both players finished 10 under par for the three rounds, setting up the playoff. golfer will get time Clark won a first-place check of $5,000 for winning the championship, which was on the Big Break held at Meadow Springs Country Club in Former University of Washington Kennewick, Wash. golfer Amber Prange will team with Defending champion Jeff Coston of Robby Shaw (Louisville, Ky.) to com- Semiahmoo tied for third place with Ryan pete in Big Break X: Michigan, the Malby of Montana and Jason Aichele of 10th season of Golf Channel’s popular the host course at 207 – one shot out of the series. playoff. Premiering Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. (Pacific Alex Stamey was low amateur in the time), Big Break X: Michigan boasts event, finishing in a tie for 11th at 211. a Big Break series-first team format in which eight two-person duos com- prised of a male and female will face NW juniors help U.S. some of the most grueling competi- PHOTO BY JOHN R.JOHNSON tion in series history. Teams will be comprised of individuals with amateur win Junior Ryder Cup and professional tour accolades, and Washington’s Olympic Peninsula is a tourist’s dream with some whose connections range from married Cameron Peck of Olympia and Andrew or dating to friends or ex-significant spectacular sights and plenty of recreational activities – includ- Yun of Tacoma each won boys singles others. ing golf at places like The Cedars at Dungeness in Sequim. For matches and Silverdale’s Erynne Lee also The male champion will earn, won on the girls side to help the United States among other prizes, an exemption to more on where to play and what to see around Washington’s beat Europe 22-2 in the Junior Ryder Cup. compete in the 2009 Children’s Miracle Olympic Peninsula, see inside this section of Inside Golf. Peck is the top-ranked junior player in Network Classic at the Walt Disney the world and helped the U.S. team win 11 World Resort while the female winner of the 12 singles matches. will play in the 2009 Bell Micro LPGA Classic in Mobile, Ala. Prange, who graduated last year from the University of Washington, Destination: is the younger sister of Big Break V: Hawaii winner Ashley Prange and cur- rently plays on the Duramed FUTURES Tour. South Carolina The state of South Carolina has plenty like when it comes to golf. Rules Quiz For the resort players, there are places like Kiawah Island Resort Your opponent has difficulty when (far right) and for those looking for deciding which club to play. He asks you your opinion as to the yardage a ton of courses, there’s Myrtle from his ball to the hole. Under the beach (right). For more in golfing Rules of Golf he has asked for advice in Kiawah Island and Myrtle Beach, and he loses the hole. True or false? See answer on Page 2. see inside this section of Inside Golf. Printed in U.S.A. • • • INSIDE GOLF NEWSPAPER • • • ©All Rights Reserved • Page 2 • • INSIDE COMMENTS • • Inside Golf - October Issue 2008 • Time for a tuneup: A trip to Golf Tec is needed after the golf swing falls apart If you had a car, you might call it time for will open a new store in Bellevue in the a tuneup. For my golf swing, this tuneup next few weeks – a place where Wilkinson was probably way overdue. I visited Golf and Jordan Cooper will teach. Tec near the south end of Lake Union in The Golf Tec does work for most golf- Seattle a couple of months ago and pro- ers. A friend of mine went to Golf Tec for Bob Marlatt fessional Mark Roberts seemed to put a a series of lessons. I used to beat him like little sense into my swing. Hands forward, a drum and empty his wallet every time Publisher weight balanced, takeback straight . we played. A few weeks ago, we teed things I had never even thought about. it up after his most recent lesson and it Steve Turcotte Since then the scores were OK, but S t e v e was my wallet that took a beating. He Editor-Advertising my swing started to feel like my body was was swinging smoothly without his usual full of rusty joints. Last month, it was time Tu r c o t t e hitch and bombing it past mine. “Think the for a tuneup–just in the nick of time. lessons are working,” he said to me with Kathy Marlatt When Golf Tec’s Brett Wilkinson get an idea about everything and where a laugh. In fact, when I took my lesson I Operations Manager wired me up to the monitors and sen- to work. I will never have the perfect golf saw a “Wall of Fame” at Golf Tec. And sors, it was obvious the old bad swing swing, besides when he put me up against there was my buddy’s name, having shot was back. Bad shoulder, bad hips, bad Stuart Appleby side by side on the com- a 70 at the Home Course. Glad I wasn’t Contributing Writers puter, it was downright embarrassing. Jeff Coston, turn . you get the picture. Was there with him on that day. That could have been Kathy DeNeui, Mike Peluso I’m sure I will need another tuneup anything good with what Wilkinson saw? an expensive round. Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein “You have a pretty good set of clubs,” soon. According to Wilkinson, the next he cracked. tuneup probably can’t come fast enough. Steve Turcotte is editor of Inside Golf I’ve known Wilkinson for years and But he gave me some things to work on, Newspaper. He can be reached at sdtur- Subscription rates: he’s a solid teacher. He offers no BS and so we’ll see if I’m a good student. Golf Tec [email protected] $17-one year and $30-two just cuts to the chase. years (U.S. funds). “Your shoulders aren’t square and your hips aren’t rotating,” he said. “And Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- you play golf?” come, however we will accept no liability OK, so he had me hit ball after ball. And for their loss or damage, and will only with Golf Tec’s system, you get instant return them if prior arrangements have feedback. I could look on the monitor while been made with the publisher. I lined up getting my shoulders and hips into the right position. I hit a few good Courier Address ones, but it was still hard to watch my 460 Dennis Blvd swing on the monitor, with the swaying. Port Townsend, WA 98368 But a few more hints, and a few more Mailing Address swings and I started to feel and hit better. P.O.Box 1890 Even Wilkinson was buying into it. Port Townsend, WA 98368 “You might be getting it,” he said. The good thing about the Golf Tec Phone system is the instant feedback. I’ve never (360) 379-4080 been a fan of hitting balls inside and into a net, but at Golf Tec, it’s different. With E-mail Address the sensors strapped to your body, you Golf Tec’s Brett Wilkinson tries to figure out how to fix Steve Turcotte’s golf swing. [email protected] www.insidegolfonline.com INSIDE GOLF Newspaper is a trademark of Northwest Publications, Inc. and is pub- lished on the first of each month. Rules Answer Answer: False. The definition of advice now states that “information on the Rules, distance or matters of public information, such as the position of hazards or the flag- stick on the putting green, is not advice.” • Editor’s note: Thanks to Paul Lucien for his rules insights. Tumwater Valley Golf Club 2009 GOLF PASSES Buy yours anytime starting OCT 13th and enjoy the rest of 2008 and all of 2009! 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