Pnga Crowns Its Players of the Year for the 2014 Season
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PRESORT STD FREE DECEMBER U.S. Postage PAID COPY 2014 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Pacific NW professional Jeff Coston qualifies for 2015 Champions Tour Jeff Coston, the director of instruction at Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, qualified for full-time status for the 2015 Champions Tour by finishing tied for third at the Qualifying School in Florida. Coston had provisional status in 2014 but will have full-time status for 2015. The Champions Tour starts up in Hawaii with the season’s first event in January. PNGA crowns its WHAT’S NEW Troon Golf: Warm-weather golf getaways IN NW GOLF Players of the Year for the 2014 season The Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) has announced the Players of the Year AimPoint might be your for the 2014 championship season. The remark- able collection of recipients includes Adam answer for putting woes Svensson of Surrey, B.C. in the Men’s category; Been having trouble on the putting Gigi Stoll of Beaverton, Ore. in the Women’s green? Then it might be time to turn to category; Kevin Carrigan of Victoria, B.C. in the AimPoint, a putting system that has helped Men’s Mid-Amateur category; Christina Proteau many golfers improve their putting, includ- of Port Alberni, B.C. in the Women’s Mid-Ama- ing professionals PGA Tour star Adam teur category; Tom Brandes of Bellevue, Wash. Scott and LPGA star Stacy Lewis. in the Senior Men’s category; Kareen Markle of AimPoint is a system that helps read Meridian, Idaho in the Senior Women’s category; the greens and allows golfers to make Graysen Huff of Eagle, Idaho in the Junior Boys’ more putts. See Page 15 for more. category; and Naomi Ko of Victoria B.C. in the Junior Girls’ category. Riverbend offers some Svensson put together an impressive and consistent championship record in 2014. As a unique ‘Doppler’ deals junior at Barry University in Florida, Svensson Riverbend Golf Course in Kent has won seven of the 12 NCAA Division II events gone to the weather radar to help give he competed in, a record that earned him the Pacific Northwest golfers some good Jack Nicklaus Award for best Division II golfer deals during the winter months. in the nation. He finished T8 in the Canadian Riverbend, one of the Northwest’s Amateur Championship, and T4 in the BC Ama- busiest golf courses, is offering Doppler teur Championship. Svensson competed in the Deals which will have different green fees World Amateur Team Championships, where he depending on the weather. The nastier the weather Mother Nature throws at golfer, took 7th place individually, and 2nd in the team the more inexpensive the golf. If there is no competition. rain in the forecast, then the rates stay the Stoll put together an incredible season in both same as the posted rates at the course. Pacific Northwest golfers are al- the junior and amateur ranks. She was crowned ways on the lookout for a winter get- champion in the OGA Women’s Champion away. Troon Golf just might have what of Champions, the Oregon Women’s Amateur Moore wins in Malaysia; Championship, and the Oregon Junior Amateur you are looking for if you are looking Championship. Stoll was runner-up in the Oregon Taylor wins first event for a winter escape from Mother Women’s Stroke Play Championship after losing There must be something about playing Nature in the Pacific Northwest. in a playoff, and made it to the Round of 16 in in Malaysia that gets Ryan Moore going. From places like Kapalua’s Plantation the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship. The Puyallup native won the CIMB Clas- Course on Maui (top photo) to Ocoti- Despite winning three amateur events in Oregon sic for the second straight year in Kuala in 2014, Stoll’s greatest accomplishment may Lumpur, giving him his fourth career PGA llo Golf Club in Arizona (right), Troon have come when she not only qualified for, but Tour championship. Golf has plenty to offer in a variety Moore finished the final round with a then made the cut in the LPGA Portland Classic, 5-under 67 and won the tournament by of warm-weather states. Take a look finishing 52nd in the professional event. three shots over Gary Woodland, Sergio inside this section of Inside Golf for a This is Carrigan’s third consecutive PNGA Garcia and Kevin Na. Interestingly, Moore look at Troon Golf and some vacation Men’s Mid-Amateur Player of the Year honor. beat Woodland in a playoff to win this Carrigan had several top finishes in big events same tournament in 2013. choices. in 2014. He placed T6 in the Canadian Mid- Moore won a first-place check of Amateur Championship, T7 in the BC Amateur $1,260,000 for winning the tournament Championship, and T10 in the Sahalee Players along with 500 FedEx Cup points. A nice start to the 2014-15 season. See Players of the Year, Page 4 But Moore wasn’t the only Pacific Northwest professional to have some early season success. Former University of Washington golfer Jackson Park opens Nick Taylor from Winnipeg won the Sand- erson Farms Championship after coming new range this month from four shots behind. If you are a regular at Jackson Park Golf Taylor was the top-ranked amateur in Course and could never find a way to warm the world for five years and nearly did not make it to the PGA Tour this year but a big up before your round… that will soon change! finish at the Web.com Tour Championship Jackson Park Golf Course, located just north got him his PGA Tour card. of downtown Seattle, will celebrate the grand opening of its new range in December. The new two-tiered, 50-stall, covered and lit driv- ing range was built on the site of the original Rules Quiz hole number 10. In late 2012 and early 2013, the course made some changes to its exist- While playing the third hole a player ing layout in order to make this a reality. makes a stroke from a bunker and in- Premier Golf, which manages Jackson Park, credibly the ball comes to rest against the flagstick. Now what? also has plans for many of its other proper- Please see Page 2 of Inside Golf for ties, including a new clubhouse at Jefferson the answer. Park Golf Course and a new driving range at Bellevue Golf Course. Printed in U.S.A. • • • INSIDE GOLF NEWSPAPER • • • ©All Rights Reserved • Page 2 • • InsIde Comments • • Inside Golf - December Issue 2014 • Paige Mackenzie finds out what life is like in front of the camera I went out to the mailbox one day and grabbed my weekly copy of GolfWeek Magazine. Before I started to thumb through it I took a look at the cover. I did a double take. But there she was on the cover - Paige Bob Marlatt Mackenzie. As I looked at the cover some Publisher more, I remember this was the same Paige Mackenzie who I did stories on when she played high school golf in Yakima. More sto- Steve Turcotte ries when she was a college All-American at Steve Editor-Advertising Washington. And even more when she turned professional and played on the PGA Tour. Turcotte Kathy Marlatt But this picture was a new Paige Macken- Operations Manager zie, the television version. long calendar of events to play in because of I knew that Paige was becoming a regular her using the major medical exemption. The on the Golf Channel. She had been helping 31-year-old Paige hopes the work done on Contributing Writers to host the Morning Drive show and working her back will allow her to see the top of some Jeff Coston, with the Golf Academy shows as well. And leaderboards during the 2015 season. Mike Peluso, she is even co-hosting the Big Break Myrtle Her first full season on the LPGA Tour was Beach Show. in 2007 when she played in 19 events and Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein I knew she was getting big time. And the made nine cuts. Her best finish with a tie for cover of this GolfWeek just proved it. 17th and she made $49,104 that year. Her Subscription rates: It’s always great to see the Pacific North- best season on the LPGA Tour was in 2011 $17-one year and $30-two west golfers get any kind of attention, whether when she made $184,384 finishing 47th on years (U.S. funds). it’s on the golf course or in front of the camera. the money list but she slumped in 2012 and For now, Mackenzie will take her attention in 2013 and then had the back issues taking her Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- front of the Golf Channel cameras. And she out of all of 2014. come, however we will accept no liability for their loss or damage, and will only does a terrific job. Paige comes across on But now, Paige hopes to come back. And return them if prior arrangements have camera as a player who knows of what they when she does, she will come back knowing been made with the publisher. speak whether it’s talking about the LPGA or her back just might allow her to take swings Paige Mackenzie. the PGA. she hasn’t done before. Courier Address She looks comfortable in front of the cam- The work with Golf Channel has been a I hope she makes it back in a big way.