PRESORT STD APRIL U.S. Postage PAID 2019 ISSUE The source for northwest news Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Big changes planned for Riverbend The driving range complex at Riverbend in Kent is about to take on a new look with expanded hitting stations, new turf, new poles and new netting. The range is one of the most popular practice ares in the area. The project is expected to break ground soon and be finished during the 2020 golf season. See Page 3 for more.

FlingGolf: A new game to try on the course LPGA Legends Cup WHAT’S NEW at White Horse moves IN NW GOLF the tournament dates for event to June 7-8 Muckleshoot Washington The Suquamish Clearwater Legends Cup, a 36- hole tournament for LPGA veterans age-45 and over, Open set for May 20-22 has been moved to the Friday-Saturday dates of June Tournament season for the Pacific North- 7-8 at White Horse outside Kingston after west’s top professionals and amateurs is right around the corner. The Muckleshoot Washington originally being scheduled for the weekend. Open kicks off the championship season with a The date change is intended to accommodate golfers three-day tournament at Kent’s Meridian Valley who want or need to attend the Country Club. induction dinner at Pebble Beach, Calif., on Sunday. Here is a look at the rest of the major cham- One of the competitors, , is among the pionship schedule in the Pacific Northwest… five inductees. • The Oregon Open will take place June 18- The defending champion of the Legends Tour event 20 at Bend’s Pronghorn Golf Club at both the is of England, who won by five strokes Nicklaus and Fazio courses. after finishing 8-under with a 66-70-136. • Rosauers Invitational will be held July 19-21 at Spokane’s Indian Canyon Golf Course. The field is being expanded from 30 to 36 this year • The Northwest Open Invitational is set for and the purse boosted from $175,000 to $200,000. Aug. 19-21 at Walla Walla’s Wine Valley. Tickets are $20 for one day and $30 for both days. The tournament’s pro-am has been moved to Thursday, June 6. will be paired with a Legends pro Central Oregon Shootout and the foursome entry fee is $7,500. The Kaiser Permanente Women’s Amateur Team set for annual April event Scramble will be Wednesday, June 5, and the entry One of the top two-player tournaments in the fee is $125 per player. The format is a two-woman Pacific Northwest, the Central Oregon Shootout, scramble with a at 9 a.m. The low gross is set for April 26-28 at three of Central Oregon’s and low net twosome winners will team with a pro in top golf courses, Black Butte Ranch Resort, the pro-am the next day. Eagle Crest Resort and Aspen Lakes. The three-day tournament features net flights. This is a tournament that has been around since 2003 and fills up every year. The tournament runs over three days with At Allenmore Golf Course in three different formats for each flight. One Tacoma, there is another way to round will be a best-ball, another round will be a and the final round will be a chapman. get around the golf course called The entry fee includes tournament golf, range FlingGolf. Assistant professional balls, lunch and more. Johnny LaBelle shows what the Grab a partner and head to Central Oregon for this terrific event, which will sell out again game is like, using a FlingStick. for the 2019 season. Call Black Butte Ranch for The game is a cross between golf more info at 541.595.1500. and lacrosse and can be played with your buddies who might be Emerald Downs gets ready using their regular golf clubs. For to roll with 2019 season more on FlingGolf, see inside this section of Inside Golf. The horses are back! Emerald Downs opens it’s 2019 racing season on Saturday April 20 with a 2 p.m. post time. It’s the 24th season of racing at Emerald and White Horse will host the LPGA Legends June 7-8. to celebrate they are having drawings for $5000 in jewelry on opening day. Racing continues Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28 at 2 p.m. each day. It’s teacher appreciation weekend and all area school distract employees will receive two Viva Golf Vegas: free admissions to the races. Emerald Downs also has a casino with your favorite Table Games open every Thursday Plenty of courses through Sunday. Everyone 18 and older may wager on the races and play in the casino. Em- erald Downs is located right off Highway 167 in to choose from Auburn. For more information visit their web site Las Vegas is home to a new NHL at www.emeralddowns.com. team, the future home of the NFL Raid- ers and the city that hosts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. And it Rules Quiz is also a city with some of the best golf A player is searching for his ball in deep you will find, including Royal (pic- rough. In searching he is using reasonable tured right). This month Inside Golf takes efforts and methods to find his ball. As he searches he accidently kicks and moves the a look at some of the places to choose ball. Now what? See answer on page 2 of from when playing golf in Las Vegas. this section of Inside Golf Newspaper. • Page 2 • • Inside Comments • • Inside Golf - April Issue 2019 • Jeff Gove decides it is time to take his golf career in a new direction to the Idaho Club Jeff Gove has made a living playing golf since he graduated from Pepperdine University. He turned pro in 1994 and since then has made a living on the PGA Tour and what is now the Web.com Tour. Anytime you can play golf for a living for that long, life is good. Gove spent eight years on the Bob Marlatt PGA Tour and another 16 on the Web.com, but now, Publisher the 47-year-old Gove is ready for another challenge. A challenge off of the pro tours. Steve Turcotte Gove is now the Director of Instruction at the Steve Editor-Advertising Idaho Club, a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course in Sandpoint, Idaho. This is a route he knew he would Turcotte Kathy Marlatt take eventually. It is the route that other former Operations Manager Northwest pros like RIck Fehr have taken. scenic beauty. it’s ridiculous it’s so nice.” When people take their lessons from Gove at The Idaho Club is a semi-private facility and Contributing Writers the Idaho Club this year they will be learning from a Gove is available for anyone for lessons. It’s the kind Jeff Coston, Russ Wing, guy who spent 24 years playing in the big leagues, of place perfect for a weekend golf getaway - and winning three times on the Web.com Tour, a couple with Gove there a place to improve your game all Photography: Scott Bisch of Washington State Open championships and a at the same time. Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein winner of the Taylor Made Pebble Beach Invitational in 2016. He also had two sixth-place finishes on the Steve Turcotte is editor of Inside Golf. He can be Pacific Northwest native Jeff Gove is taking some Subscription rates: PGA Tour. reached at [email protected]. time off the tour to work at the Idaho Golf Club. $17-one year and $30-two years (U.S. When it comes to the golf game, Gove knows funds). of what he speaks. Gove decided last year that it was time for a Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- change during the 2018 Web.com season. He come, however we will accept no liability opted to move his wife and three kids to Sandpoint for their loss or damage, and will only and take the job at the Idaho Club, sending his return them if prior arrangements have career in a different direction. been made with the publisher. Gove is just part of a new resurgence at the Idaho Club. Not only has the club brought in a Courier Address guy with terrific name recognition to run their golf 460 Dennis Blvd instruction department, a new 9,200-sqaure foot Port Townsend, WA 98368 clubhouse is being built that will also feature a restaurant, bar, , fitness area, outdoor spa Mailing Address and fire pit. The old clubhouse at the Idaho Club P.O. Box 1890 burned down 10 years ago. Port Townsend, WA 98368 Gove knows he is walking into the right job at the right time. He has been playing the Idaho Club Phone for 11 years and has carried the club’s log on his (360) 379-4080 bag for the last 11 years as well. “I love the variety of holes,” said Gove. “The E-mail Address valley holes up the water, the mountain holes, the [email protected] The Idaho Club, was designed by Jack Nicklaus and was formerly Hidden Lakes Golf Course. www.insidegolfonline.com Inside Golf Newspaper is a trademark of Northwest Publications, Inc. and is published on the first of each month.

Rules Answer • Answer: Under the revised 2019 the player must replace the ball on the original spot. If the exact spot is not known the player will estimate the spot and replace the ball on the estimated spot. Under the revised Rules the ball accidently moved during search is replaced and no is applied. The ball is now placed on the estimated spot not dropped as required by the previous version of the Rules.

• Inside Golf would like to thank Paul Lucien for his rules questions each month. • Inside Golf - April Issue 2019 • • IN THE NEWS • • Page 3 • Winds of change are sweeping through Riverbend Golf Course By Steve Hunter the 18-hole course. be done by September with construction to start after and control from the entry. To do this, a portion of the Special to Inside Golf Newspaper The city is using $6 million of the land sale for Labor Day, according to city staff. existing building – kitchen, restrooms and ball machine An expanded driving range with a natural turf/grass improvements at Riverbend and $4 million to pay off The major changes include: room would need to be demolished. New restrooms and surface, new poles and netting and the demolition of debt at the complex. Riverbend lost $65,572 in 2018 • Addition of 13 or 14 new driving stations to the a ball machine room would be incorporated into a west the course are part of the plans for the after averaging losses of about $300,000 per year. The east that connect to the existing 32 stations by a covered wing addition city-owned Riverbend Golf Complex. closure of the 3 course last April helped reduce costs walkwa Also new at Riverbend will be the opening of the The Kent City Council’s Parks and Human Services in 2018. City staff expects Riverbend to make a profit • Replacing the synthetic turf range surface with Half Lion Brewery, which could open in June. Committee approved a $200,200 consultant contract in 2019. natural turf/grass The owners of Half Lion Brewery in Sumner signed on Feb. 21 with Seattle-based Broderick Architects “This is going to be a tricky project, but it’s the • Upgrade to turf mats, new dividers with a place their lease with city staff to open a new restaurant at for design services on the project, according to city driver in the Riverbend business plan to bring in sig- for clubs, new teak benches and new LED lighting the Riverbend, the second location for the group. documents. nificant revenue to take us into a profit margin,” Parks • Sprucing up the main entrance and facade. Ad- “They will be doing a ton of work – remodeling – The total project is expected to cost an estimated Director Julie Parascondola said to the committee about ditional windows to look into the driving range, a fresh and are shooting for test opening in May and a formal $2.2 million and be completed in 2020. The city will the driving range improvements. paint scheme, enhanced signage, landscaping and new opening sometime in June,” said Parascondola, who pay for the project with proceeds from the $10.5 million The consultant will help to make it less tricky as lighting added that liquor license and other permits could delay sale of the former par 3 golf course to Auburn-based it coordinates with two adjacent City Public Works • Removal of the 18-hole miniature golf course that time frame. FNW Inc./Landmark Development Group. The devel- projects – expansion of the Signature Pointe Levee to be replaced by a 9-hole course, east of the main City staff and brewery owners hope to be open for oper is building the Marquee on Meeker mixed-use along the Green River and the Meet Me on Meeker entrance a 30th anniversary celebration of Riverbend in June. project that includes nearly 500 apartments along West street improvements. • Relocating the point of sale for the retail shop and • Steve Hunter is a writer with the Kent Reporter Meeker Street, near the driving range and across from The design work on the driving range is expected to driving range to provide better access to customers Newspaper. • Page 4 • • In THE NEWS • • Inside Golf - April Issue 2019 • , Chip and Putt events now open for juniors to qualify for Augusta; NW junior takes aim at qualifying for LPGA tourney The USGA, and the PGA of In her honor, ANA’s Gateway City Grant has made a action. Two Seattle Courses add Toptracer America have released the qualifying schedule for the financial contribution to support the Washington Junior The Early Bird Package is good from early April Two Seattle golf facilities are holding a Toptracer 2019-2020 Drive, Chip and Putt season. Interested Golf Association. to May 23, 2019 and includes golf for two players and Grand Opening this month – Jefferson participants can register to qualify online beginning The ANA Junior Inspiration, a partnership between one night’s stay (double occupancy). Package options Course to hold their Topetracer Grand opening on April March 5 at drivechipandputt.com. the AJGA and All Nippon Airways (ANA) – ’s start at $223 and go to $287, price dependent on day of 5th and Interbay Golf Center on April 6th. There are The 2020 qualifying schedule includes dates and largest 5-star airline – was held held March 28-31, week and whether the Mountain Lodge or Spa Tower 40 stalls with Toptracer Range at Interbay and 28 stalls locations for participants to play in local qualifiers 2019, at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, are selected. with Toptracer Range at Jefferson Park. across the country, with the opportunity to advance Calif. Kwon, along with 47 other top-ranked junior Owned and operated by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, and earn an invitation to next year’s National Finals girls from around the world, earned entry into the ANA Circling Raven is in the scenic Idaho panhandle ap- Myrtle Beach hosting at August National Golf Club. Junior Inspiration, an official AJGA Invitational. proximately 55 minutes from Spokane International Seven courses in WSGA territory will host local Kwon recently won the 2018 Kyle Stanley Cham- Airport (GEG). Measuring 7,189 yards from the rear Father-son event in July qualifiers and two will host sub-regional qualifiers for pionship by Transamerica in Gig Harbor, Washington. , the 18-hole layout sprawls magnificently through The Father & Son Team Classic is a two person the 2020 Drive, Chip and Putt. She is also a three-time Washington State Golf As- 620 acres of woodlands, wetlands, and Palouse grasses. team, 54-hole event that takes place in Myrtle Beach, Local qualifiers: sociation Junior Girls’ Player of the Year, a two-time Its gleaming white sand bunkers are large and strategi- South Carolina every July. The event is not just for • High Cedars GC | Orting, WA Washington Junior Golf Association state champion cally placed and its hole variety ingenious. Father's and Son's, but rather for all relationships so Sunday, June 9, 2019 and a three-time WIAA 3A High School State cham- For more information, visit www.cdacasino.com or long as there is a generational gap. Annually hosting • Mount Si GC | Snoqualmie, WA pion. Kwon was also named the 2018 Pacific Northwest 800-523-2464. over 700 participants across eight Myrtle Sunday, June 30, 2019 Golf Association Junior Girls’ Player of the Year. This courses, this family affair is one you won't want to miss. The tournament features a gift bag valued at over • The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge | Snoqualmie, WA will be the junior’s first appearance at ANA Junior Kidd doing Sand Point re-model $300 per person, three rounds of golf, barbeques and a Monday, July 1, 2019 Inspiration. Noted golf architect David McLay Kidd, known • The Creek at Qualchan | Spokane, WA family golf night. The tournament also features a Parent The winner of the ANA Junior Inspiration will best in the Northwest for Bandon Dunes in Oregon and Child division dedicated to any family relationship not Sunday, July 7, 2019 receive an invitation for the final amateur exemption in Gamble Sands outside Brewster in Okanogan County, specifically father & son. For more information see • Pasco Golfland | Pasco, WA the ANA Inspiration, the first LPGA major tournament is doing a redesign of the Sand Point Country Club www.fmailygolfweek.com. Wednesday, July 10, 2019 of the year. course. • Lake Padden GC | Bellingham, WA Sand Point director of golf Craig Hunter said work Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Circling Raven 15th anniversary will begin in September to redo five greens, overhaul Here is how to use your • Trophy Lake Golf & Casting | Port Orchard, WA Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel announced that and add bunkering, widen some fairways and add 300 Saturday, July 27, 2019 Circling Raven Golf Club, the resort’s sublime Gene yards to the course. Work is scheduled to be completed when you post Sub-regional qualifiers: Bates designed championship course, is kick-starting in March, 2020. Use your handicap for the course you are play- • The Home Course | DuPont, WA its 15th Anniversary season with the “Early Bird Stay- Monday, August 5, 2019 ing that day based on the tees you are playing to and-Play Package.” determine the maximum strokes per hole that you • The Highlands GC | Post Falls, Idaho Nez Perce Tribe gets into golf In addition to enjoying an early spring value-priced Another Pacific Northwest Indian Tribe has gotten can post. Friday, August 9, 2019 package, the first 15 people to book the package will 10 – 19 7 into the golf business. receive 15% off golf shop merchandise, 15% off their The Nez Perce Tribe has purchased the Clarkston 20 – 29 8 30 – 39 9 NW Junior aims for LPGA event golf clubhouse restaurant bill (alcohol not included), Golf and Country Club in southeseast Washington. The 40 + 10 The ANA Junior Inspiration and the American and $15 credit on the casino gaming machines. The Lewiston Tribune reported that the tribe paid $650,000 Junior Golf Association (AJGA) announced Brittany casino is undergoing a major refurbishment that will ESC works to lower our handicaps by removing for the course and its water rights. Membership had the unusually high scores in a round of golf. The Kwon of Bremerton, Wash. and Central Kitsap High be unveiled this spring, so the Early Bird package is been declining. The course becomes the eighth tribal- GHIN handicap system only uses the best 10 of School as the 2019 Seattle Gateway City Qualifier. particularly well timed for those who enjoy casino owned course in Washington. our most recent 20 scores.

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Becky Fossum is an LPGA teaching professional at both SilverRock Resort in LaQuinta, Calif. and Tacoma Country and Golf Club. She can be reached at 253.576.3130. In the first photo, this is what a squared up clubface should look like; in the second photo this is what an open face looks like and third photo is a closed face.

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Fisher, Cassidy team up to claim Tour Players With Northwest ties title at NW Pro-Assistants event PGA Tour The team of Bryce Fisher and John Cassidy from to qualify. Sudden Valley in Bellingham will host a • Kevin Chappell • Kirkland • 149th on the list with $257,024 Arrowhead GC (Molalla, OR) won the Pacific North- qualifier on May 14 and when the OGA Course in • Ben Crane • Portland • 182nd on the list with $123,979 west Pro-Assistant Championship on the first extra Woodburn, Ore. will host a qualifier on June 19. • Joel Dahmen, Clarkston • 66th on the list with $729,174 hole. They posted 66-66 for a 12 under par two day The U.S. Senior Open is set for June 27-20 at the • Robert Garrigus • Gresham • 201st on the list with $64,774 total. They take home $2,750 for their effort. Warren Course at the University of Notre Dame in • Ryan Moore • Puyallup • 58th on the list with $880,590 • Cheng Tsung Pan • Ex-UW • 101st on the list with $433,485 The tied for first with the team of Fisher and David South Bend, Ind. • Andrew Putnam • Tacoma • 31st on the list with $1,349,344 Brown, who also had a 132 total, shooting 66-66 for • Nick Taylor • Ex-UW • 94th on the list with $494,921 the tournament. Juniper will host Chapman event • Aaron Wise • Ex-Oregon • 97th on the list with $474,765 In the Pro-Assistants Championship, head profes- Juniper Golf Course in Redmond, Ore. will be • Andrew Yun • Tacoma • no events sionals are allowed to play with all of their assistants. hosting The Juniper Chapman on May 18-19. The • Alex Prugh • Spokane • 170th on the list with $97,915 Troy Rodvold and Matt Anderson of Bellevue Golf cost is $270 per teams and includes a practice round, • Kyle Stanley • Gig Harbor • 122nd on the list with $337,811 Course finished third at 135 while John Freitas and Joey two tournament rounds, hosted lunches, tee prizes and Web.com Tour Carranza of Aldarra were fourth at 136. contests on the golf course. • Andres Gonzales • Olympia • No Events For more information call Juniper Golf Course at • Scott Harrington • Portland • 51st on the list with $20,350 U.S. Open qualifiers set 541.548.3121. • Brock Mackenzie • Yakima • 113th on the list with $5,218 Qualifying for the U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open • Michael Putnam, • Tacoma • No Events will start in May for both USGA championships. Young wins national award The U.S. Open will be held June 13-16 at Pebble Ryan Young, the director of instruction at Chambers Champions Tour Beach Golf Links and there are plenty of chances for Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash., won the • Fred Couples • Seattle • 11th on the list with $305,155 • Bob Gilder • Corvallis • 108th on the list with $1, 188 professionals and amateurs to qualify in the Pacific 2018 Emil Esposito Golf Professional of the Year award • Brian Henninger • Eugene • No Events Northwest. Gold Mountain’s Olympic Course will winner by Kemper Sports, the organization which man- be the first qualifier on May 7, then Gamble Sands in • Peter Jacobsen • Portland • No Events ages Chambers Bay. • Kirk Triplett • Pullman • 2nd on the list with $441,446 Brewster, Wash. will host a qualifier on May 8 and Young was recognized for his entrepreneurial Waverly Country Club in Portland will be the site of a spirit, passion for player development, inclusivity and Mackenzie Tour () qualifier on May 13. The top finishers at those qualifiers diversity, and commitment to leadership. • Derek Barron • Puyallup • No Events will advance to sectionals with the top players from Young was honored for being the driving force • Alistar Docherty • Vancouver, Wash. • No Events there advancing to the U.S. Open. while leading Chambers Bay’s youth and player de- • Chris Killmer • Bellingham • No Events For the U.S. Senior Open, there will be two changes velopment programming. • Cory Pereira • Ex-UW • No Events • Chris Williams • Ex-UW • No Events • Eugene Wong • Ex-Oregon • No Events

Did you know…. • The PNGA is conducting their LPGA Symetra Tour biennial Hall of Fame ceremony (in • In the Casual Golf Days • Erynne Lee • Silverdale • 32nd on the list with $3,076 conjunction with the PGA Section) on events organized and adminis- • Jimin Kang • Seattle • No Events April 26 at Inglewood Golf Club. The tered by the WSGA, which are • Mallory Kent • Seattle • No Events PNGA Hall of Fame was established held on premium courses, 100 • Sadena Parks • Tacoma • No Events in 1978 to recognize excellence in percent of the event’s proceeds • Jing Yan • Ex-UW • 37th on the list with $2,540 the region’s golf community. Visit go to the host course, as a way of • Kim Welch • Ex-WSU • No Events thepnga.org to view a list of Hall of helping to bring people, revenue and rounds of golf to area courses. Casual Golf Days are another member benefit of Fame members. the WSGA. Visit thewsga.org for this year’s schedule. • Inside Golf - April Issue 2019 • • In THE NEWS • • Page 9 • The Lesson Tee: Here is how to understand the how and the why of a good backswing I had a wonderful adventure January and Febru- ary. My wife Diane and I went to Phoenix. I taught, played tournaments and worked on my 35 year old body. I had some great breakthroughs in my own game also. I shot several rounds in the mid 60’s and one tournament round at 61. In fact, guys were age

20-35 and then there was Grampa Coston. I was Jeff the leading money winner. Bam!

Let’s focus on the backswing this month. The C oston backswing has a purpose, which is to; 1) Accumulate power; by turning, coiling and hinging. 2) Put my body, and club face in position If we are aware and under- to make a straight line to the . stand the how and even the If we are aware and understand the how and why of the backswing, we will even the why of the backswing, we will have a bet- ter 2019 in golf. have a better 2019 in golf. See the photo of Rickie Fowler, notice how deep or low his hands are at the top of his backswing. If Photo #2 more players got lower and deeper by turning their hips they would be more on plane or shallower on the downswing! Important! Note: The butt of the club should point to the target line when hinged going back, at top and to the hitting zone. Very Important! Fowler is a bit laid off. Tour players are mutations.... See me doing the wall drill. Photo 2. Turning shoulders and hips with little weight shift will en- hance the depth of your backswing. Finally, Photo 3, Tiger. Notice how his left shoulder goes down and not much weight shift! Sounds like heresy to most, but true. Physics not opinion.

Jeff Coston in a 22-time Pacific Northwest PGA Player of the Year. Member of the Pacific Northwest PGA Hall of Fame. Jeff can be reached for appointment by calling Semiahmoo at 360 .201.4590. See jeffcoston. com. Photo #1 Photo #3 • Page 10 • • IN THE NEWS • • Inside Golf - April Issue 2019 • Viva Golf Vegas: No shortage of terrific golf to be found when making the trip to Las Vegas There is plenty to like about golf in the Las Vegas desert. With a variety of courses, there is a lot to choose from. Here’s a quick look at some. • If you like Scottish golf, you will like the Royal Links. From its Scottish-themed clubhouse to 18 holes that are all modeled after some of Scotland’s best hole, Royal Links features like Scottish golf in the states. With views of the Vegas Strip, Royal Links provides a golf experience like nothing else. In fact, the 10th hole is modeled after St. Andrews’ Road Hole with the tee shot being hit over a scoreboard. There is also the Postage Stamp green par-3 hole. • The Revere at Anthem features two courses - The Concord and The Lexington. Both were designed by Billy Casper and Greg Nash. If you like elevation changes, both these course have you covered. If you like spectacular views, these courses provide plenty of Each tee box at Royal Links has this kind of sign that those. tells about how the hole at the course came to be. The Lexington offers views of Las Vegas and plays more like a desert target course with a bunch of forced course from day to day making Chimera Golf Club a carries. The small greens get your attention early and unique experience every time you play. Depending on make you hit precise approach shots. the day’s winds, there are potentially reachable par The Concord has a mounding feature that helps 5’s and two drivable par 4’s which add a risk-reward bring the ball back into play. Wide fairways make it a element few courses can match. The picturesque par friendly trek through the Las Vegas area. 3’s, firm & fast greens, extensive bunkering, elaborate • Chimera Golf Club was designed in 2003 by Ted water features, and pure fairways make Chimera Golf Robinson Jr. The 6,906-yard layout boasts forgiving Club the “hidden oasis” in Las Vegas. fairways and a playable desert landscape which pro- • Stallion Mountain is a place that has plenty of vides a fair challenge from any set of tees. The natural history. From hosting the ’s Big Break II terrain and unparalleled views of the Las Vegas Strip and the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Golf Classic, Stallion make Chimera Golf Club an incredible place to enjoy Mountain has always been part of the golf landscape a round. Begin your day warming up on the driving in Las Vegas. range with unobstructed views of the Strip, Downtown The 7,120-yard layout was designed by former Vegas, and snow-capped Mt. Charleston before hitting PGA Tour Jim Cobert and Jeff Brauer, the layout sits the course. within minutes of the Vegas Strip and features plenty of The Vegas winds can dramatically change the golf challenges to keep your attention through the round. The Revere with two courses (top) and Stallion Mountain (bottom) offer great golf in Las Vegas. • Inside Golf - April Issue 2019 • • IN THE NEWS • • Page 11 • Rules of the Game: Golf’s new rules cover both player conduct and integrity Russ W ing

At this year’s European Tour event in Saudi Arabia, Sergio Garcia was disqualified for damaging several putting greens in anger. Let’s take a look at how the new Rules give Committees more flex- ibility in dealing with personal conduct issues that can arise during events. Under the old Rules, Committees had very lim- ited discretion to deal with personal conduct issues. Old Rule 33-7 stated in part “if a Committee con- siders that a player is guilty of a serious breach of etiquette, it may impose a penalty of disqualification under this rule”. But the Committee could not im- pose any sort of stroke-based penalty for offenses general penalty. The Committee may also disqualify playing in a tournament. that didn’t meet the threshold of “a serious breach a player for serious misconduct in failing to meet For the European Tour, I have not seen their of etiquette”. So the Committee’s choices under the Code’s standards.” This is the type of flexibility Code of Conduct. The fact that Sergio Garcia was the old Rules were to either give the player some that Committees need. disqualified from the Saudi Arabia event, rather sort of verbal or written admonishment, without any In order to use this new flexibility, golf organiza- than receiving an admonishment and a stroke- stroke-based penalty attached, or to DQ the player. tions or Committees need to write a Code of Con- based penalty, tells me that his actions in damaging Committees needed more flexibility. duct, outlining the standards of conduct expected of several putting greens were judged to be serious Under the new Rules, Committees have more players and any associated penalties for a violation misconduct. flexibility. Rule 1.2b Code of Conduct states “The of those standards. So you should expect to see all The USGA and R&A Infographic accompanying Committee may set its own standards of player major golf organizations that conduct tournaments this article outlines this and other elements of the conduct in a Code of Conduct adopted as a Local issue a new Code of Conduct. To be on the safe new Rules dealing with player conduct and integrity. Rule. The Code may include penalties for breach of side of things, you should review those Codes of Get to know the new Rules of Golf. You’ll be glad its standards, such as a one-stroke penalty or the Conduct and keep them in mind whenever you are you did, and sorry if you don’t.