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LPGA Legends Tour Hits the Northwest the LPGA Tour Made Its Return to the Puget Sound in NW GOLF Area - Well Kind Of PRESORT STD FREE JULY U.S. Postage PAID COPY 2018 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Central Washington has a diverse collection of golf This month Inside Golf Newspaper takes a look the courses in Central Washington area - including places like Moses Pointe in Moses Lake (pictured right). Some of the best desert courses in the state are found here, but there are some lush tree-lined courses as well. See inside this month’s special feature on Central Washington. WHAT’S NEW LPGA Legends Tour hits the Northwest The LPGA Tour made its return to the Puget Sound IN NW GOLF area - well kind of. The LPGA Legends Tour held its first event of the season at the White Horse Golf Club in Kingston with the inaugural Suquamish Clearwater Casino Legends Cup. It might not have been an LPGA Tour event, but Professional tours set to many of the names were familiar and had played at hit the Pacific Northwest the Safeco Classic 20 years ago when it was held at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent. Professional golf tours will make their annual Players like Sandra Palmer, Jane Blalock and return to the Pacific Northwest during the 2018 golf season. Here’s what is coming to the tee Michelle McGann were some of the familiar names to box in the Northwest this year: tee it up at White Horse. Northwest favorites Joanne • The WinCo Foods Portland Open, a Carner and Wendy Ward also took part. Web.com Tour event, will take place Aug. 16-19 But the winner was Trish Johnson who won the at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club outside of Portland. tournament by five shots. The event will also be the site where the top 25 The LPGA Legends Tour is for players 45 and over on the Web.com money list will be given their and Ward, from Edwall, Wash., was making her debut PGA Tour cards for the 2019 season. on the tour. See inside for more. Big Mama JoAnne Gundersen Carner tees it up. Wendy Ward lives in the Pacific Northwest. • The Boeing Classic, a PGA Champions Tour event, is set for Aug. 24-26 at Snoqualmie Ridge Golf Club. The annual event always brings in the top players from the Champions Tour, Emerald Valley pro including hometown favorite Fred Couples. Juniper Golf Course: Central Oregon treat • The LPGA Cambia Portland Clas- sic will be played Aug. 30-Sept. 2 at Portland’s comes from behind Columbia Edgewater Country Club. Boeing Classic searching to capture the crown for tourney volunteers at the Oregon Open The Boeing Class is on the look for volun- teers for this year’s tournament, which will be PGA Professional Colin Inglis of Emerald Valley held Aug. 24-26 at the Snoqualmie Ridge Golf GC in Creswell, Ore. won the Oregon Open Invita- Club. The tournament is part of the PGA Tour tional by two strokes over PGA Professional Corey Champions Series and will bring the best players Prugh of the Community Colleges of Spokane. on the tour to the Pacific Northwest, including lo- The championship was the first major in the Pacific cal Northwest favorites Fred Couples and Peter Northwest for Inglis. Jacobsen. There are 19 volunteer committees to Bryce Wortman of Emerald Valley GC finished third choose from. Cost is $85 and volunteers receive and won low amateur honors. two Cutter and Buck shirts, a Cutter and Buck PGA Professional Russell Grove of North Idaho jacket, hat, preferred parking, meal voucher, two College and PGA Professional Casey King of Black weekly admission passes to the tournament and Butte Ranch (Sisters, OR) finished in a tie for fourth. an invitation to the volunteer appreciation party PGA Professional Keith Bennett of Glen Acres G&CC after the tournament. (Seattle, WA) finished in sixth place. For more information, please see the web Inglis entered the final round two shots behind site www.boeingclassic.com. Prugh, who held the lead after two rounds, after shoot- ing a 66 in the second round. But Prugh came in with a Looking for competition? 75 in the final round, opening the door for Inglis who had a 71 and won the tournament by two shots. Inglis Try the World Amateur had rounds of 69-69-71 and finished 7 under par for If you are looking for the top amateur tourna- the tournament. ment in the country, look no further than Myrtle Keith Bennett of Glen Acres Golf and Country Beach, S.C. and the World Amateur. Club was sixth at 216 while Jason Aichele of Meadow The World Amateur will take places at some Springs Country Club was seventh at 217. of Myrtle Beach’s top courses Aug. 27-31. The tournament attracts over 3,000 players from Juniper Golf Course in Redmond, around the world playing in a variety of divisions. The tournament is broken up into flights with the Ore. has always been ranked among flight winners playing for the championship on the the top in the Pacific Northwest. Topgolf looking to final day. Designed by John Harbottle, the See myrtlebeachworldamateur.com for more make a move into information on the tournament. new Juniper Golf Course opened for play in 2006 and was named among the Best New Courses in Puget Sound area the country by Golf Digest. Lo- Topgolf is making headlines around the coun- Rules Quiz cated in Oregon’s high desert with try for what it has done for golf, now it just might be making a move into the Puget Sound area with A player’s ball lies in a place next to a panoramic views of Mt. Bachelor, the second facility in the Pacific Northwest. boundary fence. She knows she must opt Broken Top, the Three Sisters, it has for an unplayable lie. When she drops the Topgolf was the only bidder on a parcel of ball within the required two club lengths hosted some of the top major cham- land next to the Tacoma Dome and would like to (one of the three options available) it comes pionships in the Pacific Northwest. build it second facility in the Pacific Northwest. to rest in about the same place next to the For more, see inside this section of Topgolf opened up in Hillsboro, Ore,. a few years fence. You are the official on scene what Inside Golf Newspaper. ago right along the highway to the ocean. do you advise her? Please see the answer Topgolf offers several hitting decks with on Page 2 of this section. computerized ball chips giving golfers scores as they play. For more, see inside this section. • Page 2 • • InSIDe COMMenTS • • Inside Golf - July Issue 2018 • USGA gives the ladies another event to call their own: Senior Women’s Open The United States Golf Association shoot up the world of women’s golf when it announced a new championship - the 2018 U.S. Senior Women’s Open. For years the ladies wanted a championship like this from the USGA, and now they have it. Bob Marlatt The U.S. Senior Women’s Open (for players age Publisher 50 and over) will be held July 12-15 at the legendary Chicago Golf Club. And there is plenty of local flavor Steve Turcotte involved with this inaugural USGA championship. Editor-Advertising Let’s start with Debby King of Eugene who quali- Steve fied at Fairwood Golf and Country Club in Renton Kathy Marlatt with a 74. Let’s go with Cindy Rarick, a five-time Turcotte Operations Manager winner on the LPGA Tour who got an invitation with her status on the all-time money list. Lara Tennant walking-only tournament with a cut after 36 holes Contributing Writers of Portland will play as well. of the 72-hole event. Jeff Coston, Russ Wing, And then there are the names you may have This has been something long overdue. And the Durel Billy heard from years past - players like Juli Inkster, Jane now the USGA has made it a reality. Photography: Scott Bisch Blalock, Amy Alcott, Pat Bradley, Sandra Palmer Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein and Jan Stephensen will also be in the field over Steve Turcotte is editor of Inside Golf Newspaper. 120 players trying to win part of a $1 million purse He can be reached at [email protected]. Subscription rates: that will be offered up. $17-one year and $30-two years (U.S. “This tournament is long overdue,” said Rarick, funds). who played on the LPGA Tour from 1985-2009. “It’s creating new excitement for women’s golf.” Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- Rarick has always loved to compete. She won come, however we will accept no liability five times in the U.S. and once in Japan. She thinks for their loss or damage, and will only she might have a shot to contend “if I can make return them if prior arrangements have some putts.” been made with the publisher. Debby King, who owns and operates the King- dom of Golf Experience in Eugene, led a qualifying Courier Address site and then one day opened the mail and saw a 460 Dennis Blvd latter from the USGA. Port Townsend, WA 98368 ‘It was exciting to get that player letter,” King said. “But the best part came toward the end when Mailing Address it said where I could pick my Lexus courtesy car. P.O. Box 1890 Now that is the big time.” Port Townsend, WA 98368 Senior golf for the ladies has taken big steps in recent years. The LPGA Legends Tour is touring Phone the country and recently had a stop at White Horse (360) 379-4080 Golf Club in Kingston, where Trish Johnson won against a field of 30.
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