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Rob Perry Blaine Newnham, on the 15th tee at Golf Club, has written a book on the making of the course that will host the 2015 U.S. Open next June. Links to a gem story A former R-G sports editor crafts a remarkable tale about Chambers Bay

By Ron Bellamy so that he understood a special story For The Register-Guard when he saw it. And the story of the world-class built by public A GOLF WRITER’S JOURNEY NIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — funds on the ravaged site of a gravel Blaine Newnham’s travels in golf: Five years ago, Blaine Newn- quarry overlooking lower Puget Sound Majors covered (with winner): U.S. ham began writing a book and then being awarded the U.S. Open Open in 1966 (), 1997 (Ernie about the history and devel- in its first year of existence is certainly Els), 1998 (), 1999 (Payne opment of Chambers Bay, the that. Stewart), 2000 (Tiger Woods), 2002 Upublicly owned links golf course south It is truly a Pacific Northwest story, (Tiger Woods), 2010 (Graeme McDowell). of Tacoma that opened in 2007 and too, the first U.S. Open to be played in Masters in 1987 (Larry Mize), 2000 (Vijay will host the U.S. Open next June. the Northwest, and Newnham, at 72, Singh), 2001 (Tiger Woods), 2002 (Tiger Woods), 2003 (Mike Weir), 2004 (Phil But the elements that went into has spent more than half his life here, Mickelson), 2005 (Tiger Woods). PGA in Newnham creating “America’s St. over 40 years now, and lives across the 1997 (Davis Love III), 1998 (Vijay Singh), Andrews,” a coffee-table book avail- water from Seattle, where he can pull 2000 (Tiger Woods). British Open in 1986 able in bookstores Wednesday, go back Dungeness crabs from the sound. (), 1998 (Mark O’Meara), 2000 (Tiger Woods). much farther than that. It’s a golf story, fundamentally, and The most famous courses played: Cypress Point, Merion, Start with Newnham’s distinguished who better to tell it than a writer who Pebble Beach, the Old Course at St. Andrews, Augusta National, career in sports journalism, includ- has covered 20 golf majors, and who Ballybunion, Royal County Down, the Olympic Club, Royal ing 11 years as sports editor and col- can argue, as an eyewitness, that Ben Portrush and Royal Dornoch. umnist for The Register-Guard — when Hogan hit the ball better than Tiger Favorite courses: Tokatee, Royal Porthcawl in Wales, Royal he covered the Kamikaze Kids, the life Woods. A writer whose love for links Dornoch, the Bandon Dunes course at Bandon Dunes, Cruden Bay and death of Steve Prefontaine, and golf, where the vagaries of the ele- in Scotland and Gamble Sands in Central Washington. the annual struggles of Oregon foot- ments and the land are so much part ball — and 23 years as associate editor On the bucket list: North Berwick, Scotland. and columnist for the Seattle Times, Turn to NEWNHAM, Page D2 Your ticket to 2015 Open must come early NIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. the three previous days of practice the U.S. Open,” said Chambers Bay — Tickets for the final three rounds. Opening-round gallery tickets general manager Matt Allen, noting U days of the 2015 U.S. Open at are $110; practice-round tickets are that in addition to buying tickets, Chambers Bay Golf Course, the first $50. They can be purchased at the folks “came out in droves to support U.S. Open to be held in the Pacific U.S. Golf Association website, www. the volunteer program,” and local Northwest, are already sold out. usga.org. Tickets for the event sell business support was also strong. Gallery tickets remain for the out annually. “But I think there are still some opening day of the tournament “People in the region, closest to — Thursday, June 18, 2015 — and the golf course, are well aware of Turn to OPEN, Page D2

Eric Johnson GOLF TIP / BETTER TEE SHOTS demonstrates the proper setup stance for longer and The ‘one-piece’ takeaway’s your straighter shots off the tee using your key to longer, straighter drives driver. Taking onger and straighter tee shots shoulder turn become. Starting the the club with the driver could be just a club back too quickly with the hands back in “one L setup away. can give you a false sense that you piece” with The top request I get from my stu- turned. This then creates a steep the proper hip dents is the desire to drive the ball angle of approach back to the golf and shoulder better. The first thing I check is to ball, leading to pop flies and low turn is key see if they are creating a straight line smothered tee shots. To achieve the to avoding from their left shoulder to the club- sense of turning first, I tell students head at address. The hands should to feel as if their hands don’t start pop flies and then be in front of the left inside half to hinge until at least after they have smothered tee of the left thigh. This straight line at passed their right hip. shots. address makes it easier to start the club back in “one piece,” which means with your shoulders and arms, not Former PGA and Nike Tour member your hands. Eric Johnson is a teaching professional Remember: The longer the club, at RiverRidge Golf Course. He can be Brian Davies/The Register-Guard the more important your hip and reached at [email protected]. D2 The Register-Guard OREGON LIFE Tuesday, September 30, 2014 OUTDOORS BRIEFLY Newnham: Prefers well-crafted, fair courses NEWS & NOTES Continued from Page D1 bers Bay, with a vision that included attract- FALL BIRD TOUR OF of the challenge, has ing such events as a BWCA ON SATURDAY taken him to Ireland and U.S. Open. The gutted- Join the McKenzie River Scotland a half-dozen out quarry gave designer Trust from 7 a.m. to 10 times, and who has Robert Trent Jones Jr. a a.m. on Saturday for a developed a keen under- blank canvas, and in the bird walk along the Lower standing of golf course $20.7 million project he McKenzie River led by architecture. created a masterpiece. birding expert, Kit Larsen, with support from Jules And there’s the fact “It has probably Abbott, McKenzie River that Chambers Bay is better views than any Trust Membership and not just publicly owned, course I’ve ever played,” Outreach Coordinator. a muni, but very much Newnham said. “Of The group will tour the open to public with course, Pebble Beach has riparian forest and farm a bike path that runs four or five holes along field edges of Berggren, through it, hosting a the ocean that are just learning about bird habits and life-cycles throughout steady stream of walkers stunning, but this course the exploration. This tour and joggers and remind- you see almost every- is meant to offer a great ing Newnham of the way thing from everywhere experience for birders of the Old Course at St. all the time. It’s pretty all levels. Long pants are Andrews in Scotland is amazing.” advised, and bring bin- so accessible to the citi- The book’s title, oculars if you have them. zenry. Newnham said, sought to The Berggren Watershed Because for all the make a specific point. Conservation Area is a 92-acre property made famous golf courses that “The title of the up for diverse habitats he has played — and book is audacious, to including floodplain forest he has teed it up at Blaine Newnham, during a visit to the Old Course at St. Andrews last year, likens say the least,” he said. and farmland. The tour Augusta National and Chambers Bay to the famous Scottish links course because both are so accessible. “How can you possibly is free and registration is Pebble Beach and Bally- compare some county required. For registration bunion — Newnham pre- really understands his the green, you should be with links golf, a defin- course in Tacoma with details, visit mckenzier- fers unpretentious but stature as a golf writer,” able to have fun.” ing moment in his evo- St. Andrews? But you go iver.org/events or call 541-345-2799. well-crafted courses the said Tom Cade, the In his career as a lution as a golfer and a to Augusta National and average golfer (in skill book’s editor and pub- sports journalist, Newn- golf writer. you can’t even get down WILLAMALANE and resources) can play, lisher, and the senior ham can say that he “I try to figure out Magnolia Lane to take a OFFERING FREE TOUR and so among his favor- director of communi- once talked golf with why I like links golf so look at the golf course. Willamalane Park and ites he still lists Toka- cations for the Pacific Willie Mays, then in much, and there are a Here, you can walk the Recreation District is tee, the picture postcard Northwest Golf Associ- his prime as the Giants lot of reasons,” he said. path, the course is basi- offering a free bus and course near Blue River ation. “I don’t think he star center fielder. That “It’s authentic. It’s not cally open. I was at walking tour of its facili- that he first played when gets it at all. He doesn’t he watched a Stan- all about GPS distance St. Andrews a year ago ties and parks from 9:30 he came to The Regis- understand how much ford freshman named things and new drivers around 7:30 at night and a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sat- ter-Guard in 1971 and respect he has among hit balls and the six-pack of beer walked out to the Swil- urday. The tour will focus began infusing the sports can Burn and crossed on the many new addi- other golf writers, and on the practice range. and riding in a cart. It’s tions to the district since section with an award- how much experience he That he played a round got a whole different feel the bridge, and people the passage of the $20 winning philosophy that has.” at Merion, the historic to it. were walking across to million bond measure in endures to this day. course near Philadelphia, “I remember when go to the beach. It’s 2012. The tour will include (Tokatee was the For the love of the game with two other sports- we were in Ireland once wide open.” Dorris Ranch and the west site of one of Newn- Newnham lettered writers, on a day the this guy next to me said, The book is dedicated end of the Middle Fork ham’s most cherished in golf as a high school course was otherwise ‘Yesterday we played and to the late Eugene pho- Path; Willamalane Center rounds ever; in celebra- senior in Hayward, Calif., closed. it was a four-club wind.’ tojournalist Brian Lanker, and the new sports fields; the boat landing and the tion of his retirement but was not a prod- In 1966, the Hay- And the starter looked who was The Register- east end of the Middle from the Times in 2005, igy; in adulthood, he ward Review newspaper at him and said, ‘You Guard’s photo chief when Fork Path at Clearwater he played with Rich once got his sent Newnham to cover mean you played golf.’ If Newnham was sports Park; Quartz Park; Game- Brooks, the Oregon foot- down to 9.8, but for one of the early rounds the wind’s not blowing editor, and who gave bird Community Garden; ball coach during his most of his life he’s hov- of the U.S. Open at the and the conditions aren’t Newnham and Cade valu- shelters, dog park and tenure in Eugene; Jon ered around 15, and now Olympic Club in San tough and you don’t able insights in the weeks Splash! at Lively Park; Anderson, whose dra- is about a 16. He shot Francisco. He looked at have to figure things out before he died in 2011. Willamalane Adult Activ- ity Center; and Pacific matic run to the 1972 85 on a good day in the tee sheets, saw Ben yourself, it’s not golf.” “He reminded us Park. Though there will U.S. Olympic team in high school and shoots Hogan playing with Ken Newnham very much often that it wasn’t be minimal walking, tour the 10,000 meters Newn- 85 on a good day now Venturi and Frank Beard, respects Oregon’s Bandon about sunsets and silhou- participants should wear ham had chronicled, and — though he did card a and followed that group Dunes, where owner ettes, but about telling a comfortable shoes. The Al Mundle, the highly 77 last year at Gamble for 18 holes. Hogan, Mike Keiser has devel- story,” Newnham wrote. tour will originate from respected Northwest golf Sands in Central Wash- a four-time U.S. Open oped four different The book does that, the Adult Activity Center, teacher.) ington — and that per- champion, was 53 and courses, each superb, combining archival and 215 W. C St. in Springfield. spective helps shape his Advance registration is What made Newnham his hands shook so badly and always put golf first, current photos with required by calling 541- the quintessential Eugene view of golf course archi- when he putted that understanding that “you informative chapters 736-4444 no later than sports columnist was the tecture. “you almost didn’t want don’t put the clubhouse about the transformation Thursday. way he connected with “I’m fascinated to to watch,” but when down on the ocean, you of the gravel pit to the his readers and the com- know what the archi- Hogan swung a club it put the best holes down site of the U.S. Open. NEARBY NATURE ON munity. He would often tect is trying to do,” he was wonderful, the con- on the ocean.” “It’s a small picture NO SCHOOL DAY sit in the stands late in said. “A lot of it has to tact making that spe- If Newnham, with his book, a coffee-table book, Looking for somewhere football games at Autzen do with my own lim- cial sound of perfection. feeling for golf course with a lot of beauti- fun to send your kids Stadium, as the seagulls itations. I don’t hit it Hogan finished 12th. At design and affinity for ful pictures but a lot of during the upcoming No started to swarm, to very far or very well, so 53. links golf, could have information,” Newnham School Day on Friday, Oct. hear the thoughts of I try to find out why Newnham didn’t cover designed a golf course, said. “It’s not a preview 10? Why not send them to Nearby Nature’s No fans, often grumbling they sometimes penalize another major until one that would be a of the U.S. Open. It’s School Day Adventure in back in those days. poor golfers when they 1986, when he saw Greg challenge to the best a story about how this Alton Baker Park? At this That approach hadn’t ought to be doing Norman win the Brit- players but playable by happened.” entertaining and edu- has characterized his that. And I think they’re ish Open at Turnberry. golfers of more modest Told by, for this story, cational event, kids will approach as a golf finally waking up to that That got him in a rota- skills, without the con- the absolutely perfect harvest tasty fall crops writer. In retirement fact. ... The game is so tion of covering majors, trived forced carries that storyteller. from our Learnscape. from daily journalism, he difficult. When you get for the Times — he was mark the courses that They’ll munch on garden goodies, make a jar of writes for Cybergolf.com the ball on the green, there when Larry Mize set out to be difficult on pickled beets to bring and other publications, why should you be look- chipped in to win the principle, it would be a “America’s St. Andrews” home, create an herbal and his body of work ing at a really diffi- Masters, when Payne lot like Chambers Bay. retails for $39.95 and can wreath, tell harvest tales, has earned him the Dis- cult putt? I’ve had some Stewart won the U.S. be purchased online at and go on a seed search tinguished Service Award putts eight feet from the Open, when Tiger Woods ‘America’s St. Andrews’ www.americasstandrews. to discover the clever from the Northwest Golf hole and I’m trying to won four straight for the Newnham marvels at com, and in bookstores ways plants travel as Media Association. figure out how to two- Tiger Slam. Turnberry the creativity that went starting Wednesday. they explore Alton Baker “I don’t think Blaine putt. If you can get it on was his first experience into the design of Cham- Park. Nearby Nature’s No School Day Programs run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and cost $40 for mem- bers and $45 for non- members. Programs are limited to 12 children from Open: Practice rounds offer more player interaction 6-9 years old. Scholar- MOTORCYCLES! ships are available. For Continued from Page D1 and staff, totalling about 50,000. Allen said there will be four or more information, contact WE CARRY: SCOOTERS! Jo Niedeck, Education Allen noted that practice five general parking areas, with a Coordinator, at 541-687- people who are going to go to the rounds are a good value for spec- shuttle bus system to bring spec- 9699, extension 2 or website or call the golf shop in tators. tators to the venue. Hotel res- email info@nearbynature. March or April next year (look- “Often there are a fewer people ervations can be made through org. You can also down- ing for tickets), and there will be — who knows in this case? — the local visitor and convention BICYCLES! load a registration form at some disappointed folks.” but players are more relaxed, and bureau, www.TravelTacoma.com. www.nearbynature.org. Nearby Nature offers No Allen said 35,000 tickets were there’s much more player-spectator School Day Adventures available for each day of play, interaction that you certainly don’t 6057692S09 throughout the year. Each with projected attendance on peak get when they’re all business,” he Ron Bellamy, For The Register- program is taught by days, including vendors, volunteers said. Guard. 541-431-7300407 W 11th, Eugene OR an experienced educa- www.e-wheelworks.com tor and includes lots of hands-on activities and outdoor exploring. For a OUTDOORS CALENDAR complete list of upcoming programs, see www.near- To submit events In-One Cone. Road, Eugene. Meet at 9:30 a.m. For those 50 or older. bynature.org/programs/ Submit listings to: Out- Walking no-school-day-programs. FRIDAY [email protected]. All MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY events are free, unless otherwise Campbell Community Cen- SALMON WATCHING noted. Steppers Walking Group: ter: Walk ‘n’ Talkers group is self- ON NORTH UMPQUA For those 50-plus, casual 30- to led for 3-5 miles every Friday from Bicycling 60-minute walk through Island 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., leaving from 155 Your chance to watch WEDNESDAY Park, leaves Willamalane Adult High St., Eugene. Info: 541-682- Center at 8:30 a.m. Info: 541-736- salmon and steelhead Eugene Adult Service: In- 5318. 4444. spawning above Soda town ride of varying length for SATURDAY Springs Dam on the North seniors, every Wednesday start- TUESDAY & THURSDAY Umpqua River comes on ing at Campbell Center, 155 High Whippets Walking Group: Altair Sports: 4-5 miles on Oct. 8 when PacifiCorp, St., at 9:30 a.m. Helmets required. For those 50-plus, a moderate to river bike trails. Meet 9 a.m. at Info: 541-682-5318. brisk pace for one hour, leaves Café Aroma at Valley River Mall. together with federal and Information: 541-343-7893. SATURDAY from Willamalane Adult Center in state natural resource Mossback Volkssport Club: agencies, will lead a Obsidians: A 22-mile ride Springfield. with 25 feet of elevation gain TUESDAY Easy 3.1- or 6.2-mile walk through public tour of the fish a quaint old town that includes along Detering Orchard. Sign up Mossback Volkssport Club: enhancement projects only online at obsidians.org for all spectacular views of the Cascade Easy 3.1- or 6.2-mile walk along Mountains, a llama ranch and sev- at the North Umpqua Obsidians outings. the beach from D River to Road’s eral city parks in Sisters. Meet at hydroelectric project area, End in Lincoln City. Meet at 7:30 approximately 60 miles Backpacking a.m. at Valley River Inn, 1000 7 a.m. at Willamalane Adult Activ- east of Roseburg. These FRIDAY Valley River Way in Eugene to ity Center, 215 West C Street in Springfield to carpool ($10 for car enhancements are part Obsidians: An 8-mile hike carpool ($10 for car expenses), or with 1,500 feet of elevation gain meet the group at 10:30 a.m. at expenses), or meet the group at of PacifiCorp’s 194-mega- about 9:00 a.m. at the start point, watt hydroelectric project along South Waldo Shelter. the start point at the Cozy Cove Beach Front Resort Inn, 515 NW the Athletic Club of Sisters, 1001 that produces enough Hiking Inlet Avenue in Lincoln City. For Desperado Road at the east end renewable, emission- WEDNESDAY details visit www.mossbacks.org, of Sisters. For details visit www. free electricity to supply email mossbacksclub@comcast. mossbacks.org, email mossback- Obsidians: A 6.2-mile hike [email protected] or call 541- 44,000 average homes with 1,530 feet of elevation gain net or call 541-726-7169. 726-7169. each year. Space is along Amazon Headwaters-Spen- WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY Mount Pisgah Arboretum: limited on the free tour cer Butte. Altair : 5-6 miles that begins at the North FRIDAY Devon Bonady, a local ethnobota- around town, meet at 9 a.m. nist, will lead an exploration of Umpqua Implementation at Brail’s, 1689 Willamette St., Obsidians: Janet Jacobsen the arboretum through the eyes Office near Tokatee at 11 will lead a 5.2-mile hike with 50 Eugene. Information: 541-746- 6263. of a plant gatherer from 10 a.m. a.m. and is expected to feet of elevation gain along River to noon. Learn about the relation- conclude by 3 p.m. Campus Loop. THURSDAY ships between people and plants SUNDAY 50-plus, self-led: Hour-long in the southern Willamette Valley. Obsidians: Mike Smith will group walk around neighborhood Meet at the Arboretum Visitor — From ODFW and lead a 10.5-mile hike with 1,500 surrounding Petersen Barn Com- Center. The cost is $5 and mem- Register-Guard reports feet of elevation gain along Four- munity Center, 870 Bertnzen bers participate for free. 6089716S30