Walla Walla Pro Fires Final Round 60 to Set Record, Wins Rosauers
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PRESORT STD FREE AUGUST U.S. Postage PAID COPY 2017 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Spokane and beyond: Golf variety abounds If you head to the Spokane area and into Idaho you will find a terrific variety of golf, including places like Circling Raven in Worley, Idaho (pictured right). The city of Spokane has some great courses and prices as well. For more, see inside this section of Inside Golf Newspaper. Walla Walla pro WHAT’S NEW Whistler: A gem of a NW destination IN NW GOLF fires final round 60 to set record, Myrtle Beach World Am wins Rosauers looks for another big field PGA Professional Brady Sharp of Walla Walla Over 3,000 players will be on hand for the CC (Walla Walla, Wash.) went low in the final 2017 Myrtle Beach World Amateur Golf Cham- round and came from behind to win the Rosauers pionship, set for Aug. 28-31 at some of the best Open Invitational at Indian Canyon Golf Course courses Myrtle Beach has to offer. in Spokane. The tournament features different formats Sharp shot a tournament-record 11-under-par for men, women and seniors with the top players 60 in the third and final round to charge up the from each flight meeting for the championship on leaderboard to win the tournament in a playoff the final day of the tournament. Entry fee for the with Russell Grove of North Idaho College. tournament is $575 and includes four days of tournament golf, nightly functions at the Myrtle The two players finished with totals of 197 Beach Convention Center. New for this year setting up the playoff. Sharp birdied the first hole includes a Just For Fun flight with all the perks of of the playoff to win the championship. the World Am but without having to worry about Both Sharp and Grove finished 16 under par handicaps and rules and a Senior Gross Division for the tournament with Sharp shooting rounds is being started. of 69-68-60 while Grove went 66-66-65. For more information on the event, see www. Derek Berg of Sahalee tied for third place with myrtlebeachworldamateur.com. John Cassidy of The Home Course at 13 under while Ryan Benzel of Sahalee was fifth at 12 Sunriver Resort will play under. Jared Lambert of Eagle Crest was sixth at 11 under. Sean Packer of Riverbend and Spencer host to Pacific Amateur Clapp of Sonoma State were low amateurs at 7 The 2017 Pacific Amateur Golf Classic will under par. have the same home but a new look. Sunriver Next up for the top professionals and amateurs Resort in Central Oregon has assumed control is the Northwest Open Invitational at Wine Valley of the 21st annual tournament from the Central in Walla Walla Aug, 21-23. Oregon Visitors Association and will have some new changes for the 2017 event. The Pacific Amateur Golf Classic will take place Sept. 23-28 – this year the event will Chambers Bay’s greens be held entirely at Sunriver Resort. The three tournament rounds will be held at the resort’s A gem of a golf destination sits just are getting a new look Woodlands, Meadows and Crosswater courses. The top finishers from each flight will advance to across the U.S.-Canadian border in Chambers Bay in University Place, Wash. has Crosswater for the tournament championship. the town of Whistler. With courses been known for hosting national championships This is the first year in Pacific Amateur his- and also for its fine fescue throughout the course. tory that all players will get a chance to play the like Furry Creek (above) and Nicklaus That is about to change. Chambers Bay is slowly award-winning Crosswater course whether they North (right) offering challenging 18- changing its greens from fine fescue to poa an- qualify for the final round or not - as they play it nua. It’s not an overnight change, it is expected during the course of the tournament. There will hole layouts and terrific views, there to take several years. be a limited of 300 players for this year’s Pacific The greens at Chambers Bay were contro- Amateur Golf Classic. is no shortage of quality golf. And off versial during the U.S. Open in 2015. But as For more information on the 2017 Pacific the course, Whistler offers plenty of Amateur and the new plans, please see the Chambers Bay tries to lure more championships, website www.pacamgolf.com. outdoor activities. For more, please the greens will have a different look. see inside this section of Inside Golf Poa annua is a grass that thrives in the Pacific Northwest but Chambers Bay did what it could to Northwest has some Newspaper. keep the poa out of the greens - even handpicking amateur events for you it out. But that will change now. The course will host the 2019 U.S. Amateur If you are looking for some tournaments to Four-Ball. whet your appetite to get into the competitive spirit this summer here’s a sampler. • Riverbend Golf Course in Kent, Wash. will host its 24th annual Riverbend Amateur featuring Northwest set for a top field of players from the area Aug. 12-13. Entry fee is $170 and includes a practice round the professionals and two tournament rounds. Call 253.854.3673 for information. The professional tours are headed for the Pacific • The Twin Lakes Amateur Presented by Northwest in August. Southgate Electric is set for Oct. 7-8 at Twin • The WinCo Foods Portland Classic will be Lakes in Federal Way. Two day individual tourna- first up with the Web.com event being held Aug. ment is open to all. Call 253.838.0345 for more. 24-26 at Pumpkin Ridge’s Witch Hollow (pictured near right). • The Boeing Classic featuring the Champions Rules Quiz Tour will take place at the Golf Club at Snoqualmie A player finds his ball out of bounds Ridge Aug. 25-27. (Seattle native Fred Couples is but decides to play the ball from this spot. pictured far right). What is your ruling? Please see the Answer • The Cambia Portland Classic featuring the on Page 2 of this section of Inside Golf top players form the LPGA is set for Aug. 31-Sept. Newspaper. 3 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club. See inside for more on these events. • Page 2 • • InsIde Comments • • Inside Golf - August Issue 2017 • If you have kids who play golf, it’s fun to see them improve - until they beat you If you have kids who play golf you naturally want them to succeed on the course. But if you are like me or even my buddy Jim Moore of ESPN 710 in Seattle, you root for your kids - except when they are playing you. Bob Marlatt I was excited when by daughter Rebecca Publisher picked up the sticks and liked to play. She played throughout high school and qualified for the state Steve Turcotte high school championships for two years. She Editor-Advertising played well. Beat many of her opponents. Steve But not her dad. Ha. Kathy Marlatt She graduated a few years ago and hasn’t Turcotte Operations Manager played much since but she might get back into it. I am taunting her already. You will never beat would beat dad. “I can’t let that happen just yet,” Contributing Writers your dad. OK, maybe she out drove me a few said Moore on the 10th tee. He beat his kid by Jeff Coston, Russ Wing, times and got a better score on a hole than I 10 on the back and the streak lives on. Durel Billy did, but when we totalled it all up at the end of a Having kids play golf is a great time for both. Photography: Scott Bisch round, it was dad at the top of the scoreboard. Losing, however, might be another matter. Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein Moore and his kid Stevie have played for years. Stevie’s game has become solid. His Steve Turcotte is editor of Inside Golf Newspaper. Subscription rates: swing is good and he does beat his dad off the He can be reached at [email protected]. My daughter Rebecca would love to beat her dad. $17-one year and $30-two years (U.S. tee once in a while. But when the total score has funds). been added, dad has always been on top. But here is where Jim kills me. I thought Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- he was competitive until he said this: “I won’t come, however we will accept no liability mind when he starts to beat me all the time,” for their loss or damage, and will only he said. return them if prior arrangements have What? Where was the Moore that I knew been made with the publisher. who hates to lose. But he did throw in a kicker. “He’s not good enough to beat his dad right Courier Address now.” OK that’s at least something. 460 Dennis Blvd It’s fun to have a rivalry with your kids. I re- Port Townsend, WA 98368 member playing rounds of golf with my daughter and one time she didn’t know where her drive Mailing Address was. We got to my drive and she thought hers P.O. Box 1890 was lost. It was 40 yards ahead. Must have hit Port Townsend, WA 98368 a sprinkler head or something. She was always excited to get a better score than me on a hole Phone and even more excited to out drive me.