PRESORT STD AUGUST U.S. Postage PAID 2020 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Pacific Northwest has some of the top resorts in the country When it comes to golf resorts, the Pacific Northwest stands alone. From Bandon Dunes on the Oregon Coast to Loomis Trail and its Silver Reef Casino Resort in Washington (right), there are plenty of golf resorts worth the trip. Oregon and Washington are both loaded with some of the top resorts in the country. For more, see inside this section of Inside Golf Newspaper. Playing nine can be just fine Korn Ferry Tour and WHAT’S NEW LPGA will make their IN NW GOLF visits to the Northwest with events in Portland Northwest professional The schedule for professional golf events in the Pacific Northwest might be scaled back a bit because loses life in accident of the Coronovirus pandemic, but there is still some Sean Fredrickson, president of the Pa- professional golf to be seen. cific Northwest Section PGA, was killed in July The WinCo Foods Portland Open will be played when two small planes collided in mid-air sev- Aug. 6-9 at Pumpkin Ridge’s Witch Hollow Golf Club, eral hundred featuring the top players from the Korn Ferry Tour feet above Powderhorn looking to make it on the 2021 PGA Tour. Bay on Lake And the LPGA will return with its Cambia Portland Coeur d’Alene LPGA Classic Sept. 17-20, new dates after the tourna- in northern ment was rescheduled due to the Pandemic. The event Idaho. Both will feature the top players from the LPGA Tour. planes then fell The PGA Tour Champions were set for the annual into the lake. Boeing Classic Aug. 21-23 at the Snoqualmie Ridge Fredrickson Golf Club, but that event has been cancelled. was 48. On the Pacific Northwest Golf scene, the major Others killed in the tournament scheduled kicked off in July with the Or- crash were egon Open. The event was scaled back from a three-day Fredrickson’s tournament to two days. son Hayden, and his stepchildren Sofie and The schedule for the top professionals and amateurs Quinn Olsen. They were on a sight-seeing ex- in the Pacific Northwest continues in August with the cursion in one of the small planes. In total, eight Washington Open and at Meridian Valley Country Club people were killed in the crash. and the Northwest Open Invitational at Wine Valley Along with being president of the PGA Golf Club in Walla Walla. Both of those tournaments Section, Fredrickson was the PGA Head So you say you don’t play golf be- have also been reduced to two days. The Senior Oregon Professional at Oswego Lake Country Club in Lake Oswego, Ore. He was awarded the PGA cause it takes too much time. Have you Open will be held July 28-30 at Wildhorse Resort in Professional of the Year honor in 2019 by the ever thought about playing just nine? Pendleton. Pacific Northwest Section PGA. Fredrickson came to Oswego Lake CC in Nine can be fine. There are a variety of 2019, after having served as PGA Professional 9-hole courses in the Northwest, includ- at Tualatin (Ore.) Country Club for 14 years. ing places like Highlands in Tacoma (top) In a statement, the Pacific Northwest Sec- tion PGA said: “Sean was an incredible father, and Tapps Island in Lake Tapps (left). You husband, PGA Professional, mentor and leader. can usually squeeze nine holes in before There are never words to communicate the pain of such a loss.” or after work and it generally will take you less than two hours to play, just ask Ex-Seahawk Randall Morris Don Mojean (putting) and Doug McAr- thur about their fast nine-hole rounds at will host charity golf event Highlands Golf Course. If 18 holes and Randall Morris Celebrity Tournament is set for Sept 14 at five hours rounds isn’t what you are look- Fairwood Golf & ing for, then nine holes just might be the Country Club in ticket. See inside for more on nine-hole Renton. Morris, PHOTO BY SCOTT BISCH © a popular run- golf courses and what they have to offer. ning back for the Lexi Thompson will headline the LPGA Portland field. Seahawks in the mid to late 80s will be joined by his friends from Oregon Open gets Northwest tournament golf back on track the NFL, NBA, MLB and enter- Brady Sharp of Wine Valley GC (Walla Walla) won tainment and music world personalities. The the Oregon Open Invitational by one stroke over Liam Fall Shootout returns event is open to the public. Proceeds from the Kendregan of Sand Point Country Club (Seattle) and events will benefit the Randall Morris Foundation amateur Robbie Ziegler of RedTail Golf Club (Beaver- to Central Oregon area for Youth and Families and local charities specifi- ton, Ore.) at Arrowhead Golf Club in Molalla, Ore. cally in the Renton area. To sign up, see https:// Sharp fired rounds of 71-68 for a 139 total to win The second annual Central Oregon Fall randallmorrisfoundation.com/golf/. the two-round tournament, which usually is a three-day Shootout is set for Oct. 3-4 at both Black event but cut short because of the Covid-19 situation. Butte Ranch and Eagle Crest Resort. The Kendregan had the lowest round of the tournament two-day tournament is open to any player with Rules Quiz shooting a 66 moving up in the standings while Ziegler a USGA handicap. won the low amateur honors with rounds of 73-67. There will be flights for both men and With your ball on the putting green you First-round leader Brian Nosler finished tied for women with the tournament using three divi- mark, lift and clean your golf ball. You then sions for play. Cost is $900 for a four-player replace your golf ball in front of the mark. sixth after shooting a 68 in the opening round. team and includes golf, carts, practice balls, You make your put but forget to remove the Amateurs Justin Kadin of Tetherow (Bend) and ball mark. OK or not OK? Please see the Craig Ronne of Emerald Valley tied for fourth place tee gift, continental breakfast, lunch and more. answer on Page 2 of this section section at 141 –– two shots behind. The entry deadline for the tournament is Sept. of Inside Golf Newspaper. Next up is the Muckleshoot Washington Open at 23, 2020. Meridian Valley Country Club Aug. 1-2. Brady Sharp won the 2020 Oregon Open event. For more information call 541.595.1292. • Page 2 • • InsIde Comments • • Inside Golf - August Issue 2020 • Tired of playing with a bag full of clubs, this guy only uses a putter for his round I was perusing the internet one day looking for in- When he wants to hit a short shot, he shortens up the teresting golf stories. I came across a story that talked swing. When the ball is in the rough or the bunker, he about a guy who played golf with only a putter. I read turns the putter blade over and uses it like a toe jam. on. He used a putter to tee off, hit fairways shots, hit The ball pops right up like a wedge. bunker shots and of course, putts. As I read on it said During this round of golf, there didn’t seem to be Bob Marlatt he won his flight in a Golfweek Amateur Tour event in a shot he couldn’t do with his $2.99 Wilson Staff put- Publisher Phoenix with an 84. ter. On one hole, his ball was in the deep rough about A guy with only a putter? Shooting an 83? This I teve 15 yards off the green. He turned the toe of the club Steve Turcotte had to see. around, popped it up and had a 15--footer to save par. Editor-Advertising I arranged a round of golf with Anthony Griggs, the S “I just adjust the swing to the distance of the shot,” Putter Guy. He showed up with his putter, a small bag said Griggs. Kathy Marlatt for the putter and his playing partner Larry Vinson. I Turcotte Griggs and Vinson both say it’s funny to see the Operations Manager assumed this was going to be some kind of sham. He looks on golfer’s faces when Griggs steps to the first would show up with a full bag of 14 clubs and use the can’t believe what he sees. “It’s amazing what he can tee with a putter in his hands. Some guys might think Contributing Writers putter when he wanted to. do with the putter,” Vinson said. “I’ve tried it - I can’t it’s a joke, but when he ropes a shot 210 yards down Jeff Coston, Pat Campbell But this was no joke. The Putter Guy was for real. do it. In fact at the Phoenix Open Pro-Am Bill Haas tried the middle with his putter, it’s no joke. “I was getting bored with golf, and one of my friends to hit the putter on the range. He couldn’t even get it Photography: Scott Bisch suggested trying something different - like playing only airborne.” Steve Turcotte is editor of Inside Golf Newspaper. He Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein with a putter,” said the 61-year-old Griggs, who lives Griggs has different swings for his putter shots. can be reached at [email protected]. in the Phoenix area. Subscription rates: So one day before a round of golf, Griggs went $17-one year and $30-two years (U.S.