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PRESORT STD FREE APRIL U.S. Postage PAID COPY 2014 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Some of the best golf resorts in the country are in the NW You don’t have to travel far if you want to see or play some of the top golf resorts in the country. Places like the Little Creek Casino Resort and its Salish Cliffs Golf Club (right) have some of the top places to stay and play in the country. For more, please see Inside Golf’s special section inside. WHAT’S NEW 2015 U.S. Open IN NW GOLF plans roll along Planning for the 2015 United States Open at Chambers Bay is rolling right along. From tickets to volunteers to parking, plans for the Washington Open has first-ever U.S. Open to be held in the Pacific Northwest are falling into place nicely. The U.S a new format: No cut Open will be held next June at Chambers Bay, The Washington Open Invitational will located in University Place. have a new format to show off this year And another plan has popped up at Cham- when the top professionals and amateurs bers Bay as a Los Angeles developer has said from the Pacific Northwest tee off at Merid- he would like to build a hotel and second golf ian Valley Country Club in Kent May 19-21. course on the site. There will not be a cut for any of the players For more, see inside this section. in the field. The entire field will play all 54 holes for the 2014 tournament. This marks the eighth time that Meridian Valley has hosted the Washington Open Professional events Invitational. The Washington Open Invita- Palouse Ridge: Golf in Cougar country tional dates back to 1922. Chris Griffin is the defending champion having won the on the way to the tournament last year by two shots over former Major League pitcher Erik Hanson. Northwest in 2014 Andres Gonzales sets The Pacific Northwest is home to some of the top professional golf events on the different plans for charity event tours. And the 2014 season will be no different Pacific Northwest PGA Tour and Web.com in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The LPGA, professional Andres Gonzales of Olympic will Champions Tour and Web.com Tour will all make host his third annual charity golf tournament stops in the Pacific Northwest this year with a Aug. 18, 2014 at Tacoma Country and Golf variety of tournaments. Club. in Tacoma. There is no PGA Tour event, but remember The third annual Andres Gonzales Char- in 2015 Chambers Bay will be the host site for ity Golf Tournament will help raise funds for the United States Open. The first time the U.S. Pancreatic Cancer and The First Tee of South Open will be played in the Northwest. Puget Sound. Gonzales started the charity tournament in • On the LPGA Tour, the Portland Classic 2011 and brought in several PGA Tour friends is set for Aug. 28-31 at Columbia Edgewater for the one-day event. His PGA Tour friends Country Club in Portland. The event moved from team up with local amateurs and raise money for Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club a year ago, back to its Pancreatic Cancer and The First Tee of South original home at Columbia Edgewater. Puget Sound. • On the Champions Tour, the Boeing Classic For more information on the tournament and is set for its 10th year at the TPC Snoqualmie how to play see the web site www.andresgon- Ridge on Aug,. 22-24. Hometown favorite Fred zalesgolf.com Couples will be back again as will the top players on the Champions Tour. Pepsi Women’s Open • On the Web.com Tour, the tour makes a pair of stops in the Pacific Northwest this year includ- is set for Twin Lakes ing a tournament in the Portland area. The annual Albertson’s Boise Open will be held July 17-20 The Pepsi Northwest Women’s Open at Hillcrest Country Club in Boise while a new will return to Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club in Federal Way July 21-23 with a event, the WinCo Food Portland Open will take three-day event featuring some of the top place Aug. 21-24 at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club women professionals and amateurs from near Portland. the Pacific Northwest - and beyond. Lindsay Aho, a Washington native, Eastern Washington has an won last year’s tournament. She also award-winning golf course in is part of the Golf Channel’s Big Break Florida show which is airing episodes this Palouse Ridge, which sits on the spring. The Pepsi Northwest Women’s campus of Washington State Uni- Open will feature a one-day Pro-Am fol- lowed by two days of stroke play. versity (above). Northwest native, For more information on the Pepsi the late John Harbottle (left) de- Northwest Women’s Open, call Twin signed the course and will have Lakes at 253.838.0432. a tournament played in his honor June 1 at Palouse Ridge (see inside for more). Palouse Ridge has won Rules Quiz numerous awards and is one of the A player ball lies closely behind a mush- room growing in the turf on his line of play. top college campus golf courses in Prior to playing the ball, the player makes a the country. For more on Palouse practice swing destroying the mushroom. What is your ruling? See answer on Page Ridge, see inside this section of 2 of this section. Inside Golf Newspaper. TPC Snoqualmie Ridge will host Boeing Classic. Printed in U.S.A. • • • INSIDE GOLF NEWSPAPER • • • ©All Rights Reserved • Page 2 • • InsIde Comments • • Inside Golf - April Issue 2014 • 20 years later at Semiahmoo, Coston is still living out his own golfing dream Jeff Coston flips through the calendar pages and can’t believe what he sees. Has it really been 20 years since he started his golf academy at Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, Wash.? Was it re- ally all those years ago he took a bag of teaching Bob marlatt aids and planted himself at the end of the driving Publisher range hoping to help people improve their golf games? 20 years? Really? Steve Turcotte Back in 1994, Coston ended his career on Editor-Advertising the PGA and Ben Hogan Tours when he realized Steve that it was time to put family first. But he didn’t want to give up his golf and sit behind a desk five Turcotte Kathy marlatt days a week from 9 to 5. He wanted to stay in Operations Manager the golf business. He just needed to figure out Year for both the regular and senior divisions. He which direction to take. has won 19 major championships in the Pacific That direction took him to Northwest Wash- Northwest. He has won every senior tournament Contributing Writers ington and Semiahmoo Resort. Since his wife he could since he turned the magic age of 50. He Jeff Coston, was a Seattle native and Coston himself gradu- has played in the U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, Mike Peluso, ated from Seattle University, he figured why not PGA Championship and Senior PGA Champion- Brett Wilkinson Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein set some golf roots in the area and see what ship. He nearly earned a fully exempt spot on the would happen. So he took his wife Diane and his Champions Tour this year, but still finished in the Subscription rates: three kids and moved north from Florida back to top 10 and earned a Monday qualifying spot to $17-one year and $30-two the Pacific Northwest. every tournament. Now, 20 years later, Coston is one of the “I never wanted to put the golf career on Jeff Coston years (U.S. funds). top teachers in the Pacific Northwest - and the hold, I just wanted to take another direction,” Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- country for that matter. His Jeff Coston Golf said Coston. “I’ve been able to do both - teach a couple of times). Anyone is fair game when it come, however we will accept no liability Academy has grown from a bag of teaching aids and play. And I put family first and that was the comes to working with Coston. for their loss or damage, and will only to an indoor facility - complete with all the tricks most important thing to me.” “I pursue teaching with as much passion as return them if prior arrangements have from teaching aids, to video to guest appearance Coston also was elected to the Pacific North- my own game,” said Coston. been made with the publisher. by some of the biggest names in golf teaching west Golf Hall of Fame last year. “That was a One day a while back, Coston got a call from like Mike Adams, Mike Bender, Mike Bennett, big honor,” he said. a woman in Canada saying she was 30 and had Courier Address Brian Mogg and Andy Plummer. He even has his Coston might look at his birth certificate played some college golf but wanted to play 460 Dennis Blvd own web site www.jeffcoston.com. and see that he is 58. But he doesn’t feel like on the LPGA Tour. She worked with Coston Port Townsend, WA 98368 “I played for two months in 1994 but felt like it. In fact, at a recent doctor’s appointment, the diligently. In a year and a half Jennifer Greggain the family was on critical care because I was doc told Coston he has the body of someone made it to the LPGA Tour.