A LUCKY AND skilled team will come away with the 10th annual Peninsula Cup, when the yearly edition of the tournament pits the best players from the seven North Olympic Peninsula golf courses in an 18-hole medal play match at Port Ludlow Golf Course on Sunday, June 10.
Twelve-player teams from Clallam and Jefferson county courses will tee it up with the 10 best scores (two gross, eight net) determining a team score and ultimately, a champion.
The event has a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Entry fees are $50 without cart, $60 with cart and include green fees, range balls and lunch following the round.
This tournament is for the best of the best, so contact your PGA professional as soon as possible if you think you have what it takes to represent your course and club.
Peninsula Golf Club members ran away with the title last year on their home course.
Peninsula’s Mark Mitrovich shot a 6-under-par gross score of 66 to lead all players, while Gary Thorne added a gross 74 for the winners.
Cedars General Manager and Director of Golf Bill Shea shot a 5-under-par 67 to lead his team.
Congrats to the Wolves
The Sequim High School boys and girls golf teams cruised to unbeaten records in regular season Olympic League match play, with each team posting records of 9-0.
Shea, who coaches the boys squad, pointed out that Sequim has posted a 28-0 record in Olympic League play and won three straight league titles.
Garrett Smithson is back coaching the Wolves’ girls team and Sequim is back atop the Olympic League standings after a second-place finish last spring.
The Wolves have shown plenty of improvement this season with Samantha Smith and Maddie Uranga shedding strokes and setting personal-best rounds thus far. Sequim is led by Shea’s daughter Sarah, who will play for the Western Washington University women’s golf team next fall, joining big brother Jack, who plays for the Vikings’ men’s team.
Sequim hosted the Olympic League 1A/2A Championships at Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course late Tuesday.
Thanks to all the North Olympic Peninsula courses and their members who support youth and prep golf.
Twilight special
Port Ludlow is offering an online twilight special of 18 holes of golf with GPS cart for $25 after 4 p.m. each day.
Players can book online at port-ludlow-golf-resort.play.teeitup.com.
Disco Bay news
A series of Tuesday golf clinics offered by Discovery Bay Golf Club head pro Jeff Kent will begin May 15 at the course near Port Townsend.
Clinics will start at 3 p.m. and are $10 per person. Space is limited, so sign up by phoning Discovery Bay at 360-385-0704.
Kent said the Disco Bay Thursday League will begin play Thursday, May 17 at 5 p.m.
Teams and individuals are being accepted for the league, which will play nine holes every Thursday night during the golf season. A GHIN handicap is not required to play.
Golf for Grads
Golf for Grads, the annual benefit golf tournament that raises funds for a safe and sober graduation night event for Sequim High School seniors, will be held at Cedars at Dungeness on Sunday.
Entry fees for the four-person scramble format event are $85 per player.
Green fees, use of cart, lunch, and shots at KP, long drive and hole-in-one prizes are part of each entry.
A 9 a.m. shotgun start will open play.
For more information, phone 360-683-6344.
PGA Jr. League
Registration is open through May 20 for PGA Jr. League, a team format youth golf option at Cedars at Dungeness and Peninsula Golf Club.
Teams of 13 and younger players will be coached by Smithson and Peninsula head pro Chad Wagner, while Shea will work with 16U golfers in Sequim.
Players will form two-person teams and compete in scramble-format events that keep the focus on fun, while building up skill levels.
The program cost is $200, lower than at many other facilities around Western Washington, and scholarship assistance is available.
For more information, visit www.pgajrleague.com/register or phone Cedars at Dungeness at 360-683-6344 or Peninsula at 360-457-6501.
PC fundraiser
Registration is open for the annual Peninsula College Pirate Athletic Association Golf Tournament at Sequim’s Cedars at Dungeness on Saturday, June 2.
The four-person scramble event will tee off with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Entry fees are $400 per team, $100 per golfer, and will include 18 holes of golf with cart, appetizers and drinks, tee prizes for all, lunch and shots at prizes.
Not all of those shots will be golf-related. Players will have a chance to shoot a basketball and kick a soccer ball on select holes.
Wilder Auto is sponsoring hole-in-one prizes on par 3 holes, and there will be KP prizes for select par-3s.
Long drive contests for men’s and women’s players are planned.
Prizes for men’s first place and second place division and the women’s first place division also are planned.
Phone Cedars at 360-683-6344 to register.
