THE CLALLAM COUNTY Amateur, a three-day, three-round, three-course tournament to crown the county’s top nonprofessional golfer, will be held Friday through Sunday, July 7-9.
The North Olympic Peninsula’s top amateur golfers will open play with 11 a.m. tee times at Peninsula Golf Club in Port Angeles.
Saturday’s play moves to the Dungeness Valley for a 9 a.m. round at Sunland Golf &Country Club.
And the final round will tee things up at 8 a.m. at Cedars at Dungeness.
The tournament is open to any amateur golfer with a USGA Handicap.
The entry fee is $110 per person, $90 for members of any of the three clubs.
It includes three rounds of golf, range balls and a championship-round meal Sunday.
Golfers will play 54 holes of medal play in three amateur divisions.
A total of $3,500 in prizes, including $1,500 from sponsors will be up for grabs.
Players also will be shooting for $5,000 hole-in-one prizes each day and $3,000 in raffle prizes will be given away during the tournament.
Tom Caufield of Sequim holed out on the first day of last year’s Clallam Amateur, bagging $5,000.
The final six holes of last year’s tournament also provided fireworks.
Sequim’s Jack Shea, fresh off his second-straight All-Peninsula Boys Golf MVP season, added another accolade, coming from three strokes down with six holes to play to edge Cedars’ Sid Krumpe by one stroke on their home course. Krumpe had a long birdie putt just miss for a tie on the 18th hole.
Shea shot a 5-under-par 67 on the final day and finished the 54-hole event at 9-under-par 207.
The entry deadline is Monday, July 3.
To sign up, phone 800-447-6826 or 360-683-6344.
Operation Uplift tourney
A benefit golf tournament for Operation Uplift will be hosted by Soroptimist International of Port Angeles Noon Club at Peninsula Golf Club on Friday.
Operation Uplift is a volunteer organization that helps cancer patients here on the Peninsula with a variety of services while they are going through treatments.
They have wigs, prosthesis, gas cards and a 24/7 help line.
Friday’s tournament is a four-person scramble format with a noon shotgun start and a buffet get-together following play to award cash prizes and 50/50 raffle proceeds.
Mac Ruddell Community Fund is funding the hole-in-one prizes through Ruddell Auto Mall.
This year the automobile prize for a hole-in-one on the 17th hole is a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro.
Three other par-3 prizes are a Carnival Cruise, Tour Edge clubs and a three-day/two-night stay and play at Treetops Resort.
To sign up, phone Peninsula at 360-457-6501.
Stars and stripes
The annual Stars and Stripes Golf Tournament will be held at SkyRidge Golf Course in Sequim on Saturday, July 1.
This is a two-person, three-format, 27-hole event with space for 28 teams.
A 9 a.m. shotgun start will open play with golfers playing a better ball format on the front nine layout from the green tees.
Teams will switch to scramble play for the second nine on the back nine, also from the green tees.
And players will finish off with nine holes of alternate shot from the back nine’s silver tees.
Cost is $90 and includes golf, range balls, food, KPs and a long putt competition. A honey pot is an extra $20 per person and power carts are $15 per seat.
SkyRidge also will host a barbecue chicken dinner on the Fourth of July, with guest invited to break a potluck dish. Fireworks will follow dinner.
For more information, phone SkyRidge at 360-683-3673.
Discovery Bay deal
Discovery Bay Golf Course near Port Townsend is offering 18 holes for the price of nine between noon and 2 p.m. through Sunday.
The course also will hold a Red, White and Blue Scramble on the Fourth of July.
Stop by the golf shop or phone 360-385-0704 to sign up.
The Volunteers have won the first half of the course’s Thursday Night League title.
Congrats to Greg Miller, Rich Boyd, TJ Durner, John Voelker and Clint Hurd. Nice playing guys.
Golf pro Jeff Kent said the course is still awaiting results of the Washington State Golf Association’s recent re-rating of the golf course. New Ladies tees are coming once those results are received.
And there’s really no better time to play Discovery Bay, Kent said course conditions are simply awesome right now and to come on out and enjoy.
Sunland single
Congratulations to Jim Hanley on his ace on Sunland’s par-3 15th hole during the club’s Men’s Club Mixer on June 14.
As a result, all members of Sunland’s Hole-In-One-Club have a drink waiting for them that must be claimed by Saturday.
Pirate golf tourney a hit
Peninsula College men’s basketball coach Mitch Freeman checked in to say the 2017 PC Athletics Golf Tournament was a smash success.
More than $10K was raised for the school’s Student-Athlete Scholarship Fund at the event by 134 individuals in 33 groups.
There were contest on all the par-3’s, a long drive contest, a putt for wine, and plenty of Peninsula College alumni on hand for a barbecue.
“It was a lot of fun for all who participated,” Freeman said.
“Thank you to all of our Pirate Athletic Association individual/corporate sponsors for supporting our student-athletes at Peninsula College.”
Save the date and a plate
The fifth annual Friends of Olympic Christian School Charity Golf Tournament is planned for Saturday, July 15 at Cedars at Dungeness.
This year’s tournament will run a week before Sequim’s Lavender Weekend, a change from last year.
Players will still be treated to a gourmet lunch featuring hamburgers made with ground Kobe beef, the third straight year for that tasty treat.
The entry fee for the scramble-format tournament is $90, and includes green fees, cart, range balls and the delicious lunch.
A shotgun start will open the event at 9 a.m.
Players also will have a shot at bringing home $30,000 in prizes, including two big hole-in-one opportunities.
Golfers will swing for a $10,000 prize on the fourth hole courtesy of First Federal. And if any player aces No. 17, they’ll win a brand new car from Wilder Auto Center.
Two divisions will be offered: a low gross and the OCS Eagle Flight — which rewards lucky, erratic scores.
Sponsorships also are available.
Proceeds from the tournament are used to benefit students at Olympic Christian School.
To register, visit www.olympicchristian.org or phone 360-477-0802.
Ludlow clinics
Weekly golf clinics for junior players ages 11-16 will begin Thursday, June 22 at Port Ludlow and will be offered by Chimacum High School and University of Idaho alumni Nathan Browning and Kevin Miller.
The clinics will run through Sept. 7 and start at noon, except for July 27 and Aug. 10, which will both start at 3 p.m.
The cost is $20 per session, and if players participate in at least nine sessions, the rest are free.
Browning and Miller will offer clinics for kids ages 6 to 11 from noon to 2 p.m. on July 10-12, July 24-26, Aug. 7-9 and Aug. 21-23.
The cost is $90, with a hot dog or sandwich and drink included each day. Kids also will have the chance to win prizes.
For more information on either set of junior clinics, phone the course at 360-437-0272.
Koepka powers to title
Brooks Koepka started strong with two birdies out of the gate and pushed past his competition with a three-birdie streak on the back nine to claim his first major title, the U.S. Open at Erin Hills on Sunday.
As always, Sports Illustrated writer Alan Shipnuck comes away with an excellent story from the scene, comparing the big and strong Koepka to the Lilliputian hordes (Brian Harman, Justin Thomas etc …) falling off down the stretch. Read it at tinyurl.com/PDN-USOPen.
