UNHEALTHY DOSES OF food, football and family followed by a little golf continue to make Thanksgiving weekend a holiday highlight.
Players will have a couple of post-turkey day golfing options that weekend and two chances to win a turkey this weekend in advance of the big day, the best holiday around, in my humble estimation.
Port Townsend will host it’s own Turkey Shoot tourney on Saturday.
A 10 a.m. shotgun start and two-person teams will play nine holes of best ball, and nine holes of scramble play.
Cost is $25 per player, with $10 in green fees for nonmembers.
Winner takes home a turkey.
Phone PTGC at 360-385-4547.
Discovery Bay is also hosting the club’s annual Turkey Shoot tournament on Saturday, Nov. 22.
This event will be an 18 hole individual gross and net stroke play format with honey pot included.
Play tees off at 9 a.m., with entry fees of $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers.
Players have a chance to bring home a Thanksgiving turkey if they can go low.
Anyone interested in signing up can do so by stopping by the golf shop or calling 360-385-0704.
A chance to work off those mashed potatoes and gravy, or those pieces of pie, comes at SkyRidge Golf Course in Sequim on Friday, Nov. 28.
A Post-Turkey Day two-person scramble and better ball tournament is set for a 9:30 a.m. shotgun start.
The front nine will be played in a scramble format, with the men teeing it up from the green tees and ladies playing from the purple tees.
A minimum of three drives per player must be used during the scramble.
When teams make their way to the back nine, the format switches to better ball, with each team required to take three gross scores from each partner.
Cost is $60 per team, with a $20 per team honey pot available.
Gross and net prizes will be offered, along with KP’s, LP’s and lunch after the round.
Carts are $15 per seat.
An optional six-hole horserace scramble will follow the tournament and lunch.
Cost is $10 for this added event.
The next day, Apple Cup Saturday for those of the crimson and grey or purple and gold persuasion, features the annual two-person Apple Cup Best Ball at Peninsula Golf Club in Port Angeles.
Tee time is set for 8:30 a.m., which allows for plenty of merrymaking in advance of the Washington at Washington State football game, set for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.
PNGA players of year
The Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) has announced its’ Players of the Year for the 2014 championship season.
Recipients include Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C. in the Men’s category; Gigi Stoll of Beaverton, Ore. in the Women’s category; Kevin Carrigan of Victoria, B.C. in the Men’s Mid-Amateur category; Christina Proteau of Port Alberni, B.C. in the Women’s Mid-Amateur category; Tom Brandes of Bellevue, in the Senior Men’s category; Kareen Markle of Meridian, Idaho in the Senior Women’s category; Graysen Huff of Eagle, Idaho in the Junior Boys’ category; and Naomi Ko of Victoria B.C. in the Junior Girls’ category.
As a junior at Barry University in Florida, Svensson won seven of the 12 NCAA Division II events he competed in, a record that earned him the Jack Nicklaus Award for best Division II golfer in the nation.
Stoll was crowned champion in the OGA Women’s Champion of Champions, the Oregon Women’s Amateur Championship, and the Oregon Junior Amateur Championship and made it to the Round of 16 in the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship.
Stoll’s greatest accomplishment may have come when she not only qualified for, but then made the cut in the LPGA Portland Classic, finishing 52nd in the professional event.
This is Carrigan’s third consecutive PNGA Men’s Mid-Amateur Player of the Year honor.
Carrigan had several top finishes in big events in 2014. He placed T6 in the Canadian Mid-Amateur Championship, T7 in the BC Amateur Championship, and T10 in the Sahalee Players Championship. Carrigan also finished T43 in the Canadian Amateur Championship.
Proteau is also receiving her third consecutive PNGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Player of the Year honor.
Her year included a third straight run as champion of the Canadian Women’s Mid-Amateur.
Brandes repeated as champion in the Washington State Senior Men’s Amateur for the fourth straight year.
He qualified for and competed in both the U.S. Senior Open and the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship, where he made it to the Round of 16.
This is Brandes’ fourth consecutive PNGA Senior Men’s Player of the Year.
Markle repeats as PNGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year after she put together yet another impressive run locally as well as nationally.
She won the Idaho Golf Association Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, and finished in the Round of 16 in the Pacific Northwest Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship. Markle finished as a semifinalist in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, and also advanced to match play in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, finishing in the Round of 32.
Huff was crowned champion at the AJGA PING Phoenix Junior at ASU Karsten in Tempe, Ariz. He also finished runner-up in the AJGA Ryan Moore Junior Championship, held in Lakewood
Ko capped her year with a win at the BC Junior Girls’ Amateur Championship.
She compiled top finishes in many events, including a fourth-place finish at the BC Women’s Amateur Championship, fourth in the Canadian Junior Girls’ Amateur Championship, runner-up in the AJGA St. Louis, and 13th in the AJGA Junior Girls’ Championship.
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Golf columnist Michael Carman can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5152 or pdngolf@gmail.com.