THE CLAWS AND Paws Benefit Golf Tournament set for Friday at Cedars and Dungeness for the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society has been cancelled per tournament organizer Kandace Pierce.
I have no information on the reasoning for the cancelation or if its been rescheduled for a different date but I will look into it and see if I can find more for next week.
In the meantime, there’s plenty of other golf left to play on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Knights charity event
The 10th annual Knights of Columbus charity golf tournament will be held at SunLand Golf & Country Club in Sequim on Saturday.
Entry for the two-person best ball event is $55 for the public, $45 for members of Peninsula Golf Club and $25 for golfing members of SunLand.
The tournament will have handicap, women’s and Callaway divisions.
Entry fee includes the round of golf, as well as putting, long drive and closest to the pin contests.
Electric carts are available for $15 per player.
Proceeds from the tournament go to local charities, including the Boys & Girls Club, Hospice, Sequim Food Bank, St. Vincent de Paul and Queen of Angels School.
For more information, phone Mike Schmidt at 360-460-0331.
Dove House benefit
The Olympic Peninsula Boeing Bluebills, a group of kind-hearted retirees, will present an inaugural benefit golf tournament for The Dove House of Port Townsend on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Dove House provides crisis intervention, emergency food and shelter, medical advocacy, legal advocacy, individual support and counseling support groups and therapy for child and adult victims. It also maintains a 24-hour crisis line.
The entry fee for the general public is $80 and $40 for Port Ludlow members.
Included in the entry fee are green fees, carts, range balls, barbecue box lunch, contests, raffles and one drink ticket.
Appetizers will be served at tournament end, concluding with an awards ceremony.
Register by this Saturday at www.plmga.org/golfingdove.htm or phone the Ludlow pro shop at 360-437-0272.
Ladies host event
SunLand Golf & Country Club’s ladies golf groups will host their annual fundraising golf tournament and luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 4.
A day of play will raise funds to provide breast imaging services for local women without health insurance.
Donations will enable the Sequim Olympic Medical Center Foundation to provide this benefit to many women in our community.
An anonymous SunLand member will donate $1 for every $3 donated for the cause.
Ladies from other clubs around the North Olympic Peninsula are invited to participate in a full 18-hole event or a nine-hole tourney.
The 18-hole golfers will tee off at 9 a.m. with the Lady Niners starting at 11 a.m.
Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams of both groups as well as individual prizes for straight drive, long drives and getting on the green on the fifth hole.
Players are encouraged to ask spouses, friends and family members to pledge an amount for every net par or birdie each team scores.
A luncheon will follow play with remarks from Olympic Medical Center radiation oncology medical director Dr. Rena Zimmerman.
A great cause here ladies! Have a fun day out there.
Black cards ninth
Port Townsend Golf Club member and Chimacum High School golf coach Mitch Black notched his ninth career hole-in-one on Saturday.
Black hit what was described as “a perfect 8-iron” on the 160-yard par-3 that hit four feet behind the hole and spun back into the cup.”
Port Townsend Director of Golf Mike Early and Florida resident Jack McDowell witnessed the shot at Port Townsend Golf Club.
Driving in the Dark
Openings are still available for the Port Townsend Sunrise Rotary’s annual “Driving in the Dark” glow-ball golf tournament on Saturday, Sept. 29.
The five-person scramble competition features nine holes played in the light and nine holes played in the dark with glow-in-the-dark golf balls.
Another event on the radar for Port Townsend is a four-person scramble benefit for Team Port Townsend (supports sports programs in the Port Townsend School District) on Oct. 7.
Cost is $40 for this event.
Port Townsend will also host the return of the Three Club Open on Saturday, Oct. 20.
This event lets players choose any three clubs in their bag.
Assistant pro Gabriel Tonan says that some folks choose to take a putter and some don’t . . . What three will you take for this one?
I would select 3-wood, 7-iron and putter.
My trusty Ping Anser 2 putter, despite a recent case of the “hit it way too hard” blues, is my best club.
Finally, Port Townsend will also host the annual Hilltop Open two-person scramble on Saturday, Nov. 3.
Judy Lundgren will serve up her world-famous lasagna at the Hilltop Tavern after play.
For more information on any of these events, phone 360-385-4547.
Norm-stradamus
Jason Dufner is the pick for this weekend’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta if comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member and “Weekend Update” host Norm MacDonald is to be believed.
MacDonald should be taken seriously.
He called wins for Rory McIlroy on back-to-back weeks and even correctly predicted a winning score of -20 under par for McIlroy before the BMW Championship started.
MacDonald makes these prognostications on his Twitter account (www.twitter.com/NormMacDonald) where he’s also been providing golf play-by-play for nearly every tournament this year.
And he’s really good at it too! He takes it seriously, knows when to make a joke and when to lay off and his analysis has been spot on.
I’ve laughed at MacDonald’s wry sense of humor for almost 20 years, so forgive my bias but I have found my self turning down the volume for some big tourneys and “watching” along with Norm.
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Golf columnist Michael Carman can be reached at 360-417-3527 or pdngolf@gmail.com.