YOUTH WILL BE served at a host of upcoming golf clinics intended for the junior set across the North Olympic Peninsula.
This Saturday, Port Townsend Golf Club assistant pro and Port Townsend High School golf coach Gabriel Tonan, and Tonan’s former Port Townsend High School golfer, Ben Krabill, will host a free junior clinic from 11 a.m. to noon.
Port Townsend will hold its next Junior Golf Camp from 9 a.m. to noon July 24-26.
Phone the course at 360-385-4547 for more details.
Moving west to just outside Port Townsend, Discovery Bay’s Junior Golf Camp for ages 7 to 17 will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.
Cost is $50 and includes a golf hat.
Dan Swindler will coach the camp, and is also available for private lessons.
For more information, phone 360-385-0704 or visit www.discoverybaygolfcourse.com.
Over in Sequim, SunLand Golf & Country Club will hold a Junior Golf Camp from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. July 23-26.
Cost is $65. To sign up, phone 360-683-6800, ext. 13.
With the amount of golfing grandparents in the area, I’d venture many will host their grandchildren this summer.
If the schedule meshes, have them learn some fundamentals at one of these events and then take them out on the course for some good bonding times.
Disco Bay demo day
Adams Golf is holding a demo day from 9 a.m. to noon today at Discovery Bay. Head out if you are reading this with your breakfast.
Discovery Bay is also starting a nine-hole Monday night competition.
Players should show up at 5:30 p.m. for the 6 p.m. tee off.
Cost is $10 for the golf and $5 for the competition.
SkyRidge schedule
SkyRidge Golf Course in Sequim has its two-person 27-hole Stars and Stripes Tournament this Saturday, and will host two tournaments next weekend, July 21-22.
Stars and Stripes is $80 per team and includes range balls, food and competition money.
A honey pot is an extra $20.
Lavender tourney set
Next Saturday, July 21, SkyRidge gets into the theme of Lavender Weekend with the course’s seventh annual Lavender Faire Golf Tournament.
The two-person scramble will tee things off in a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Cost is $45 per player with carts an extra $15 per seat.
A $10 honey pot will be available as well.
Players with a Lavender Weekend button will get $2 off their cart seat fee.
After golf, players get to chow down on a Captain Henry’s Blackened Salmon dinner with all the fixin’s.
I am of the mind that any meal that promises “fixin’s” is fixing to be delicious.
Proceeds from this event will help support disabled veterans of foreign wars.
Clallam Links Open
SkyRidge will host the Clallam Links British Open after British Open play on Sunday, July 22.
Lunch is set for noon with tee times beginning at 1 p.m.
The event has three divisions: Men’s Amateur for handicaps 0-14 and playing from the black tees; Men’s Amateur 15 and over from the green tees; and Women’s Amateur from the purple tees.
Players can form their own foursome or sign up with the clubhouse for placement.
Cost is $55 with $25 for golf, $25 for honey pot and $5 for lunch.
Players also receive range balls, a chance at KPs and longest putt.
Carts are $15 per seat.
If there’s a full-40 person field, there will be a $1,000 payout and 30 percent of the field will get some cash.
To get in on any of these events, phone SkyRidge at 360-683-3673.
Pirate Tourney slotted
The Peninsula Pirate annual Golf Scramble Celebration is set for The Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course in Sequim on Friday, Aug. 10.
An 8:30 a.m. shotgun start will kick off the four-person scramble format event.
Cost is $100 per individual or $300 per team, and includes cart, greens fee, tee prize and an awards banquet.
Sponsorship opportunities are available.
Last year, the inaugural tournament raised more than $4,000 that went directly to student-athlete scholarships, allowing deserving student-athletes to attend college who may not have been able to do so otherwise.
Pirates men’s basketball coach Lance Von Vogt writes: “The Peninsula College Athletics program has experienced unprecedented success over the past two years, and is looking to celebrate that success at this golf tournament!”
I completely agree.
Peninsula has raised a lot of trophies in the past few seasons in soccer and basketball, and fundraisers like this will help provide the scholarship funds to keep attracting talented young men and women to the program.
To get signed up or for more information, phone Von Vogt at 360-417-6467 or email lvonvogt@pencol.edu.
State Senior Games
Golfers 50 and older by Dec. 31 are eligible to play in the Washington State Senior Games Golf Tournament on Thursday, July 19.
Play will begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. at Lacey’s The Golf Club at Hawks Prairie (Links Course).
Cost is $50 and includes a cart.
Registration should be turned in or postmarked by Monday.
For more information, visit www.pugetsoundgames.com.
NYC takes the open
Na Yeon Choi claimed her first major, the U.S. Women’s Open, on Sunday at Blackwolf Run in Wisconsin.
Blackwolf Run is the same course where South Korean Se Ri Pak won the Open in 1998, setting off an explosion in the growth of the game in that country.
The success of that growth is evident with South Korean players taking four of the last five U.S. Women’s Open titles.
Good job NYC, that Saturday round (a 65) was spectacular.
______
Golf columnist Michael Carman can be reached at 360-417-3527 or pdngolf@gmail.com.