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Friday, August 10, 2012

GOLF 2012 – WESTERN WASHINGTON

Crossing over shortens list

By Jim Meehan jimm@spokesman.com, (208) 765-7131

I grew up in Western Washington so I’m familiar with many of the golf courses on that side of the state. I was fortunate to play Sahalee, site of the 1998 PGA Championship and 2010 U.S. Senior Open, as my home course in high school. Yes, that was a long time ago.

I’ve lived on this side of the mountains for nearly 30 years, but I’ve tried to keep up with the newer courses that have sprouted up on the west side. It’s been a losing battle, but I gained on it during a recent three-day trip.

I played Druids Glen in Kent (opened in 1997), Washington National in Auburn (opened in 2000) and Chambers Bay just outside of Tacoma (opened in 2007). My kids are older than all three courses.

Druids Glen was in mint condition and its reasonable green fees make it a bargain.

Washington National, home of the University of Washington golf team, is a stiff test from start to finish.

Chambers Bay is simply unlike any course I’ve seen or played. The only thing that compares is the countless hours I’ve spent watching the British Open on television with players bundled in rain gear putting from 15 yards short of the green to a flagstick swaying in the wind.

Obviously, that doesn’t compare to the real deal.

Chambers Bay is the real deal and it’s easy to understand why the links course was selected to host the 2015 U.S. Open.

Keep reading for more on this trio of courses.

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On the west side of Washington, lush grass and hazards are plentiful, especially at Druids Glen (above) and Chambers Bay (below).

Druids Glen

Washington National

This course offers a bit of everything, incorporating a tasteful mix of hazards and a creative design nestled beneath the looming beauty of Mount Rainier.

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The Huskies’ home course challenges you to make the grade and, with trouble all around, your report card will reflect a thoughtful mix of difficulty and fairness.

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Find an in-depth listing of area golf courses, including contact information, hours of operation, greens fees and reservation recommendations.

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Don’t let Chambers Bay’s lack of foliage fool you.

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GOLF 2012

Malaysia draws hit Growing event scores coup, lands Woods a year early

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One year before the PGA Tour stop in Malaysia becomes an official event, it will get the biggest draw in golf – Tiger Woods.

Woods will play in the CIMB Classic on Oct. 25-28 at The Mines Resort in Kuala Lumpur, his first time competing in Malaysia since he won the individual and team titles in the 1999 World Cup. The CIMB Classic began two years ago as little more than a limited-field exhibition that featured PGA Tour players and Asian Tour players. It will become a full-fledged PGA Tour event starting in 2013, when the tour begins its new season in October after the FedEx Cup competition.

The tournament this year features a 48-man field – 30 from the PGA Tour, 10 from the Asian Tour and eight exemptions – competing for $6.1 million.

When it becomes part of the 2013-14 tour schedule, the CIMB Classic will have at least a 78-man field and a $7 million

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Tiger Woods will bring with him an enormous swing of interest when he plays in the CIMB Classic in Malaysia this October.

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It was a big coup to get Woods one year ahead of joining the PGA Tour schedule.

A year ago, the Malaysian event was largely overlooked during the last week

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When playing a golf course for the first time you always come away with at least one valid gripe, right?

Too expensive. Mundane layout. Too tough. Not tough enough. Dreadful greens. Shoddy fairways. Visually unappealing.

You won’t encounter that problem at Druids Glen. The course could probably offer a satisfaction guarantee and not have to worry about grumbling customers. That’s coming from a guy who turned a 20-minute drive to the course into a 70-minute exploration – I’m blaming MapQuest – and then played so-so

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The course offers a little of everything – water, bunkers, tree-lined fairways and creative design – and it comes with a view.

Mount Rainier serves as a stunning backdrop on a cloudless July morning.

“The words we use are a championship caliber course at

competitive pricing,” said Lake City High graduate Jeff Schuh, the course’s golf and tournament manager. “The biggest thing I hear from people is the great view and setting and it’s a solid golf course.

You don’t go around the course feeling like you’re playing the same hole over and over. You’re using every club in the bag and getting a different challenge based on the hole you’re playing.”

Our threesome played from the championship tees, spanning 6,514 yards. The tournament tees extend the length to 7,146 yards. There’s a world of difference between the two.

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GOLF 2012 – DRUIDS GLEN “One is downhill, one is straight-on with water left Continued from K4 and right, one has water “You don’t have to be so left,” Schuh said. “There’s no water on No. 6, but perfect (from the there’s a bunker in front. championship tees),” Schuh said, “but when we You’re not just stepping up and hitting move it back pitching wedge for or 9-iron four tournaments The times on the or with our numbers par 3s.” men’s club the Several scores shoot Tourney tees other holes up.”

Yardage: 7,146 were The par 3s Rating/Slope: eye-catchers. are great holes, Men: 75.1/144 No. 7 is the from any of the Women: 81.1/148 classic four tee boxes, Championship risk-reward with water Yardage: 6,514 par 4 at 281 coming into Rating/Slope: yards. It play on three Men: 72.5/137 features a of the four.

Women: 78.0/141 narrow The fourth direct-line measured 202 Standard landing area yards with a Yardage: 6,004 and an wavy green Rating/Slope: elevated green and a Men: 69.4/134 protected by a well-placed Women: 76.0/140 couple of sand bunker in Gold traps. If you front.

Yardage: 5,354 miss right, I hit an Rating/Slope: trees await. If 8-iron, 7-iron, Men: 66.3/124 you miss left, 6-iron and Women: 71.8/130 you’ll usually 5-iron on the end up with an par 3s. I should have hit 8-iron, 7-iron and awkward, uphill second shot to a small target. two 5-irons.

Speaking from experience: On No. 3, which If you miss wide left, you’ll required a carry of nearly yank another ball from 195 yards over a pond to a pin tucked in the back left your bag and try to do corner, I visited the water better the next time.

No. 2 is a short, 461-yard with a semi-chubby 6-iron par 5 with Mount Rainier and made double bogey.

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Water can be found on 12 of the 18 holes at Druids Glen, and there’s at least one bunker on every hole.

in the background when the weather cooperates.

The hole isn’t overly difficult, if your drive is on the mark. It’s often a 6- or 7-iron home for a crack at eagle. From the tips, though, it’s usually a low iron/hybrid or fairway wood over water to an angled green.

No. 15 is a 433-yard par 4 with a sizable fairway but

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big trouble if you spray it too far left or right. The hole’s complexion changes with a well-struck drive that reaches a sharp downhill slope roughly 265 yards from the tee and feeds down to an approach from wedge distance.

Drives remaining on the upper plateau require a middle iron to find the green.

The 18th is a 533-yard par 5 that is reachable in two with a pair of quality shots, but not if your drive trickles into a culvert at the outset of a water hazard on the left.

The hole will yield birdies and a rare eagle as well as a ‘7’ to the unnamed player who found a culvert.

Rates vary throughout the week, but there are

Monday and Tuesday specials for $39 with GPS-equipped carts. The course was in outstanding condition, particularly the greens.

“We’ve found what works,” Schuh said. “We have everything so dialed in that one year is the same as the next, but we keep improving on the little things.”

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GOLF 2012 – WESTERN WASHINGTON

Coastal calligraphy Twists and turns of Chambers Bay link golfers to purest form of game Story by Jim Meehan R jimm@spokesman.com

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he pro shop is situated high above the golf course and provides a panoramic view of what awaits a first-time visitor.

Below sits a moonscape of dunes and mounds, knobs and knolls, slants and slopes.

Eighteen holes Chambers Bay weave through the sandy terrain, 6320 Grandview Drive West University Place, WA 98467 bordered in the Contact: (877) 29-LINKS www.chambersbaygolf.com distance by railroad tracks and Puget Sound. A slice of Scottish links just outside of Tacoma.

It is spectacular sight, and it only gets better on the first tee.

Shortly after opening in 2007 Chambers Bay was named America’s best new public course

by Golf Digest. In 2010 Chambers Bay hosted the U.S. Amateur, the first time in the event’s then 110-year history it was held on a municipally-owned course. In 2015, Chambers Bay welcomes the U.S. Open for the first Open visit to a Pacific Northwest course.

“Just visually, the landscape of the place is somewhat foreign. People refer to it as a See CHAMBERS BAY, K10

Hole No. 15 at Chambers Bay, known as “Lone Fir,” features the only tree found on the entire golf course behind its sizable g

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GOLF 2012 – CHAMBERS BAY

The numbers Teal tees Yardage: 7,547 Rating/Slope: 76.8/142 Navy tees Yardage: 7,106 Rating/Slope: 74.7/141 Sand tees Yardage: 6,532 Rating/Slope: 72.1/136 White tees Yardage: 6,038 Men: 70.0/130 Women: 76.1/137 Blue tees Yardage: 5,287 Women: 71.2/130

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green. The hole plays 172 yards from the longest (Teal) tees and ranks as the No. 18 handicapped hole for men and the 16th for women.

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GOLF 2012 – WESTERN WASHINGTON

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No. 17, found on the front of a Washington National “report card,” is lined with sand, water and elevation changes.

Steep grading curve Difficult Washington National gives nothing away

By Jim Meehan jimm@spokesman.com, (208) 765-7131

Maybe a C or C-minus.

No, not the golf course’s grade.

My grade.

Washington National in Auburn is home to the UW men’s and women’s golf teams. Following an academic theme, the scorecard is also referred to as a report card. A sign that reads “Final Exam” directs players to the 18th tee box.

When all the digits were added up, I had nearly doubled my handicap index. Guess that’s probably closer to a D. Again, not the course’s fault.

Washington National is tough

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(recommended for 0-6 handicaps).

David Putney is in his first year as head pro, but he played the course when it opened in 2000.

“I thought it was a great, championship level course,” Putney said. “It has the length and the bunkers. People think it’s a fun layout, challenging, yet rewarding for good shots.”

Two of the four par 5s are over 600 yards. It’s possible to reach the two in the 530-yard range. It also can be punishing, particularly on No. 17, where two separate water features and a canal hugging the right side of the green await off-target shots.

The front side has a nice mix of

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GOLF 2012 – WASHINGTON NATIONAL

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Continued from K8 par 4s. Three range from 406 to 432 yards, another measured 346 and there’s also the drivable 299-yard seventh.

A water hazard runs within 40 yards of the green, followed by a sizable bunker. There’s a safer route to the left, but an uphill second shot is no picnic to a green that narrows from that angle.

No. 5 is the first par 3 and it checks in at 161 yards from the Senior tees, 185 from the Husky tees. Those distances are important to arrive on the proper tier and, if possible, stay below the cup.

If you divide the green into quarters, the front-left section sits well below the other three. One member of our group hit the green, but was on the upper tier 35 feet away from the left-front pin location. He three-putted after his first putt failed to take into account nearly 10 feet of break.

The back nine is loaded with quality holes. The 10th, a 412-yard par 4, features a waste bunker that swallows up tee shots to the left and ones that travel longer than 260 yards. Players deal with bunkers on virtually every shot on every hole.

“John Fought does like his bunkers,” said Putney, referring to the course

The numbers Husky tees Yardage: 7,304 Rating/Slope: 75.5/143 Senior Yardage: 6,772 Rating/Slope: 72.7/139 Junior Yardage: 6,420 Rating/Slope: Men: 71.1/136; Women: 77.2/142 Sophomore Yardage: 5,794 Rating/Slope: Men: 68.4/119; Women: 73.9/134 Freshman Yardage: 5,117 Rating/Slope: Men: 65.2/113; Women: 70.5/120

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Washington National challenges golfers with a mix of length and hazards from all tee locations.

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The closing stretch is terrific, beginning with the 606-yard par-5 14th. Sand and length are the primary issues before encountering a narrow green that extends 35-40 yards from front to back. In addition to Washington National’s

abundant sand, there are numerous 40-yard greens.

First-time visitors aren’t sure what to expect on No. 15.

It’s just 326 yards, but all you see is some fairway, a big trap in the landing area and a neatly manicured hillside in the distance. With hopes for a

magical score long gone, we hit drivers and were all safe.

We were also surprised when we walked over the crest of the fairway to see the green nearly surrounded by a water channel that comes into play on 300-yard drives. Fittingly, our group recorded a birdie, a

par and a bogey.

“The green isn’t very deep and you’re hitting wedges from a downhill lie,” Putney said. “I’m still trying to figure out the best way to play it.”

The 178-yard, par-3 16th has a large, two-tiered green. A couple of the par 4s are tougher, but our group nominated No. 17 – a 529-yard par 5 with water sand and elevation changes – as the best hole. Putney noted that a photo of the 17th is on the front of the score, err, report card.

The 18th is 425 yards to a wavy green and the usual assortment of traps along the way – a worthy final exam.

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GOLF 2012 – CHAMBERS BAY

CHAMBERS BAY

Continued from K6 moonscape sometimes and the pictures of individual holes don’t give you a sense of the expanse,” general manager Matt Allen said.

“The players in the (U.S.) Amateur really struggled to characterize it.

“I would ask people what they thought, people from all over the world, just like it will be with the U.S. Open. Time and time again, the best they could come up with was, ‘It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. Truly unique.’ ” Chambers Bay, located about 15 minutes off I-5, was built on what was previously a gravel mine. This masterpiece is accommodating to the world’s best players and high handicappers by virtue of Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s design.

“One of the hallmarks of links golf in general is no water hazards, no forced carries, no dense trees, really not many lost balls,” Allen said. “I’ve played 50-60 rounds here in 4 years and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve lost a ball.

“It’s going to extract plenty of strokes from you but it’s usually going to do that around the greens. The greens are big so people have a tendency to have a lot of putts. On occasion there’s a better place to be off the green than on the green, which is again a hallmark of links golf.”

On most holes it wasn’t easy to determine where the green started and the fringe ended. I used putter on nearly every shot within 25 yards of the flag, save for green-side bunkers and one foolish decision to chip over a

the guesswork by utilizing the backboard, leaving a 4-footer for birdie.

No. 10 is just 360 yards but the fairway narrows considerably if you choose driver. The approach is to an elevated green that is roughly 35-feet wide and framed smartly by two large dunes.

No. 12 is an uphill, 281-yard par 4. It’s reachable if you avoid a bunker roughly 40 yards from the green. A mound on the right can help steer drives, second shots and chips back on path, but the challenge is finding the correct level on an undulating green.

No. 15 is a downhill par 3, measuring 116 yards from the sand tees and a whopping 246 from the back tees. Sand surrounds three-fourths of the green and the left side features a pot bunker. The pin location – on this and most of the holes – can significantly alter your plan of attack. Puget Sound and the only tree on the course make for a scenic view from the tee box.

Courtesy photo “The lone fir tree is iconic Hole No. 10, named “High Dunes,” plays through a valley formed by 60-foot sand dunes. due to the exposure it got when it was vandalized,” Allen said.

No. 8, a 523-yard par 5, is the “Somebody came down one impression but I’ll highlight a crest beyond the 14th green. handful of favorites. The course only hole on the course without night and had too many beers That 407-yard hole starts with a difficult, 465-yard sand (one hole on the back nine and took an axe to it, but it underscored the fine line survived. That hole probably has a six-acre bunker). It’s between par and double bogey. par 4 that will have the gets photographed more than straight, but the slope of the A bunker rests in the middle of flexibility to play as a par 5 in any other.” the fairway – it comes into play the Open when a new tee box is fairway influences balls to roll The 18th is 514 yards, mostly to the right. I learned that constructed, probably this fall. more from a deeper tee box – uphill, with dunes and bunkers Following the U.S. Amateur, the lesson when my second shot and precision is needed on the on both sides. A new pot bunker stopped five yards from second shot to a green guarded green was reconfigured to be comes into play on second trundling down the hillside. more receptive to approach on the left by bunkers. My shots, especially from the Facing a 70-yard pitch to a approach found the green for a shots that previously filtered back pin location, a wise playing deeper tee boxes. The hole also left down by the 18th tee. few seconds before catching a partner suggested using the hill can play as a long par 4.

I was in a bunker, maybe 75 hollow and trickling into a “Even now with the number behind the green. The backstop yards from the green, but bunker. Three feet to the right of times I’ve played the course,” worked perfectly and my ball managed to make par. I faced and I would have been drifted back within 12 feet of the Allen said, “you finish a round difficult sand shots from that surveying a birdie putt. I left and it’s, ‘I want to get back out distance three times during the cup. Allen had a 35-yard putt with a bogey. from the front edge but took out there.’ ” round.

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AREA COURSE DIRECTORY The following is a directory of area golf courses. For a digital version of this list, visit www.spokesman.com/golf •Antler Springs GC (509) 292-GOLF. 18hole greens fees: Weekends: $37 with cart, $25 without; 9 holes with cart $27, $15 without. Weekdays: $25 cart, $20 without. Seniors and juniors (ages 11-17) receive $5 discount any day. Wednesdays 2-for-1. Tee times: no deadlines, but recommended for Wednesdays, weekends.

•Avondale GC (208) 772-5963. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays, $53, except Mondays at $32. After 2:30 p.m., $35.

9-hole weekends/weekdays, $28. 18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: no deadlines. www.avondalegolfcourse.com.

•Bryden Canyon GC (208) 746-0863. 18hole greens fees: weekends $26; weekdays, $22. 9-hole: daily, $17. 18-hole cart fee: $14 per seat; 9-hole: $9 per seat. Tee times: no deadlines. www.brydencanyongolf.net.

•Chewelah G&CC (509) 935-6807. Until May 15: 27 holes (includes cart), $50 on weekends, $45 M-Th.; 18 holes $40/$35.

May 16-Sept. 5: 27 holes $60/$55; 18 holes $50/$45. Sept. 6-season close: 27 holes $50/$45; 18 holes $40/$35. Seniors $5 discount M-Th.; juniors $5 discount on 9 holes, $10 on 18 or 27 holes M-Th. Walking rates all season: 9 holes $20/$17, 18 holes $35/$30, 27 holes $40/$35. Tee times: no deadlines. www.chewelahgolf.com.

•Circling Raven GC (800) 523-2464. 18hole greens fees (with golf cart and use of practice range): Through May 12: MondayThursday: $65, Friday-Sunday: $75; May 13Oct. 2: Monday-Thursday: $80, Friday-Sunday: $95. Oct. 3-end of season: MondayThursday: $65, Friday-Sunday $75. Tee times: 30 days in advance. www.circlingraven.com.

•Coeur d’Alene GC (208) 765-0218. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays, $29, $24 for seniors. 9-hole: weekends/weekdays, $17, $15 for seniors. 18-hole cart fee: $27; 9-hole: $17. Single person 18-hole cart fee: $17; 9-hole $10. Tee times: Friday-Sunday and holidays, call prior Tuesday; MonThurs, prior Thursday. www.cdapublicgolf.com.

•Coeur d’Alene Resort (208) 667-4653.

18-hole greens fees: weekdays/weekends, April: $150 for day guests, twilight rate April daily $75, (after 2:00), May/October: $175, twilight $90, June/September: $195, twilight $110; July/August: $220, twilight $135.

Fees include cart, range balls and forecaddie, sports massage and complimentary bag tag. Best values: Golf packages available, include lodging and golf. Spring starting at $99 per person based on double occupancy. Specials will be announced throughout the year. Tee times: no deadline if staying at hotel. 30 days advance otherwise. Call for Good Neighbor specials starting at $75. www.cdaresort.com.

•Colfax G&CC (509) 397-2122. Summer rates: 18-hole greens fees weekend/weekdays, $21.50. 9-hole: weekends/weekdays, $14. 18-hole cart fee: $20; 9-hole: $13. Winter rates: 18-hole greens fees: $16, 9-hole: $10.

Tee times: weekends, call one day in advance; weekdays, no deadlines.

•Dominion Meadows GC (formerly Colville Elks CG) (509) 684-5508. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $27/25; Senior 18-hole: $23/$21. College $23/21, Junior $18 (no weekend rates), 9-hole fee: weekends/ weekdays $21/ $19; Senior 9-hole: $18/ $16.

College $18/$16, Junior $13/ $10. 18-hole cart fee: $24; 9-hole: $12. Tee times: Call one day in advance. www.dominionmeadows golf.com.

•Deer Park G&CC (509) 276-5912. 18-hole greens fees: weekends $29 ($20 for sunset rate after 3 p.m., with $10 cart fee); weekdays (Monday-Friday) $26 ($21for seniors).

9-hole: weekends after 3 p.m., $17.50 ($16 for seniors); weekdays (Monday-Friday) $17.50 ($16 for seniors). 18-hole cart fee: $29; 9-hole: $14.50. Tee times: weekends/

weekdays, call one week in advance. www.deerparkgolf.com.

•Downriver GC (509) 327-5269. 18-hole greens fees: weekends $29, weekdays (Monday-Thursday) $27, (with discount card the weekends are $23, weekdays $20). 9-hole: weekends $29 ($19 after 3.p.m), weekdays $20 (with discount card weekends $20 after 3 p.m., weekdays $15).

18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call previous Friday starting at 2 p.m.; weekdays, call two days in advance by 2 p.m. www.spokaneparks.org.

•Esmeralda GC (509) 487-6291. 18-hole greens fees: weekends $29, weekdays $27 (with discount card $20 during weekdays, $18 for seniors, $23 on weekends). 9-hole: weekends/weekdays (only available after 3 p.m.), $20 (with discount card $16). 18hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call previous Friday starting at 2 p.m.; weekdays, call two days in advance by 2 p.m.. www.spokaneparks.org.

•The Fairways GC (509) 747-8418. 18-hole: Tuesday-Friday greens fees $22; Monday $17 (high school students $12, senior citizens $18, everyday); weekends $27. 9-hole: weekends/weekdays $17. Everyday after 4 p.m. $17. Tee times: weekends/weekday tee time opening varies, call clubhouse for availability. www.golfthefairways.com.

•Hangman Valley GC (509) 448-1212. 18hole greens fees: weekdays (MondayThursday), $27, weekend $29; rate for prebook $32; county discount card $22 M-Th, weekends $24; 9-hole: weekdays $21. Seniors rate with discount card M-Th $18.50.

Juniors – 9 or 18-hole $15, 10.50 with junior discount card. 18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call the previous Saturday by 7 a.m.; weekdays, call on Tuesday at 7 a.m. Course does not allow fivesome parties.

•Harrington G&CC (509) 253-4308. 18hole greens fees: Wednesday-Sunday $18, $16 for seniors; Monday-Tuesday $10 (except holidays). 9-hole: weekends/ weekdays $13, $11for seniors. 18-hole cart fee: $23; 9-hole: $13. Tee times: no deadlines.

•Highlands GC (208) 773-3673. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $35; seniors weekdays/weekends after 2 p.m. $28; juniors, weekdays $15 and weekends $22 until 2 p.m. then back to $15; 9-hole: $22 weekdays/weekends after 2 p.m.; 18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call up to one week in advance; weekdays, up to one week in advance. Twilight time is after 3 p.m. and is $25 with cart, $20 without. www.thehighlandsgc.com.

•Idaho Club (208) 265-2345. 18-hole greens fees: $125 includes golf cart. Twilight rate (after 2 p.m.) $80. Tee times required.

•Indian Canyon GC (509) 747-5353. 18hole greens fees: weekends $29, weekdays $27 (with discount card $20 during weekdays, $18 for seniors, $23 on weekends). 9hole: weekends/weekdays (only available after 3 p.m.), $20 (with discount card $16).

18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call previous Friday starting at 2 p.m.; weekdays, call two days in advance by 2 p.m.. www.spokaneparks.org.

•Liberty Lake GC (509) 255-6233. 18-hole greens fees: weekday (Monday-Thursday) $28.24, $15.69 for juniors. With $30 discount card the rate is $21.97, $19.35 for seniors and $10.98 for juniors. Weekend $30.33 and $25.10 with discount card. Seniors after 3 p.m. is $19.35. 9-hole: weekday $21.97 and $17.78 with discount card. 18hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call on Saturday one week in advance; weekdays, call the previous Tuesday morning.

•The Links GC, Post Falls (208) 777-7611. 18hole greens fees: Friday, Saturday, Sunday $36; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday $31; 9hole Friday, Saturday, Sunday $24; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday $19; TightWad-Tuesday: 18-hole: $21; 9-hole: $14. Seniors 60+: $26 for 18 holes, $14 for 9 holes.

Juniors: $19 for 18 holes, $14 for 9 holes. 18hole cart fee: $30; 9-hole: $15. Tee times: no deadlines.

•MeadowWood GC (509) 255-9539. 18hole greens fees: weekday (Monday-Thursday) $28.24, $15.69 for juniors. With $30 discount card the rate is $21.97, $19.35 for seniors and $10.98 for juniors. Weekend $30.33 and $25.10 with discount card. Seniors after 3 p.m. is $19.35. 9-hole: weekday $21.97 and $17.78 with discount card. 18hole cart fee: $14 per person; 9-hole: $7 per person. Tee times: weekends, call on Saturday one week in advance; weekdays, call the previous Tuesday morning. www.meadowwoodgolf.com.

•Mirror Lake Municipal GC, Bonners Ferry, Idaho (208) 267-5314. 9-hole greens fees: $16, weekends and holidays $18, juniors $9.

18-hole: $23, weekends and holidays $25, juniors $13. Cart trail fee: $5.

•Painted Hills GC (509) 928-4653. 18-hole greens fees: weekends (Fri-Sat-Sun) $24, $22 for seniors, $18 for juniors; weekdays $22, seniors $18, juniors $13; 9-hole: weekends $18, $16 for seniors, $12 for juniors; weekdays $16, seniors $14, juniors $10; 18hole cart fee: $12 per person; 9-hole: $6 per person; $10 for weekdays and $13 weekends twilight (twilight rate begins two and a half hours before sunset; Tee times: Call one week in advance. www.spokanegolf.com.

•Palouse Ridge GC (509) 335-4342. 18hole greens fees Monday-Thursday for residents (live within 40-mile radius): February 19-April 30 peak $39, twilight $32, Faculty/ staff $32, student $29, junior $19, senior 60+ $32. Monday-Thursday for non-residents: Peak $49, twilight $32. Friday-Sunday for residents: Peak (cart included) $59, twilight $39, faculty/staff* $39, student* $39, junior* $29, Senior $39. Friday-Sunday for non-residents: Peak (cart included) $69, twilight $39. (* indicates space-available basis). Starting May 1: Monday-ThursdayResident rate for peak $45, twilight $39, senior $39, faculty $39, student $26, junior $19. Non-resident Monday-Thursday: Peak $59, twilight $39. Fri-Sun resident: Peak $69, twilight $49, senior $49, faculty $49, student $39, junior $29. Non-resident FriSun: Peak $89, twilight-$65. Cart fees: all rates include a cart. www.palouseridge.com.

•Pine Acres (509) 466-9984. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $12; seniors/juniors (weekdays only) $11. 9-hole: weekends/weekdays $8; seniors/juniors (weekdays only) $7. Pull carts $1. Tee times: none. Range bucket prices: 135 balls for $10, 90 balls for $7.50, 60 balls for $6.50. Club Rentals: $0.50 a club.

•Pomeroy GC (509) 843-1197. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $18. 9hole: $12. 18-hole cart fee: $20, 9-hole: $10.

Off-course cart fee: $3. Tee times: none.

•Ponderosa Springs (208) 664-1101. 9hole: weekends/weekdays $12, $6 to play again. Weekdays: seniors (55 and over) $10, juniors (17 and under) $10. Ten-play passes: $90. Pull carts only: $2. Club rentals: $3 for a bag. Tee times: none. No dress code.

•Prairie Falls GC, Post Falls (208) 4570210. 18-hole greens fees: weekdays $25; weekends $30. 18-hole cart fee: $30; 9hole: $15. Tee times: one week in advance. www.prairiefallsgolf.com.

•Priest Lake GC (208) 443-2525. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays high season (June 18-Sept. 11) $55; 9-hole: weekends and high season $29; off-season $29 for 18, $15 for 9. 18-cart fee: $15 per seat, 9cart fee: $12 per seat. Tee times: no deadline, but time availability varies. www.priestlakegolfcourse.com.

•Quail Ridge GC (509) 758-8501. 18-hole greens fees: weekdays (Monday-Thursday) $25; weekends $28. 9-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $17. 18-hole cart fee: $28, $14 per seat; 9-hole: $16, $8 per seat. Tee times: one week in advance.

•The Creek at Qualchan GC (509) 4489317. 18-hole greens fees: weekends $29, weekdays $27 (with discount card $20 during weekdays, $18 for seniors, $23 on weekends). 9-hole: weekends/weekdays (only available after 3 p.m.), $20 (with discount

card $16). 18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14.

Tee times: weekends, call previous Friday starting at 2 p.m.; weekdays, call two days in advance by 2 p.m. www.spokaneparks.org.

•Ranch Club Golf Course (208) 448-1731.

18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $21. 9-hole: weekends/weekdays $16. 18hole cart fee: $20; 9-hole: $15. Golf all day (April, May, October, November): $15. Tee times: on weekends reservations are needed a couple of days in advance.

•Ritzville GC (509) 659-9868. 18-hole greens fees: weekends $22; weekdays $20; senior (Monday-Thursday) $17. 9-hole: weekends $16; weekdays $14, senior (Monday-Thursday) $12. High School students and below can play unlimited rounds for $5 (Monday-Thursday). Trail fee: $5. Tee times: no deadlines. Subject to change because of city council.

•Sandpoint Elks GC (208) 263-4321. 18hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $22. 9-hole: weekends/weekdays $16. 18hole cart fee: $22; 9-hole: $16. Tee times: none.

•Shoshone G&TC (208) 784-0161. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $26, senior $22, junior $18 (under 18 years). 9-hole: weekends/weekdays $16, senior $14, junior $9. Monday except holidays, all day $20. 18hole cart fee: $26; 9-hole: $13. Tee times: no deadlines.

•St. John G&CC (509) 648-3259. All-day greens fees: weekends/weekdays $15. 9hole: weekdays $10.

•St. Maries GC (208) 245-3842. 18-hole greens fees: weekends $24; weekdays $20 (weekdays juniors, $8). 9-hole: weekends $15; weekdays $13 (juniors, $8). 18-hole cart fee: $26; 9-hole: $13. Tee times: no deadline.

•Stoneridge GC (208) 437-GOLF. 18-hole greens fees: May-Sept weekdays $32; weekends $35; weekdays twilight $22, weekends twilight $25; April and October $26 any time, twilight $18; Cart-$18 per seat.

Large bag range balls-$6. Tee times: call 14 days in advance. www.stoneridgeidaho.com.

•Sun Dance GC (509) 466-4040. 18-hole greens fees: weekends/weekdays $24, discounted $20; juniors $13.50; seniors $20, discounted $17.50. 9-hole: weekends/ weekdays, all 18-hole rates apply until 3 p.m; $17.50 (seniors $17.50; juniors $13.50).

18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Twilight: $20. Tee times: call one week in advance. www.sundancegc.com.

•Tekoa GC (509) 284-5607. 9-hole greens fees: weekdays $12. weekends/holidays $15. 9-hole: $9. Tee times: none.

•Twin Lakes Village GC (208) 687-1311. 18hole greens fees: all week $35; seniors (Monday-Friday) $25. 9-hole: Monday-Friday and weekends after 3 p.m. and before 8 a.m. $22; Monday-Friday 18-hole for juniors is $18, under 9 is $12; twilight rate $28 after 3 p.m. 18-hole cart fee: $14 per seat; 9-hole: $7 per seat. Tee times: call one week in advance. www.golftwinlakes.com.

•University of Idaho GC (208) 885-6171. 18hole greens fees: Weekends $28. Weekdays $25, students $16, seniors $22, juniors $15. 9-hole weekends: $17 after 2 p.m.; 9hole weekdays: students $16, juniors $15, seniors $16. June-September twilight (weekdays after 5 p.m.) $16. 18-hole cart fee: $13 per seat; 9-hole: $8 per seat. Tee times: accepted one week in advance. www.webs.uidaho.edu/golf.

•Trailhead GC (formerly Valley View GC) (509) 928-3484. 9-hole: $13.64 every day, $9.95 juniors/seniors; second 9: $6.82 adults, $5.69 juniors/seniors; Pull cart $3.80. Club rental $9.24. Power cart: 9hole: $13.04, 18-hole: $22.83. Sundays after 3 p.m. 9-hole $6.82.

•Wandermere GC (509) 466-8023. 18hole greens fees: weekends $29; weekdays $25, seniors $21, junior $18 flat rate (regardless of 9-hole or 18-hole, after 3 p.m. on weekends). 9-hole: weekdays $19, seniors $16. 18-hole cart fee: $28; 9-hole: $14. Tee times: weekends, call one week in advance; weekdays, call one day in advance. www.wandermere.com.

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GOLF 2012

Love ponders his captain’s picks Stricker, Jim Furyk, Bill Haas, Mark Wilson, Bo Van Pelt and David Toms, among others.

“Two will be obvious,” Love He was half-joking.

By Teddy Greenstein said. “There will be one hot guy The top eight in points Chicago Tribune and one experienced guy. After through this week’s PGA that we might look at pairings – Championship automatically Davis Love III is already Stricker and Woods is a great make the team for the Sept. thinking about Sept. 3. pairing and they have been That’s the night before he will 28-30 matches at Medinah. So beating people to death. We want announce his four captain’s picks Bubba Watson, Jason Dufner, some experience and potential for the U.S. Ryder Cup team. It’s Webb Simpson, Phil Mickelson, future captains. And you have also the night he will be breaking Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, Tiger Woods and Zach Johnson (the supremely talented) Dustin hearts. would have their tickets punched Johnson out there.”

“The hardest thing will be Love doesn’t play fantasy based on current standings. In calling some guys to say they the please-pick-me group would football but said, “It’s almost like: didn’t get picked,” Love said.

Is it better to have a quarterback be Keegan Bradley, Rickie “I’m trying to find a way to get or a running back? It’s going to Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Steve out of that.”

Decision for Ryder Cup team on horizon

of the year.

Woods has not said if he Continued from K3 is playing the HSBC Champions, which is at It revives a decade-old Mission Hills this year. He debate – would a has not missed it since it tournament rather have most of the top 10 players, received WGC status in or only one if that player is 2009, though he was not eligible to play last year Tiger Woods. because he had slipped out The announcement in of the top 50 in the world Malaysia earlier this rankings. month also said the first “I look forward to two winners, Ben Crane coming out to Malaysia at and Bo Van Pelt, would the end of October,” return.

Woods said. “I played the “The early World Cup in 1999 and confirmations will give have fond memories of the this year’s event great country and its people. I’ve early momentum,” said heard that CIMB does a Dato’ Sri Nazir Razak, good job staging the event. group chief executive of CIMB Group. “Ben and Bo It has traditionally boasted a strong field and I look have developed a good local following, and Tiger forward to being part of it this year.” will be a huge draw.”

CIMB signed a five-year Woods is just starting out on a stretch that could extension with the tour as see him play as many as 10 its title sponsor. The tour will take over management times in 14 weeks. His overseas schedule is set to of the Malaysia event, with Todd Rhinehart as the start the second week in October in Turkey with an executive director. He previously was unofficial event that pays $2.5 million to the winner tournament director of the Tour Championship. in a short field that “The plan has always includes McIlroy, been to become a Westwood and Luke Donald. The CIMB Classic full-fledged event of the would be two weeks later, PGA Tour, so this is fantastic news for us, for followed by the HSBC Malaysia and for the Champions, the final World Golf Championship region,” Razak said.

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One decision Love already made after consulting with assistant captains Fred Couples and Mike Hulbert – he will name two more later this summer – is to have alternate shot on Friday and Saturday mornings, followed by best ball.

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