 Another win for Paula Creamer at the Samsung World Championship
 Duke's Amanda Blumenherst, 3 time Ping NGCA College Player of the Year
Congratulations to Amanda Blumenherst, winner of the US Women's Amateur Championship at Eugene Country Club, Oregon
 USC's Belen Mozo U.S. Women's Amateur Semifinalist West Coast TournamentsCongratulations to Fred Funk winner of the Champions Tour Jeld-Wen Tradition at Crosswater, Sunriver, Oregon
Congratulations to Tom Kite winner of the Champions Tour Boeing Classic at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, Washington
Congratulations to Cristie Kerr winner of the LPGA Safeway Classic at Columbia Edgewater, Portland, Oregon
Walmart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, Monterey California August 25 to 31
Samsung World Championship at The Ocean Course at Half Moon Bay, California October 2 to 5
Longs Drugs Challenge at Blackhawk CC, Danville, California October 9 to 12
Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Sonoma GC, California Oct 30 to Nov 2
 Site of the US Open 2015: Chambers Bay Golf Course, Pierce County Washington
 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, San Diego 2008  Great play by Paige Mackenzie at the 2008 Safeway Classic
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Competing for College
Start the progress early to ensure advancing to next level You are a skilled Junior golfer. You’ve played in local tournaments, perhaps won a few, and traveled to other areas to compete. You shoot low numbers and play on your high school team. What’s next? Will you head to Q-school and, like Paula Creamer, win a tournament before donning cap and gown? Will you join the 33 million recreational golfers in North America? Or will you continue in tournaments on a golf team, hone your game at the collegiate level, and like Kyle Stanley, qualify for the 2008 U.S. Open or Amanda Blumenherst win the 2008 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship? If being a collegiate student-athlete is your target, consider these issues.
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Course of Action
Jon Krakauer’s biographical chronicle Into Thin Air transcends the journal of an ascent of Mt. Everest into a study of decision-making. Minute by minute, the skilled climbers stressed by fear, ambition and inclement weather struggle with life-altering dilemmas. Decisions determine personal futures. Changing plans mid-mountain, despite the known facts, causes injury or a fall into the abyss. Those who stay the course and keep to their strategies, survive to climb again.
We have a similar opportunity to watch four distinct strategies play out with our 21st century highly talented young golfers. Junior tournaments? High school team? College? Q-school? Turn professional at 18? At 16? Which will be the best approach? Tiger Woods, Paula Creamer, Michael Putnam, Ryan Moore, and Michelle Wie. These highly skilled athletes demonstrate the common traits of competitive instincts, determination, extraordinary talent, work ethic, and love of the game of golf. Yet, these young phenoms have carried their bags along very different paths.
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Junior Camps and Clinics
 Peter Jacobsen leads a session at Pumpkin Ridge Warmer weather is approaching with its perfect days for practicing, learning and playing rounds of golf. Junior golf camps across the Northwest cater to every Junior golfer’s need from beginners learning the basics to the competitive players hoping to reach a new level. Local city parks and recreation departments, public courses, private country clubs, universities, practice ranges, and resorts offer junior programs ranging from 1 day to several mornings per week to weeklong 12 hour per day resident camps. A day camp may be best for beginners just learning the game. A high school golfer striving to break 85 might prefer an overnight, week-long camp. |
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