Michael Carman

THINGS TO DO: Your Peninsula calendar for today and Friday

Today and Friday, July 7-8, in: ■ Port Angeles ■ Sequim-Dungeness Valley ■ Port Townsend-Jefferson County ■ Forks-West End Port Angeles Today PA Senior Softball… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Cedars of Dungeness to host University of Washington tournament

IT'S A LITTLE sad, and maybe I should seek professional help, but I start to get excited about the upcoming football season when I first… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN ON GOLF: Plenty of fireworks on links (replace your divots!)

THE MOST AMERICAN of celebrations is right around the corner. Why risk potential injury with legal and illegal fireworks? Go out and play a round… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: A star is born at U.S. Open tournament; area golf news

YOUNG RORY WAS quite the story all week at the 2011 U.S. Open. Rory McIlroy’s performance was sublime. It also came at exactly the right… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Snow and hail ruins a golf vacation in Oregon

IT’S BECOMING APPARENT that the best-laid plans of vacationing golf columnists often go astray. Yes, I went on another mini-vacation, this time camping at Suttle… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Peninsula Golf Club wins third annual Peninsula Cup

HAVING THE PENINSULA Cup stay on the North Olympic Peninsula was a foregone conclusion. But having Port Angeles’ Peninsula Golf Club buck the trend of… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Area golfers gear up for Peninsula Cup at Port Ludlow

THE PENINSULA CUP is on the line at Port Ludlow Golf Club this weekend. Saturday’s third annual Peninsula Cup competition, pitting the best golfers from… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Sport loses one of its best

ONLY FOUR GOLFERS have been great enough to be referenced simply by their first name: Arnie, Jack, Tiger and Seve. Seve Ballesteros, arguably the most… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Sixkiller hosts luncheon for Husky golf tournament in Port Angeles

THOSE STEEPED IN Husky football history have long cheered the name of former quarterback Sonny Sixkiller, who is in town today to announce his first… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: A duel to cap Easter Sunday

IN BETWEEN NBA playoff games and putting our Easter turkey into the oven last Sunday, I watched a different sort of playoff duel unfold at… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Area golf courses heating up with activity

THE SUN IS shining, the taxes are paid, temperatures are slowly inching upward and the North Olympic Peninsula golf season has started in earnest. Demo… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: A dream finish for fans at Masters tournament

IT’S ALWAYS ENJOYABLE when major sporting events fulfill their promise and provide a quality spectacle for fans watching at home and in person. This year’s… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN ON GOLF: Get your 2012 Master’s tickets now! Two Port Angeles golfers already there

THE TOUGHEST TICKET in golf, if not all of sports, became a little more obtainable Monday. Just as practice rounds were beginning for this weekend’s… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Getting smart about phones; Discovery Bay and SkyRidge events

I ENTERED THE age of the smartphone by purchasing a used Android phone recently. I’m young enough to have never lived in a home without… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Area features top prep golfers

THE TITLE OF the late, great soul singer Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” has proven prophetic for Olympic League High School golf. A… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: March Madness goes well with a little golf

THE BALL IS teed and there you are, swinging from your heels, you’re a driving range star . . . That was a golf-related mini-ode… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Column streak broken at 77 because of illness

AS FAR AS streaks go, my 77 consecutive weeks of providing a golf column didn’t approach Cal Ripken Jr. status but it was a source… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: Going for that handicap index

INTERESTED IN BECOMING a more serious and committed golfer, I decided to find out just what it takes to establish a handicap index. It didn’t… Continue reading

MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: It was windy and cold for first day of Arctic Open in Port Townsend

TYPICALLY I USE my Saturday and Sunday mornings to catch back up on my nasty sleeping habit. Forgive me for my weekend laziness, I’m up… Continue reading

PREP BASKETBALL: Port Townsend beats Orting to advance to Tri-Districts

PORT TOWNSEND -- Port Townsend's offense clicked all game long in a 62-44 Class 1A West Central District loser-out boys basketball playoff victory over the… Continue reading