AN INSTITUTION ON the North Olympic Peninsula for decades, Wilder Baseball Club provides opportunities for high school and college baseball players to grow as players and young men every summer.
On Saturday, Sept. 5, the club provides an opportunity for golf with the first-ever Wilder Baseball Club Sweet Swing tournament at Cedars at Dungeness in Sequim.
The four-player team scramble event has a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
A car donated by Wilder Auto Center will go to any player who hits a hole-in-one and golfers can play “hit the boat” on the pond to the left of the 17th green.
For $5, players will receive three chances to knock a golf ball onto the boat.
The winner will split the accumulated pot with Wilder Baseball Club.
“It will make a fun addition to the 17th hole,” Wilder coach Mike Politika said.
Long drive and two KP prizes also will be offered.
Cost is $100 per player, which includes green fees, cart, range balls and a boxed lunch.
Mulligans and throws also are available.
Sponsorship opportunities are available at the Diamond ($1,000), Behind the Plate ($700), and Outfield ($150 to $500) levels.
For registration, or sponsorship information, email wilderbaseball@gmail.com or phone Staci Politika at 360-460-2659.
SkyRidge scramble
SkyRidge Golf Course in Sequim will host a three-person scramble Saturday, Sept. 12.
Four drives from each team member must be used.
The tourney has a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Cost is $30 per player, $90 per team, which includes golf, range balls, team KP’s and long putt competitions and lunch following play.
Prizes for low gross and net teams will be awarded.
Cart seats are available for $15 per person.
A honey pot is available for an extra $20 per player.
Stop by the course or phone 360-683-3673 to sign up.
Cedars champions
Sid Krumpe went low, really low, to claim the Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club Championship with a 15-stroke victory last week.
Krumpe posted a three-day gross total of 5-under-par 211 to top Sequim girls golf coach Gary Kettel’s 226.
Dustin Halverson carded a net total of 205 to take the club’s low net honors by six strokes over Leonard Hirschfeld’s 211.
Women’s champs
The Cedars Women’s Golf Group also crowned a champion last week.
Wanda Synnestvedt took home top honors for the second straight year after recording gross rounds of 84 and 81.
Judy Reno and Lori Wyngaert tied for low-net honors at 136.
Reno was consistent, firing a 68 in each round.
Wyngaert went low in the second round, scoring a 63 to make up for a first-round 73.
PT champions
Earlier this month, Port Townsend Golf Course held its annual Men’s Club Championship.
“This year’s tournament was a lot different than years past,” general manager Gabriel Tonan said.
“The golf course is as dry as it has been in close to 30 years. With the water shortage in the area the golf course has been watering only tees and greens for over a month, making the course very fast [and] unpredictable [with] hardpan lies making shots more difficult.”
Tonan said he was lenient with the course setup on day one, but went the opposite way for the final round.
“On Sunday everything changes. The course is set up longer, the pins are tucked and the greens are double mowed,” Tonan said.
Ronnie Harrell’s first-round 69 trailed Mike Lux by one stroke entering the final round, but Harrell overcame the tough course conditions to post a three-over par 73.
He passed Lux, who shot a 77 and finished tied with Wyeth Barclay for second, at three-strokes back.
On the net side, Brian Lux tied his first-round score, a personal-best 72, in the final round to post consecutive net scores of 59 and win by 11 strokes.
Register for the Cure
Last week I wrote about the annual Drive for the Cure Golf Tournament at SunLand Golf & Country Club in Sequim on Thursday, Sept. 24.
SunLand Women’s Golf Association and SunLand Lady Niners are planning the event, which is set for a 9 a.m. shotgun start for those playing 18 holes, with an 11 a.m. start for nine-hole players.
A luncheon will follow play.
All proceeds from the event will go to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation to fund breast cancer detection for men and women on the North Olympic Peninsula.
For more information phone the SunLand Pro Shop at 360-683-6800 and ask to have Judy Flanders or Nonie Dunphy return your call.
Dove House benefit
The fourth annual Dove House Benefit Golf Tournament at Port Ludlow Golf Course is Friday, Sept. 18.
Dove House Advocacy Services is the only Jefferson County provider of free services to victims of family and sexual violence and crime.
The nonprofit helped 468 people transition to a safer life in 2014.
The benefit tournament has a noon shotgun start.
Fees for the public are $100 and $55 for Port Ludlow members.
Golf carts, range balls, raffle prizes, and an awards ceremony with appetizers are included.
The deadline for entries is Friday, Sept. 11.
For more information, phone Port Ludlow at 360-437-0207 or Michael and Mea Graham at 360-437-5052.
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Golf columnist Michael Carman can be reached at 360-417-3525, ext. 5152, or pdngolf@gmail.com.
