GOLFERS LOOKING FOR a reason to head over to play Sequim’s SunLand Golf & Country Club (besides nicely manicured greens and fairways) should look no further.
A great reason will be available come Labor Day weekend.
For a $5 donation, golfers will receive greens fees for just $25 as part of Patriot Golf Day, the biggest fundraiser of the year for The Folds of Honor Foundation.
Folds of Honor provides postsecondary educational scholarships for the children and spouses of military men and women disabled or killed while serving our nation.
Patriot Golf Day has raised millions of dollars each year but tuition is rising everywhere it seems and golfers should do what they can to maintain a proper level of support for the sons and daughters of sacrifice.
The campaign is jointly supported by The PGA of America and the United States Golf Association.
SunLand pro Tyler Sweet also worked with the Seattle Mariners to incorporate the Folds of Honor Foundation into the Mariners’ Golf Night on Friday, Sept. 16 against the Texas Rangers.
A $5 donation from every ticket purchased at www.mariners.com/golf will go to the Folds of Honor.
Golf fans will receive a Mariners golf towel and a ticket to a late-summer night at Safeco Field.
PT golf events set
Port Townsend Golf Club will host its annual Club Championship this weekend with reserved parking spots available at the club for overall low gross and low net champions.
The club championship tees off at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday with a $50 entry fee.
The Port Townsend Men’s Club will host a breakfast and competition event for $20 plus greens fees on Sunday, Sept. 4.
Players will get a chance at a breakfast buffet, a two-person blind-draw scramble, skins and a deuce pot.
Breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. and the tourney tees off from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
In future weeks, the course will host the two-person best ball Port Townsend Elks Lodge Fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 10.
The Port Townsend Rotary’s Driving in the Dark tournament is also in the works at Port Townsend.
For more information on these upcoming events, phone the pro shop at 360-385-4547.
Assistant pro Gabriel Tonan checked in and said that he and graduated Port Townsend High School golfer Sean Anderson recently went on the offensive on some of the reeds surrounding the Port Townsend Golf Club pond.
The pond had its issues drying out this year, and Tonan and Anderson hacked away at a few to help clean up the area on Hole No. 2/11.
Chamber Challenge
The second and last weekend of qualifying for the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce’s $500,000 starts Friday.
Qualifying will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
For $2 per ball, $10 for six or $15 for 20, participants will have the chance to qualify for the final round on Saturday, Sept. 10 at Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course in Sequim.
Three closest to the pin shots qualify each day from each course and any hole-in-one carded on those days will also give you a free pass to the finals.
A hole-in-one from the first ball of any player during a qualifying day at any course will receive a cash prize of $500.
In the first round of the finals, finalists will hit one shot from 135 yards on hole No. 9 at Cedars starting at 3:30 p.m.
They can win $5,000 and a new car from Ruddell Auto.
The top 24 move on to the finals and a chance at $500,000 from 150 yards.
Berny Anselmo hitting his closest to the pin shot to qualify at SkyRidge.
Qualifying for the semi finals so far: Jacob McMeanin, William Hart, Todd Reed, Sid Krumpe, Kendal Wake, David Johnson,William Hart, Paul Boucher, Marty Pederson, Berny Anselmo, Carl Taylor, Bob Madsen, Ken Fisher, Alan Austenberg, Tom Jacabson, Chris Greer, Clark Lesser and James Bourget
Golf with police, sheriff
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Foundation will hold its first golf tournament at Discovery Bay on Saturday.
The four-person scramble will tee off at 1 p.m.
Registration will start at 11 a.m. Cost is $300 per team or $75 for individual golfers.
If you are a single player, event organizers will match you up with some playing partners.
Teams comprised of police, sheriff, fire and other law enforcement disciplines will compete for a traveling trophy for the lowest scoring public-safety team.
Additionally, a Port Townsend High school foursome will compete against Chimacum High School players for their own traveling trophy, similar to the Widge Black Memorial trophy the two squads compete for in high school basketball.
The cost includes green fees, carts, a raffle ticket, lunch and afternoon appetizers.
There are some great raffle prizes, including putters, wedges, a Taylor Made Driver, a fairway hybrid, gloves, balls, a new bag and numerous gift certificates from local businesses.
For more information, phone tourney co-chairs Milt Morris at 360-379-1602 or Tim Perry at 360-437-1355.
Cougars gather for golf
SkyRidge will host the 10th annual North Olympic Washington State University Cougar Golf Tournament on Sunday.
The four-person scramble will include a barbecue lunch at noon and a 1 p.m. shotgun start.
Cost is $40 per person and carts are $12 a seat.
The fee includes lunch, golf, range balls, prizes, hosted beverages (it is a Coug event after all!) and KPs.
A $40 per team honeypot is available.
Mixed male/female teams are welcome and SkyRidge can help find a team for you if you are a single.
Cedars events slated
Entries are being accepted to the Cedars at Dungeness Women’s Golf Association fall invitational, Days of “Whine and Roses,” to be held Sept. 19-20.
Monday’s format will be a partner scramble with a 1:30 p.m. shotgun start.
Golf will be followed by awards and dinner at 7 Cedars Casino with a no-host happy hour and hosted dinner.
There will also be a putting contest, awards for long drive and KPs.
Tuesday’s game will be a partner best-ball contest with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start.
Tuesday special events will include a raffle and awards for long drive and KPs.
An awards luncheon will follow golf with gross and net prizes awarded in each division.
Cost for the Invitation is $40 for Monday and $95 for Tuesday for a total of $135 per entrant.
Entry forms may be obtained by calling Pat Conway at 360-683-8980, or by visiting www.wswpla.com, and clicking on Invitationals.
Pro golf odds and ends
A round of golf claps are in order for Seattle’s Fred Couples, a playoff winner of the Senior Players Championship on Sunday for his first Champions Tour major victory.
Couples overcame an early season flare-up of his chronically bad back to earn his fifth Champions Tour win in less than two years on the tour.
With outrageous ability, a fantastic nickname, Boom-Boom, and movie-star good looks, Couples really should have been an even bigger star than he already is, except for those stupid back problems!
Here’s to more success for Freddie, including a triumphant stint this fall as captain of the U.S. President’s Cup team down in Australia.
A good article is available at tinyurl.com/Cantlay on UCLA golfer and the world’s No. 1 ranked amateur, Patrick Cantlay.
Cantlay has played in four PGA Tour events this year and if he wasn’t an amateur he would have collected a little over $343,000 in prize money.
He was low amateur and finished in 21st at the U.S. Open and shot a 60 at the Travelers Championship, the lowest round ever shot by an amateur in a tour event.
Cantlay looks to be the real deal but doesn’t want to rush things and is planning to stay all four years at UCLA before going pro.
He is competing in the 2011 U.S. Amateur Championship this week at Erin Hills in Wisconsin.
Erin Hills will offer a preview of the 2017 U.S. Open, which it will also host.
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Golf columnist Michael Carman can be reached at 360-417-3527 or at
pdngolf@gmail.com.
