AS A FAN of golf and alliteration, I’m pleased with Peninsula Golf Club’s Double Demo Days event from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Port Angeles course.
Cleveland Golf representative Scott Nelson and Peninsula head pro Chris Repass will hold a short-game demonstration day, with a focus on wedges.
With wet weather forecasted for the near future, the club will have a tent set up around the practice green to keep everyone dry, if not warm and dry.
The club has more than 70 Cleveland wedges in the pro shop, and Nelson and Repass will be on hand to fit individuals to the proper loft and bounce for their swing and ground conditions.
Cleveland wedges have always had a lofty reputation for their playability and feel, and this is a great time to invest in a custom-fitted upgrade for your golf bag.
Ping Golf representative Kelly Barkley comprises the second portion of Double Demo Day.
Barkley will be on hand with Ping’s newest series of clubs, the G15 and i15.
These series include drivers, irons, hybrids and fairway woods.
According to Ping Golf, the G15 Series continues Ping’s focus on developing forgiving, easy-to-hit clubs, while the i15 Series is designed for golfers who prefer clubs that offer more workability and control.
“Our engineering team continues to research and analyze the needs of all golfers,” said Chairman and CEO John A. Solheim.
“The G15 Series appeals to the majority of golfers who rely on the easier-to-hit attributes of a maximum forgiveness, higher launch type of club.
“With the i15s, a lot of players will be attracted to the added control and versatility they offer,” he said.
“The i15s will deliver the forgiveness we all need, but they’ve been engineered to provide the workability that a lot of more skilled golfers look for in their clubs.”
My apologies for the shameless corporate plug, but I’ve been a Ping fan since I started playing golf.
I wore either a Ping Golf hat or a Ping stocking cap much of freshman year of college.
Although it may bear a resemblance to Gumby, I love the Pingman logo and have had great success with my tradition-minded Ping Karsten Series Anser 2 putter.
Well, success on my bogey-golfer terms, anyway.
DECA Scramble set
Port Angeles High School’s DECA business and marketing club will host its first four-person team DECA Scramble fundraiser at Sequim’s SkyRidge Golf Course on Saturday.
Proceeds from the tournament will go towards travel and competition expenses for Port Angeles DECA students.
The tournament will begin with a 9:30 a.m. shotgun start, and costs $45 per person.
Fees include 18 holes of golf, range balls, prizes and a potluck lunch put together by Port Angeles High School DECA members.
Participants can purchase mulligans or even bid for a Roughrider golf team member to help out your team.
Carts are an extra $12.
To play, call SkyRidge at 360-683-3673.
Christmas Blues
Port Townsend Golf Club will host a Christmas Blue Scramble with a four-person blind draw format on Saturday, Dec. 26.
The event has a 10 a.m. shotgun start.
For more information, call the clubhouse at 360-385-4547.
Troubled White Horse
A short trip off of the North Olympic Peninsula will bring local golfers to White Horse Golf Course near Kingston.
For now, anyway.
The long-talked about course finally debuted in 2007, right before the bottom dropped out of our economy.
A combination of troubled times cutting into leisure spending, inability for potential home owners on the course to receive loan funding for home construction, and a reputation as a frustrating round helped put the course and development in bankruptcy proceedings.
The project’s primary lender, American Marine Bank, assumed control last Friday after the 18-hole course and development went unsold in a foreclosure auction.
With the course shuttered for a few days in November, the bank has contracted with course management firm Touchstone Golf to oversee day-to-day course operations.
Who knows what will happen with the course, so if you are in the Kingston area, I’d get a round in while you still can.
That round suggestion does come with a caveat, we should do our best to support our North Olympic Peninsula courses first and foremost, or we might lose them to a fate similar to White Horse’s.
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Michael Carman is the golf columnist for the Peninsula Daily News. His column appears on Wednesdays. He can be reached at 360-417-3527 or pdngolf@gmail.com.
