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Bart Potter is an Olympia freelance writer and golf enthusiast. His column on the local and regional golf scenes will appear on Tuesdays. He can be reached at: greygoatee06@msn.com.
Teaching pros show right stuff in matches
Tom Staskus and Kevin Bishop are best known in the region as teachers of the game of golf. But they can play a little, too.
McCaslin still has sights set on playing for pay
He was then, that summer of 2009, the hottest amateur golfer in the South Sound. He'd just won the Capitol City Amateur and the Tacoma City Amateur.
Course filled with signature holes in store when Salish Cliffs opens
On further consideration, Gene Bates won't be pinned down on a signature hole at the emerging Salish Cliffs golf course near Shelton.
Another swing at pro golf
Shane Prante is at an age where he can't really be called the hot young thing anymore.
This par-5 plays just a bit long
WOODLAND, Wash. - It's not even the golf course's signature hole, if you ask the people who work there.
Beating cancer a battle to get back on course
When last we encountered Terry Lee, he was sipping a beer and drinking in the feeling of a good round of tournament golf.
Is Tumwater Valley too wet? Not these days
If Dwane Ehrich had his way, seeing would be believing for the golfers who say Tumwater Valley Municipal Golf Course is just too wet.
Coach tries to solve Saints' spring slump
You get to know your golf team when you're on the road out of state, going in and out of airports and shuttling between golf courses and hotels.
Tradition lives in thwack of wooden clubs
There's a scientific explanation for "gear effect," all about bulge and roll and clockwise spin of the golf ball coming off a clubface that isn't flat.
Do golf, nature get along? So far at Chambers Bay
It would be easy to assume that everything in the care and feeding of Chambers Bay Golf Course - its maintenance, management and mind-set - is all about the U.S. Amateur, in the near term, and the U.S. Open, in the not-so-distant future.
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