Seattle Boeing Classic Qualifier
I failed to get into the Champion’s Tour event in Seattle on Monday at Druid’s Glen Golf Course in Covington, WA. I shot 74 and it took 70 to get in.
I really had a good chance, was 2 under after 8 holes, but made a couple of bad swings on #9 with an iron, #14 with a driver, and cost myself 3 strokes. It was a reasonable day for Seattle, it rained off and on all day, so at times made it difficult. Both mistakes I made were during hard showers of rain. I’m really playing well, just frustrated that I can’t seem to put it together. I just seem to have to make a couple of mistakes that kill me.
On another note, I did get a chance on Saturday to play Chamber’s Bay www.chambersbaygolf.com in Tacoma, where they will play the 2010 US Amateur and the 2015 US Open. This is a totally treeless link’s style of course, right on the Puget Sound, with ONE type of grass throughout the entire course. The tees, fairways and greens are all brown-tipped fescue. The fairways are fast and the greens severe but slow, so it will be interesting to see howthe course evolves with the USGA guidance the next 7 years. My guess is the greens will be replanted in bent grass. I just don’t think that they will be major championship speed.
The course was designed by the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Design Group (same group that designed Osprey Meadows @ Tamarack www.tamarackidaho.com ) and there are a lot of similarities in the green complexes. It is interesting to see a mountain course and seaside course with similar traits. And I played Tamarack with my Dad and another friend, last week and the course is in fabulous condition, just gets better every time I play it. Late August and September are beautiful months in the mountains of central Idaho.
Thanks again for all the encouragement and support, I will continue to work at it.
Scott.
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