Par-3 Course Being Built Near Creek At Qualchan
Construction has started on a new $700,000 nine-hole, par-3 golf course that is scheduled to open next spring in southwest Spokane.
The Latah Short Course, designed by golf course architect Keith Hellstrom, is being built on 6 acres of land across U.S. Highway 195 from The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course, an 18-hole city-owned layout. It will feature contoured fairways, large greens, sand traps and a lake.
According to Chris Becker, a certified golf course superintendent and a member of the investment group financing the new course, Latah Short Course is being designed “primarily for families and youth who don’t always have opportunities to play traditional courses.
“But the course also will offer golfers with low and high handicaps a premier facility to practice their short game,” added Becker, who worked previously at The Fairways.
Training and instruction will also be available at the course, according to Becker.
Exhibition caddies set
Local junior golfers Cory Prugh, Robert Selland, Josh Sicilia and Jared Herling have earned the honor of carrying clubs for the four touring professionals scheduled to compete Sept. 15 in the 8th Junior League of Spokane Golf Exhibition at Spokane Country Club.
Prugh, the son of Manito Country Club head professional Steve Prugh, will carry clubs for Peter Jacobsen. Selland will caddy for Tom Lehman, Sicilia for Annika Sorenstam and Herling for Tom Weiskopf.
The four were selected from a group of 43 junior golfers who played in the Junior League’s Junior Caddy Tournament at Manito Country Club last month and later took written tests on the etiquette of golf and caddying.
Mike Hastings, Dan Potter, Reid Hatley and Charlie Nap will serve as scoreboard holders at the exhibition. Rudy Keezer, Ryan Camp, Brandon Smith and Jarrod Batchelder will work as fore caddies.
Plenty of tickets for this year’s exhibition and golf clinic are still available, according to Golf Exhibition Chairperson Jan House, and can be purchased at any local Hamers clothing store or by calling the Junior League of Spokane at 328-2801.
Tickets are $155 per person for the clinic and 18-hole exhibition and $75 for the exhibition only.
House said only about 2,200 gallery tickets will be sold.
One in a million!
Thirty-three lucky qualifiers will have a chance to earn $1 million for making a hole-in-one Sunday in the finals of the Million Dollar Hole-In-One Shootout at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course.
The event is sponsored by Inland Northwest Lutheran Outdoor Ministries and benefits Lutherhaven, a non-profit camp and retreat center that provides outdoor programs and experiences for disadvantaged and underprivileged children in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Qualifying to determine the 33 finalists began earlier this month and was held at three different local courses. Competitors 18 and older were allowed to enter as often as they wished for $1 per shot.
Sunday’s finals will be held on the Resort Course’s floating green with qualifiers from each of the seven Daily Finals that have been held, getting one try at a $1 million hole-in-one.
INFF tourney rescheduled
The third annual Inland Northwest Football Foundation golf tournament, which was postponed twice because of scheduling conflicts, has been rescheduled for Sept. 5 at Hangman Valley Golf Course.
The event, which benefits high school scholar athletes in the Inland Northwest, will feature a 1 p.m. shotgun start and scramble format. The entry fee of $100 includes golf, cart, lunch, tee prizes and membership in the INFF.
For more information call Michelle at 924-7768.
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