Top Amateurs To Bring Tour Event To Cda Resort
The Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course once again is a featured stop on this year’s Amateur Golf Tournaments Tour, which gives amateur golfers willing to shell out upwards of $1,100 per event a chance to compete at some of the plushest championship courses in the country.
The tour series, which is operated by Amateur Golf Tournaments Inc. in Hopwell, N.J., is designed to give amateurs of all ability levels the opportunity to play in 54-hole tournaments on top-notch courses set up and maintained to professional tour standards. It will stop at the Coeur d’Alene Resort July 3-7.
Last year’s event, according to AGT marketing coordinator Abby Weiss, drew a full field of 67 golfers.
“We have reserved the same amount of tee times and rooms for this year,” Weiss said, “and we expect another full field.”
The AGT has staged events this spring at the Maui Prince Resort in Honolulu, Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami and Palmilla Resort in Los Cabos, Mexico. Next stop is April 20-24 at Turnberry Isle Resort in Miami.
According to Weiss, the cost for four nights lodging and three rounds of golf in Coeur d’Alene is $1,323 per person (double occupancy) for a deluxe room and $1,125 for a standard room. Packages are also available for single occupancy and non-golfing guests. And there is an entry fee of $750 for golfers not requiring lodging.
Anyone wanting more information on the Coeur d’Alene Resort tournament or any other event on the AGT Tour schedule can call 1-800-PLAYS 18.
Birdies honored
Golf Range Times has named Birdies Golf Center, located at 1111 E. Westview Court, its Best New Range award winner for 1996.
The magazine, which is published six times a year, featured Birdies on the cover of its January-February issue. Inside, it devoted nearly six pages of editorial copy and photographs to the full-service practice facility, which opened in September 1995.
The facility, which features heated stalls for cold-weather practice, along with 56 grass tees, an 8,000-square foot putting green, practice bunkers and a 1,200 square-foot pro shop, was selected over new ranges nationwide.
Judging criteria included overall design, aesthetics, customer safety, weather/climate control and convenience.
Tee Town Golf Ranch, in Tulsa, Okla., was runner-up.
Canyon opening on hold
Indian Canyon, the most prestigious of Spokane’s four city-owned golf courses, could open by the middle of next week, according to head professional Gary Lindeblad.
Nearly 500 trees on the course were either destroyed or damaged during the ice storm that savaged the area this winter, and workers are still clearing debris.
“We’ve got some logging they’ve just started on, and I think the city wants to get that done before they let us open,” Lindeblad said this week. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to open in seven to 10 days.”
City golf director Mike Stone said he hopes to have the back nine open this weekend, but was making no guarantees. Stone said it could be a couple of additional weeks before the front nine is open.
Lindeblad said the greens, which were covered with tarps during the winter, survived the storm unscathed and are “emerald green and perfect.”
“The course is in the best shape I’ve ever seen it this early in the spring,” he added. “We just need to clean up from the ice storm.”
Qualchan meeting
The Creek at Qualchan 18-hole women’s club will hold its opening sign-up and breakfast Monday at 8 a.m. at the golf course. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP Genny Knorr at 926-9467.
Tourney caps UI football drills
The third annual Chris Tormey Tournament will be May 3 at the University of Idaho course. Registration is at 10 a.m. with a shotgun start at 11. Cost is $70. The tournament follows the conclusion of spring football at UI. The Silver & Gold spring game is May 2 at 7 p.m.
Info: (208) 885-0232.
, DataTimes