Category: Golf
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The Importance of PGA: Posture, Grip and Alignment
As spring is ending and summer nears, many of you are dusting off your golf clubs for the first time. If this is the case for you, make your first few trips to the practice range more fun and beneficial by paying close attention to a few fundamentals known as PGA – Posture, Grip and […]
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Former LPGA Player Teaching at Bay Ridge Golf Course
Julie Pyne returns this season to Bay Ridge Golf Course to help golfers improve their golf scores. The Sister Bay golf course hosts the six-week session, which in the course of one hour per lesson, can take several strokes off your golf score. Pyne retired from the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) and discovered that […]
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Welcoming the 2016 Golf Season in Door County
They say golf is the game of a lifetime. In that you can play golf for a lifetime, whoever they are is certainly right, but perhaps even more correct in that it requires a lifetime to fully understand the game. The Millennial in me, with a warped attention span, should be turned off, right? […]
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The Game of a Lifetime: Welcoming the 2016 golf season
They say golf is the game of a lifetime. In that you can play golf for a lifetime, whoever they are is certainly right, but perhaps even more correct in that it requires a lifetime to fully understand the game. The Millennial in me, with a warped attention span, should be turned off, right? Wrong. […]
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Got Golf News, Photos or Upcoming Events?
The Peninsula Pulse wants to hear about it! Send press releases, photos and upcoming events to [email protected]. Deadline is noon on Friday prior to publication.
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League play for the Alpine Ladies Golf League begins June 7 at 8:15 am. This is an informal, friendly nine-hole league. Play with golfers with different skill levels and meet new people. Practice rounds began the first week of May. If interested in joining this league, contact Mady Ferdinand at [email protected] or call Mary Aiken […]
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New Golfers Needed for Nor-Dor League
The Wednesday Night Men’s Nor-Dor League at Maxwelton Braes is looking for new members. Anyone interested should contact Dave Stolley at 920.559.6374 for additional information.
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50 Years at Bay Ridge Golf Course
More than half a century ago, a desolate potato field sat in the view from Little Sister Hill on the north end of Ephraim. Rocks covered the dry grass that still flooded every spring. A few years later, rolls of golden hay dotted the field. Now, tall trees shade fairways and hide nine checkered flags […]
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Alpine Golf Course’s Nines Are Open
Alpine Resort & Golf Course’s red and white nines are now open. Carts are available. Pay at the clubhouse entrance. For more information call 920.868.3000. Alpine is located at 7715 Alpine Road in Egg Harbor.
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Time to Sign Up for Boys & Girls Club Celebrity Golf Outing
The Boys & Girls Club of Door County will host its seventh annual celebrity golf outing and trolley tour at Horseshoe Bay Golf Club on June 7, 2016. Celebrities attending this year’s outing include Mark Murphy, Jerry Kramer and Dave Robinson. The outing is the major fundraising event for the Boys & Girls Club of […]
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Golf Industry is Forced to Change
The industry has changed its practices dramatically in the last two decades as environmental and health concerns worried players and neighbors.
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Sign Up for 2016 Alpine Ladies Golf League
League play for the Alpine Ladies Golf League begins June 7 at 8:15 am. This is an informal, friendly nine-hole league. Play with golfers with different skill levels and meet new people. Practice rounds begin May 3 at 9 am. If interested in joining this league, contact Mady Ferdinand at [email protected] or call Mary Aiken […]
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Mary Aiken didn’t let the recent snowstorm dampen her enthusiasm for the upcoming golf season. Photo by Roy Aiken.
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Winter Golfers at Bay Ridge Golf Course
The first two golfers of the year played in 24 degrees to begin the 50th year at Bay Ridge Golf Course in Sister Bay. They golfed nine holes with colored golf balls, and were armed with lots of hot coffee. Photo by Dianne Trenchard.
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Looking Back On the 2015 Golf Season
All good things must come to an end, so here we are fading into the depths of fall at the conclusion of another golf season. Sure, there remains a few weekend afternoons where some heavy layering and sunshine will help the diehards continue trekking from the first tee to the 18th green, but for most […]
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Get Jealous On the Golf Course
It’s easy to be jealous on the golf course. For those who play a lot, it’s basically second nature. So often in this fickle game we are left short of our desires, trumped by another guy in the foursome or another lady in that week’s women’s day event. Maybe his card has a circle on […]
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Little Eddie Big, and Little, Cups Raises $17,000
A weekend of golf honoring the late Ed Strege was filled with great turnout and weather as 140 golfers descended on Peninsula State Park Golf Course on Sunday, Sept. 27 for the second annual Little Eddie Big Cup. The event, along with the Little Eddie Little Cup at Red Putter Mini Golf on Saturday, Sept. […]
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Golf League Results, Oct. 2 – 9
MAXWELTON BRAES Maxwelton Braes Couples Scramble (Sept. 20) Low Gross: Jim & Toni Marsden Low Net: First – Bob & Nora Joseph; Second – Bob & Barb Shine; Third – Bob & Carolyn Kimbell and Jim & Joanie Musiel. Event Winners: Ladies – Carolyn Kimbell & Barb Shine; Men – Barry Quinnes & Bob Joseph. […]
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Golf League Results, Sept. 18-25
IDLEWILD Senior League Handicap Championship (Sept. 17) Best Net Scores: Champion – Jim Budny, 34; Second – Wayne Turk, 35; Third – Jude Gosz, 35; Fourth – Pete Hegrenes, 36; Fifth – Glenn Ocock, 38; Sixth – Tom Portz, 39. Best Gross Scores: Jim Budny 39; Wayne Turk 43; Pete Hegrenes 43; Jude Gosz 44; […]
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Play the Little and Big Cups for Ed Strege Family Memorial Fund
Two upcoming memorial golf tournaments celebrate the life of Door County local Edward Strege by playing the game he loved. All skill levels are invited with “little” and “big” events in Ephraim. Red Putter Mini Golf will host the second annual Little Eddie Little Cup on Sept. 26 and Peninsula State Park Golf Course will […]