Portland Golf Show coming soon!

The Portland Golf Show is a little more than two weeks away, and we urge you to take advantage of the opportunity to check it out. For those that have never been, its a great place to interact with some of the best people in the business locally. From Head Professionals to Club Fitters and Brand Reps, there is no larger collection of the golf community in Oregon and SW Washington. the Portland Golf Show runs from Friday, February 12th to Sunday, February 14th. Look for the NW Golf Guys roaming the aisles on Friday morning, and possibly Saturday as well. Stop us in the halls and mention that you saw this blog posting for a special prize from NWGolfGuys.com!

The Portland Golf Show runs February 12th-14th, and costs $10 at the door. You can also buy them online to avoid the lines and save a bit. they are giving away a pair of free rounds for showing up, a 2-for-1 coupon and a subscription to Golf Digest, so the cost of entry pays for itself and then some!

Check out the Portland Golf Show's website HERE.

Tournament at Eagle Landing Golf Course

Eagle Landing Golf Course is hosting its first ever Winter Weather Showdown. Here are the details:

DATE: Saturday, January 30th
CHECK-IN: 10:30 am (tourney starts at 11:00 am)

FORMAT: It's a 2-Person Best Ball and/or Individual Stroke Play Tournament (so you can compete with a partner or by yourself - players who play with a partner compete in both prize pools)

ENTRY FEE: $15 per player (includes golf, lunch, and flag prizes)

DETAILS: We're playing regardless of the weather conditions... rain, snow, freak tornado... doesn't matter. It'll be a shotgun start. We'll have $1 beers available. Anyone is welcome. You pay when you check in, but should register by calling the Eagle Landing Pro Shop at 503-698-7888 or visiting the event page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=251841255859 so we can make sure you're on the list.

You can view our Eagle Landing review HERE. Sounds like fun!

Winter Rules: Chahelem Glenn Golf Course

Welcome to Winter Rules, where we look at how our local courses are holding up during the winter months. This week, we take a look at Chehalem Glenn Golf Course in Newberg, OR. This particular round was played on Christmas Eve, and was fittingly frost delayed. In the Northwest, if it’s actually dry around the holidays, then temperatures are likely freezing, and so was the case during our visit. By 10:15am, golfers were finally given the green light, and sent off the front and back side simultaneously to minimize further delays from the frost. Indeed, the greens were thawed by first putt.

Chehalem Glenn, being a newcomer to Portland area golf, has been well built to withstand plenty of rainfall. With much of the course situated on rolling, hilly terrain, moisture naturally drains toward out-of-bounds areas and hazards. This allows much of the playable areas that are lower-lying to remain relatively dry. The flatter hole layouts tend to be located on the higher elevated portions of the golf course, where saturation is naturally less of a factor. It’s also notable that Chehalem Glenn is surrounded by a wealthy amount of forested area which also plays an important role in maintaining stable earth.

It’s safe to say that (unless it’s a particularly rainy time) you will not plug in Chehalem Glenn’s fairways. In fact, throughout the entire course, we only spotted a couple areas that were soggy enough to plug; most notably, the elbow of Hole 9’s dogleg where 2 adjacent hillsides converge. To be able to pinpoint just one specific area of saturation on a NW course in December puts Chehalem Glenn at the top of our Winter Rules destinations. The greens were slightly moist due to the thawing of the frost and temperatures too cold to evaporate the surface wetness. But overall, they have remained dry enough to stay in good shape and provide a respectably true roll. Visit our in-season review of Chehalem Glenn Golf Course HERE.