Fall golf in the PNW hits different — cooler mornings, that first hint of color on the maples, and just enough crispness in the air to make you actually enjoy walking 18. But right about the time you're settling into peak fall-golf mode, you step up to the green, take your putt... and it dies in a hole three feet short. Welcome back to aerification season. Why Courses Punch Holes in Perfectly Good Greens If you're newer to the game (or just never bothered to ask), aerificatio

Chambers Bay is the rare course where the argument isn't whether it's good — it's which parts of it are great. The 2015 U.S. Open left a lot of people with a bad taste, most of it about greens that no longer exist. The poa conversion between 2017 and 2019 fixed the putting surfaces, and what's left is one of the best pieces of public golf ground in America: 250 acres of old gravel pit, no trees except one, and fairways wide enough that the fun comes from angles instead of sur

Every August, the Pacific Northwest gets its only PGA TOUR event: three days at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, a stunning Jack Nicklaus-designed course thirty miles east of Seattle. You can stand ten feet from major champions and watch a Boeing flyover to start and finish the tournament's play. The Boeing Classic is one of 28 PGA TOUR Champions events in the world, and the only annual PGA TOUR event in the Pacific Northwest. 2026 is its 21st year. This is our guide to doing it