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19 TH HOLE Featuring:
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Two Amazing Days of Golf at Gamble Sands Including an Evening on the New Quicksands Short Course
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Port Orchard’s peninsula powerhouse
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A Bucket with GM • Bjorn Bjorke
jorn Bjorke, general manager of McCormick Woods Golf Club, has been working at the woodsy Port Orchard property for 26 of the 36 years the course has been open. Perhaps the most dramatic change he has seen is something that’s essentially unnoticeable. “This was built in the mid-1980s (1986), so the trees that were 30 feet tall then are now 130 feet tall,” Bjorke said. Most of the firs still majestically line the fairway corridors, but some have had to be thinned out over the decades for better sun penetration and air flow. That has produced subtle changes on the course, more openness in some areas, wider landing areas and probably fewer lost balls. Where those long-gone logs ended up is uncertain, but they may still be around the course somewhere, in another form. That’s the other change Bjorke has witnessed – housing projects. “We’re on our second master plan,” he said. “They’re still building homes here, more on the back nine. There’s another 200 homes that are going in a quarter mile away.” That’s certainly the trend there as many folks love living close to the first tee. Bjorke said the course is undergoing some smaller projects, such as building a new tee on the right side of the par-4, 440-yard 10th hole and a new chipping area, with a new sand bunker to be added this summer. Golfers have appreciated the care and maintenance the staff has devoted to the course, complicated by the much higher than normal rainfall this spring. Bjorke said coming out of the pandemic “really increased the number of golfers on the course. We’re down from last year but still way up overall. It’s exciting.”
It might be No. 2 from the white tees (great par 5 playing 475 yards) because it’s a long carry. There’s a lot of long grass. They’ve let the fescue grow out there. It may not be a real long carry. It’s mostly mental and it’s tight, making people miss it a bit.
Best Birdie Opportunity — 8th hole
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That is probably No. 8, a shorter par 4 (black tees, 384 yards). You don’t have to hit a driver, but you can. Most people do. That’ll put you within about 100 yards. Or you can lay up at 120-150 yards.
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Best Par 3 — 7th hole
It’s the shortest par 3 at 122 yards from the white tees. It’s slightly uphill and over water. It’s only about 80 yards to clear the water. The front of the green is 100 yards. It looks good, very aesthetic. It’s a severe and unique green. There’s a large grass bunker in front, 8-to-10-foot deep. The green slopes back to front pretty severely.
Favorite Hole — 5th hole I like No. 5. It’s a par 4 and plays 398 yards from the black tees. It’s an elevated tee. You hit down to a pond. To take that on it’s about 280 yards. Or you can lay up short to a flat part of the fairway. Hit up on the right and you risk the pond. The green is a skinny hour-glass shape with a swamp wrapped around the whole back and right side. You really must try to manage both (drive, approach) shots.
Emergency Nine — front or back? Bjorn couldn’t make that choice but since all the holes he mentioned here are on the front nine, that might be a clue.
Go-to lunch item on the menu — Monte Cristo Definitely the Monte Cristo (ham, turkey, Swiss, pan fried). We sell that the most. We’ve had it forever. People come here just to eat it, and not even play golf.
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18 TOTAL 4
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RATING
SLOPE
132
Blue
70.2
126
White
76.1
134
100
Gold
61.8
98
116
Red
71.2
120
338 375 500 370 325 160 420 425 178 285 326 275 115 352 356 163 525 352 5,840 335 350 448 365 320 157 415 420 172 278 301 250 111 332 335 152 520 338 5,599
Red
286 294 404 314 283 150 360 412 100 270 152 202
66.1
78
234 335
74
436 325 4,709
TEES
WOMEN
SLOPE
72.6 60.0
356 400 525 395 354 175 450 432 283 298 358 383 132 393 420 186 528 393
Gold
6,461
COURSE RATING
RATING
Blue White
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