The list of notable achievements extends beyond two pages but, in a nutshell, Couples has won 15 PGA Tour events, including the 1984 and ‘96 Players Championships and 1992 Masters. And what about Sandra Palmer and Ruth Jessen.Īlso being omitted would be USGA and Golf Canada national champions, state and provincial greats, PGA and LPGA tour winners, Ryder and Walker Cup players, and even a women’s major champion.īorn in Seattle 60 years ago, Couples was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2013, and that, really, is all you need to explain why the man affectionately known as “Boom Boom” is included here.īut how did the languid, astonishingly powerful swinger from Beacon Hill get there?
No Dave Barr, Dawn Coe-Jones, or Richard Zokol. Or Al Mengert, Ken Still, Ben Crane, and John Fought. There’d be no place for Rick Acton or the Putnam brothers, Michael and Andrew. In this Players category, the first handful emerged quickly, but it soon became clear that by choosing them we would be leaving out preeminent golfers such as Pat Lesser Harbottle and Don Bies. Be it promoters, storytellers, architects, teachers, coaches, or players, six or seven candidates hasn’t been enough to tell the whole story. It has been a common theme throughout this series. (This article first appeared in the November 2019 issue of Pacific Northwest Golfer magazine) They are inevitably incomplete, subjective, and all-too-short. We’ve been touching on just a handful of people, in no particular order, in six categories over several issues of this magazine – the Visionaries, Storytellers, Teachers, Architects, Coaches, and now the Players.
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This is the sixth in a series of articles, highlighting the people who have made this far corner of the continent our center of the golf universe, and have shaped the way we play the game.
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Golf in the Pacific Northwest has a rich history, full of characters, frontrunners, visionaries, boom-and-bust epics, and too-good-to-be-true (but mostly they really are true) tales.
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