Masingill misses cut in Seattle
Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:01 PM PDT
Argus Observer sports staff
Seattle ” Payette professional golfer Scott Masingill failed to get into the Champion’s Tour event in Seattle on Monday at Druid’s Glen Golf Course in Covington, Wash.
The Payette native shot a 74, and it took 70 to get in.
“I really had a good chance, was 2-under after eight holes, but made a couple of bad swings on No. 9 with an iron, hole No. 14 with a driver and cost myself three strokes,” Masingill said. “It was a reasonable day for Seattle. It rained off and on all day, so at times made it difficult. Both mistakes I made were during hard showers of rain. I’m really playing well, just frustrated that I can’t seem to put it together. I just seem to have to make a couple of mistakes that kill me.”
On another note, Masingill did get a chance on Saturday to play Chamber’s Bay,
www.chambersbaygolf.com, in Tacoma, where they will play the 2010 U.S. Amateur and the 2015 U.S. Open.
It is a treeless style of course, right on the Puget Sound, with one type of grass throughout the entire course, Masingill said.
“The tees, fairways and greens are all brown-tipped fescue. The fairways are fast and the greens severe but slow, so it will be interesting to see how the course evolves with the USGA guidance the next 7 years,” Masingill said. “My guess is the greens will be replanted in bent grass. I just don’t think that they will be major championship speed.”
The course was designed by the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. Design Group ” the same group that designed Osprey Meadows at Tamarack ” and there are a lot of similarities in the green complexes.
Masingill said it was interesting to see a mountain course and seaside course with similar traits.
