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Sunshine mixing with clouds andwarmer 12A

BAINBRIDGE MAYCUT WATER RATESThe Bainbridge IslandCity Council is consideringanother drop in rates forcity water customers, thistime cutting the rate by30 percent.LOCAL, 3A

IMMIGRATIONPASSES SENATEOn a bipartisan vote, theSenate passes legisla-tion offering hope ofcitizenship to millions ofimmigrants living illegallyin America.NATION, 9A

LOCAL CLUB STILLGOLD STANDARDWith Columbia Hospital-ity overseeing things, thecourses at Gold MountainGolf Club continue togarner nationwide praise.SPORTS, 1B

BOSTON BOMBDETAILS EMERGEAs the30-countindict-mentagainsttheallegedBostonMarathonbomberunfolds, details of thesuspect come to light.NATION, 12A

CLASSIFIEDS 1CCOMICS 10BDEAR ABBY 9BHOROSCOPE9BNATION 8A

OBITUARIES 6AOPINION 7APUZZLES 9BSTOCKS 10ATELEVISION 11B

For the recordMEETING DATE: A storyThursday incorrectlystated the date of a publichearing on a proposal tochange Port Orchard’sgovernment structure.Hearings were held June11 and Tuesday.

30YEARSYOUNG

PHOTOS BY MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN

Docent Barbara Lawrence-Piecuch leads a tour Thursday at the Suquamish Museum.

By Rachel La CorteAssociated Press

OLYMPIA — A day after itwas voted down, a $10 bil-liontransportationrevenuepackage that includes a10½-centincreaseinthegastaxwasapprovedThursdayby the stateHouse.

The measure passed

on a 51-41 vote and nowheads to theSenate,whereit is expected to face re-sistance. On Wednesday,the measure had failed toreceive the required 50votes, a rare bill failure intheDemocratic-controlledHouse.

TransportationOK’d

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By Rachel Pritchettrpritchett@kitsapsun.com360-475-3783

BREMERTON — There theywere — three dusty Kitsapleaders amid the sparklingchandeliers and heavydrapes of the Swiss em-bassy in Paris — telling aSwiss aviation supplier howgreat it would be to expandto the South Kitsap Indus-trial Area.

“This was as exclusiveof a meeting that you couldhave,” observed KitsapCountyCommissioner JoshBrown, now back from the50th International ParisAirShow, which he attendedalong with Port of Bremer-ton Chief Executive OfficerTim Thomson and KitsapEconomic DevelopmentAllianceExecutiveDirectorJohn Powers. “I don’t thinkthat could have been amoresuccessful meeting.”

There was no deal thatevening with Ruag, whichis exploring opening amaintenance plant inNorthAmerica. But the encounterbegan a relationship that—who knows?—could some-day put Kitsap on the aero-space map.

Repeat that scenario doz-ens of times last week withdozens of internationalaerospace suppliers and thechances don’t seemquite asremote.

“I believe we’re in thegame, and I believe thiswilllead to opportunities,” Pow-ers said.

Time and again, Brown,Powers and Thomson pro-moted the vast and unde-veloped SKIA and all ofKitsap as having hard-to-find “green fields,” or unde-veloped land onwhich newcompanies couldbuild fromscratch.

They talkedup the skilledlocalworkforce that springsfrom the defense industry.

“Our workforce ... we’retop-notch,”Brownsaid.Theproblem is few in the globalaerospacecommunityknowabout the Kitsapworkforce“because they’re inside thefence,” he said.

And they promoted Kit-sap’s proximity toTheBoe-ing Co. and Kitsap’s goodfortune to be in a state that’shome to a global concentra-tion of 1,250 aerospace-re-lated companies.

All last week, the threemembers of the new pro-motional group KitsapAerospace and DefenseAlliance endured long busrides from their hotel, sti-fling humidity, long dashes

PARIS AIR SHOW

Kitsaptakesworldstage

■ SuquamishMuseummarks anniversarywith filmsBy Brittany Pattersonbrittany.patterson@kitsapsun.com360-792-9239

SUQUAMISH—OnSaturday, theSuqua-mish Museum celebrates its 30th an-niversary, but according to DirectorJanet Smoak, “It’s more of a ‘It’s 30already?’ atmosphere than anythingelse.”

Themuseum,which since its begin-ninghas incorporatedmultimedia intoits exhibits,will screen the award-win-ning 1983 documentary “Come ForthLaughing” and the six documentariesproduced about Suquamish cultureduring this year’s SuperFly program.

SuperFly, founded eight years agoby Tracy Rector executive directorof Longhouse Media in Seattle inconjunction with the Seattle Inde-pendent Film Festival, is a programthat brings 50 native and nonnativeyouths together into a different tribalcommunity each year. The youthsare split into teams and given 36hours to storyboard, shoot and edita short film that then screens at SIFF.It’s a play on the well-known 10-day

“fly” filmmaking program, whichhappens annually at SIFF, but Rec-tor added “we upped the ante to theextreme.”

This year, for the first time, thegroupwas asked tomake documenta-ries as opposed to work from a script.Rector andher teamcollaboratedwith

the Suquamish community, includ-ing the museum’s board members, tobrainstormmore than 100 story ideas,which were then whittled down bytribal elders and assigned to the youthteams.

Devon Sellers, 11, of Shoreline, wanders through the Suquamish Museum on Thursday.

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■ Local leadersnetwork withaviation people

See PARIS, 6A

By Chris Henrychenry@kitsapsun.com360-792-9219

PORT ORCHARD — The city has re-ceived an anonymous donation ofpublic art.

The 6-foot-tall, metal sculpture bylocal artist Karsten Boysen is called“Nike,” in reference to theGreek god-dess who personifies victory. Thepiece ismeant to honor the city’s vet-erans and to signify the city’s manyconnections to the military, Boysensaid.

The piece, created in 2008, wason display in Olympia for the past

year. Boysen declinedto say how much thedonor paid for it, butwhen it was part of anearlier display at Col-lective Visions Gal-lery in Bremerton,Nike’s price tag was$5,600.

The city’s publicproperty committee

has discussed the offer. On Tuesday,the City Council followed the com-mittee’s advice to accept the sculp-ture. A suitable location hasn’t beenidentified, but Boysenhas said hewillstore the artwork a fewmonthswhilethe city decides.

Options recommended by Boysen

PortOrchard is recipientof anonymousart donation

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This sculpture by Karsten Boysen, “Nike,”was purchased by an anonymous benefac-tor and given to Port Orchard. City leadershaven’t decided where they will put it.

By Ed Friedrichefriedrich@kitsapsun.com360-475-3792

OLYMPIA — Loans commit-ted to several local sewerand water projects might bepulled back and used to bal-ance the state budget.

House and Senate leaders

reachedabudgetdealThurs-day morning but wouldn’tdiscuss details until mem-bers could vote on it, theyhope before state employeesleavework today.

Local lawmakers con-firmed Thursday that thePublic Works Trust Fundwill be raided but had yet tobe briefed on howmuch andfor how long.

Thetrust fundmakes low-interest infrastructure loansto local governments forwa-ter,wastewater, road,bridge,

solid-waste and recyclingprojects. It’s fundedby inter-est rates of 0.25 to 2 percentper year on the loans, taxeson utilities and real estatesales.

Senate Majority LeaderRodney Tom, D-Bellevue,said Wednesday that nego-tiators agreed there will be“substantial transfers” fromthe account. House CapitalBudgetchairmanHansDun-shee,D-Snohomish,saidthey

Infrastructure loans may be pulled■ Projects heremight be held tobalance budget

■ Metal sculptureis work of local artist

Boysen

See STATUE, 6A

See BUDGET, 5A

MUSIC: Olympic Music Festivalkicks off its 30th season

MOVIE: ‘White House Down’offers good, dumb fun

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SUBMIT YOURRELAY PHOTOSDid you participate or areyou planning to join one ofthe local Relays for Life?The Kitsap Sun is lookingfor participants to submitphotos from any of theevents for publication inthe newspaper and online.Email them by noonSunday to sunnews@kitsapsun.com.

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ART: Sock puppets get themonkey off her back

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Friday, June 28, 2013

■ Cavaliers takeUNLV’s Bennett assurprise No. 1 pick at theNBA Draft. 6B

By Chuck StarkSpecial to the Kitsap Sun

BREMERTON — The fan clubfor the Olympic Course atGoldMountain Golf Club al-ways seems to be expanding.

Matt Ginella of the GolfChannel recently sang thepraises of Bremerton’s mu-nicipal course during aradio show.

Asked about some of hisfavorite regional courses,Ginella startedwith the JohnHarbottle-designed layoutthat opened to rave reviewsand is still getting them 17years after it burst on theNorthwest scene.

“I love theOlympicCourseat Gold Mountain,” said thetravel insider who writes forGolfChannel.com and ap-pearsweeklyonthenetwork’s“MorningDrive”program. “Ialways talkaboutwhatagreatvalue it is. It’s suchabeautifulsetting.

“And it has sort of a driv-able par-4 18th hole that’sdownhill. It’s a funwaytoendthe day. The people coming

there on a regular basis whoare getting that loyalty rateare stealing something. I talkabout it being one of the bestvalues in the country all ofthe time.”

Gold Mountain’s originalCascadeCourse, asbeautiful-ly maintained as its youngersister and a little cheaper toplay, has never lost its luster.It’ll probably end up hostingmore rounds than the Olym-pic.

The 18-hole courses,amongthebusiest in thestate,areonpace tohostmore than80,000roundsbetweenthem.

None of this is breakingnews — the locals have un-derstood for a long time thatgolf doesn’t get much betterthanwhat’s available to themat the mountain — but it hasbeen nearly seven monthssince Columbia Hospitalitytook over operation of theplace, and with the prime-time golf months sneakingup on us, it seems like a goodtime to see how the arrange-ment is working out.

‘IT’S GOING GREAT’Scott Alexander, the pre-

vious director of golf whowas so instrumental in turn-ing GoldMountain into oneof those must-play coursesfor out-of-state visitors,steppeddownafter 28years.His last day on the job wasDec. 31, but he announced

his resignation in mid-Mayto give the city ample timeto find a replacement.

There were more than afew raised eyebrows whenBremerton Mayor PattyLent aligned herself earlywith Columbia Hospitality,whichmanages theBremer-ton Conference Center. She

had zero interest in listen-ing to potential bids fromnationally-acclaimed com-panies who managed golfcourses. That didn’t sit wellwith some residents, butthe City Council went alongwith themayor and awarded

GOLDEN HOSPITALITY JIMLITKE

VIEWPOINTS

The instructions wereso simple it makes youwonder what part of “justshut ... up” Alex Rodriguezdidn’t understand.

YankeesGMBrianCash-man’s directive the otherday was calibrated formaximum effect, sure. Heknew exactly what he wasdoing. It’s why he tucked aprofanity in the middle.

But Cashman also knowsbetter than anyone that forbetter or worse — prob-ably worse, and certainlyfor the foreseeable future— the ballclub and A-Rodare stuck with each other.Bottom line, all he askedfor at the moment was alittle peace and quiet.

Like the majority ofYankee fans and just abouteverybody else up anddown the club’s chain ofcommand, Cashman prob-ably wishes A-Rod wouldjust retire, preferably to amountaintop retreat. Orelse beg for a trade, maybeto Rodriguez’s hometownMarlins, but ideally to aballclub on the other side ofworld, say Japan or Korea.

But Cashman can’t do athing about it.

Rodriguez has a surgi-cally repaired hip and a le-gally binding contract. TheYankees desperately needmore offense, especiallywith Mark Teixeira nowout for the rest of the sea-son with a bum wrist andRodriguez’s replacementsat third hitting a combined.240, with just four hom-ers and 23 RBIs throughWednesday.

If A-Rod comes backafter the All-Star break asplanned, and manages at

What partof shut updid A-Rodnot get?

By Alan Sylvestrealan.sylvestre@kitsapsun.com360-792-9231

Poulsbo Running willhost the inaugural PortGambleMarathonandHalf-marathon onAug. 4. It’s thethird marathon in KitsapCounty.

After pulling the RootRocks 50-kilometer fromtheir schedule, PoulsboRunning created the mara-thon so local runners stillhad a long-distance compe-tition.

Poulsbo Running ownerChris Hammett is coordi-nating the event as he doeswith the Roots Rock TrailRunning Series.

The race will start andfinish just south of PortGambleoffHighway104andrunners will loop throughthe Pope Resources TreeFarm.

“The goal is to promotethe trails. Those are on pri-vate property and all that isup for sale,” Hammett said.“There’s a group that’swith

FITNESS

PortGambleto hostraces

By Todd DybasTacoma News Tribune

SEATTLE — After FranklinGutierrez’s outfieldworkoutdidn’t gowellTuesdayafter-noon, the Seattle Marinerswere forced intoyet anotherroster move.

Summoned fromTriple-Ato replaceGutierrez,DustinAckley packed his stuff,bolted Cheney Stadiumand began the uphill battlethat is I-5North traffic after4 p.m.

He may have been Tues-day’s happiest commuter.After being sent down tothe minors May 26 with a

.205 average in tow, Ack-ley was coming back to theclubhouse most figured hewould never leave after ini-tial arrival.

Ackley, head freshlyshaved andbeardwell-griz-zled, was on the first-base

foul line in time for the na-tional anthem. He’s onlypinch-run during the twogames he’s been back with

the Mariners, but is likelyto be in the outfield Friday.

He tore up Triple A. Ack-ley hit .365 in his 25 games

with the Rainiers. Many ofhis outs were line drives.He went to left, center andright.Mostly, he says, heun-clutteredhismind.Ropes toall fields followed.

“I think I probably chilledout more mentally, is reallywhat it comes down to,”Ackley said. “I think therewas somuch going on inmyhead before, I don’t reallythink it was a major swingthing.

“I think it was less myswing and more what wasgoing on mentally, just get-tingup to theplate andmen-tally worrying about mak-ing the first out on the firstpitchorwhatever itwas, andI think once I separated thatand just started this tunnelvision on what I needed to

Ackley ready for second runwithMariners

By Jeff Grahamjgraham@kitsapsun.com360-792-8566

KitsapPumasownerRob-inWaitesaidhisclubsubmit-tedaletter tothePremierDe-velopmentLeague thisweekregarding what it believeswas inappropriate behaviorby Portland head coach JimRilatt during last week’s 1-0loss in Portland.

Pumas head coach JamesRitchie and Rilatt wereboth ejected from the game,whichsaw37 fouls, eightyel-low cards and four red cardshandedout.

During the game, Ritchieand assistant coachesAndrew Chapman andDustyn Brim claim Rilattopenly directedmembers ofhis team to target and injureKitsap players.

“Hewasn’tmaking it a se-cret,” Pumas assistant coachAndrewChapman said.

Chapman said he heardRilatt tell one of his playersto “go staple” one of Kitsap’splayers.Thattranslatesto“goput the studs (on the bottomofyourcleats) intosomeone,”Chapman said.

Brim said he heard Rilattusethephrase“gobreakhim”in another command to his

players, and that Rilatt ap-plaudedwhenhisplayerssuc-cessfully committed fouls.

“I’ve never heard a coachso blatantly go tell his play-ers to go hurt or injure otherplayers,” saidChapman,whohas coached Peninsula Col-lege’smen’sprogramthepast10 years.

“You don’t see headhunt-ing too often in this game,”Brimadded.

Ritchie, who talked to alinesmanandafourthofficial

regardingRilatt’scomments,saidheconsideredpullinghisteamoffthefieldatonepointto protect his players.

“If anybody gets hurt,we’re walking off the field,”he said.

ChapmanandBrimbelieveRilatt’sactionsmayhavebeeninresponsetoPortlandlosingtop forward Mark Sherrodto a head injury. When thetwo teams played on June 1,

PUMAS NOTEBOOK

Badbehavior prompts letter to league

■ Seattle company getsinto swing at Bremerton

MARINERSAT A GLANCEToday: Chicago Cubs(Wood 5-6, 2.85) atSeattle (Iwakuma 7-3,2.26)Time: 7:10 p.m.TV: ROOTRadio: 710 AM

■ Former No. 2pick likelyto be in outfield

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INSIDEMariners to fly rainbow flagSunday. 2B

■ Newest eventbrings countytotal to three

See MARATHON, 2B

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Seattle Mariners’ Dustin Ackley waits for a pitch during an at-batin a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Friday, May 24,

■ Team claims opposing coach was “headhunting”

See PUMAS, 4B

Gold Mountain Golf Club general manager Daryl Matheny (right) has worked on squeezing moremoney from the popular course.

PHOTOS BY LARRY STEAGALL/KITSAP SUN

Gold Mountain has hosted several large tournaments, such as the West Coast Conference tournament in April.

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By Chuck StarkSpecial to the Kitsap Sun

Australia’s 15-year-oldRyan Ruffels shot impres-sive rounds of 69 and 67 ontheOlympic Course earlierthis week to top theU.S. Ju-nior Amateur qualifier atGold Mountain Golf Club.

Ruffels’ 8-under-par 136,in less-than-ideal condi-tions, was nine strokesbetter than his nearestcompetitors. Cole MadeyofWest Linn, Ore. (76-69),Houston’s David Lee (74-71) and Kirkland’s FrankGarber (73-72) tied forsecond at 145. Jordan Lu(73-73) of Vancouver, B.C.,was another stroke back infifth.

Madey and Lee, whohas signed to play at SMU,survived the playoff forthe second and third spotsand will join Ruffels at theU.S. JuniorAmateur, whichwill be played July 22-27 atMartis Camp Golf Club inTruckee, Calif. GoldMoun-tain hosted the 2011 JuniorAm, which was won byJordan Spieth, who is nowplaying on the PGA Tour.

For Garber, it’s the sec-ond straight year he’s beenan alternate during the Ju-nior Am qualifier at GoldMountain.

The 36-hole qualifierwas supposed to be heldTuesday, but because ofweather delays from heavyrain and some lightningand thunder, most of theplayers only got in 27 holes.

Only 39 of the 59 golfersin the field returned to fin-ish Wednesday.

The top local finisherwas Central Kitsap’s Au-breyMacKenzie, who shot79-79—158. CK’s Christo-pher Kwon carded 84-78—164 and Olympic’s TrentFerris 85-86—171. Bain-bridge’s Sam Warkentin

(79) and Central Kitsap’sAndrewHansen (80) wereamong those who with-drew.

Ruffels, from Mel-bourne, was coming off aseventh-place finish at theWorld Junior Champion-ships in Nagoya, Japan,and will play in the Calla-way World Junior Cham-pionships in San Diegonext month. His parents,Ray and Annamaria, wereboth professional tennisplayers.

Kwon finishes 15thWomen’s State Am

Bremerton’s BrittanyKwon finished in 15th placeat the Washington StateWomen’s Amateur onThursday at Twin LakesGolf & Country Club inFederalWay.

Kwon, 12, ended the tour-namentat 28-over (244). Sheshot 86 on Thursday aftercarding rounds of 77 and 81the first two days.

Silverdale’s Katie Leeplaced30that49-over,whileBremerton’s LeslieGuzmantied for 33rd at 54-over.

Mallory Kent of Tukwilawon the tournament, shoot-ing 8-over to edge JordanFerreira ofUniversity Placeby a stroke.

Another No. 1for Huskies

Let’s play a little Jeop-ardy.

Nick Taylor, Chris Wil-liams and now Cheng-Tsung Pan.

That would be the an-swer to the question: Namethe three University ofWashington golfers whohave been ranked the No. 1amateur golfer in theworldover the last four years.

Pan, a junior-to-be at theUW, was named the new

No. 1 player in the R&AWorld Amateur Golf Rank-ings onWednesday.

Taylor, now playing ontheCanadianTour,wasNo.1 for 21 weeks as a Huskysenior. Williams, No. 1 formost of the last two years,turnedpro lastweek, finish-ing tied for 30th in theTrav-elers Championship.

Pan, a native of Taiwan,went from No. 5 to No. 1 af-ter finishing second amongamateurs at the U.S. Open.Pan, who has three winsduring his Husky career,will be a junior next season.If he is still No. 1 at the endof the summer, hewill earnexemptions to the 2014U.S.Open and British Open.

Williams, the HoganAward winner, shot 71-68-69-69 at the Travelers andwon $32,584. Richard Lee,another ex-Husky and for-mer Bremerton City Amwinner, also tied for 30th.Lee has had two top-10 andfive top-25 finishes in 17tournaments and is 78th onthe money list ($712,370).

Good dealYou can join the Rolling

Hills Golf Course Men’sClub, the most active in thearea, for $60.Thefirst roundis free if you’re joining forthe first time. It immedi-ately makes you eligible forall of the weekly nine-holeWednesday events. And ifyou have 10 rounds postedover the last 12 months atRolling Hills, you wouldhave been eligible to playin 19 tournaments this year.

AlsoJim Moore, who writes

a weekly Monday columnfor the Kitsap Sun, hoststhe weekly Pacific North-west Golf Show along withShon Crewe on Sunday

mornings at ESPN 710 AM.It usually airs at 10 a.m.,unless it conflicts with theMariners’ pregame show. ...Palouse Ridge Golf Coursein Pullman is hosting theJohn Harbottle III Pro-Amon July 26-28. Harbottle,who designed PalouseRidge andGoldMountain’sOlympic Course, died sud-denly last year. He wasposthumously awardedthe 2012 Northwest GolfMedia Association “Lo-cal Legend” award. ... The109thNorthwest OpenwillbeplayedAug. 19-21 atWineValley GC in Walla Walla.WineValley,which openedin 2009, is rated No. 84 inGolfweek’s 2012 list of BestModern Courses. ... JimSutherland of Vancouver,B.C., haswritten a new golfnovel, “Stack and Tilt,” acomic story about golf andgolfers. ... Brian JungofCor-vallis,Ore. (68), JamesFeutzofTacoma (69) andSeattle’sSandy Vaughn (70), whosurvived a four-man play-off, earned spots to the July1-3 Sahalee Players Cham-pionship during Monday’squalifier at Sahalee Coun-try Club in Sammamish.Bainbridge’s Carl Jonson,the 2012 PNGA Amateurmedalist and runner-upa year ago, is also in thestrong field,which includesseveral top NCAA golfers.Jonson and Feutz play atUNLV. Jonson missed theWashington StateAmateurearlier thismonth atCham-bers Bay because of an el-bow injury. Feutz placedfourth at the state am andat this year’s BremertonCityAm,which hewon as a16-year-old.Hewas third atlastweekend’sTacomaCityAmateur. ... Bainbridge’s EdJonson, Carl’s father, tiedfor 15th at the U.S. SeniorOpen qualifier at SuncadiaonTuesday inCle Elum.He

shot 4-over 75 on the RopeRider Course. Bainbridge’sNeal White tied for 21stwith a 77. Bellevue’s TomBrandes (69) and Lake-wood’s TomHale (70)werethe two qualifiers to theJuly 11-14 U.S. Senior Openat theOmaha (Neb.) Coun-try Club. ... The American

Junior Golf Association,which used to hold anevent at Trophy Lake Golf& Casting in Port Orchard,is returning to the state thisyear. The inaugural RyanMoore Junior Champion-ship will be played July 2-4at RMG Club at Oakbrookin Lakewood.

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Aussie tamesGoldMountain’sOlympicCourse

By The Associated Press

SOUTHAMPTON,N.Y.—SouthKo-rea’s Ha-Neul Kim upstagedfriend Inbee Park to take thefirst-round lead at her firstU.S.Women’sOpen.

Kim shot a bogey-free6-under 66 on Thursday atSebonack to lead Park bya stroke. The top-rankedPark is trying to make his-tory by winning the firstthree majors of the year.PGA Tour

Castro leads atCongressional

BETHESDA, Md. — RobertoCastro didn’t qualify forthe U.S. Open this year. Hefelt as if he played in one atCongressional onThursdayin the AT&TNational.chAmPions Tour

Huston on topat Senior Players

PITTSBURGH — John Hustonshot a 5-under 65 on Thurs-day to take the first-roundlead in the Senior PlayersChampionship.

FredCouples,DuffyWal-dorf, Fred Funk and RussCochranwere a stroke backin the third major on theChampions Tour schedule.Tom Pernice Jr. had threestraight birdies to start hisround and led a group ofplayers at 67.EuroPEAn Tour

McIlroy shoots74 at Irish open

MAYNOOTH,Ireland—RoryMc-Ilroy shot a 2-over-par 74 inthe first round of Irish OpenonThursdayandsayshefeels“abit lost” inwhathasbeenadifficult year.

Theworld’sNo. 2-rankedgolfer again struggled withhis driver andmanaged justtwo birdies on a wet, over-castdayat theCartonHousecourse on the outskirts ofDublin.

McIlroy is seven shotbehind clubhouse leaderand playing partner ShaneLowry.

Golf rouNduP

Park 2ndto friendatOpen

a three-year contract to the companywhose headquarters are on Pier 66in Seattle.

“Yes, there was a risk,” said LennyZilz,ColumbiaHospitality’svicepresi-dentofmarketing. “Idon’t think itwasfor us necessarily.Weknewwe’d suc-ceed. But certainly it was a politicalrisk.” Is Columbia Hospitality, whichspecializes in hotels, resorts, confer-encecentersandcruiseshipterminals,succeedingwith its first golf venture?

By all accounts, things are sailingalongaboutassweetasaFredCouplesswing.

“We’re very pleased,” Zilz said.“ThroughtheendofMay,weweredo-ingwell andJuneseemstobe trackingthe sameway.We started off the yearbehind, butwe’ve caught up, which isgreat.”DarylMatheny,theformerheadpro underAlexander, was retained asgeneralmanager.EdFaulk, thegreenssuperintendent who contracted withthe city in the past, was also retained.Faulk has been a fixture since 1984,and like all of the employees at GoldMountain,henowworksforColumbiaHospitality.

“Individually they’ve left it to us tojust run theplace,which isgood,” saidFaulk, whose budget (around $1 mil-lion) and manpower (22 employees)are about the same as before.

“Notmuchhas changed forme. It’sprobably a little different for Daryl.Everything goes throughDaryl now.I used to be my own boss and workfor the city. Now Daryl’s the generalmanager. He’s the boss right now.I’m an employee ofColumbia. That’sthe difference.”Matheny admits thatthere was a little fear in the begin-ning.

“Honestly, going in nobody knewwhat the hell to expect. It was morelikewewere all kind of guessing howitwouldgodown,”hesaid. “ButI thinkit’s going great.

“Aswemetandmappedoutwhatweweredoinggoingforward, theytoldus,‘Hey,we’ll supportwhat youdo.We’llsee if there’sabetterwaytodoit.Theylookedatusas theones in the industrywith theexpertiseandto lead theway.They said they were going to give ushugesupportgoing forwardandthat’swhat they’ve done.”

Liz Ogle, the retail manager of theproshop, saidColumbiahasmadeherlife easier.

“We’re able to implement our ideasbecause theydohavesucha largesup-port team,” she said. “If Iwant an ad, Igive themthe informationandtheydoit. That allows us to spendmore timewith the customer.”

Zilzsaid theteamatGoldMountainhas bought in to Columbia Hospital-ity’s philosophy and is taking advan-tage of its business strategy and vastmarketing sources.

“Daryl’s agreat leader,”hesaid. “Hehasagreatmarketingmindandthey’veembracedourphilosophyofcustomerservice.They’readelight toworkwith... we recognize the expertise they

bring to the table.”Matheny said one of the major

changes working for a company suchasColumbiaHospitality is thenumberofmeetings he nowparticipates in.

“Compared to what we used to do,it’sanexorbitantamountof teleconfer-encemeetingsandsettingupmeetingswith the teamhere,” he said. “But youknow, it’s great because everybodyknows exactly what’s going on. Ev-erybody is in the loop.”

Hesaid they’re still trying tofiguresomethingsout.When it comes to thefood-and-beverage part of the busi-ness, he said, “There’s a few thingskind of gray on howwe’re doing andhowwe’re doing it going forward.”

When Alexander announced hewas leaving, the job of booking spe-cial events such as weddings andgroupbookingswasnonexistent, saidMatheny. As a result, that part of thebusinessdroppedoffsignificantlydur-ing the first sixmonths of this year.

“But the revenue is still trendingclose to what we had budgeted, andwe’ve got a lotmore scheduled for thelast half of this year,”Matheny said.

GoAl: PAy off The deBTMostly because of a good spring in

which there was less rain than usual,Gold Mountain is ahead of what itbudgeted in money generated fromgreen fees, carts and driving range.Matheny said the facility is holdingits own in selling merchandise “eventhough it’s been a bad merchandise

year throughout the golfworld.”Under the three-year contract

signed with the city, Columbia Hos-pitality receives a management fee—5percent ofGoldMountain’s grossrevenues—and 20percent of any netoperatingrevenuesover$600,000an-nually.

The city took out a $5million bondto build the Olympic Course in 1996,and a $3.1 million bond to build theclubhouse, which opened Septem-ber 2004. For a few years, the facilitygenerated enough money to pay thedebt, but that hasn’t been the case forawhile.Thedebthasbeenrefinanceda couple of times, but the payment isclose to $280,000 this year and it willbe closer to $400,000 for 2014 withyearly increasesuntil 2018. Itwon’tbepaidoffuntil 2028.Thegoal,Mathenysaid, is to generate enough revenue to“pay the debt and have some rollovermoney in our capital account. Andwe’re well on pace to do those thingsand then some.” If there’s a year theydon’t make budget, the idea is to have“still have enough in the capital fundtotakecareof thedebt,”Mathenysaid.“That’s thewholegoal.That’swhatwewant to try to accomplish.”

Zilz said they’ll haveabetter ideaofwhat toexpect for the longtermbytheendof the year.

“We’ll carefully look at our perfor-mance,” he said. “Right nowwe feel areal strong relationship with the cityand they’re pleased.We’re starting toplan now for 2014. We’re looking at

marketingstrategyandwhatcanbere-vised.We’ll have a better idea ofwhatkind of growthpotentialwehave.”

GeTTinG CreATive wiTh feeSThis gets back to the top of the

story,where theGolf Channel’sMattGinella talked about Gold Mountainbeing one of the best values around.

“We get golfers in here fromCalifornia all the time and theytell me it would cost $200 to playthe Olympic Course if it was intheir state,” said Faulk, the super-intendent who deserves so muchcredit for the facilities’ great reputa-tion.

As Ginella pointed out, GoldMountain’s regarded as one of thebest bargains around, but it is a busi-ness and the revenues have dippedin recent years. Matheny and headpro Mark Knowles, who previouslyworked as an assistant pro and withAlexander’s golf cart business, ana-lyzed the overall greens fees struc-ture and they cameupwith a plan tosqueeze a little more money out ofthe rounds.

“Itwas like anonion, peelingapartall these layers that had to be lookedat and revised in some respect,” Ma-theny said. “Knowlsy and I spenthours and hours combing through it.We didn’t want to just come in andraise rates and assume thatwould dothe trick.”

Besides, it probably wouldn’t bewell receivedby the golferswhoplaythere on a regular basis.

So they kept daily rates the same($33Cascade; $45Olympic,Monday-Thursday;$36/$50onFriday;$40/$65Saturday/Sunday in peak times), butthey tinkered with the prime-timefees for golferswho buy punch cardsand annual fee passes.

Normally, a golfer pays $40 toplaythe Cascade Course in prime time (8a.m. to noon, Saturday/Sunday/holi-days fromMay to September).

Because of all the golfers usingpunchcardsandannual feepasses,oremployees getting free golf (coursemarshals for instance) it brought theaverage rate downduring that primetime to the high $20s, saidMatheny.

Golferswhopayannual andpunchcardpremiumsnowpayanadditionalup-charge of $8 to play the Cascadeduring prime time on weekends andholidays.

There has always been an up-charge ($26) on the Olympic Courseforweekend and holidays.

“Wewereshootingourselves inthefoot,”Matheny said. “With the$8up-charge, it’s still a 20percentdiscount.Wethought thatwas reasonable.Andyoucanstill playbefore8andnotpayit; or play after noon.”

Asexpected, thatchangewasgreet-edwith somemoans and groans.

“We had some feedback,” Ma-theny said. “But we’d gone sofar the other way, offering onlydiscounts. You’re still getting a20 percent discount playing a golfcoursethat’salwaysratedamongthetop8-10values in thecountry ... andthat’s off our rack rate.”

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norThweST Golf CAlendArJuly 1-3: Sahalee PlayersChampionship, SahaleeCountry Club, SammammishJuly 6-11: PNGA Men’sAmateur, Bandon Dunes GolfResort, Bandon, Ore.July 11-12: SuquamishClearwater Resort and TrinityAcademy Celebrity Classic,White Horse Golf Club(Warren Moon, Dave Kreigand Kenny Easley among thecelebrities)July 15-19: PNGA Women’sAmateur and Mid-Amateur,Wine Valley CC, Walla WallaJuly 17-21: Rosauers OpenInvitational, Indian Canyon,SpokaneJuly 30-Aug. 1: SeniorOregon Open Invitational,Wildhorse Resort & Casino,Pendleton, Ore.Aug. 5: National CarRental PGA AssistantChampionships, ChehalemGlenn GC, Newberg, Ore.Aug. 12-15: PNGA JuniorGirls’ Amateur, The LinksClub, Post Falls, IDAug. 12-16: PNGA JuniorBoys’ Amateur, BearMountain Resort, Victoria,B.C.Aug. 14: 18th annual KitsapMental Health ServicesGolf Classic, Gold Mountain(scramble on OlympicCourse)Aug. 15: PGA ChampionsTour Qualifier, Druid’s GlenGC, KentAug. 19-21: NorthwestOpen Invitational, WineValley CC, Walla Walla

Aug. 23-25: Champion’sTour Boeing Classic, TPCSnoqualmie RidgeAug. 29-31: LPGASafeway Classic, ColumbiaEdgewood, PortlandSept. 5-6: PNW Senior PGAChampionship, OakbrookG&CC, TacomaSept. 9-11: PNGA Women’sSenior Team, SunriverResort, Bend, Ore.Sept. 16-17: Kikkor UWHusky Invitational, GoldMountain Golf ClubSept. 18-19: PNW Pro-Amateur Championship,Salish Cliffs GC, SheltonSept. 18-20: PNGA Men’sSenior Team, SunriverResort, Bend, Ore.Sept. 28-29: Dave WilliamsBest Ball, Gold MountainGolf ClubSept. 30-Oct. 1: PNGASenior/Super SeniorWomen’s Amateur,Arrowhead Golf Club,Molalla, Ore.Oct. 1-3: PNW PGAProfessional Championship,Meadow Springs GC,RichlandOct. 24-25: 65th HudsonCup Matches, PumpkinRidge and Witch Hallow,North Plains, Ore.

To add local tournamentsto golf calendar, pleaseemail sunsports@kitsapsun.com with dates and contactinformation.

LARRY STEAGALL/KITSAP SUN

A nice spring has helped increase the rounds played at Gold Mountain.

Gold MoUnTAin Green feeSCascade Olympic

Monday-Thursday: $33 $45Friday: $36 $50Sat-Sun-Holiday: $40 $65Weekday twilight (3 p.m.): $23 $25Weekend twilight (3 p.m.): $26 $27Juniors Monday-Thursday/Fridaysweekends after 3 p.m: $13 $22Carts: $32 $16 (2 riders/1 rider)Current special: $85 for two rounds in one dayFor annual and punch card premiums and other passes, go togoldmountaingolf.comAlso: Gold Mountain hosting Junior Golf Camp, July 8-12. Cost: $100