Fore! After an extended winter we were beginning to wonder if the snow would ever disappear, but the golf course is finally open for play. You read that correctly. No need to buy a new pair of cheaters if you're visually impaired.

OK, we're back at it for another summer of documenting all the silly and incredible things that happen at Birch Ridge Golf Course. So what's changed since our last column in 2011? Well, I've got a lot more color than usual for this time...

...day, that's summer. Depressing. OK, enough whining from me, there's still plenty to look forward to at Birch Ridge Golf Course this summer. The "Guru of Grass", the "Sultan of Seed", the "Foremost Authority," Bill Engberg, has...

...scramble, six holes best ball and six holes alternate shot. For more information on the event, contact Kenai or Birch Ridge golf courses. This is a fundraiser for the junior golf programs at both courses. Upcoming clinics The first ladies clinic...

...all I would figure out a way to market them globally, but I don't. I'm just hungry. OK, back to golf. Birch Ridge Golf Course is knee-deep in lovable little duffers for the next two weeks with the Hook a Kid on Golf program and our own...

Another season of junior camps are winding down at Birch Ridge Golf Course. We've seen 24 little duffers bloom into 50 from last week's "Hook a Kid" program to our own Junior Camp this week. This...

As many of you already know, our golf course was vandalized late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Our seventh and eighth greens were shredded by what appears to be a small four-wheeler. Every so often things like this occur, although this time the damage was pretty extreme.Our crew puts an awful lot of hard work into making our greens some of the best putting surfaces in the state each summer, and we like to think, at least in part, that our golfers choose to play here because of the course conditions. So an act like this is really troubling for us.

...hundreds of youngsters are learning to swing more than their i-pods here on the Kenai Peninsula. Last week both Birch Ridge Golf Course and the Kenai Golf Course graduated the Hook A Kid On Golf class of 2012. The mission of Hook A Kid On Golf is...

...June was an entertaining month for all involved at Birch Ridge Golf Course. Early in the month, we were overrun by miniature...I present to you, the loyal reader, riveting Birch Ridge Golf Course league action. Senior League Our age-defying...

Another week has come to pass here at Birch Ridge Golf Course and what a week it was. Professional and amateur golfers from all over Alaska were in town for the always popular Wells Fargo...