The 51st Pacific Coast Amateur Championship is being played at Chambers Bay golf course at University Place this week. The tournament hosted by the Washington State and Pacific Northwest golf associations, begins Tuesday and runs through Friday.
It’s the second year-in-a-row the Pacific Coast Amateur is being held in the state of Washington. Last years’s tournament was held at the Seattle Golf Club in Shoreline.
According to the Seattle Times, Twenty-three of the top 100 amateurs in the world, are playing in the 72-hole, stroke-play tournament. That includes the defending champion and 10th-ranked amateur Will Zalatoris.
Chambers Bay, which hosted the 2015 U.S. Open, announced this month that they are beginning the transition from fescue grass to to poa annua greens.
(KPUG – Doug Lange; Information from the Seattle Times and pacificcoastamateur.com used in this story)