Local Golf Notebook -- Jordan's Shooting Touch Evident On Local Courses

Chicago Bull superstar Michael Jordan posted some decent golf scores on two good local courses this week.

On Monday, he shot 82 (9 over par) at Inglewood Country Club. On Tuesday, he played 36 holes at Broadmoor Golf Club and shot 80 (10 over par) and 76 (6 over).

At Inglewood, Jordan nearly aced the par-3 12th hole, which was 165 yards from the championship tees.

Jordan's Seattle golf outings were arranged by John Bracken, director of the Ernst Championship. Bracken played with Jordan and said, "He's a powerful guy and he's got great touch on the greens."

Notes

-- Bruce Cadwell of Boise, Idaho, defeated Dick Estey of Portland in a two-hole playoff yesterday to win the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Senior Amateur tournament in Bremerton.

Cadwell, 56, a PNGA Senior runner-up last year, and Estey, 65, were tied at 5-over 219 after the regulation 54 holes. Four-time champion John Harbottle of Tacoma shot a final-round 74 for a 220 total, one stroke back.

-- The U.S. Open never has been played in the Northwest and the owners of the 36-hole Pumpkin Ridge complex, near Portland, want to change that.

Marv French, president of Pumpkin Ridge, is attending the U.S. Open this week to lobby for his courses as an Open site sometime early next century.

The United States Golf Association has selected Open sites for the next five years - 1997, Congressional County Club, Bethesda, Md.; 1998, Olympic Club, San Francisco; 1999, Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst, N.C.; 2000, Pebble Beach, Calif.; and 2001, Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Okla.

Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, N.Y., a state-owned public facility where daily greens fees are $20, is considered a strong contender for 2002. The USGA is interested in staging the Open at a grass-roots public facility such as Bethpage to show that golf isn't just a country-club game.

Pumpkin Ridge hopes to embellish its credentials by doing a good job with the U.S. Men's Amateur this August and the U.S. Women's Amateur next summer.

-- The latest news regarding the planned Interbay driving range and executive-length facility isn't encouraging for golfers.

The P-Patch gardeners fighting to remain on the grounds are collecting signatures of support.

Meanwhile, the Seattle Parks Department is discussing a possible land swap or land purchase with the U-Haul dealership that borders the site.

The project developer, Family Golf Northwest, wants to put in a driving range that faces north, a nine-hole executive-length course with two par-4 holes and a putting course.

The next stop for the project is the June 27 Park Board meeting.

-- Howard Bogie, the promoter who kept the Seattle City Men's Amateur trophy in protest after Municipal Golf of Seattle decided to run the 1996 tournament in-house instead of having him run it, has returned the trophy. Chris Redo, chief executive officer of MGS, said that he was pleased to get it back and that Bogie deserves credit for keeping the tournament alive from 1990-95.