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  WAVERLEY COUNTRY CLUB Portland, Oregon August 21-25, 2023 US Senior Women's Open OVERVIEW FACILITY TYPE: Private CLUB FOUNDED: 1896 ARCHITECTS: Jack Moffat (1898), H. Chandler Egan (1912), Gil Hanse (2012) PAR: 72 LENGTH:  5,301 - 6,668 USGA RATING:  66.1 - 72.8 USGA SLOPE:  124 - 134 TEE OPTIONS:  7 WEBSITE: waverley.cc PHONE:  (503) 654-6521   This review is a special one because while I have played the course in the past, this trip I didn’t hit a single shot yet I know nearly every square foot of the property. For a week I had the great fortune to caddie for Patricia Beliard in the 5th annual US Senior Women's Open at Waverley Country Club in my former home city of Portland, Oregon. It was less than two weeks earlier that I met Patricia when I caddied for her in the US Senior Women's Open Qualifier at Firewheel Golf Park in Garland, Texas. After draining a 27-foot birdie putt on the 3rd playoff hole to qualify for the Open, Patricia and I sat...

  FIREWHEEL GOLF PARK (Lakes Course) Garland, Texas August 8, 2023 OVERVIEW FACILITY TYPE: Public YEAR OPENED: 1987 PAR: 72 LENGTH: 5,502 - 7,134 USGA RATING: 68.5 - 74.5 USGA SLOPE: 116 - 133 TEE OPTIONS: 4 WEBSITE: https://www.golffirewheel.com/ PHONE: (972) 205-2795 or (972) 205-2797   Firewheel Golf Park just northeast of Dallas provides golfers with multiple courses to test every area of your game. During this loop at Firewheel’s Lakes Course, I was on the bag for Patricia Beliard during the qualifier for the US Senior Women’s Open at Waverley Country Club in Portland, Oregon. Generally speaking, the more time you’ve spent on a particular course, the more familiar with the layout you’ll be and have an advantage going into the round. Patricia had been at the course all week getting in practice rounds to be familiar with the course. I, however, was stepping foot onto the property for the first time. Because I had not seen the course before, I spent the few days lea...