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A Capitol Hill golf tournament? Pike/Pine virtual golf bar hosts ‘longest drive’ competition

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You probably haven’t seen Capitol Hill host a golf tournament before. Friday, the 11th Ave location of virtual golf bar chain Five Iron Golf is hosting a “longest drive” competition benefit:

WHAT: Five Iron Golf Seattle x Bucky Jacobsen Longest Drive Contest
WHEN: Friday, October 21, 2022
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PT
WHERE: Five Iron Golf Seattle 1525 11th Ave
WHO: Five Iron Golf Seattle in partnership with iHeartRadio will host a longest drive contest with former Mariner and sports radio legend, Bucky Jacobsen to raise donations for Youth on Course.

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Miller Playfield closed for the summer for turf replacement project

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The busy Miller Playfield and its popular basketball court will be fenced off through the summer as Seattle Parks undertakes an overhaul of the artificial turf.

Parks says the project at the field along 19th Ave E involves the replacement of 89,740 square feet of the plastic turf in a project expected to be completed by fall and the start of the year at Meany Middle School which is part of the Miller campus and utilizes the field.

Parks says pedestrian traffic through the Miller campus will be re-routed and the basketball court will be closed throughout the construction

A crew from Coast to Coast Turf will remove the old turf “and address any structural repairs to curbing, sub-subsurface, and drainage,” the parks announcement says. For the new turf setup, CHS reported here on the transition to more environmentally friendly solutions than the old crumb rubber previously used on the fields after a successful experiment at Cal Anderson. Continue reading →

Cascade Flag Football League battles on the gridiron of Cal Anderson Park in preparation for the Super Bowl of inclusive football — Gay Bowl XXIII

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(Image: Shamaar Thomas – CHS Reporting Intern)

The Super Bowl of inclusive football is coming to Seattle and teams you see battling on the turf at Cal Anderson’s Bobby Morris Field are at the middle of it.

“The Cascade Flag Football League is an all-inclusive league. Not only geared towards the LGBTQ plus community, but also we welcome those that are part of the CIS community as well,” CFFA director of marketing and player DJ Harden said.

Sponsored by the Seattle Seahawks, National Gay Flag Football League (NGFFL), and multiple queer-friendly establishments across Seattle, CFFA is about inclusivity and sport.

“I think it’s just a great opportunity to sort of turn the narrative about football around. Football has this sort of toxic masculinity associated with it,” CFFA league commissioner Andrew Gorman said. He said the league brings members of the community a sense of achievement knowing that they can enter a space where they may not feel welcomed and make it their own.

The league is now gearing up for an ultimate battle in the sport. Continue reading →

What is ‘the future of pickleball’ in Seattle? Parks to hold meeting on courts, new locations for the official sport of the pandemic

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(Image: City of Seattle)

Pickleball, the official sport of the Seattle pandemic™ and, basically, slow tennis, is having its moment. 3,300 people took time to fill out the city’s pickleball survey earlier this year.

Now the city’s parks and rec folks want more input from pickleball — and tennis — players as they share the results of three years of study and community feedback and roll out a new plan for “the future of pickleball in Seattle’s parks.” Continue reading →

Pike/Pine putters have a new place to play as Five Iron Golf tees off on Capitol Hill

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(Image: Five Iron Golf)

There was a time when Capitol Hill golfers were forced to roam the streets as their fairways, play the Bobby Morris turf as their greens. Friday, a new era begins for Pike/Pine putters.

The new Five Iron Golf is now open on 11th Ave on the ground floor of the five-story WeWork office development built on the bones of the old building once home to the Capitol Hill Value Village thrift shop.

The 12,000-square-foot virtual golf bar boasts a dozen “custom-built” TrackMan Golf simulators “featuring multiple high-speed cameras to capture every angle of the golf swing,” and a restaurant and bar that promises “TVs at every turn.” Continue reading →

BREAKING: SEATTLE PICKLEBALL STUDY IN CRUCIAL FINAL PHASE

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Miller’s courts have been busy (Image: Seattle Parks)

(Image: Seattle Parks)

The way this pandemic is going, we’re going to need a hell of a lot more than pickleball to get us through the days. But the pastime sport has helped people keep moving and has made the city’s netted sports courts busy centers of outdoor activity.

To cap off a $50,000, three-year study of the pastime sport — really — Seattle Parks is conducting a survey to find out more about how people want to use its outdoor courts and is looking for feedback from “tennis and pickleball players on how we can best support the growth of pickleball, a fast-growing sport in Seattle and the U.S” — emphasis theirs! Continue reading →

‘So much of what I love about Capitol Hill and Seattle still exists’ — Macklemore’s Bogey Boys and Goose Magees Vintage Mall now open

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It’s not quite the vision of a people-oriented superblock some champion for the heart of Pike/Pine, but with the opening of Macklemore’s golf apparel shop Bogey Boys and its underground Goose Magees Vintage Mall, 10th Ave right now is, well… something else.

“With so many new buildings and people moving into town, I think it’s really important to still create that space where artists and creatives and people that make Seattle culture what it is have a place that’s theirs,” the Capitol Hill-born, raised, and resident rapper said opening the new store Saturday in the space next door to Elliott Bay Book Co. left empty by the pandemic closure of a high-end luxury fashion shop.

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Macklemore’s Bogey Boys golf fashion popping up on Capitol Hill with Pike/Pine pro shop — UPDATE

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(Image: Bogey Boys)

Bogey Boys, the new golf fashion line from Macklemore, will bring its old school game to the rapper’s home turf with a Pike/Pine retail pop-up. The new 10th Ave shop is just a block over from where Capitol Hill’s old Value Village was preserved and redeveloped as a home for a new WeWork and, yes, a virtual golf bar slated to open in the building by the end of the year.

“From the cardigans to the polos to the hoodies, men and women can wear this collection,” hip hop artist Ben Haggerty told the Seattle Times about his new passion for golf as the hype for Bogey Boys was building earlier this year. “It has been a passion project, and also a way that when I say shake up the game of golf, that’s not just clothing. That’s one aspect of it. I think we need to shake up the entire narrative and make it accessible for everyone.” Continue reading →

Now open below Broadway and Pike: Ox Billiards, Capitol Hill’s new underground pool hall

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Michael Dominguez

After years as a — literally — underground boxing gym, there’s a new obsession forming below Broadway and Pike. Ox Billiards is now open.

CHS reported earlier this summer on Michael Dominguez’s plans for the snooker-focused pool hall taking over the space long home to Seattle Boxing Gym, formerly the tiny Seattle Boxing Studio, which outgrew its longtime Capitol Hill home and, in late 2019, moved to Interbay.

The new all-ages pool hall is reached by the same door the gym used on Broadway leading down to a club with 5,500 square feet of space housing four full-size snooker tables of mahogany and Chinese Gold, plus eight more nine-foot pool tables, black-finished and felted in blue by Rasson Billiards.

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Attention Seattle fisherfolk: There are no fish in the Volunteer Park Reservoir

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(Image: Volunteer Park Trust)

Bogus reports from Fishbrain

Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. That is probably not news. And the idea that people have fun by posting bogus information on the web and fake reviews? Also not new.

Finding a couple of confused fishermen carrying fishing poles and a box of new lures in search of reported smallmouth bass in the middle of Capitol Hill? That’s a CHS blog post.

You might not be surprised that jokers are using online fishing community Fishbrain to have a few laughs posting trip reports for Capitol Hill bodies of water including the 22 million gallons in the Volunteer Park Reservoir.

But CHS was surprised — and felt sorry to be the bearer of bad news — for two would-be fishermen wandering around the road below the barbed wire fences of the Volunteer Park reservoir looking for an entrance after seeing a catch report from user mindy.a showing a smallmouth bass reportedly caught in the off-limits Seattle Public Utilities facility. Continue reading →