AUGUST 2, 2018 // 15
STRAWBERRY
FAIRWAY
By RYAN HUME
FOR COAST WEEKEND
Y
ou don’t need to
wear a collared shirt
or a pair of spikes
to visit the Putter Room at
the Seaside Golf Course on
Avenue U, just blocks from
the beach. In fact, you don’t
even need to be a golfer:
This sports bar caters to all
fans.
The Putter Room, also
known as the Par Tee
Room — hey, golfers love
their puns! — is an open,
spacious affair with plenty
of natural light from the wall
of windows overlooking
a large patio. With blonde
wood paneling and match-
ing tables and chairs, it
reminded me of a country
grandmother’s dining room
— if that grandmother was
fond of cow skulls, long
horns and other touches of
ephemera, which she very
well might be. For a sports
bar, the TVs are not the focal
point of the layout, which is
COLUMBIA BAR
Strawberry
Fairway
always nice, but rather the
bucolic view of the links out
back, as the first hole spills
out from the club and disap-
pears into the rough.
On a recent, slow after-
noon I put it to bartender
Matt Owen to make me a
drink of his choice. Taking
stock of what he had, he
pulled together something
new. Owen said he always
enjoys coming up with new
cocktails until it comes time
to name them.
We consulted three
out-of-town gentlemen at
the bar, who were renting
a house down the street as
part of an annual family
Dining Out
reunion. Owen mulled it
over with guys in the pro
shop. Eventually we landed
on the Strawberry Fairway,
which pays respect to the
fruit-forward nature of the
drink as well as the view
from the bar.
While the booze is there,
it’s the fruit juice that really
pops in this cocktail. You
could sip one on a hot after-
noon, and it shouldn’t affect
your handicap. “I was going
for a summery feeling,”
Owen said. “You could drink
a few of these and still walk
home.” Or, of course, to the
beach.
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RYAN HUME PHOTO
Matt Owen, a bartender at the Putter Room inside the Seaside
Golf Course, with a Strawberry Fairway.
Take a hike in Oysterville
The Lunch
Special gives me
a chance to work
on my SLICE. Slice
of onion, slice of
tomato, slice of
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• 3/4 ounce Bacardi
Silver Rum
• 3/4 ounce Stoli Rasp-
berry Vodka
• 1/2 ounce Strawberry
puree*
• Freshly squeezed or-
ange juice as needed
• Splash of cranberry
juice
• Orange wedge
• Fresh strawberry
• Ice
Fill a cocktail shaker with
ice and pour in rum, raspber-
ry vodka and strawberry pu-
ree. Shake until well mixed
and strain into a hurricane
glass packed with ice. Top
off with freshly squeezed or-
ange juice and the splash of
cran. Flit the orange wedge
and strawberry onto a bar
toothpick and garnish.
*Strawberry puree is as
easy to make as adding fresh
strawberries and sugar in a
blender. There are also many
commercial versions avail-
able at grocery and liquor
stores. The Putter Room
uses Finest Call.
—Recipe courtesy of
Matt Owen, bartender at the
Putter Room inside the Sea-
side Golf Course, Seaside,
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OYSTERVILLE, WASH. — The
Angora Hiking Club is
hiking Oysterville, Wash.,
on Saturday, Aug. 4. Meet at
the parking lot between Ma-
rine Drive and the Columbia
River and between Fifth and
Sixth streets before 9 a.m.
There may be a limited
number of carpool rides
available to the Old School
house on School Street in
Oysterville. From the Old
School House. The easy hike
on level ground will most
likely be less than a mile
around town.
Oysterville is located near
the north end of the road on
the Long Beach Peninsula.
It is 32 miles and 50 minutes
of driving from Astoria. Do
not expect to find a choice of
restaurants, but the Oyster-
ville Sea Farms store sells
live oysters, oyster shooters,
manila clams, cold drinks,
shrimp salad and squid
salad. Other options are to
bring a sack lunch or travel
south to Ocean Park.
Membership is not
required to participate in
the hikes. Angora’s annual
schedule of hikes and where
they occur is available at
angorahikingclub.org.
Annual dues to Ango-
ra members is $10. For
additional club information,
contact Bill Herold, the
Angora Hiking Club’s chief
guide, at 503-468-0474, or
BILLN692oc@gmail.com.