COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019 | 3B
Golf from B1
PHOTO BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL
A youth golfer focuses on her approach shot on the first hole
of the camp-concluding tournament.
Nordquist decided it was
time to return home.
“I mean, it was a blast out
there, but I missed home a
lot. So then I came back, and
helping out with youth golf
is something that I’d always
done since high school.”
Now, Nordquist has part-
nered with Cottage Grove
High School girls’ golf coach
Jennifer Husk - who also has
professional teaching expe-
rience - to build the summer
golf program.
Golf, like most sports, has
experienced a gender im-
balance throughout most of
history, but as with the high
school program, Husk is us-
ing her experience and tal-
ents to remedy the situation.
“She’s bringing in a lot of
girls and she’s bringing in a
lot of prospective players for
high school too. So her and
I are really kinda looking
to start middle school clubs
and start a gateway from
here to high school,” Nord-
quist said. “So then maybe
we can start putting Cottage
Grove on the map for golf.
It’d be a really cool thing, be-
cause we’ve got some really
valuable instructors.”
It’s this access, to both
golf as a sport and to experi-
enced local teachers, that has
made the summer program
a growing success. Golf can
be prohibitively expensive
at times; quality clubs, bags
and other accessories often
caveat.
“We have to let the reg-
ulars play through, so we
teach the kids etiquette out
here when we sometimes
have to hold back to let peo-
ple pass,” said Nordquist as
he emphasized all the things
beyond the sport itself the
kids can learn while out on
the course.
“The biggest thing for me
with golf, and that’s what
I’ve noticed with the kids:
it teaches them honesty, in-
tegrity, it teaches them val-
ues. And it teaches them all
these things through a game
… that’s the real fun thing,
it’s more about the values it
teaches kids and it’s some-
thing they can do forever
too.”
On the final day, the kids
were paired up with a par-
ent, relative or other adult to
compete in a Chapman-style
tournament. The Chapman
system is a format that works
well with younger, inexperi-
enced golfers as it generally
works by pairing one weaker
ODFW Recreation Report
Aug. 14, 2019
Practice good catch-and-release tech-
niques in late summer conditions:
When water conditions are low, clear
and warm, like they are now, be sure to
practice good catch-and-release tech-
niques when releasing fish.
• Fish early in the day when water and
air temperatures are at their coolest.
• Land fish quickly. Playing a fish too
long reduces its chances to recover.
• Keep the fish in the water while land-
ing and releasing it.
• If you can’t remove the hook easily,
cut the leader near the hook, which will
eventually dissolve.
• Revive the fish in moving water be-
fore releasing it.
Fire and early season hunting:
As early season hunters know, dry con-
ditions and the associated fire danger can
have a large impact on your hunting op-
portunity. It pays to check in advance to
see if there are any access restrictions in
the unit(s) you plan to hunt.
Youth pheasant hunts begin in Sep-
tember:
Kids 17 and younger can experience
a low-pressure, pre-season hunt with a
good chance of harvesting a pheasant or
two. Hunts are on various dates through-
out the state. All kids must have complet-
ed hunter education and be accompanied
by an adult.
PHOTO BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL
One participant of the summer golf program practices on
the putting green with her tournament partner.
do not come cheaply, to say
nothing of driving range to-
kens and greens fees. How-
ever, for this program, Mid-
dlefield golf course allows
free use of the course to the
kids, albeit with one small
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golfer with a stronger one.
Both members hit a tee shot,
but switch balls for the sec-
ond shot. From there, they
alternate shots into the hole.
But again, finishing atop the
leaderboard isn’t the prima-
ry focus of Nordquist’s camp.
“If they’re not having fun
out there, they’re not taking
anything in, honestly, and
usually at the end of the day
when we’re walking off the
course, I ask them, ‘what’d
you learn today?’, and one of
them will tell me one thing
they learned. As long as they
take away that one thing,
it makes it memorable, it
makes it worthwhile.”
Weekend fishing opportunities:
• Trout and kokanee fishing in Detroit
Reservoir continues to be good.
• If you want to escape the crowded
conditions at many lakes, consider hiking
into one of area’s many high elevation,
hike-in lakes. Water stays cooler in these
higher elevations and fishing should be
good until the snow flies this fall.
• This time of year, anglers should be
targeting bass and other warmwater fish
in valley ponds and lakes.
• Several locations in the Willamette
Zone are scheduled to be stocked with
trout this week: Salmon Creek, Leaburg
Lake, McKenzie River above and below
Leaburg, Alton Baker Canoe Canal.
ALTON BAKER CANOE CANAL:
trout
Will be stocked this week with 1,600 le-
gal-size and 50 trophy rainbow trout.
The canoe canal is located within Al-
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Club Road in Eugene. A four-acre pond
at the midpoint of the canal is a good spot
but it can be fished all along its two-mile
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DEXTER RESERVOIR: trout
Was last stocked in mid-April with
5,000 trophy-size rainbow trout.
Dexter Reservoir near Lowell is visi-
ble from Hwy. 58. Boat and bank access
is available from state and county parks.
Parking and bank access are also available
from the causeway near Lowell. Large-
mouth bass and some smallmouth are
also available to anglers in this reservoir.
LEABURG LAKE: trout
Will be stocked again this week with
933 legal-size rainbow trout.
Leaburg Lake is open to fishing all year.
Bait can be used from April 22 – Oct. 31,
but beginning Nov. 1, anglers may only
use lures and artificial flies. All wild trout
must be released. Only hatchery fish may
be kept.
MCKENZIE RIVER below Leaburg
Lake (R1): trout, salmon, steelhead
Will be stocked again this week with
2,000 legal-size rainbow trout. River lev-
els have remained consistent and fishing
should remain productive.
MCKENZIE RIVER above Leaburg
Lake (R2): trout, steelhead
Will be stocked again this week with
833 legal-size rainbow trout.
MIDDLE FORK WILLAMETTE RIV-
ER: trout, salmon, steelhead
The Middle Fork Willamette River is
open to bait below Dexter Dam only. Re-
minder: Restrictions from Dexter Dam
to approximately 700 feet downstream to
the markers: No angling from the north
shore, from a floating device, or while
wading (page 44 in regulations). This
river reach is open to retention of adi-
pose fin-clipped salmon and steelhead
and non-adipose fin-clipped steelhead
greater than 24-inches long. A Columbia
River Basin Endorsement is required for
anglers targeting salmon and steelhead in
the Middle Fork Willamette below Dexter
Dam.
The Middle Fork Willamette above
Lookout Point and Hills Creek reservoirs
is open to fishing using lures and artifi-
cial flies. All wild trout must be released
upstream of Lookout Point Reservoir.
The Middle Fork Willamette River is not
stocked with hatchery trout.
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