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Putting on the Puttz in Cannon Beach
Mini-golf tourney
raises money for arts
By Kaelia Neal
Cannon Beach Gazette
Golfers dressed in colorful, mis-
matched clothes and wore plaid golf
socks with bucket hats or visors. One
group decorated their faces with rain-
bow paint and purple lipstick while
wearing vibrant tutus and “Make
America Gay Again” shirts.
The miniature golf tournament
is Cannon Beach at its most quirky.
The event is the biggest fundraiser of
the year for Tolovana Arts Colony, a
nonprofit organization that provides
workshops, art classes and cultural
programming.
Nancy Teagle has been on the
Arts Colony board for eight years.
“This (Puttz) helps us continue,”
Teagle said Tuesday, June 13. The
annual golf tournament is held on
Tuesdays so local people and some
tourists can enjoy it, she said. “The
enthusiasm grows every year.”
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A beachside hole on the patio at
Land’s End hotel.
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Records set
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This year, Puttz generated more
than $5,500 and had a record-break-
ing number of golfers with 75, about
10 more than last year.
Thirteen merchants sponsored
the event by designing creative golf
holes, which were inside and outside
of the businesses. One hole required
participants to putt the golf ball up a
ramp and into a kiddie pool of donut
floaters.
Watt Childress, the owner of Ju-
piter’s Rare and Used Books and the
chairman of Tolovana Arts Colony,
has participated in the Puttz event for
six years. “Time flies when you’re
having fun,” Childress said.
The purpose of the Puttz tourna-
ment is “celebrating the community
together and having fun in advance
of peak tourist season,” Childress
said. “We welcome tourists to come.
It’s just not our emphasis.”
The “Pink Bible Horn” mini-
course was set in the grass in front
of Jupiter’s Rare and Used Books.
A bench with branches on top and
chairs on either side blocked Hole 7,
forcing people to find a way around
the obstacles.
Mick French goes airborne at the Driftwood Restaurant and Lounge hole.
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Rules at the hole sponsored by Bill’s Tavern & Brew-
house.
Silent auction items including Puffin Wines pinot
noir and Cannon Beach Distillery rum.
Mike French, of Cannon Beach,
has participated in the Puttz tourna-
ment for four years for two reasons.
“No. 1, it’s fundraising for the arts
and No. 2, it’s way too much fun,”
he said. “Every year it’s different.”
The Wine Shack’s hole required
the Puttz participants to putt the golf
ball down two flights of stairs.
“This is a lot of fun,” said Lee
Roberts, who works at the Wine
Shack and has participated in the
Puttz for four years. “Word of
mouth is probably one of the best
advertisers, and people hear this is
fun.”
The hardest hole
Donald Conner, who works at
Land’s End Motel, hosted Hole 5.
Conner said players had acknowl-
edged it was the hardest hole. Three
upside-down beach buckets served
as barricades while plastic foam
pool noodles were stripped across
and outlined the course.
This is Conner’s third year work-
ing at Land’s End Motel and his
second as a participant in the Puttz
event. “It’s a blast,” Conner said. “It
gives us a chance to extend our hos-
pitality, and we always enjoy that.”
Most people who participate in
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the Puttz tourney live in Cannon
Beach or nearby. However, visitors
were welcomed. Jon Lawry, a Port-
land native, was in Cannon Beach
for work-related meetings when he
asked friend Tim Davis if he wanted
to play golf Tuesday.
Davis then invited Lawry to join
him in this year’s Puttz. Lawry was
not disappointed. “It’s fun to see the
businesses and see the surrounding
areas.” Lawry also said he might
make the Puttz tournament his new
tradition.
This was Davis’ eighth year
participating. “If someone goes
through the effort of something off
the wall like this, it needs to be sup-
ported,” he said.
A raffle and auction followed the
conclusion of the mini-golf festivi-
ties. Basket weaver Debra Carnes,
who donated one of her baskets to
the auction, has participated in the
Cannon Beach Puttz for all 11 years,
“This is so much fun,” Carnes said.
“This event brings community to-
gether.”
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Many golfers dressed for the
event, both in cheeky and formal
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