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27 04, 2017

Spring tune-ups at Black Butte Ranch will help get the golf season off on right foot

Getting the golf season off on the right foot can be a tricky proposition. After a long winter, we are all itching to get out and play, but no golfer wants to start the year off by entrenching a new bad habit. The three-day spring tune-up clinics at Black Butte Ranch will help golfers on both fronts. The team of PGA professionals at Black Butte Ranch will be holding three separate clinics in May, scheduled for May 8-10, 15-17, and 22-24. Each session is comprised of three, 1.5-hour lessons and are held in a small group setting. Black Butte [...]

26 10, 2016

OGA honors Black Butte Ranch with multiple awards
OGA honors Black Butte Ranch with multiple awards

OGA honors Black Butte Ranch with multiple awards

The Oregon Golf Association names Black Butte Ranch “Member Club of the Year” and Jeff Fought, Director of Golf at Black Butte Ranch, “Club Executive of the Year” at the 2016 OGA Annual Awards The Oregon Golf Association (OGA) held its 2016 Annual Awards at the historic Portland Golf Club on Monday, October 24, where Black Butte Ranch received two distinguished honors. Black Butte Ranch received the “Member Club of the Year” award. This award “recognizes an OGA Member Club for outstanding contributions to the game of the golf, the community, or the Oregon Golf Association,” according to [...]

25 08, 2016

Great weather, unlimited golf make this the best time of year at Black Butte Ranch
Great weather, unlimited golf make this the best time of year at Black Butte Ranch

Great weather, unlimited golf make this the best time of year at Black Butte Ranch

For many, the end of August means the unofficial end of summer. A time when the days get shorter and the temperatures cool. But for golfers — especially those who truly love the fairways and greens of Central Oregon — the best part of the golf season is only now beginning. And Black Butte Ranch is making this pinnacle of the golf season even better with its special fall lodging and unlimited golf package for stays through Sept. 30. For $119 per person, per night, guests will stay in premium accommodations, receive one day of unlimited golf at both [...]

1 08, 2016

Battle at the Butte’s new team format a nod to growing trend in golf
Battle at the Butte’s new team format a nod to growing trend in golf

Battle at the Butte’s new team format a nod to growing trend in golf

Two-person team event tees off on Aug. 27 at Black Butte Ranch Quick question: What is your favorite professional golf tournament? Perhaps it’s the rich tradition of The Masters, the sheer brutality of the U.S. Open, or the rugged links conditions of the British Open. For others, it just might be The Ryder Cup. After all, nothing generates more passion in golf than competing for country as part of a team. Well, Black Butte Ranch can’t quite offer the experience of playing for your country. But with a new 36-hole, two-person team format, the 2016 Battle at the Butte [...]

28 03, 2016

Central Oregon Shootout’s appeal is in part its team format

Golf tournaments played in formats that utilize team play are considered a tool by some that can help grow the game of golf. It stands to reason. Golf played with the help of a partner is often far more relaxing and fun. Something about knowing that the pressure of each shot can be shared with a friend helps put a golfer at ease. Black Butte Ranch has seen first hand the power of competing with a partner over the last 14 years with the Central Oregon Shootout. The tournament has grown from small, local tournament to the second-largest annual [...]

15 03, 2016

Black Butte Ranch punch cards, season passes designed to appeal to Central Oregon golfers
Black Butte Ranch punch cards, season passes designed to appeal to Central Oregon golfers

Black Butte Ranch punch cards, season passes designed to appeal to Central Oregon golfers

Black Butte Ranch aims to be among Central Oregon’s greatest golf attractions. And with two award-winning golf courses in Big Meadow and Glaze Meadow — not to mention a host of amenities that include our new $11.5 million Lakeside Complex — we think we do a pretty good job. But Black Butte Ranch also wants to cater to Central Oregon residents, and that hospitality is certainly extended to our two championship golf courses. We know that Central Oregon golfers are always in search of a good deal. It stands to reason. With Central Oregon claiming five of Golfweek magazine’s [...]

25 08, 2015

Strategy: Follow the bunkering at Black Butte Ranch

It might not always seem like it, but golf course architects do not necessarily want to punish golfers. I know. That might be a tough sell after a pure shot finds its way into a perfectly placed fairway bunker, but it’s true. In fact, learning to understand where an architect wants a golfer to go over the course of a hole can be crucial for a player to take the next step. Here at Black Butte Ranch, we have been blessed to have some of the very best course architects design Big Meadow and Glaze Meadow. Indeed, the late [...]

24 07, 2015

Golfers reacting well to course conditioning
Golfers reacting well to course conditioning

Golfers reacting well to course conditioning

Golfers finish the front nine at Big Meadow Thursday while they enjoy a picture-perfect day. The day was like so many others at Black Butte Ranch during the summer. The weather was clear and mild, with enough afternoon breeze to keep golfers comfortable. As is also so often during the long summer days, Big Meadow was teeming with golfers, all seemingly enjoying the respite that Black Butte Ranch’s two championship golf courses can provide. Of course, golf is far less enjoyable without a well-conditioned course to play. This year, Black Butte Ranch believes the conditioning at Big Meadow and [...]

21 07, 2015

Black Butte Ranch’s Ryan Dunning has knack for designing perfect group golf trips
Black Butte Ranch’s Ryan Dunning has knack for designing perfect group golf trips

Black Butte Ranch’s Ryan Dunning has knack for designing perfect group golf trips

Ryan Dunning knows well what can attract folks to golf. After all, as a late devotee to the game who learned to play only as an adult, it was not long ago that the game grabbed his own attention. It is part of what makes Ryan such a perfect fit in his role as Black Butte Ranch’s golf sales manager, in which his chief responsibility will be to design idyllic golf trips for groups of golfers interested in playing at the Ranch’s two championship golf courses. “You have to invite people; you gotta introduce them,” says Ryan, 36. “People [...]

14 07, 2015

Does elevation really make much of a difference to your golf game?
Does elevation really make much of a difference to your golf game?

Does elevation really make much of a difference to your golf game?

Golfers who travel to elevation from at or near sea level to have heard it forever: adjust your yardage for the altitude. No problem, right? Well, adjusting for altitude sounds easier than it actually is, of course. In fact, higher elevations can perplex even the very best players in the world, as shown in the four years that a Champions Tour major championship was played in Central Oregon. “Coming to Central Oregon you have to really watch the altitude,” says Jeff Fought, the director of golf at Black Butte Ranch who is among the top senior club professionals in [...]