Doak's Tumble Creek in Cle Elum, WA has been a U.S. Amateur and a U.S. Open qualifying site several times over the past few years. The Golf Channel sometimes does a "Golf's Longest Day" broadcast where they cover the U.S. Open qualifying sites and give constant updates. Every time Tumble Creek is a site, the Golf Channel journalists never pronounce Cle Elum correctly.
They have pronounced it as (Clay-E-Lum), (Clay-ELL-um), (Clee-E-lum).
The correct pronunciation is (clee ELL-um).
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This reminds me of other Washington State pronunciations.....
Spokane is (Spo-Can) not (Spo-Kane) .... which is not in the Palouse (pa-LOOSE). The Palouse is south of Spokane..... like in Palouse Ridge in Pullman or Wine Valley in Walla Walla.
Everett is (EV-rit).
Okanogan County: "oak-uh-NAW-gan" .... where Gamble Sands is.
A clarification for the 2015 U.S. Open.... Chambers Bay is not in Seattle. It is a 45 minute drive, with NO traffic, south. NOR is it in Tacoma (ta-COE-ma). It is in the small town of University Place. To access the course for the U.S. Open, you will have to take a train ride from Seattle or Tacoma, or get shuttled in from designated hubs, the major hub being the Puyallup (pyoo-AL-up) Fair Grounds, home of the Washington State Fair in September.