AUGUSTA, Ga. — Here’s the biggest news from Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley’s press conference on the eve of the 89th Masters: There will be Gators on the grounds. Plenty of them.

The former CEO of a Wilsonville-based manufacturing firm is opening a new 19-hole, par 3 golf course in West Linn.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It has been staring at me for nearly two decades. Circled by a visor signed by Arnold Palmer, a golf flag autographed by Masters champions yet-to-be (and a future President of the ...