Craig Smith was born in Seattle and attended the University of Washington. His career began as editor of the UW Daily. After graduating, he worked for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska before moving on to the Associated Press, Seattle P-I, Charleston Gazette in West Virginia and Northshore Citizen in Bothell, Wash. Before retiring from the Seattle Times in late 2008, he penned a popular high school sports column under the byline “Sideline Smitty”, as well as being the newspaper’s golf reporter. A former caddie at Inglewood GC in Kenmore, Wash., Craig remembers shooting 142 the first time he played. He now shoots in the mid-80s (that’s what he says).
