BC Golf News 2008

3rd Annual PNGA CUP - - Day 1

(May 8/08) The British Columbia Golf Association will have some serious catching up to do if they hope win the 3rd Annual Pacific Northwest Golf Association PNGA Cup in competition against 12-member teams from Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
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RCGA / CPGA -- A National Coaching Symposium

(May 6/08) Canada's two national golfing bodies responsible for governing the amateur and professional aspects of the game joined forces recently for the purpose of enhancing the education of coaches who provide instruction and guidance for Canada's elite players.
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The Nighshift Charity Golf Classic

(May 5/08)

1st Annual
NIGHTSHIFT
CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC

Northview Golf & Country Club
Friday, May 23, 2008

Riley Wheeldon Wins One For Courtenay

(May 4/08) A pair of birdies on the final two holes of a three hole playoff saved the day for home-town hero Riley Wheelden who captured the RCGA's season-opening CN Future Links Pacific Championship on his home course at The Crown Isle Golf Community in Courtenay, BC.
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Canadians On Tour - - Bryan DeCorso Right On Course

(May 4/08) It's been about 14 years since Canadian Bryan DeCorso graduated from a U.S University and set out seeking a career as a touring professional. Three weeks ago he hired a new coach and together they decided to change his swing. Now look at what's happened.
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T 2 GREEN With Barry Sharpe - - May 2008

May Is An Excellent Month To Take CPGA Lessons
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Courtenay, BC Courting Future Links Champions

(May 3/08) A three-way tie featuring two of Canada's brightest junior prospects and a surprise contender from the BC interior, will highlight Sunday's final round of the CN Future Links Pacific championship at Vancouver Island's Crown Isle Resort in Courtenay, BC.
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T 2 GREEN with Barry Sharpe - - April 2008

Tobiano: A Welcome Home For BC's New Media Invitational
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Dreher & Meixner Are Golden For Kent State

(Apr. 28/08) A pair of talented U.S. College students from BC---junior Kirby Dreher and senior Kira Meixner---combined to help their Kent State University Golden Flashes win a 10th consecutive Mid-American Conference women’s golf championship with a dominating final round Sunday in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Canadians On Tour – Three Close Finishes

(Apr. 28/08) Bryan Decorso came up big on the Nationwide Tour, a trip into a Mexican forest cost Wes Heffernan dearly on the Canadian Tour while Elana Sharp and Samantha Richdale continue their progress on the LPGA and FUTURES Tours.
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Wes Heffernan -- Stymied By A Mexican Tree

(Apr. 27/08) Winning back-to-back, first in the United States and now in Mexico, has given American John Ellis a commanding lead atop the Canadian Tour money list. In fact, Ellis is the only player to have won a Canadian Tour championship this season.
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Golf's Greatest Quotations -- But By Whom?

(April 22/08) All of the world's great sport quotations were started by someone, somewhere saying something that subsequently got reported and repeated, but do we remember who may have been responsible for giving us such memorable epigrams.
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Palsenbarg & Shin--Match Play Open Team Champions

(April 21/08) For the second time in three years, Matt Palsenbarg and his partner John Shin, have captured the Canada Bread BC Match Play Team Championship on their home course, the Northview Golf and Country Club in Surrey.
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Canadians On Tour -- Struggling But In The Money

(Apr. 21/08) It was a busy weekend for Canadian pros who were playing in five of the six Tours that finished Sunday, although no one is going to the bank today to cash any large cheques.
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Everyone Wanted To Win -- But Only John Ellis Would

(April 20/08) For the second week in a row it took a two-man playoff to decide who the champion would be for the Canadian Tour during it's brief visit to start the season in California. However, coming down the stretch 24 players were crowded on the leader board, threatening to make this playoff the biggest in Tour history.
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Canadian Open – Not Just Another PGA Tour Stop

(April 18/08) At BC Golf News we adhere to a policy of restraint when it comes to editorializing or offering criticism, particularly when it comes to the work of our colleagues. Friday, however, it was unavoidable.
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Will Tiger End Up Like Bobby Orr?

(April 17/08) Canadian hockey fans remember well that it was repeated knee surgery that eventually ended the amazing career of one of the game's greatest players, Bobby Orr, the only NHL defenseman to ever win a scoring title, cut down in his prime after changing the way the game was played. Could this same fate await Tiger Woods?
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Canadian Women's Open Headed For Calgary In 2009

(April 17/08) The CN Canadian Woman's Open will return to Calgary's Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club in 2009, 10 years after the former Du Maurier Classic championship was won by LPGA Hall of Fame player Karrie Webb.
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Zach Johnson – Standing Up For His Faith

(April 16/08) There are times in life when some individuals are presented with a rare opportunity to seize a moment in history and make an everlasting impression with a single, monumental, glorifying statement that will stand the test of time.
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In The Land Of Outsourcing -- Golf Is Growing

(Apr. 15/08) While some like to think it does, the world of golf does not revolve around the United States, or Canada for that matter, despite the numbers of new courses recently opening. If you want to see where the future of golf is headed look to India where a renaissance is already underway.
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Saluting Trevor Immelman -- 2008 MASTERS Champion

(Apr. 13/08) For only the second time in the storied history of golf's famed MASTERS Championship, a South African has claimed the title along with its highly prized life exemption to Augusta National. Trevor Immelmann accepted his new yellow-crested green jacket Sunday for going wire-to-wire and defeating Tiger Woods.
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Bryn Parry - Back To Playing In BC

(Apr. 13/08) It was almost a year ago at this time when North Vancouver teaching professional Bryn Parry, having missed by a single stroke getting his PGA TOUR card at Qualifying School, found himself tied for first place and headed for a playoff early in the schedule on the Nationwide Tour.
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Weir & Ames Make Their MASTERS Moves -- Backwards

(Apr. 12/08) With birdies at three of the final six holes, including the 18th where his approach shot finished three feet from the cup, South Africa's Trevor Immelman retained his lead at the Masters after three rounds, matching Friday's 69 to go (68-69-69—205) to 11-under par with a two-shot lead.
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None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See

(Apr. 12/08) What possible connection can there be in three separate incidents involving a pair of senior golfers in the U.S. who scored holes-in-one and a 74-year-old archer from the UK who shot a 'Robin Hood?' Well for one, all three are legally blind.
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Weir & Ames Among The Top 10 At The MASTERS

(Apr. 11/08) A pair of Canadians with hot hands—Mike Weir of Bright's Grove, ON and Calgary's Stephen Ames—are among the top 10 players halfway through the 72nd edition of The Masters Championship at Augusta National where South Africa's Trevor Immelman leads by a single stroke at 8-under par.
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The Family Connection At The Masters

(Apr. 11/08) For some time now BC Golf News has presented a banner link to LINKS PLAYERS INTERNATIONAL and the feedback from visitors to our web site proves we are not alone in making it easy for visitors to contact Tour players and professional athletes who share similar views.
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CANADA At The MASTERS

(Apr. 10/08) 2003 Masters Champion Mike Weir, a native of Sarnia, Ontario, and Stephen Ames of Calgary are the lone Maple Leaf standard bearers in this week's edition of the 72nd annual Masters Championship.
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One Look At Augusta National – Home Of The Masters

(Apr. 9/08) An invitation to visit Augusta National Golf club in Georgia during the playing of the Masters each April is the dream of many golfers, amateurs and professionals, while an invitation to play in the Masters only comes to a few gifted golfers.
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Another Strong Developmental Team Performance

(Apr. 9/08) Canada's Men's and Women's Developmental Teams continue to be a force to reckon with in competition against top American amateurs.
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BC Match Play Open Now Headed For Quarter-Finals

(Apr. 6/08) Five of the top ten seeded teams remain in the hunt following second round play in the Canada Bread 63rd annual BC Match Play Open Championship.
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