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Elevating Your Game To A New Level For 2010

(February 13, 2010)
Mention the phrase 'Boot Camp' and the last thing you might think of is golf, however, the staff at the Golf Academy at Westwood Plateau in Coquitlam, B.C. will have you marching to a new game in 2010 if you signup for next month's Complete Boot Camp program organized by Westwood and Fitcorps Fitness Inc.

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Golf Officials Assisting The 2010 Winter Olympics

(February 12, 2010)
The game of golf does not make its return to the summer Olympic family for another six years, however, the Royal Canadian Golf Association is very much involved in the 2010 Winter Olympics that kick off today in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia. The first golfer to get the ball rolling was Abbotsford's Nick Taylor, the world's No. 3 ranked amateur player, a senior at the University of Washington, who participated in carrying the Olympic torch through his hometown this past Sunday.

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Mike Weir -- Two Off The Pace At Pebble Beach

(February 11, 2010)
Playing on one of his favorite courses, the often windy Pebble Beach Golf Links, Canadian Mike Weir produced a bogey-free round of five birdies with only 24 putts to wind up his first round at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at 5-under par and tied for 5th place.

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Dean Piller - CGSA Environmental Award Winner

(February 11, 2010)
Cordova Bay Golf Course Superintendent Dean Piller of Victoria, B.C., has been announced as the 2009 recipient of the Environmental Achievement Award by the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association.

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CN Canadian Women's Tour Value Elevated

(February 11, 2010)
Playing on the CN Canadian Women's Tour will offer players far more than just experience in 2010 following an announcement by CN and the Royal Canadian Golf Association his week that Tour winners will now receive paid Exemptions into LPGA Tour Sectional Qualifying, receive Duramed Futures Tour eligibility and that six players will be offered spots in the 2010 CN Canadian Women's Open Championship.

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Phil Jonas: A South African Blog - Memories

(February 9, 2010)
One of the most talented touring golf professionals to emerge from South Africa and plant roots in Canada is Philip Jonas, a two-time Canadian PGA Assistants Champion, who has gained an outstanding reputation as both a teacher of new golfers and a popular coach for elite players.

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Tournament Registration Info For The RCGA & BCGA

(February 7, 2010)
The Beach Grove Golf & Country Club in Tsawwassen, British Columbia will be the site of the first tournament of the season for the Royal Canadian Golf Association -- the CN Future Links Pacific Championship beginning April 22 -- and registration for all 20 of the RCGA's 23 championships is now open.

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Tee 2 Green with Barry Sharpe - - February 6/2010

A Compilation Of News, Notes, Comments & Quotes

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RCGA Announces Two More Staff Appointments

(February 6, 2010)
It wasn't so long ago that the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) was cutting costs by reducing staff and eliminating tournaments as a means of reducing debt. Now, with two major corporate sponsors -- CN and RBC - on board and CEO Scott Simmons guiding golf's governing body in a new direction, the RCGA has announced that Remi Bouchard and Blair Armitage have been named the Association's new Region Directors of Membership Development.

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A New Name But The Same Game For The RCGA

(February 5, 2010)
Over the past decade the most popular method for some companies to change the way they are perceived by the public is simply to change the company name. It is known as 'rebranding'. Thus, goodbye RCGA . . . hello GOLF CANADA.

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To Walk Or To Ride - - That Is The Question

(February 1, 2001)
When choosing to play a golf course for the first time it's helpful to know in advance how difficult the course is going to be and also whether the course is going to be enjoyable to walk or will you end up wishing you had rented a cart. Enter the 'Walkbability Golfer.'

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