(April 26, 2010)
Every now and then we hear about an exceptional individual whose accomplishments leave us all shaking our heads in amazement. The gentleman you are about to see is more than just another golfer and his special talent is something you will not soon forget.
(April 26, 2010)
Rob Grube, a former NCAA star from California, capped off a week in which he held at least a share of the lead from the opening day on with a 4-under 68 to get to 22-under 198 and win the Canadian Tour's Riviera Nayarit Classic presented by Corona Lite.
(April 26, 2010)
It may be short notice but the following vital Course Superintendent position is now available at Whistler's Nicklaus North Golf Course, operated by the GolfBC Group.
(April 26, 2010)
'Tom Watson - Lessons of a Lifetime', a comprehensive golf instructional two-DVD set produced by the eight-time major winner and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has just been introduced into the market today.
(April 26, 2010)
A triple bogey-eight by Wilson Bateman of Spruce Grove, Alberta on the second last hole enabled Adam Svensson of Surrey, British Columbia to win the season-opening CN Future Links Pacific Championship by one stroke Sunday at the Beach Grove Golf Club in Tsawwassen, BC.
(April 25, 2010)
There are some folks who remember Ken Green as the 1988 winner of the Canadian Open, a five-time PGA TOUR champion whose lowest career round was a score of 61. Others remember him for bowling a perfect 300 game at 10-pin. And then there are those who recall the day Green jumped into a canal in Florida to wrestle with a 75-pound alligator in order to save his dog Nip who was chasing after a ball Green had thrown into the water.
(April 24, 2010)
Szu-Hsuan (Monica) Huang of Qualicum Beach, B.C. found another 'beach' to her liking Saturday as the teenager from Vancouver Island posted a woman's record of 4-under par 67 to move into a comfortable six shot lead with one round to go in the season-opening CN Future Links Pacific Championship at Tsawwassen, BC's Beach Grove Golf & Country Club.
(April 24, 2010)
The Canadian Professional Golf Tour has released a special report entitled 'Bridging The Gap', a white paper intended to examine the many issues facing Canadian touring professionals as they work their way up through the ranks of the world's top tours.
A stunning round of 6-under par 65 has given Spruce Grove, Alberta's Wilson Bateman a commanding three-shot lead after the opening round of the 54-hole Junior Boys CN Future Links Pacific Championship being played in Tsawwassen, B.C., while A Ram Choi of Surrey, BC, and Vancouver Island's Szu-Hsuan Huang of Qualicum Beach, BC, share a one-stroke lead among Junior Girls, both at 1-under par.
(April 24, 2010)
After 115 years of being known as the Royal Canadian Golf Association, the governing body of golf in Canada, the RCGA, would now like to be known as
(April 24, 2010)
Lifestyle apparel company, Quagmire, has introduced a new E-Commerce web site which will streamline shopping while showcasing their new 2010 collection.
(April 24, 2010)
The British Columbia Golf Association played the perfect hosts this past week to three of Nova Scotia's top male junior golfers who accepted an invitation to come to B.C. in preparation for the 2010 Canadian Junior Boys' Championship and the 2010 Future Links Pacific Championship hosted by Golf Canada, the entity once known as The Royal Canadian Golf Association.
(April 20, 2010)
Canadian George S. Lyon was 46 years old in 1904 when he became the only golfer to ever be awarded a gold medal in golf at an Olympic games. Now the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame has announced it will partner with Early Renaissance Productions to begin production of a documentary film chronicling this spectacular occasion in Canadian and Olympic history.
(April 20, 2010)
Over the past two years, the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association, through its Environment Committee and the Board of Directors, has been working to develop policy statements as the basis for its presentations and responses to government initiatives on environmental issues of interest and importance to the golf industry.
(April 19, 2010)
University of Oregon sophomore Eurgene Wong won medalist honours for the second time this spring after shooting a bogey-free four-under par 67 in the final round of the 64th annual Western Intercollegiate to lead his fourth-ranked U of O Ducks to their fourth team title of the season.
(April 19, 2010)
Qualifying for one of the most notable international events the Canadian Junior Golf Association competes in each year, the Euro Junior Golf Cup, formerly known as the World Junior Golf Cup and held in St. Andrews, Scotland, took place at Vancouver's McCleary Golf Course this past weekend.
(April 19, 2010)
From Markham, Ontario comes word that Danish shoemaker ECCO has unveiled the arrival of its women's Golf Street Premier, a unique hybrid sport-casual shoe that is funky, fun, feminine, highly functional and ideally suited for use both on and off the course.
(April 19, 2010)
In professional golf some folks say there's a lesson to be learned by loosing a tournament. Just ask Andy Matthews of Michigan. Last year he lost the Corona Mazatlan Mexican PGA Championship in a close playoff. Guess what he did Sunday?
(April 19, 2010)
The Canada Bread BC Match Play Team Championship was billed as a 36-hole final, however, a pair of upstarts seeded 19th recorded one of the largest margins of victory in the tournament's 65-year history by knocking off the defending champions in just 28 holes with a resounding 9 & 8 victory.
(April 18, 2010)
One of the amateur celebrities participating in this week's Champions Tour Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am in Lutz, Florida was one of Burnaby, BC's favorite sons, Award winning actor Michael J. Fox, who is not only an advocate for Parkinson's Disease research but is now also enjoying life and his new favorite sport, the game of golf.
(April 18, 2010)
Canada will be well represented at the 2010 Toyota World Junior Golf Team Championship (WJGTC) after finishing in first place at World Junior Golf Team Championship Zone Qualifier at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico this week.
(April 17, 2010)
From corporate headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., comes word that Fortune Brands, Inc. has completed the previously announced sale of the Cobra golf brand to PUMA AG, a transaction that includes the Cobra brand, as well as related inventory, intellectual property and endorsement contracts.
(April 16, 2010)
Showing its continued support for the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association Syngenta has added three years to its agreement as a primary sponsor of the CGSA annual conference education program, demonstrating its strong and continued commitment to grow golf through science and education.
(April 16, 2010)
After winning the Bus Phillips Award as Male Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row, golfer Cory Renfrew of Victoria, B.C. has been named winner of the prestigious Bobby Gaul Memorial Trophy as the University of British Columbia's 's Outstanding Graduating Male Athlete.
(April 15, 2010)
Veteran Canadian PGA teaching professional Mark Burke and his playing partner Mewail Kidane, both with Vancouver's Fraserview Golf Academy, will tee-off Sunday in the hope of becoming the first team in 23 years to successfully defend the storied Vancouver City Match Play Championship.
(April 15, 2010)
The Professional Golfers' Association of BC has announced that Coquitlam-based Impact Canopies Canada Inc., a leading on-site event branding company specializing in custom branded instant tents, flags and banners, is now their official canopy provider.
(April 15, 2010)
While the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and University of Victoria Vikes men's and ladies' golf teams have enjoyed increasing success over the past six years or so, Simon Fraser University golf teams have gone from supremacy to obscurity. However, a decision to become the first Canadian school to join the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association in Division II has the Clan preparing for a comeback in golf for the 2010-2011 season. (Includes SFU video)
(April 14, 2010)
Surrey, BC's, Adam Svensson and three other top Canadian Junior prospects have been added to the Royal Canadian Golf Association's under-22 Team Canada Development team roster for 2010.
(April 13, 2010)
The 17th season of the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour is now well underway and after two tournaments in British Columbia it is plain to see that the caliber of competition is going to be stronger this season than ever before.
(April 13, 2010)
If you caught some of the action of the 2010 Masers on television you may have seen first-round leader Fred Couples high stepping his way around Augusta National in his new ECCO Men's Hybrid Sport-Casual Shoes.
(April 13, 2010)
Canadian National Railway, through affiliation with the Royal Canadian Golf Association, has extended sponsorship of their LPGA Tour CN Canadian Women's Open Championship, as well as the CN Canadian Women's Tour and CN Future Links for three additional years.
(April 13, 2010)
From fashionable sportswear to trendy shoes and distinctly feminine golf bags, Mom's sure to love -- and want -- these hot products, whether she's hitting the greens, shopping with friends or dining at her favorite restaurant.
(April 12, 2010)
On his way back from China after enjoying some time in the orient spreading the good news about how the game of golf should be played, Canadian international teaching instructor Phil Jonas of Vancouver checks in with some news about an exciting new professional tour that is just being developed in the east and some personal thoughts on the most watched Masters Championship in the history of the Augusta tournament.
(April 8, 2010)
Okay, so you can't break 70, but that is no reason to stop you from being the
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(April 3, 2010)
With three Thunderbirds finishing among the top six in individual play, the University of British Columbia Women's team shot a tournament low of 298 to record their second consecutive first place finish and captured the 2010 Golf Mart/Lady Otters Invitational at Blackhorse GC in Seaside, CA.
(April 3, 2010)
What do you do when you've hit a new golf ball out of bounds onto someone's private property but the signs on the fence at the property line say 'No Trespassing' and 'Do Not Enter"? If you're anywhere near the seventh hole at the Picture Butte Golf Club southeast of Calgary, make the wrong decision and you could be taking your life in your hands.
(April 2, 2010)
Four Americans, one player each from Chille, England and Brazil, together with 22-year-old Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, British Columbia, are among 11 players who have earned exempt status for the balance of the 2010 season after graduating from the Canadian Tour's California Qualifying School in San Diego Friday.
(April 1, 2010)
For those prospectors who believe that the gold rush days of the old west are just a thing of the past, take note: there is a new rich vein waiting to be tapped by the winner of the summer-long MOUNTAINS OF GOLD Golf Tournament which will take place in British Columbia's famous Kootenay Rockies beginning in May.
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