Matt Hill Quits College Early For A Pro Career
(May 31, 2010)
Twenty-one-year-old Matt Hill of Bright's Grove, Ont., the 2009 NCAA medalist, has decided to forgo his final year at North Carolina State College, choosing instead to make his professional debute on the PGA TOUR in this week's Memorial tournament in Ohio.
Trinity Western Raises The Charity Bar for Students
(May 31, 2010)
Trinity Western University hit a major milestone at their 16th Annual TWU WirelessWave Golf Tournament earlier this month when friends, golfers and supporters of the Langley, BC-based Christian institution raised over half a million dollars for student-athlete scholarships and scholarship endowments.
Tiny Clearwater Resort Golf Course Auctioned Off
(May 30, 2010)
It is not often that a golf course is sold by auction, but in case you missed it, the petite 9-hole Wells Gray Golf Resort and RV Park beside Hemp Creek near Clearwater, B.C., changed hands recently when a British Columbia bidder's offer of $950,000 was accepted.
A New Way To Play Golf At Whistler, B.C.
(May 30,2010)
Humans are known to have a bad habit of throwing or breaking golf clubs when things go wrong on the course -- and sometimes off the course, too -- but this little cub doesn't have any clubs so he's found a new way to have fun on the green that is bound to be unbearable for the Superintendent.
Jim Rutledge - Returning Home As The Favorite
(May 30, 2010)
From the heady atmosphere of a major tournament on the PGA Champions Tour - the $2 million 71st Senior PGA Championship -- to the $250,000 16th Times Colonist Open on the Canadian Tour, Jim Rutledge is going from one extreme to an other when he returns to his home in Victoria, British Columbia this coming week.
Swing With Confidence With 'Swing By Swing'
(May 30, 2010)
Another reason for putting your Blackberry or iPhone mobile device in the top pocket of your golf bag this summer has come to light thanks to a new app called Swing by Swing, a handy golf GPS range finder. And any golfer in the world can use it for free.
UBC Captures 2010 NAIA Women's National Golf Title
(May 29, 2010)
Fourth-ranked University of British Columbia Thunderbirds won the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Women's Golf National Championship for the third time in school history by a seven-stroke margin in Rapid City, South Dakota on Friday.
Richard Lee, Canadian Tour Q-School Medalist
(May 28, 2010)
Out of a class of 48, four Canadians are among the 12 players who have graduated to the Canadian Tour for the balance of the 2010 season, including Qualifying School medalist Richard Lee of Vancouver.
Canadian Tour Hits The Jackpot At Dakota Dunes Casino
(May 28, 2010)
While golf sponsors in Vancouver -- Canada's third largest city -- seem to be hiding in the mountains, the Canadian Professional Golf Tour continues to flourish and expand in Saskatoon with an announcement today that the Saskatchewan Open has a new title sponsor through 2013 and with a substantial purse increase.
Tee 2 Green with Barry Sharpe - May 27, 2010
A Compilation Of News, Notes, Comments & Quotes
Lloyd Stanley Bray: Sept. 11, 1926 - May 12, 2010
(May 22, 2010)
Lloyd Stanley Bray, an innovative pioneer in both the communications and audio visual fields in Canada, a respected business executive in real estate and the automotive industry and a supporting force in the development of BC Golf News, passed peacefully in his sleep on May 12, 2010 at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
BC Golf House Society May 2010 Newsletter
Celebrate The HST Says Tax Policy Expert
(May 11, 2010)
It may cost golfers and those in the golf industry more money when the much-maligned harmonized sales tax (HST) takes effect on Canada Day (July 1), however, according to Jon Kesselman, a Simon Fraser University tax policy expert in the graduate public policy program and a Canada Research Chair in Public Finance, British Columbians will eventually have good reason to celebrate.
Nicole Jordan, Michelle McCann: Recruited By SFU
(May 11, 2010)
Nicole Jordan of Sidney, B.C. and Michelle McCann of Courtenay, B.C., are the first two female recruits to join the Simon Fraser University Clan women's golf team for the 2010-11 season.
Oregon Golf Association Wins PNGA Cup
(May 8, 2010)
The strong individual play of the Oregon Golf Association sealed the outcome in the final round and enabled the OGA to capture the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Cup held at Tumble Creek Club in Roslyn, Wash. May 6-7.
ALS Golf-A-Thons Hoping To Set New Records
(May 7, 2010)
Members of the Professional Golfers' Association of British Columbia are preparing to make 2010 the biggest year on record with their annual province-wide Golf-A-Thon fund raising campaigns for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and the ALS of BC.
Canadian Turfgrass Research Foundation Announcement
(May 7, 2010)
Administrative and operational components of the Canadian Turfgrass Research Foundation (CTRF) have now been turned over to the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association (CGSA).
Highland Pacific Park - Opening Day Announcement
(May 7, 2010)
The Highland Nine is ready for play and we're celebrating with a grand opening event on Saturday, June 5 - - 9:30am start. Be the first to play all 18 holes!
Japan's Bashful Prince Shoots Major Tour Record 58
(May 3, 2010)
Coming from six shots behind, 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa won the Crowns tournament on the Japan Golf Tour in Nagoya, Japan by shooting a 12-under par 58 and recording the lowest score ever on a major tour, beating the previous Japanese tour record by one shot.
