(July 31 2011)
Canadian professionals produced one of our nation's most productive weekend finishes this season as Chris Baryla, David Hearn and Adam Hadwin on the PGA TOUR, Jim Rutledge on the Champions Tour and Laurie Kane in Scotland on the LPGA Tour all shot final rounds under par and collectively won over $200,000.
(July 30 2011)
Canadian Tour Pro Ryan Williams of Surrey, BC shot a scorching 6-under par 66 at the Swan-e-set Resort Course in Pitt Meadows to produce a four shot victory in the Vancouver Golf Tour's 54-hole West Coast Golf Group Pro Am on Saturday and a timely $10,000 winner's cheque.
(July 29 2011)
Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford and Jim Rutledge of Victoria, two British Columbians at the opposite ends of their professional golf careers, showed their true Canadian grit in similar fashion by earning the right to play this weekend . . . Hadwin as an exempt guest on the PGA TOUR's Green Brier Classic in Virginia, Rutledge as a hard working journeyman in the U.S.G.A. Senior Open in Ohio.
(July 29 2011)
by Kent 'Cookie' Gilchrist
Toronto's Richard Jung might be the defending Canadian Junior Boy's champion, but former Morgan Creek member Adam Svensson will be favoured when 156 players begin play in the national final at Morgan Creek Golf Course in Surrey Tuesday. Meanwhile, at the Q Club in Richmond, 15-year-old Jisoo Keel of Coquitlam is favoured in the hunt for the Canadian Junior Girl's crown despite her tender age.
(July 29 2011)
Both the Canal and Ridge courses at Northview Golf & Country Club in Surrey were put to the test this week during playing of the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour's largest BC event, the MJT Odlum Brown Classic-PGA of BC Junior Championship.
(July 29 2011)
Members of the Hiwan Golf Club in Evergreen, Colorado and the Colorado Golf Association are putting home-state advantage to good use and are on pace for the state's best team finish ever in the 39th Annual Boys Junior America's Cup after Thursday's second round.
(July 28 2011)
Adam Hadwin has just learned that one of the biggest obstacles on his path to becoming a member of the PGA TOUR is likely going to be flying to tournaments and arriving at the same time as his clothes and clubs do, because playing in the first round of the Green Brier Classic in Virginia Thursday without his regular clubs on a course he'd never seen before and shooting par 70 to finish six shots behind the leader would seem to suggest this 23-year-old from Abbotsford, BC, can find his way his way around a golf course exceptionally well.
(July 28 2011)
A Compilation Of News and Notes, Comments and Quotes
Golf Riot Narrowly Avoided in Duncan, BC
Goodness knows, if the Canadian Women's Amateur Championship had been staged in Vancouver last week instead of at Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia might have experienced its second horrific sports riot of the summer.
(July 27, 2011)
Like a talented golfer who shapes shots from the fairway or sinks putts on a green as if guided by magnets,
a talented artist has a way with brushes that brings golf to life with colours on a canvas.
One such gifted artist with a feel for golf is Joan Baron, a native of Vancouver, whose exceptional acrylic paintings are presently being featured in the Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont in Whistler.
For information about the Mountain Galleries Golf Getaway contest and to be eligible for the next draw on August 1, move on to page 2.
(July 26, 2011)
A Compilation Of News & Notes, Comments & Quotes
Leftovers From A Royal Canadian Open
The RBC Canadian Open Golf Championship at Shauguhnessy Golf & Country Club, or to put it another way, the Royal Bank of Canada's week-long 'Royal Canadian Golf Festival' held on the private grounds of the 'Regal Shaughnessy Estate' in south Vancouver, turned out to be even more spectacular than the three staging hosts could have imagined.
(July 24, 2011)
Sean O'Hair went from the worst point of his whole year on Wednesday evening to winning the 2011 RBC Canadian Open Championship on the first hole of a playoff at Shaughnesssy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver Sunday afternoon. It was his fourth PGA TOUR victory, his first since 2009 and what turned his game and his season around was something he read in his bible.
(July 23, 2011)
Adam Hadwin, a confident 23-year-old from Abbotsford, BC, is teetering on the verge of an historical moment in Canadian golf. It's been 57 years since a Canadian resident has claimed this country's national Open golf championship. Now, with 18 holes remaining and trailing the leader but justs one shot, Hadwin will step up to the first tee on Vancouver's tree-lined Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club Sunday afternoon, with the eyes and hopes of all Canadian golfers focused on every swing he takes in pursuit of winning the 2011 RBC Canadian Open.
(July 22, 2011)
With five Canadians in the field for this weekend's final two rounds of the 102nd edition of the RBC Canadian Open Championship spectators coming to Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club will have an opportunity to enjoy watching Adam Hadwin . . . one of the hottest new faces in Canadian golf challenging some of the best players on the PGA TOUR.
(July 22, 2011)
Canadian Tour players remaining in the field of the RBC Canadian Open following Friday's second round cut have now been reduced three with Abbotsford, BC's Adam Hadwin leading the way, tied for fifth place at 2-under par 138, two shots behind tournament co-leaders Chad Campbell and Michael Thompson.
(July 22, 2011)
Rebecca Lee-Bentham of Toronto, last year's Royale Cup Canadian Junior Girls Champion, has now added the 2011 Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur Championship to her resume after claiming a victory on the first playoff hole at Duncan Meadows Golf Club in Duncan, B.C.
(July 22, 2011)
After playing just six holes of the second round of the 2011 RBC Canadian Open, former Masters Champion Mike Weir has been forced to withdraw from the tournament in Vancouver because of a recurring elbow problem, possibly brought on by the condition of the golf course.
(July 21, 2011)
Here are some of the highlights from the First Round of the RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver.
Kris Blanks, a 39-year-old Maryland resident, opened with a 3-under 67 Thursday to grab the first-round lead in his 23rd start of the season.
(July 21, 2011)
For 2003 Masters Champion Mike Weir of Bright's Grove, Ont. this week in Vancouver at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club marks the 21st consecutive year he has competed in the Canadian Open and eight years since loosing in a playoff in Ontario in 2004. And it will take some catching up Friday if the eight-time PGA TOUR winner hopes to avoid missing the cut for the 13th time in his career, even though he is the all time leading Canadian Open money winner, closing in on $1 million dollars.
(July 21, 2011)
PGA TOUR rookie Matt McQuillan, of Kingston, Ont., playing in his first RBC Canadian Open, shot 2-under par 68 to lead all Canadian contenders on day one and is currently in a log jam with a group of 11 players tied for second place just one shot behind the leader, Kris Blanks.
(July 21, 2011)
BC Golf News, in cooperation with the PGA TOUR and Golf Canada, will be showcasing on video many of the leading players, top Canadians and members of the Canadian Tour during this week's $5.2 million RBC Canadian Open at Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf Country Club.
(July 21, 2011)
Playing as a threesome for the first time in decades, host British Columbia captured the national Inter-Provincial Team Championship for the 17th time after 36 holes of the Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur Championship at Duncan Meadows Golf Club in Duncan, B.C. Wednesday.
A Compilation Of News & Notes, Comments & Quotes
Lucky Tom Hoge, 'Disco' Dick Zokol and 'Burnaby' Joe Sakic
(July 18, 2011)
The last time Darren Wallace of Langley BC qualified to play alongside PGA TOUR players in the Canadian Open he was 15-years-old in 2004 and had just become the youngest player ever to win the Canadian Amateur Championship. Now he's 22, a college graduate, and has a scored a 7-under par 65 to share first place with Brad Fritsch of Manotick, Ont. to earn exemption into this week's 2011 RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver.
(July 17, 2011)
For the first time in three weeks, Tom Hoge won't have to worry about winning a Monday qualifier to get into his next pro tournament. After having to qualify these past two Mondays to play on the Canadian Tour, Hoge came from behind to win the Canadian Tour Players Cup in Winnipeg Sunday and earn three of the biggest prizes of his young pro career . . . a cheque for $32,000, automatic membership and a two-year exemption on the Canadian Tour, and an exemption to play on the PGA TOUR in the RBC Canadian Open in Vancouver July 21-24.
(July 17, 2011)
Before taking the short flight back to his home in Northern Ireland, a determined 42-year-old Darren Clarke captured his first British Open Championship on a wet and windy Royal St. Georges golf links in Sandwich, England Sunday, while three players who tied for fifth place, Chad Campbell, Anthony Kim and Rickie Fowler, were boarding a charter flight to Vancouver for the playing of the RBC Canadian Open beginning Thursday.
(July 16, 2011)
The final list of players that will contest the $5.2 million (US) RBC Canadian Open Championship at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver July 18-24 is quite possibly the strongest field assembled for a regular PGA TOUR event in 2011.
(July 15, 2011)
A pair of lengthy putts --from 45 feet at the 13th hole, 25 feet at 14-- paved the way for David Rose of West Vancouver to shoot 2-under par 70 and finish with a three shot lead to win the 109th British Columbia Amateur Championship at The Dunes at Kamloops in Kamloops, BC.
(July 15, 2011)
COMMENTARY
By John Wallace Arthur
Wearing the Stars 'n Stripes of his homeland, the poster boy of the tobacco industry, John Daly, is coming to Vancouver next week to light it up in the RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, although much to the chagrin of the BC Heart and Stroke Foundation and their on going campaign to have smokers butt out.
(July 13, 2011)
Defending Canadian Junior Boys' Champion Richard Jung of Toronto, playing in the 109th British Columbia Amateur Championship on a Presidential Exemption, carded his second round in the 60's on a windy day in Kamloops to move to 8-under par 136 for a one shot lead over The Dunes at Kamloops.
(Photo: Richard Jung at Richmond GC, 2010. BCGN)
(July 13, 2011)
Bryn Parry, from Seymour Creek Golf Centre, Murray Poje, with Tsawwasen Springs Golf and Country Club, Muncie booth, of Langara Golf Course, and Leila Harman, of McCleery Golf Course, each captured titles during PGA of British Columbia competition at Pemberton's Big Sky Golf and Country Club this week.
(July 13, 2011)
COOKIE'S COMMENTARY . . .
with retired Province sports columnist,
. . . Kent Gilchrist
The main thoroughfares heading west off south Granville St. have barriers erected and guards stationed behind them because only local traffic is allowed. The City of Vancouver engineering department, you see, has dug up Marine Drive at Dunbar to do some underground work. This has taken place just before the RBC Canadian Open, the biggest golf tournament in the country and one of the most important sporting events in the city this or any other year, prepares to get underway at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club.
(July 13, 2011)
The parade of world class golfers lining up to play in the $5.2 million (US) RBC Canadian Open Championship next week at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver continues to become more impressive the closer we come to opening day, Thursday, July 21.
(July 13, 2011)
(July 13, 2011)
The very nature of golf creates a unique relationship to the environment unlike any other sport. Golf exists within and relies upon a healthy environment to ensure playing surfaces that in-turn deliver environmental, social and economic benefits. Golf organizations and facilities worldwide successfully focus considerable energy on environmental matters and the following links provide a look into different ways golf organizations are dealing with environmental and sustainability issues worldwide.
(July 13, 2011)
From Huntington Beach, CA comes word that Club Glove® - the world's leading maker of Made-in-the-USA luggage, travel bags, accessories, golf bags, club covers - confirms availability of its TRS Ballistic line of ultra-premium luggage specifically crafted to redefine the first-class travel experience.
(July 10, 2011)
And now, COOKIE'S COMMENTARY
with retired Province sports columnist,
. . . Kent Gilchrist
What could the City of Vancouver been thinking ---perhaps thinking is the wrong word--- when it decided to dig up Marine Drive at Dunbar just before many of the world's highest ranked golfers and the PGA TOUR's leading money winners come to play the RBC Canadian Open Championship next week at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club?
(July 10, 2011)
Digby, Nova Scotia's Anne Balser, who is entering her senior year at the University of Victoria this fall, won her first Nova Scotia Golf Association Women's Amateur championship this weekend by recording a two-stroke victory over three-time winner Laura Harris.
(July 10, 2011)
The Victoria Disabled Golfers Association, in partnership with the Mosaic Learning Society, will hold its inaugural Golfability Tournament Aug. 3, dedicated to the memory of Canadian golfing legend Moe Norman, who excelled in golf despite having what some believe to have been a form of autism.
(July 10, 2011)
Vancouver-based Miura Golf, the Japanese company known for its excellence in forging fine clubs, also has a reputation for the beauty of its creations.
(July 10, 2011)
To celebrate the momentous occasion of the Canadian Professional Golfers' Association reaching its 100th Year as an Association, the PGA of British Columbia, University Golf Club and the BC Golf House came together to host a social golf celebration on Tuesday, July 5th at the University Golf Club.
Centennial Celebration Participants
Event Photography provided by Coast Mountain Photography
(July 10, 2011)
The Tommy Hilfiger Group, which is wholly owned by PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH), has announced an agreement with Canada's Fletcher Leisure Group to license men's and women's golf apparel, beginning Spring 2012 in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
(July 10, 2011)
Although today's golf clubs are lighter and golf balls fly further a large segment of the golfing population still struggle with the distance of new courses being built, which is why the Canadian PGA and Golf Canada are supporting a new initiative called TEE IT FORWARD, which is designed to improve the overall enjoyment of the game for Canadian players.
(July 9, 2011)
Chris Williams of Moscow, Idaho held on for a one stroke victory in the 18th Sahalee Players Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash. Friday.
(July 9, 2011)
For the second year in a row, Adam Svennson of Surrey has claimed the 66th British Columbia Junior Boys' Championship, and this year at Birchbank Golf Club in Trail, his margin of victory was more decisive and his total score more impressive.
(July 9, 2011)
Defending champion Jennifer Yang, of Coquitlam, the only player in the field to shoot all four rounds under par, compiled an 8-under par 280 total to win the 60th British Columbia Junior Girls' Championship at the Eaglepoint Golf Resort in Kamloops, BC Friday.
(July 7, 2011)
Troy Andrew, a veteran of 12 years with the Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) and Washington State Golf Association (WSGA) has been selected as the new Executive Director of the two associations, effective immediately.
(July 3, 2011)
One of the most cherished holiday locations in all of Canada for Canadians and visitors from around the world for the past 100 years continues to be majestic Banff Springs in Alberta, where a centennial celebration will take place this month to honour the legendary Canadian architect Stanley Thompson and the Banff Springs Golf Club.
(July 1, 2011)
Christina Proteau of Port Alberni, BC celebrated CANADA DAY on her home course at Alberni Golf Club July 1 by winning her third British Columbia Amateur Women's Championship and joining a select group of only 11 players in the past 117 years to win North America's oldest women's amateur championship on three or more occasions.
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