(October 31, 2011)
The members and owners of the 6,315-yard semi-private Kelowna Golf & Country Club will have some new challenges in store for those players who will be fortunate to receive invites next June to the annual Ogopogo Invitational in the Okanogan Valley.
(October 31, 2011)
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club, responsible for administering the global Rules of Golf, along with the Royal Canadian Golf Association (dba Golf Canada) and the USGA, has published some revisions to the rules of the game that will clarify the wording in time for next season.
(October 31, 2011)
Kelowna's John Mlikotic, who played a pivotal role in helping Immaculata high school win two consecutive single-A provincial golf championships in 2010 and 2011, is learning to enjoy life this fall as a student athlete with Simon Fraser University and living his dream.
(October 29, 2011)
2007 B.C. Amateur Champion Mitch Gillis of Williams Lake and North Vancouver teaching professional Bryn Parry managed to secure a tie for the final position in Saturday's closing round of their respective qualifying tournaments in order to advance to the second stage of next months PGA TOUR Qualifying School.
(October 29, 2011)
It's a little early for Halloween but agent George Sourlis performed some negotiating tricks and the PGA TOUR provided Adam Hadwin with the sweetest treat of his young pro career . . . an exemption past second stage and directly into the six day, 108-hole qualifying school final.
(October 28, 2011)
By KENT 'COOKIE' GILCHRIST
Bryn Parry of North Vancouver, the cagey veteran who has dominated the popular Vancouver Golf Tour ever since it began about four years go, saved his best for last Friday by firing a three-under 69 in the fourth and final round of the PGA Tour's first stage of Qualifying School at Lantana, Tx.
(October 27, 2011)
By KENT 'COOKIE' GILCHRIST
Two of Canada's best recent amateur players, Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C. and Matt Hill of London, Ont. are finding the going tougher at the first stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying School.
(October 26, 2011)
Roger Sloan of Merritt and James Allenby of Langley are holding their own at their respective PGA TOUR Qualifying School sites, but the rest of the B.C. contingent will have to pull their socks up in order to give themselves a chance to advance to the next stage on the road to the PGA TOUR.
(October 26, 2011)
One of the highlights of the 2011 golf season in British Columbia occurred October 3 when 87-year-old Jim Gibson, one of the game's most humble and respected participants as both an accomplished amateur player and distinguished executive for amateur and professional associations in Canada, was presented with a rare and prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the Professional Golfers' Association of B.C., only the sixth time this award has been presented in the Association's more than 80 year history.
(October 26, 2011)
B.C. golfers at two PGA Tour qualifying school sites got off to nice starts Tuesday as the march down the path to golf's gold trail continues in this week's second segment of the First Stage.
(October 25, 2011)
Milton Richards, former director of athletics and recreation at California State University Stanislaus, has been selected as the new senior director of athletics and recreation at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
(October 25, 2011)
In just a few days from now some of the most influential names in golf in British Columbia will come together at West Vancouver's Capilano Golf & Country Club to pay tribute to five outstanding individuals who will be honoured during their induction into the BC Golf Hall of Fame.
(October 24, 2011)
A total of 31 Canadians are preparing to tee off at seven U.S. locations in this week's second segment of the First Stage of PGA TOUR Qualifying School.
(October 23, 2011)
Victoria, B.C.'s Stuart Anderson put his game into high gear Saturday by firing a 5-under par 67 in order to move up the leaderboard and finish in a tie for third in the PGA TOUR's First Stage of Qualifying School at the Auburn University Club in Alabama.
(October 21, 2011)
QUALIFYING SCHOOL
Richard T. Lee, a former junior golfer at Vancouver's Marine Drive Golf & Country Club, finished first at 14-under par at the Dayton Valley, Nev. PGA Tour first stage of qualifying school.
(October 20, 2011)
Four Canadians, including Vancouver Island's Stuart Anderson from Victoria, B.C., are in the Top Ten among the 13 Canadians who have started playing in the first stage of the PGA TOUR Qualifying School
(October 20, 2011)
SCHOOL DAYS, SCHOOL DAYS
Golf is the only sport where you are considered your own boss, where you can become a millionaire in your very first tournament or determine how many days a year you want to work. Or not. In order to go to work, however, you first must play your way through qualifying school and for many young golfers this is where the game becomes the job.
Columnist Kent Gillchrist takes a look at some of the Canadian students who are either attending for the first time or returning for another visit to the first stage of
PGA TOUR Qualifying School.
(October 16, 2011)
Soo Bin Kim of Coquitlam, BC, playing in only her third NCAA tournament, recorded the lowest 54-hole total in University of Washington golf history with a 13-under par score of 200 and won her first collegiate championship as a Husky freshman in Stanford, Calif.
(October 16, 2011)
For the first time in the five PGA TOUR events he's managed to find his way into this season Abbotsford, B.C.'s Adam Hadwin will go into Sunday's final round of the McGladrey Classic in Georgia with little or no prospect of making it into the Top Ten or advancing into next week's final tournament of the regular season.
(October 13, 2011)
Although he's most grateful for the honour of being inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2010 for a career that includes having won six national titles in six consecutive years, Brent Franklin will decline for the second year in a row to make an appearance to accept his Hall of Fame plaque from Golf Canada (RCGA).
(October 13, 2011)
COULD THIS BE THE WEEK?
If you have never heard of Landmark Sport Group you can put yourself on the majority side.
But if you hear that Landmark represents Adam Hadwin, David Hearn and Graham DeLaet not International Management Group, you'll really be scratching your head in wonderment.
(October 11, 2011)
John Bodenhamer, the highly respected longtime CEO and executive director of the Pacific Northwest Golf Association, has been selected to receive the coveted Distinguished Service Award during the 12th annual awards banquet of the Northwest Golf Media Association later this month at historic Seattle Golf Club.
(October 9, 2011)
For the first time in the history of the PGA TOUR three Canadians have finished among the Top Ten in a tournament and for Adam Hadwin, who is not yet a TOUR member, it marks the second time this season the-23-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C. has earned that privilege.
(October 9, 2010)
For tying for 7th place at the Frys.com Open in San Martin, Calif., Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C. has earned another Top Ten finish from the PGA TOUR and will play in The McGladrey Classic at Sea Island, Ga., next week.
(October 8, 2010)
Get ready Canada. Our Tiger Woods of golf, 23-year-old Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C. has moved into first place heading down the 18th fairway in round three at the Frys.com Open in California.
(October 8, 2011)
Put a camera in the hands of a skilled artisan like Bob Huxtable and pictures simply come alive; colours take on new meaning and sounds can be heard as if coaxed by the baton of a maestro.
(October 7, 2011)
The opening round for the Simon Fraser University Clan women's golf team teed off today at Olympia Country and Golf Club in Washington in the 36-hole Saint Martin's University Invitational.
(October 6, 2011)
(October 5, 2011)
(Photo: PGA of BC)
Defending champion Dan Swanson fired rounds of 68-69 to close out the Professional Golfers' Association of British Columbia tournament season and won the Callaway Golf PGA of BC Club Professional Championship at Richmond Golf Club.
(October 4, 2011)
PNGA Super Senior & Senior Women's Amateur Champions,
(photo: PNGA)
Alison Murdock of Victoria, B.C., a four-time Pacific Northwest Golf Association Senior Women's Player of the Year and the current British Columbia Senior Women's Amateur Champion, may be in line to win the honour for a fifth time after out-dueling a strong field and gusting winds to capture the 26th Pacific Northwest Association Senior Women's Amateur Championship at her home course, historic Victoria Golf Club.
(October 3, 2011)
What kid in 23-year-old Adam Hadwin's generation hasn't dreamed of playing in the same group as Tiger Woods and beating him?
As unlikely as it is to happen, the thing is it could happen this week at the Frys.com Open PGA Tour event in the Napa Valley.
(October 3, 2011)
(October 3, 2011)
Using her finely tuned talent to show-case her extensive home-course knowledge, reigning Canadian Women's Super Senior Amateur Champion Alison Murdock used a round of level par 72 to acquire a two shot lead following the opening round of the Pacific Northwest Golf Association's (PNGA) Senior Women's Amateur Championship being held at the Victoria Golf Club in British Columbia's capital city.
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