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Cam Cole: A Distinguished Career In Golf Writing
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R&A Unveils 'Women In Golf ' Charter
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Cascades Claim First Canadian University / College Championship
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University Champ'ship A Big Deal For Those Who Play Their Collegiate Golf At Home
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Langley?s Walnut Grove Gators Repeat As AAA B.C. High School Golf Champs
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EDITOR'SDESK In si de Th i s Issue In this month's edition of the Scorecard our cover story is about one of the great programs introduced by the NGCOA (National Golf Course Owners Association) some 16 years ago and now going stronger than ever. Brad Ziemer delves into the story behind the Take A Kid To The Course program and the terrific support that it gets across the country and particularly here in BC (page 28) We also have news on the very well received state-of-the-art national golf training centre that has been established at Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria (page 58).
charter designed to drive an increase in the number of women and girls participating in golf. Brad Ziemer 's latest findings on what's happening in golf from around our province can be found on pages 18, 34, 36, 53 and 56. Brad also has a feature on how BC Golf 's Player Development team is working to take advantage of having the 2018 Canadian Junior Girls Championship right in our own back yard at Beach Grove GC in Tsawwassen (page 44). There are also a number of excellent deals at golf facilities throughout BC and the Pacific Northwest to be had, and you can find details on those throughout the magazine.
And speaking of Pace of Play, check out the new 'Shot Clock' golf tournaments concept being tried out on the European Tour, On page 33 you'll read about the under the direction of Canada's own Keith Pelley R&A's new Women In Golf on page 67.
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GOLF Lan gl ey ?s Wal n ut Gr ove Gat or s Repeat As AAA B.C. Hi gh Sch ool Gol f Ch am ps
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Wal nut Grov e Def ended Th ei r B.C. A A A Hi gh Sch ool Gol f Ch ampi onsh i p, Col l i ngw ood Took Th e A A Ti tl e, Wh i l e A berdeen Hal l (Pi ctured) Cl ai med Th e A Crow n
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The Gators held off the hosts from Dover Bay Secondary at Nanaimo Golf Club to win the 36-hole championship by five shots. Last year, the Gators won their first title by 42 shots over St. George?s at Ledgeview Golf Club in Abbotsford. ?This one was very close,? said Walnut Grove coach Dana
?Th ey?v e al l come th rough th e j uni or program and are j ust real l y ex ci ted to pl ay i n th e prov i nci al s f i rst of f and to w i n th e ti tl e i s real l y speci al .? Ferguson. ?The host team played fantastic golf and gave us a run for our money.? Ferguson had just two players -- Andy Kim and Andy Jang -returning from last year ?s championship squad. Jackson
Jacob, Emma Yang and Rebecca Jiang were newcomers to this year ?s team. ?The kids are excited and the three new kids are really thrilled,? said Ferguson, who has coached the team for more than a decade. ?They?ve all come through the junior program and are just really excited to play in the provincials first off and to win the title is really special.? Kim, who is heading to the University of B.C. this fall to play his collegiate golf, finished Wednesday?s final round eagle, birdie, birdie to help the Gators secure the win. ?The whole round wasn?t going as I wanted,? said Kim, who shot a one-over 73 on Wednesday. Click HERE for full story and complete final scoring,
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BY BRAD ZIEMER, BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLF
SCENES Cam Cole: A Di st i n gui shed CAREER IN GOLF WRITING
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Cam Cole seem s t o have t hi s r et i r em en t t hi n g dow n pat .
become less a part of my life after retirement. It has become even bigger. I am enjoying that.?
?I am playing way more than I ever have in my life,? he says over the phone between rounds at his new home course, The Harvest, in Kelowna. ?I am probably playing three or four times a week. The game has not
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Cups and six Presidents Cups, nine (RBC) Canadian Opens and several (CP) Canadian Women?s Opens before retiring in December 2016 after an exemplary 41-year career as one of this country?s top sportswriters.
Th e game h as not become l ess a part of my l i f e af ter reti rement. I t h as become ev en bi gger. I am enj oyi ng th at. Cole is receiving Golf Canada?s Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to the game. He received that award at a June 4th ceremony at Bear Mountain Golf Club in Victoria. A round of golf followed, which suited Cole just fine. ?I don?t seem to be getting any better at it, but I still love it,? says Cole, a left-hander who boasts an eight handicap despite playing with a set of Ping Eye 2 irons that are 30 years old. ?The Harvest has this reputation of
being a really wide open, easy golf course. But scoring there for me seems really difficult. I have had a few rounds close to par, but then I?ve also had some 84s and 85s in there. It just depends, if you miss it in the wrong place you are still going to be struggling. And those greens are really slopey and tough. ?I have enjoyed it there, there?s a good group of guys to play with and it?s a very friendly kind of atmosphere.? Cole, of course, covered much more than golf. He was a fixture at Stanley Cup playoffs, covered many world figure skating championships, Super Bowls and Grey Cups. He attended 16 Olympic Games. But golf was perhaps his favourite assignment, in part for a
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Kelow n a's Nor m Br adley Is Pict u r ed Her e Wit h His 2018 Zon e 2 Team m at es For Th e BC Pr ovin cial Sen ior s: L-R: Bill Gallis, Kam loops G &CC; Ber n ie Bolok osk i & Br adley, Kelow n a G &CC; Fr an k M acKen zie, Pr edat or Ridge G&CC
BRA NDES BA RELY BESTS K ELOWNA 'S BRA DLEY Tom Br an des of Bellevue, Wash., had to catch Kelowna?s Norm Bradley to win his third straight Pacific Northwest Golf Association Senior Men?s Championship at the Sunriver Resort?s Meadows course in Bend, Ore. Brandes began the final round in third place, four shots behind Bradley, who led after the first two rounds of the 54-hole event. He
caught him with a two-under 69 that left Brandes with a total of three-over 216. Bradley closed with a four-over 75 and finished tied for second with Jim McNelis of Gig Harbor, Wash., two shots back of Brandes. Burnaby?s John Gallacher finished seventh in the Super Senior Championship, five shots behind winner Carey Watson of Bend.
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UBC Wom en Rei gn Supr em e Agai n
A t Canadi an Uni v ersi ty/ Col l ege Ch ampi onsh i p The Un i ver si t y of Br i t i sh Colum bi a?s w om en ?s golf t eam di d w hat t hey n ear ly alw ays do agai n t hi s year by cappi n g of f t hei r season w i t h an ot her Can adi an Un i ver si t y / College Cham pi on shi p. IMAGE COURTESY: WILSON WONG / UBC THUNDERBIRDS CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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A v ri l Li Led Th e Way For Th e UBC T'Bi rds Women's Sq uad Wi nni ng Th e I ndi v i dual Ti tl e A t Ch i l l i w ack Gol f Cl ub
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It was the 13th win in the 16-year history of the event for the Thunderbird women. And it doesn?t figure to be their last. The four members of the winning team at Chilliwack Golf Club included three freshmen and a junior. In other words, the future is bright. The UBC team of Avr il Li, Cecile Kw on , Kelly Hellm an and Sh an ia Rem an daban led from start to finish and posted a final team score of 19-over par.
That was 34 strokes better than runner-up University of Victoria. The Thunderbirds rebounded nicely from what was a disappointing finish for them at the recent NAIA Championships in Florida, where they placed seventh. Click HERE for the complete story
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After the IDGU won the bidding process to host the event back in July of 2014, the Championships will be held Ju ly 21st -28t h , 2018 at the Car t on Hou se Golf Clu b. The Men?s Individual/Team Championships will be playing on the Montgomerie Course while the Ladies?& Senior ?s Individual / Team Champ'ships will be playing on the O?Meara Golf Course. Team Canada will compete in the Men?s event, Senior Men?s event and Ladies? event. Jonathan Rose, Ont.,
Alexandre Ouellet, Que., Ryan Mobberley and Sheldon Dueck, Man., and Dale Pr oct or , B.C. will take part in the Men?s event while B.C's Jim Cr an sw ick , M ich ael Par k es and Pau l Lan dr y as well as Denis Marchand (Que.) will compete in the Senior Men?s event. Sasha Laoun, of Quebec and Janette Lyon of Ontario will take part in the Ladies?event. Click HERE for complete story
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TakeAKidToThe Course It began as Take a Ki d t o t he Cour se Week, but a f un n y t hi n g happen ed t o t he pr ogr am i n t r oduced 16 year s ago by t he Nat i on al Golf Cour se Ow n er s Associ at i on .
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It became so popular with kids, their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and guardians that the word 'week' had to be dropped. ?We dropped it a long time ago,? says Nat h alie Lavalee, chief operating officer of the NGCOA. ?We used to contain it to a week, but our members were saying, you know what, we really run it for the season or for the month. So now we have made it really, really flexible for them.? What is now simply Take a Kid to the Course officially begins July 3. Some 715 member courses of the NGCOA are expected to participate this year in a program that continues to grow. ?Every year it grows and really there?s no attrition,? says Lavalee. ?We had 705 courses last year. Our target for this year is 715. It is looking like we
are going to reach those numbers, which is a great, great thing.?
I t gets j uni ors i ntroduced to gol f , i t gets th em ex ci ted i n k i nd of a f un, noni nti mi dati ng w ay The concept is a simple one. At participating courses, kids under the age of 16 play for free with a paid adult. From the NGCOA?s perspective, the program serves two purposes. It helps introduce juniors to the game. And it promotes family time.
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Justin Shin of Maple Ridge continues to play well on the PGA Tour China circuit. Shin fired rounds of 68, 71, 66 and 67 to finish third at the Guilin Championship. Shin?s 72-hole total of 16-under par was two shots behind winner Charlie Saxon of the United States. It was Shin?s second top-3 finish in a month. Shin tied for second with Saxon at last month?s Haikow Championship.
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Morningstar Golf Club in Parksville has been placed into receivership.
M orni ngstar Goes In Receivership The Parksville Qualicum Beach News reports that the B.C. Supreme Court earlier this month appointed G. Powroznik Group Inc. to take over management of the club?s properties and assets. The club was formerly owned by an Edmonton-based family, whose company filed for
bankruptcy last year. The course remains open and the new managers hope to find a new owner for the course. ?It has been neglected a bit so we?re going to try and bring it back and eventually find a good buyer for it,? said managing director Gary Powroznik.
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B.C. Jun i or Gi r l s Look To Capi t al i ze On Hom e Cour se Advan t age At Nat i on al Ch am pi on sh i ps
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Beach Grove Golf Club in Tsawwassen, but Pyne and her team of coaches from British Columbia Golf have been preparing for the championship for months.
Pyne, the managing director of player development with British Columbia Golf, has arranged for a select group of B.C?s top juniors to attend a series of camps designed to help them become intimately familiar with Beach Grove. The most recent camp was a two-day gathering June 2-3 at Beach Grove, where coaches Jennifer Greggain, Matt Cella and Taylor Kim ran the girls through a series of short-game exercises before they played two rounds of golf designed to simulate tournament conditions. ?As a coach I want to feel I have the most prepared team
that is going to arrive at the golf course,? says Greggain, a former LPGA Tour member who is British Columbia Golf ?s head women?s and girls coach. ?So that means just doing everything we can to give them the knowledge and the skills that they need for that event.? Cella, who is British Columbia Golf ?s juvenile girls coach, said it makes perfect sense to try and take advantage of the championship being played close to home. ?With it being in our back yard so to speak, we have got the advantage that we can bring these girls out here four or five or six times and really help them get to know the golf course well,? Cella said.
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Cascades Cl ai m Fi r st Can adi an Un i ver si t y / Col l ege Ch am pi on sh i p Respect has been har d t o com e by f or t he Un i ver si t y of t he Fr aser Valley?s m en ?s golf t eam , w hi ch has played i n t he shadow s of m or e est abli shed IMAGE CREDIT: BRYAN OUTRAM/BC GOLF pr ogr am s at t he UFV 's Dani el Campbel l Hel ped Put Un i ver si t y of B.C., Th e Cascades Gol f Program On Th e M ap Leadi ng Hi s Team To Th e t he Un i ver si t y of Canadi an Uni v ersi ty / Col l ege Vi ct or i a an d Si m on Ch ampi onsh i p M en's Ti tl e Fr aser Un i ver si t y. That should no longer be a problem. The title Canadian University champions changes everything for the Cascades and their hard-working coach, Ch r is Ber t r am . ?This is the biggest win we?ve ever had and probably one of the biggest team victories
we have had as a university since we got involved a few years ago,? Bertram said after his UFV men?s team won the Can adian Un iver sit y/ College Ch am pion sh ip at Ch illiw ack Golf Clu b in convincing fashion. Click HERE for the complete story
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Added As Canada West Spor t At the recent Canada West annual general meeting in Kelowna, a motion by the University of the Fraser Valley to add golf as a Canada West sport beginning in 2019 was approved. ?Many Canada West institutions have strong golf programs, and we?ve been competing against them at invitationals for many years,? said UFV dir ect or of at h let ics St eve Tu ck w ood. ?We felt it was time for Canada West to formalize its members? commitment to golf.?
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BC's Ph i l Jon as
Books A Return Visit To The U.S. Senior Open Phi l Jon as i s get t i n g an ot her cr ack at t he U.S. Sen i or Open . Jon as played hi s w ay i n t o t he even t f or t he secon d st r ai ght year , w i n n i n g t he lon e spot up f or gr abs at IMAGE COURTESY: PGA OF BC a quali f i er Mon day BC's Ph i l Jonas Has Pl ayed Hi s Way I nto Th e U.S. Seni or Open i n Sequi m , Wash. For Th e Second Strai gh t Year The 56-year-old Jonas, who runs a golf academy in his name at Hazelm er e Golf Clu b in Surrey, shot a three-under 69 at Th e Cedar s at Du n gen ess to beat a field of 51 players by two shots. ?I played decently today after playing so poorly last week at the PGA of B.C. Sen ior s
tourney,? Jonas said in a telephone interview. ?I was happy with the way I played. ?It?s tough when there?s just one spot because you don?t know what is going to happen. I come in with a 69 and I don?t know if I am going to make it or if I am in 10th place. But then in some CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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ways it?s better because you just play and see what happens.?
weren?t that short. I think the course will be tough.?
This year ?s 39th playing of the U.S. Senior Open goes June 27-July 1 at Th e Br oadm oor (East Cou r se) in Color ado Spr in gs, Colo.
Jonas had his longtime friend, Tom Spr agge, on his bag as caddy on Monday and Spragge will work for Jonas for the second straight year at the Senior Open. ?He couldn?t go without me,? Spragge joked. ?I?m the only reason he?s in it.?
Last year, Jonas played in the event when it was held at Salem Cou n t r y Clu b in Peabody, M ass. He shot rounds of 75 and 77 and missed the cut by 11 shots. ?I have a busy two weeks coming up so I probably won?t be able to do much practicing, but hopefully I can be better than I was last year when I was so nervous and apprehensive and everything,? he said. ?I'm going to try and not worry about the little things.? Jonas doesn?t know much about The Broadmoor, but based on last year ?s experience knows it will be set up tough. ?They play the courses a lot harder than I always thought,? Jonas said. ?They play it pretty tough. Last year they had two par 5s that they changed to par 4s and they
I n some w ays i t?s better because you j ust pl ay and see w h at h appens. Jonas got his round off to a nice start Monday and was three-under through six holes. He fell back to one-under after bogeys on 10 and 12 but birdied the 13th and 14th holes to get back to three-under. Click HERE for complete hole-by-hole scoring of this qualifier.
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Snyder and Price advanced all the way to Sunday?s final of the prestigious four-ball event before losing 3&2 in the championship match to Brett Boner and Stephen Woodard of Carolina Golf Club.
The John G. Anderson Memorial Four-Ball Invitational is one of the country's premiere amateur events. Created in 1933 to honor Winged Foot founding member and two time U.S. Amateur runner-up John G. Anderson, the event consists of a 36 hole qualifier followed by two days of match play competition in both Championship and Senior divisions.
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Gol f Can ada Nat i on al Team s Feel i n g Ri gh t At Hom e At Bear Moun t ai n
Gol f Canada Nati onal Team M embers Hav e Found A Good Home A t V i ctori a's Bear M ountai n Gol f Resort IMAGE CREDIT: BRYAN OUTRAM/BC GOLF
Golf Can ada has gon e all-i n on player developm en t an d f or t hat chi ef spor t of f i cer Jef f Thom pson m akes n o apologi es.
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spirited defense of that
delivering results. More
strategy at a recent media
M ore Canadi ans are contendi ng on l eaderboards on al l l ev el s, amateur and prof essi onal , around th e gl obe, th an ev er bef ore
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si t e of Golf Can ada?s n ew n at i on al t r ai n i n g f aci li t y. ?I get often asked why do we spend so much money on so few players and my answer is quite simple,? Thompson said. ?Our philosophy from the very top of the organization is we believe in the power of creating champions, creating heroes. That inspires a nation to play our sport.? Thompson cites LPGA star Br ook e Hen der son to support his argument. ?I call it the Brooke Henderson factor,? Thompson said. ?There are more young girls playing golf and I really attribute that to Brooke?s success and the success the rest of the players are having. The importance of champions in my mind is super important.? It is hard to argue that the national program is not
Canadian flags are flying on leaderboards and the success of past team members like Henderson and B.C. pr odu ct s Adam Hadw in , Nick Taylor an d Adam Sven sson points to a bright future for Canadian pro golf. ?We have more Canadians contending on leaderboards on all levels, amateur and professional, around the globe than we ever have,? Thompson said.
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a free fall and a plan hatched with the help of golf courses across North America, including two in B.C., is hoping to bring them flying back. The number of the summer visitors to flower gardens and wildflower fields has plummeted 90 per cent over the past 20 years, according to Audubon International. ?And it?s worse in the western population, where you are, where there?s been a 95 per cent drop in numbers,? said Marcus
Gray of Audubon International. The Fairmont Chateau Whistler and Victoria?s Arbutus Ridge golf courses are among the 30 courses across Canada and the 250 so far across the U.S. that have committed to growing the flowers on a half-hectare of land on their courses. CLICK HERE to read complete story in Vancouver Sun.
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Un i ver si t y Ch am pi on sh i p A Bi g Deal For Can adi an s Wh o Ch ose To Pl ay Th ei r Col l egi at e Gol f At Hom e CHILLIWACK -Thi s i s hi s collegi at e golf sw an son g an d Law r en Row e i n si st s he has n o r egr et s. The Un i ver si t y of IMAGE CREDIT: BRYAN OUTRAM/BC GOLF Vi ct or i a sen i or kn ow s he m ade Uni v ersi ty Of V i ctori a V i k es' Law ren t he r i ght deci si on Row e I s Th e Embodi ement Of M uch Of Wh at I s So Great A bout Th e Canadi an f our year s ago Uni v ersi ty/ Col l ege Ch ampi onsh i p w hen he chose t o Un iver sit y/ College play hi s collegi at e golf Ch am pion sh ip at Ch illiw ack close t o hom e. Golf Clu b.
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thankful for the opportunities I have had. It is so great to be close to home and be able to play in tournaments like these. It was definitely the right choice.? This tournament was created, in part, with players like Rowe in mind. Golf Can ada wanted to give more Canadian youngsters the option to play their collegiate golf at home. Dou g Roxbu r gh, the 13-time B.C. Am at eu r champion and a former director of player development with Golf Canada, was a big supporter of the event when it was created by former Golf Canada executive director St eph en Ross. Sixteen years later, Roxburgh
Th e depth of th e f i el d h as i mprov ed. M ore and more Canadi an k i ds are stayi ng h ome to pl ay. I th i nk th i s tournament i s tremendous.
remains a backer of the tournament and in fact worked this week?s event, volunteering as an official scorer. ?The quality of golf has really improved since the first ones,? Roxburgh said in an interview. ?The depth of the field has improved. More and more Canadian kids are staying home to play. I think this tournament is tremendous.? Roxburgh also points to another reason why he feels the tournament is important. ?I have always thought that from a Golf Canada point of view and a provincial golf association point of view, this is probably our most important tournament,? he said. ?You get all these kids who are going to graduate and go into business. Very few of them are going to turn pro. So they are going to join clubs, they are going to have the opportunity to give back to the game and volunteer.? Click HERE for complete story
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Sh ot Cl ock Li gh t s A Fi r e Un der Com pet i t or s
In t hi s w eek's edi t i on of t he Globalgolf post .com , con t r i but i n g w r i t er Lew i n e Mai r 's colum n The Take, of f er s an eye-open i n g Th e Sh ot Cl ock M asters 2018 Cov er Ph oto per spect i ve on som e IMAGE COURTESY EUROPEAN TOUR of t he Eur opean Mair goes in depth in her story on Tour 's ef f or t s at not only the event itself but the addr essi n g slow play, a overall reaction and possible t opi c t hat has becom e a ramifications of golf tournaments ver y hot i ssue i n r ecen t where players are timed in 50 year s. A major proponent of 'actions speak louder than words' Canada's Keith Pelley, the European Tour 's Chief Executive, has put into action some new ideas to test the waters as far as effecting change in the way the game of golf has appeared to slow to a snail's pace. Case in point is the recently played Sh ot Clock M ast er s at the Diamond Country Club in Austria.
seconds or less for each shot, depending on certain circumstances, with the threat of an immediate penalty hanging over them should they fail to pull the trigger in time. Read the complete story HERE.
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?It gets juniors introduced to golf, it gets them excited in kind of a fun, non-intimidating way,? says Lavalee. ?But I think more importantly, we really wanted to have family golf. Junior camps are great and we certainly encourage them and support them, but this took it a little bit to the next level where a family of four -- mom and dad and the kids could be involved or grandma and grandpa and the kids could be
involved. It really took it to the family level where we wanted to get not just one segment, we wanted to get all segments of the family out golfing.? About 135 of the 715 courses expected to participate in the Take a Kid to the Course program this summer are in British Columbia. GolfBC, the province?s largest golf course operator, got involved with the program early and ran with it. All of its B.C. properties -CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Nicklaus North in Whistler, Olympic View in Victoria, Arbutus Ridge in Cobble Hill, Mayfair Lakes in Richmond and their two Kelowna properties, Gallagher ?s Canyon and the Quail and Bear courses at Okanagan Golf Club -- are involved.
and getting the equipment in their hands.? Hedley knows that not all of the children who are introduced to the game via the Take a Kid to the Course promotion will immediately become regular golfers. But he believes it plants a about seed.
?It is so I t i s j ust important to getti ng th em ?Really what we us,? says An dy encouraged and are trying to do is Hedley, encourage getti ng th em GolfBC?s vice children to at least i nto th e game president of pick up a golf club, and getti ng th e operations. ?It get the eq ui pment i n fundamentals of gives children access to the th ei r h ands the game. They golf course. We may well put it see places like Mayfair down again at some point Lakes where they will as they go to university and come out at 6 o?clock and we just hope they will pick it they?ll play five holes, we?ll up again and come back. I have reduced fees for adults think if we get them through and kids will come out and that stigma of picking up a play for free. It is just about club and give them some of getting them encouraged and the fundamentals it is going to getting them into the game be a lot easier for them to pick
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it up again when they are in their 20s.? A list of courses participating in Take a Kid to the Course can be found at k idsplaygolf .ca and Lavalee notes that more than just free golf is being given away this summer. The NGCOA has eight chapters across the country and TaylorMade is providing one prize per chapter. One child in each chapter will win a full set of TaylorMade clubs, while an adult will win their choice of a selection of TaylorMade clubs. Anyone participating in the program during the month of July is eligible to enter. ?The participating golf courses will have a ballot that they hand out that has a special code on it and then they go online and enter the draw that way,? Lavalee says. There are also four grand prizes being given away by Melia hotels. Winners will
receive all-inclusive packages (excluding airfare) to Melia properties in Varadero, Cuba.
Th ey may w el l put i t dow n agai n at some poi nt as th ey go to uni v ersi ty and w e j ust h ope th ey w i l l pi ck i t up agai n and come back . Par t icipat in g Cou r ses: -
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- Brigadoon Golf Course - Campbell River Golf & Country Club - Carnoustie Golf Club - Cedar Ridge Golf Course - Cheam Mountain Golf Club - Chilliwack Golf Club - Christina Lake Golf Club - Comox Golf Club - Copper Point Golf Club - Cordova Bay Golf Course - Cottonwood Golf Course - Cowichan Golf & Country Club - Coys Par 3 Ltd. - Cranbrook Golf Club - Creekside Golf Course - Creston Golf Club - Crown Isle Resort and Golf Community - Cultus Lake Golf Club - Duncan Meadows Golf & Country Club - Eagle Ranch Golf Resort - Eaglequest Coquitlam - Eaglequest Coyote Creek - Eaglequest Nanaimo - Fairview Mountain Golf Club
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- Mabel Lake Golf & Country Club Inc. - March Meadows Golf Club - Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club - McCleery Golf Course - Meadow Gardens Golf Club - Merritt Golf & Country Club - Metchosin Golf & Country Club - Michaelbrook Golf Club - Mission Golf & Country Club - Morgan Creek Golf Course - Morningstar Championship Golf Club - Mount Brenton Golf Club Ltd. - Mountain View Golf Course - Mountainside Golf Course - Musqueam Golf and Learning Academy - Myrtle Point Golf Club - Nanaimo Golf Club - Nicklaus North Golf Course
- Nk'Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course - Northview Golf and Country Club - Olympic View Golf Club - Osoyoos Golf Club - Pagoda Ridge Golf Course - Peace Portal Golf Course - Pineridge Golf Course - Pitt Meadows Golf & Country Club - Poppy Estate Golf Course - Princeton Golf Club - Quadra Island Golf Club - Qualicum Beach Memorial Golf Club - Radium Course - Redwoods Golf Course - Revelstoke Golf Club - Rivershore Golf Links - Riverside Golf Resort at Fairmont - Royalwood Golf & RV Resort - Salmon Arm Golf Club - Sandpiper Resort - Shadow Ridge Golf Club - Shannon Lake Golf Course CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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- Shuswap National Golf Club - Skeena Valley Golf & Country Club - Spallumcheen Golf & Country Club - Sparwood Golf Club - Springs Course - Spur Valley Greens - Squamish Valley Golf & Country Club - St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino - Summerland Golf & Country Club - Sun Peaks Resort Golf Club - Sunset Ranch Golf & Country Club - Sunshine Coast - Surrey Golf Club - Swan-e-set Bay Resort & Country Club - Talking Rock Golf at Quaaout Lodge - The Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club - The Falls Resort Community - The Harvest Golf Club
- The Links at Hampton Cove - The Okanagan Golf Club - The Rise - The Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort & Spa - Trickle Creek Golf Resort - Twin Lakes Golf Club Ltd. - University Golf Club - Valley Golf Centre - Vernon Golf & Country Club - Victoria Golf Club - Westwood Plateau Executive 12-Hole Course - Wildstone Golf Course - Williams Lake Golf & Tennis Club
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selfish reason. ?I enjoyed golf more probably because they can?t play it at night,? Cole says. ?As you know, deadlines are the least fun thing about the job. It is so much easier on the brain having a couple of minutes to think before you have to commit it to print. I think generally speaking it makes for better writing if you have some time to think and execute a line or a paragraph without having to just rush into it.?
contributor who also does essays for TSN. ?He is multi-talented and covered so many sports so well, but I think he was such a great golf writer because he was a such a great golfer, at least by the fairly low standards that we mortals have. He had a higher IQ for golf than most of the people writing about it.?
Michael Farber, Cole?s longtime sportswriting colleague, worked IMAGE CREDIT: CHUCK RUSSELL/GOLF CANADA alongside Cole at many big events and Gol f Canada Presi dent Lesl i e Dunni ng Wi th Di sti ngui sh ed Serv i ce paid his friend the A w ard Reci pi ent Cam Col e ultimate compliment Cole has many great memories in an interview from his from all those golf majors he Montreal home. ?I would rather read Cam Cole writing about golf covered, but says Tiger Woods? than just about anybody writing first and last major wins are among the most memorable. ?I about anything,? says Farber, a think it was my fourth or fifth Sports Illustrated special CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Masters when Tiger won in 1997 and just blew away the field,? Cole says.
of his time spent covering golf came in Kelowna, now his home, when he caddied for Jack Nicklaus at the official opening of The Bear Course at Okanagan Golf Club. ?That,? he says, ?was pretty special.?
?I think he shot 40 on the front nine the first day and we were going, oh dear, and then he shot 30 on the back I th i nk general l y or something So was the fact speak i ng i t mak es that Cole got to and was off to f or better w ri ti ng i f play several of the races. And you h av e some then his last the major venues ti me to th i nk and he covered. His major ? I hope it?s not ex ecute a l i ne or a name was drawn his last, but it paragraph w i th out three times to might be ? h av i ng to j ust rush play Augusta the one he National on the i nto i t. won at Torrey Monday morning Pines (in 2008) on one leg. Those following the two bookends to his majors tournament. career were pretty damn special Cole hasn?t missed writing as to watch.? much as he thought he might. ?I Cole also mentions the last Open Championship he covered in 2016 when Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson staged their epic duel at Royal Troon in Scotland. ?I thought was the greatest golf I had ever seen between two guys,? he says. But Cole says the best memory
haven?t and that shocks me a bit. But I think it?s just that in the last two or three years with shrinking staffs, a lot of the fun kind of went out of the newspaper game towards the end. I have had a few opportunities to write this or that, but just haven?t been CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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moved to do it.? Watching those majors at home on TV also hasn?t been as difficult as Cole thought it might be. ?I am a little bit wistful sometimes. Last year, I would have loved to have been there to watch Sergio (Garcia) win the Masters because he has been such a story through the years, but you know, in general, I just love watching golf and to be honest when you are at a major probably half the time you are sitting in front of a TV monitor anyway while you are writing. It?s not like you have never seen it before on TV. It?s kind of nice to just sit back in the living room with a beer at my elbow and watch these things.? Cole will miss not being at Carnoustie for this summer ?s Open Championship, but he will be there to visit a friend in June. He and his wife Jan are taking a three-week driving trip through Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales, England and Scotland. And yes, some golf will be played.
They plan to play, among others, Rory McIlroy?s old home course, Holywood, in Northern Ireland. ?I wanted to play courses I have never played before for the most part,? says Cole, who figures he has teed it up at more than 100 courses in Britain. Cole is no stranger to receiving recognition for his work. Last fall, he was inducted into the media wing of the Hockey Hall of Fame and he is a two-time recipient of the Sport Media Canada Award for Outstanding Sports Writing. Cole says he never feels completely worthy of the accolades. ?As a general sports columnist, every time you get nominated for something like this for a specific sport you never feel like you deserve it. A golf recognition for me is like, really? What did I ever contribute to golf? I am way more of a taker than a giver of this game. It has been really good to me. But it?s a really nice surprise and a really great honour.?
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Greggain and Cella both made the point that being better prepared than some of
" Beach Grov e h as been v ery accommodati ng l etti ng us come out to do th i s bei ng a pri v ate cl ub.Someti mes th at can be di f f i cul t, but th ey h av e real l y w el comed us and l et us come out and practi se and pl ay. " your competitors can make a big difference. ?Even if it is one shot or something you never know what that is going to do for you,? Cella said. ?The more prepared, the more familiar they are with the golf course -with the greens, the tee shots -- it might be a fraction of a stroke, but if you times that over four days it adds up pretty quick. That is what we are hoping to do, add some strategy, where to hit it, where not to hit it, that kind of stuff.?
The girls were asked to compile yardage books on Beach Grove, forcing them to become intimately familiar with the intricacies of the layout. ?This is our fourth session,? says Greggain. ?It's a two-day camp, the other three have been Friday afternoon sessions. The first was an indoor session where we talked about nutrition and just the idea of yardage books and how to use Google maps to sketch out a golf course you don?t know before you get there. So we have done all that, this will be the first time using this yardage book and now we will be fine-tuning it and honing it in and just starting to use it a little bit more.? Angela Arora, last year ?s B.C. Bantam Girls champion, was one of the nine participants at the Beach Grove camp. The 13-year-old from Surrey thinks she and her fellow camp CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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participants will have an edge thanks to all the pre-tournament work they are doing. ?I think it is a great help because they work on the
helpful. If you have a set strategy and know everything about the course it?s a big help.?
Surrey?s Taylor Kim, a former B.C. Women?s Amateur champion and a past member of Team Canada?s national team, was a guest coach at the Beach Grove camp. Kim, who graduated two years ago from the Kent State University, is working as a teaching pro at BC Team Coach M att Cel l a Beach Grove, is delighted to Work s Wi th Emma Yang I n have the opportunity to help A dv ance Of Th e Canadi an Juni or Gi rl s Ch ampi onsh i p Jul y prepare the B.C. girls for the 31-A ug. 3 A t Beach Grov e Gol f national championship. Cl ub I n Tsaw w assen
aspects that are important for Beach Grove,? she said. ?We constructed a yardage book for the entire course, we had to include the best up-and-down opportunities from all the holes possible pin locations, slope, etcetera. Having a strategy really helps you in tournament play. If you just go on the fly that is not
?I just want to help them in any way I can,? she said. ?I have a lot of experience in this area. I was a Team Canada member for five years and I went through the Team B.C. training when I was their age so I just want to share all I?ve got. I know what it?s like to compete at a national event and I am super-excited to be doing this.?
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?We have had 31 professional victories from players who have been involved in our young pro squad over the last four years, so we are very proud about that.?
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Gol f Canada Ch i ef Sport Of f i cer Jef f Th ompson
Golf Canada opened its national training centre at Bear Mountain in late January. It is being used mainly by the members of the men?s and women?s developmental teams. Those players moved to Vict or ia, where they attend high school in the mornings and then train at Bear Mountain in the afternoon. They also meet at 6 a.m. on Mondays,Wednesdays and Fridays for group workouts. ?We are thrilled with it,? men?s head coach Der ek In gr am said of the new training centre. ?This has been on our agenda for probably 10 or 12 years and to finally get a home where the guys and gals can train year-round full-time at first-class facilities is literally a dream
come true for me and for Golf Canada.? Victoria?s Nolan Th or ou gh good is one of the developmental team members using the new facility. Unlike his teammates, Thoroughgood didn?t have to leave home. He continues to live at home, but Bear Mountain has become his second home. ?Having a coach who is always there and is always available to look at my game and answer questions whenever I need is great and having teammates of a similar skill who I can compete closely with, it really just raises the level of my game,? Thoroughgood said. Thoroughgood, who won the CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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2016 B.C. Am at eu r Ch am pion sh ip at age 16, is completing Grade 12 and will be attending Or egon St at e Un iver sit y in the fall. He recognizes that his selection to the national developmental team has given him a great opportunity. This spring, he has
have been super accommodating. They made space for us over on the driving range and earlier in the year we had nine holes on one of the courses reserved for us.?
Like Thoroughgood, Ellie Szer yk is a new member of the developmental team. But unlike Thoroughgood, Szeryk had to move a long way to join her new teammates at Bear Mountain. A dual-citizen, Szeryk came all the way from her Texas home. ?The Team Canada's El l i e Szeryk girls team is staying in A nd Nol an Th orough good one house and our IMAGES CREDIT: BRYAN OUTRAM/BC GOLF assistant coach Sar ah already played in tournaments M au de-Ju n eau is living with us,? in Haw aii and Calif or n ia. He Szeryk said. ?So in that sense it is and his teammates leave on a little easier in that we didn?t June 9 for Japan to compete in have to open up to a so-to-speak the Toyot a Ju n ior Golf Wor ld new family. It has been difficult Cu p. at times, but overall it has been ?We have all these people a lot of fun.? supporting us,? Thoroughgood Szeryk has little doubt the move said. ?We have lots of resources has been good for her game. ?I and the facilities here at Bear have become a lot more mature Mountain have been great. They CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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both on and off the golf course,? don?t think can be anything but she said. ?They have kind of game-changing for the opened my eyes to a new program. Our country has a perspective on how I should very large footprint and we play. They have also given me need to look at bringing the drills I never would have best athletes together with our thought about. world-class Our country h as a coaching at a There are so v ery l arge many days world-class facility where I have f ootpri nt and w e and I can tell you gone, ?oh, that need to l ook at it is going to makes sense, I bri ngi ng th e best produce results.? don?t know why I ath l etes togeth er The new training didn?t think centre at Bear w i th our w orl d about that.?So in Mountain that sense it has cl ass coach i ng at includes a a w orl d-cl ass been really high-performance f aci l i ty and I can lab in the helpful.? Thompson called tel l you i t i s goi ng basement of the the new training to produce resul ts. main building where players can centre a work regardless game-changer for team of the weather outside. B.C. members. ?One of the has representatives on all three things that we think will really national teams. Besides affect performance is the Thoroughgood, Richmond?s amount of contact time our Ch r is Cr isologo is a member of players get with the coaching the men?s national amateur staff. Through this initiative we team, which just left on a have increased that contact European trip. Naom i Ko of time by 300 per cent which I Vict or ia is on the women?s
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national amateur team and Kim ber ley ?s Jar ed du Toit is a former national team member who is now part of the young pro squad. In addition to the facilities and coaching available at their new Bear Mountain facility, team members also regularly work with experts in the areas of mental performance, physiotherapy, biomechanics and nutrition. They also have access to the nearby Pacif ic In st it u t e f or Spor t Excellen ce. And of course, having the
opportunity to regularly play on both the Mountain and Valley courses at Bear Mountain has been beneficial as well. ?These are the type of golf courses where the more you play the better you get,? said lead developmental team coach Rober t Rat clif f e. ?They force you to get better and that has been fantastic for these guys and girls. Centralizing everything has been a benefit, but doing it here has knocked it out of the park.?
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