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In si de t h i s Issue In this month's edition of the Scorecard we are focusing on the very important initiative of promoting women's involvement in the game of golf. Making the game more accessible and welcoming to women and girls is a priority for British Columbia Golf in 2019 and the years ahead. With that in mind we want to make as many readers as possible aware of next month's Women's Golf Day, taking place at venues around the world on Tuesday, June 4th.
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only occasionally get out for a game are or are interested in simply getting started playing golf . Knowing what the barriers or hurdles are would go a long way toward removing them. You can see early results from this survey as well as take a moment to fill it in yourself on page 16. We have a wonderful story by Brad Ziemer on 'para-golfer' Tanelle Bolt and how she is dedicating her time helping other disabled athletes continue to enjoy competing and staying involved in outdoor activities including 'adaptive' golf on page 20.
We have a list of all the facilities around B.C. that are hosting events on that day (page 18). There's news on other happenings contact them and find out how you in and around BC including an can get involved. historic win in The PGA Minority Championship by UBC's Ziggy Because input from the very Nathu (page 24) and you can also demographic this initiative is read about two BC women who aimed at is so vital, we have also put together a short survey aimed played their way into the U.S. Women's Open, Megan Osland at gathering the thoughts and and Naomi Ko, on page 42 and 40. ideas from women and girls who PG 8 | MAY 2019
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Attention all golfers who'd like the opportunity to test out and be fitted for Titleist golf clubs. Titleist Thursday Fitting Events are back. This summer they'll be available in two different locations in BC... Okanagan GC in Kelowna starting May 9th. Northview GC in Surrey starting May 16th. As a reminder, these are Titleist run, public access fitting events at the same PG 14 | MAY 2019
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Women are clearly engaged with this topic. While making up less than 25% of BC Golf members, they have accounted for closer to half of the responses so far.
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Golf has always been a big part of Tanelle Bolt ?s life. Her dad, Michael, was the longtime superintendent and assistant superintendent of Lethbridge Country Club, where Tanelle played junior golf and later worked on the grounds crew with her father. She loved the game and 15 years later nothing has changed, although there have been some very significant changes in Bolt?s life. PG 20 | MAY 2019
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Nearly five years ago -- on Aug. 10, 2014 -- Bolt suffered a life-changing injury after free-jumping off a bridge in Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. She fractured her T6 vertebrae and was left paralyzed from her chest down. Bolt, now 32, was determined that her disability would not prevent her from enjoying her life-long love of the outdoors. And that included golf. She?s back on the course, with the help of a 'para golfer' -- a sports wheelchair that allows Bolt to stand and swing her clubs. A game she feared she had lost after her accident is again a part of her life. ?This is not a new world for me,?Bolt said during a recent round at Langara Golf Course in Vancouver. ?It?s an old world that I had lost. Golf gives me the ability to be outside enjoying fresh air with friends and family. It is just such a calming experience to be on a golf course in the middle of the city. There are not a lot of places like this.? PG 21 | M AY 2019
Bolt was at Langara as part of the inaugural Golf & Health Week, an annual event supported by golf federations worldwide and designed to publicize the health benefits of golf. The session at Langara, organized by British Columbia Golf Chief Executive Officer Kris Jonasson, was focussed on adaptive golf and golfing with disabilities. Bolt is part of an adaptive golf committee formed by Jonasson to advise the association. The goal is to make courses more open to people with disabilities, who can benefit from time on the course. Bolt?s return to the course became possible after she travelled to California and acquired a sports wheelchair that allowed her to
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Two of the three Whistler courses opened for the season this past couple of weeks. W hist ler Golf Club and Chat eau W hist ler both opened for business on Friday, PG 22 | MAY 2019
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May 10. Nicklaus North opened on Thursday, May 16. Big Sky in Pemberton, which this summer plays host to the B.C. Amateur Championship, opened for play on April 26.
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University of British Columbia senior Zahidali (Ziggy) Nathu won the 33rd PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship in style Sunday. Nathu eagled the first playoff hole to beat Logan Bryant of Florida A&M. Both players had finished the 54-hole event at even-par after each shot one-under 71s in Sunday?s final round at the PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Nathu?s eagle came after he had blown a two-shot PG 24 | MAY 2019
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lead on the 18th green, where he three-putted for bogey from 18 feet while Bryant made birdie. He sunk a 40-foot putt for eagle on the first playoff hole. ?I was shocked and frustrated about it,?Nathu said. ?I just had to forget about it. I hit one of the greatest three-woods from 270 (yards) to the fringe. I kind of felt like I would make the putt. It was a load off my shoulders.? UBC this year became the first Canadian school to send athletes to compete in the event. The tournament is a stroke-play event contested across six divisions: NCAA Men?s Division I, Men?s Division II, Men?s NAIA, an overall
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Women?s Division (team), Men?s Individual and Women?s Individual. While many of the participating teams represent historically black colleges and universities, the individual competition is open to all minority men and women student-athletes playing collegiate golf at the Division I, Division II or NAIA levels. Nathu, a Richmond resident, and fellow Thunderbird Andy Kim, a freshman from Langley, both competed in the individual men?s competition. Kim finished in 20th place. Nathu and Kim will be heading to Arizona for the NAIA men?s national championship, which goes May 21-24 at Las Sendas Golf Club in Mesa.
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It has been a great spring for past winners of the Mackenzie Tour?s GolfBC Championship. It started back in late March when Dan McCart hy, winner of the inaugural GolfBC Championship at Gallagher?s Canyon in 2016, won the Web.com Tour?s Savannah Golf Championship in Georgia. Robby Shelt on, the 2017 winner in Kelowna, followed suit recently as the Alabama native won the Web.com Tour?s Nashville Open in a playoff. He and McCarthy are now virtual locks to advance to the PGA TOUR next season. Another former Mackenzie Tour winner had a big day on Sunday, May 5th. Joel Dahmen, the University of Washington product who won the Mackenzie Tour?s inaugural PC Financial Open at Point Grey in 2014, finished solo second at the PGA TOUR?s Wells Fargo Championship. PG 26 | MAY 2019
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With Spring/Summer weather now solidly upon us, golf is very much on the minds of British Columbians. Being on a golf course is a great place to experience nature, camaraderie and healthy exercise and for many it's also a way to get their 'compete' on. PG 30 | MAY 2019
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With HisFather, A surgeon, By His Side AsHis Caddy, Burnaby's Michael Belle Is Looking To Make The Cut In His Mackenzie Tour Debut At Point Grey GC Next Week
With His Surgeon Father Assisting, Burnaby'sBelle Looks To Make The Cut In His Mackenzie Tour Debut Sure, Mike Belle is excited about making his debut on the PGA Tour Canada-Mackenzie Tour circuit at the season-opening Canada Life Open at Point Grey Golf & Country Club. Almost as excited as his dad. PG 32 | MAY 2019
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who introduced him to the game 20 years ago at Vancouver Golf Club, to caddie for him. The two of them, often accompanied by Belle?s mom, Kim, have played more rounds than they can count over the past couple of decades. ?He has kind of been with me through the whole process,?the 26-year-old Belle says of his dad. ?I have played with him since I was a kid, so he knows my game as well as anybody.? To say Dr. Ralph Belle was touched by his son?s offer would be an understatement. The elder Belle, an orthopedic surgeon, was also a little surprised. "It is a great honour and I feel quite privileged,? Ralph Belle says. ?It?s great that he thought of me. I had no expectations. I thought maybe he?d try and select one of the good players at Point Grey initially to caddie for him.? That golf journey that started on the fairways of Vancouver Golf Club continued up the hill at Simon Fraser University, PG 33 | M AY 2019
where Belle was a member of the golf team under late coach John Buchanan. Belle had a solid collegiate and amateur golf career. He was runner-up at the 2014 B.C. Amateur Championship at Seymour Golf & Country Club in North Vancouver, where Belle lost in a five-hole playoff to Jordan Lu. He turned pro not long after that and has had to weather some potholes along the way. Belle failed in his first two attempts at the Mackenzie Tour Q-School at Crown Isle Golf Resort in Courtenay. But he persevered and credits the support of his family with helping him navigate through some tough times. Belle has played lots on the Vancouver Golf Tour and
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Golf In Schools Tallies 66 Adoptions During Adopt A School Week
Golf Canada is proud to celebrate the 66 adoptions that occurred during Adopt a School Week thanks to the efforts of golf enthusiasts and industry partners across the country.
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Hank Haney Has Coached The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Former Coach Of Tiger Woods, Hank Haney Had A Lot Of Very Intriguing ThoughtsTo Share During The Callaway Golf Learning Summit At Morgan Creek GC IMAGE COURTESY: BRYAN OUTRAM/ BC GOLF
Hank Haney figures he knows a thing or two about golf instruction. ?I feel like I am uniquely qualified,?Haney told a clinic at Morgan Creek Golf Course in Surrey this week. ?I am really the only instructor who has taught arguably the greatest player in the history of the game in Tiger Woods and the worst player in the history PG 36 | MAY 2019
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Langley'sJames Allenby Carded A Bogey-Free 7-Under 65 To Take Medallist HonoursAt The RBC Canadian Open Regional Qualifier At Delta'sKings Links
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Langley?s James Allenby Is King Of The Links At RBC Canadian Open Regional Qualifier You want to know what keeps James Allenby going, why he hasn?t given up chasing his professional golf dream? Well, for starters, rounds like the one he shot Monday at Kings Links Golf Course in Delta. PG 37 | MAY 2019
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McCain Claims Medalist Honours At Mackenzie Tour's Courtenay Q-School; Burnaby's Belle Top Canadian Making 22 birdies and an eagle through four rounds at Crown Isle Resort, Andrew McCain claimed medalist honours by three strokes at the sixth and final Mackenzie Tour Q-School event of the 2019 season. Click to Read the Full Story
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Victoria, BC's Naomi Ko Qualifies For U.S. Women's Open Canadian Naomi Ko has punched her ticket back to the U.S. Women?s Open. Ko, a Victoria, B.C., product, bested the 56-player field to earn medalist honours with a final score of 3-under par (70-71) at the OGA Golf Course, one of 25 qualifying sites this year. The win marks the second time Ko PG 40 | MAY 2019
has earned a spot in the LPGA major? she also qualified in 2016 as an 18-year-old. The Team Canada National Amateur Squad member will take to the Country Club of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., when action gets underway from May 30 ? June 2. Click here for full scores.
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LITTLE A LEGEND Procter?s Jackie Lit t le is one of four top senior women amateur players from the Pacific Northwest who have received exemptions to compete with members of the Legends Tour in next month?s Suquamish Clearwater Legends Cup in Kingston, Wash. ?I?m really excited to play with the professionals -- something I have never done,?Little said. ?It will be very cool to play among the professionals I have idolized. Little, who has been inducted into the PNGA and British Columbia Golf Halls of Fame, PG 44 | MAY 2019
won her sixth B.C. Senior Women?s title last summer. She also has five B.C. Women?s Amateur wins, three B.C. Mid-Amateur championships and three Canadian national titles. She also won two Alberta Women?s Amateur titles, two Alberta Junior Girls championships and three Alberta Senior Women?s crowns. The Legends Tour is the official senior tour of the LPGA Tour. The Suquamish Clearwater Legends Cup goes June 7-8 at White Horse Golf Club.
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Abbotsford?s Adam Hadwin finished tied for 38th at the Wells Fargo at one-under par. Fellow Abbotsford product Nick Taylor tied for 54th at two-over par. Both players fell three spots in the FedEx Cup standings. Hadwin currently sits 50th, while Taylor is 96th. Taylor was joined by fellow PG 46 | MAY 2019
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worked on his game in the Arizona desert during the winter. He felt like he was making progress and that feeling was validated when he earned good status in his third trip to Q-School earlier this month at Crown Isle. CLICK HERE To Read Brad Ziemer'sAccount Of Mike Belle's Record-Setting Round On The Vancouver Golf Tour At Delta's KingsLinksIn 2016 Belle shot rounds of 70, 69, 69 and 70 to finish tied for sixth place. By finishing inside the top 14, Belle is guaranteed starts in the first six events of the Mackenzie Tour schedule. If he plays well, the Burnaby native should be able to play the entire schedule. ?I just felt more comfortable, this being my third time there,?Belle says of Q-School. ?I don?t know what really clicked, I just felt like I belonged there a little bit more. My game is in a better place overall. I have a new coach down in Phoenix who has helped quite a bit. The stuff we have worked on really | M AY 2019
helped me at Crown Isle and hopefully it helps me on the Mackenzie Tour.? The only real stress Belle encountered at Q-School came in the fourth round. He played the first five holes of his final round in three-over par and suddenly dropped outside the top 14. ?But I kind of regrouped and eagled No. 6 and as soon as my eagle putt went in I felt a lot more at ease. There was a lot of stress in that final round, but I am almost happy I played bad to start and I got through it. I know now I can do that in the future if I get off to a bad start or in a tough spot. I have the mental strength to get through that situation.? Belle likes the way his game is trending. ?I think tee to green, I would put my game up against anybody,?he says. ?I have worked on my putting a lot and it is getting to be a strength, but it?s still not where I want it. My biggest strength is definitely off the tee. I hit it pretty long and pretty straight, which is kind of where the game is going, I think.? CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Last Year'sChampion At Point Grey (Then The Freedom 55 Financial Open), Jordan Niebrugge, Also Had A Local Caddy, Albeit Not His Father. Nigel Colclough, A Member At Pitt MeadowsGC Carried The Bag For Niebrugge In HisFirst Professional Win - image credit Bryan Outram/BC Golf
The $200,000 Canada Life Open goes May 23-26 at Point Grey and Belle is starting to count the days. ?I know Point Grey pretty well,?he says. ?We used to have Zone 4 events there for junior golf and I played a few amateur events there. I am a little bit anxious to get started, but once I am out there I will be fine. It?s just golf.? His dad is also feeling a little anxious. While those surgeon?s | M AY 2019
hands don?t figure to be shaking when he hands a club to his son, Ralph Belle knows that he, too, will be feeling some butterflies. ?I am an orthopedic surgeon and there is really nothing that gets me nervous,?says the elder Belle. ?But I will be very nervous. I think I can hide it very easily. Whatever help he needs or wants I will give him and that?s the way it is going to be. I am going to try and not be dad, I am going to be just a caddie.? CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Belle is one of a number of players who will add a local flavour to the Canada Life Open. Sponsor exemptions have been awarded to Langley pro James Allenby, Point Grey Assistant Pro Clark MacPherson, former UBC standout Scott Secord of Calgary and Richmond amateur Chris Crisologo, who tied for 20th at Point Grey two years ago. ?That was my first time competing in a pro tournament and I really wasn?t expecting much out of the week,? Crisologo said. ?But that just kind of kickstarted everything for me and helped convince me the game was there.? The Vancouver Golf Tour also has one exemption into the Canada Life Open that we be filled after this weekend?s Players?Championship at Morgan Creek Golf Course in Surrey.
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Riley Wheeldon of Comox, who was 21st on the Mackenzie Tour money list last year, David Rose of West Vancouver and Jared du Toit of Kimberley are among other British Columbians expected to be in the field at Point Grey. CHIP SHOTS: The winner of the Canada Life Open will earn $36,000 and an exemption into next month?sRBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club. . .Ticketsare available at the gate for $15 or CLICK HERE to order online. . .Joel Dahmen, who won the Mackenzie Tour?sinaugural event at Point Grey in 2014, is playing in thisweek?sPGA Championship at Bethpage Black. . .Canada Life will award $2,500 to the Top Canadian each week on thisyear?sMackenzie Tour and a $25,000 bonusto the Top Canadian at the end of the season.
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From L-R: Sean Toulon, Roger Cleveland, David Leadbetter, Hank Haney & Moderator Jason Logan Of Score Golf
That line drew lots of laughs from clinic participants -- mostly Vancouver-area club pros -- who had gathered at Morgan Creek to hear four of Callaway Golf?s heavy hitters talk golf. Haney was joined by fellow instructor David Leadbet t er, wedge pioneer Roger Cleveland and putting guru Sean Toulon. The foursome visited Morgan Creek for what was billed as a Learning Summit in part to mark the opening of Morgan Creek?s new Performance Golf Academy. Haney doesn?t teach anymore. | M AY 2019
Woods was his last client and the two parted company nine years ago. These days, Haney lives the good life of semi-retirement. He hosts a morning show on Sirius XM PGA TOUR radio, plays some pickleball and then often heads to the golf course for a round with friends. Even though he has stopped teaching -- other than at corporate outings like the one he attended at Morgan Creek -Haney has lots of opinions. One of them is that golf instruction has become too complicated.
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Haney says that no matter what level of the player, there are really only three keys to improving a person?s golf game. ?And they are three very basic things,?Haney said. ?The first thing you have to do is eliminate penalty strokes. That is No. 1 first and foremost. No. 2, you have to eliminate what I call 'two-chips' -- or 'two pitches' or 'two sand shots' -- and then the third thing you have to do is eliminate three-putts. You don?t have to make a lot of putts, to be honest with you, but you have to eliminate three-putts. Even at the highest level these three things always hold true.? Haney used last month?s Masters tournament -- where his former star client prevailed -- as an example. ?I look back to the Masters and the big key is you have to get around there without any penalty strokes,? Haney said. ?Tiger Woods had no penalty strokes. Brooks Koepka had four penalty strokes. You have to limit your three-putts to two or less for 72 holes. Tiger had two | M AY 2019
three-putts, Brooks Koepka had four three-putts. So when Brooks Koepka looks back and sees that he lost to Tiger by one he will lament the fact that when he added up his penalty shots, his two-chips and his three putts they totalled nine and he lost the tournament by one shot.? Although Haney and Leadbetter have built their reputations off teaching big-name pros, they both worry that too much instruction is geared these days to good players. That focus, they said, must shift to helping the vast majority of weekend warriors play better. ?They talk about growing the game,? Leadbetter said. ?Well, if you want to grow the game you have to get people playing the game better. The better they play the more they enjoy it. If they are not enjoying it, they are going to give it up and do something else. ?It?s a tough sport and the problem is today people have less time to play and practise than they have in the past. Somehow we have to get the CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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message across. So much of the instruction today is geared toward the good player. We know that is important, that is how we create our profile working with the top players, but 99.9 per cent of golfers out there just want to hit the ball a little better, play more consistently. I think we have to be careful that is the message we get across.? In a question-and-answer session with clinic participants, Haney and Leadbetter acknowledged that even though high-profile clients have been their bread and butter, they are not always easy to work with. ?Tiger was the most amazing student to work with because he was the best student, he was the most talented student, he was the most challenging student, he was the most difficult student, he was the most frustrating student, he was the most fulfilling student, he was everything all in one,? Haney said. ?That is just the way you would expect it to be. I think a lot of | M AY 2019
people have a misconception of what it is like to teach touring pros . . .you just don?t walk out there and tell them what you are going to do today. That is not the way it works. You have to have some discussion, you have to do some convincing.? ?The secret actually is to get the message across so they think they told you what you told them,?Leadbetter added with a chuckle. Haney said he was warned by Woods?previous coach, But ch Harmon, about how challenging life would be as Tiger?s coach. It was and Haney wrote a best-selling book called The Big Miss which chronicles his years CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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with Woods. ?I remember when I started with Tiger and Butch said to me, ?Hank, good luck. It?s a lot harder than it looks. It?s a tough team to be on. It was a great team to be on, too, but that?s just the way it is.? Despite their parting of the ways and his book -- parts of which Tiger did not like -- Haney said he still roots for Woods and does not think he is done winning majors. Haney said some of the courses scheduled
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for upcoming majors suit Woods well. He?s won at Bethpage Black -- site of next week?s PGA Championship -- and Pebble Beach, where the U.S. Open is being held in June. ?St. Andrews is coming up, he has got TPC Harding Park, Kiawah Island, he has a lot of great golf courses that kind of fit his game,?Haney said. ?So I wouldn?t be surprised if he wins more.?
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Tanelle Bolt Putts Under The Watchful Eye Of Jayson ?Nitro? Rite, Who HasOver 35 YearsCoaching Experience Including Working With Blind & Disabled Golfers
strap herself in and be raised to a standing position. Bolt said the time she spends on the golf course greatly benefits her. ?Especially for me with paralysis, golf has a lot to do with circulation and bone density and the health of your overall body,?she said. ?The human body is not meant to sit in a chair all day, every day. This helps your blood circulation, your skin. We suffer from | M AY 2019
shearing (of the skin) and pressure ulcers, so using the para-golfer to be out on the golf course is good for your overall health. ?Golf & Health Week is huge for me to see because my dad was a superintendent, so I grew up on a course that had just started allowing women to golf in the 70s. It is very neat to come back as a disabled golfer and start to see the changes happening in CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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the game.? Since her accident, Bolt has become an advocate for disabled outdoors enthusiasts like herself. She started a company, the Rad Recreation Society, that provides an inventory of adapted outdoor recreation
equipment for low-cost rental fees. ?I never anticipated getting up in a unit like this,?said Bolt, who now lives in the Invermere area in the east Kootenays. ?This para-golfer is such a cool device because it doesn?t just allow me to golf, it allows me to weight train in a vertical position, it
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allows me to bowl if the bowling alley is accessible or shoot darts.? It also allows Bolt to look people directly in the eye. ?I am able to have an interview or a conversation with people where I am not having to look up at everyone. Sitting at belt-buckle height isn?t always the best thing. After my injury I just sought out anything I possibly could. It was four-and-a-half years ago that I hurt myself, so I didn?t give myself a large opportunity to be disappointed. I was too busy. It was like, 'if that is not going to happen, I'm moving on to the next one.' I just try and facilitate as much outdoor recreation with a disability as I can.? Bolt was joined at Langara by two other members of British Columbia Golf?s adaptive golf committee -- former national wheelchair basketball coach Joe Higgins of Delta and Canadian champion amputee golfer Johannes Grames of Vancouver. They were joined for their round on the course by Dr. Roger | M AY 2019
Hawkes, Executive Director of Britain?s Golf & Health Project, which is supported by the World Golf Foundation. It aims to study the many and varied health and well-being benefits of golf. ?I am not the world authority on (disabled golf), but it strikes me that as someone who has enjoyed golf for 20-odd years myself that perhaps we are not quite as inclusive as we should be,?Hawkes said. ?I think we have a great opportunity to bring people with disabilities into our sport.? Hawkes and others strongly believe that a recent decision to award world golf ranking points for elite-level disabled golfers will persuade others to start playing golf. ?I think it is a big deal that there are world ranking points now,?Hawkes said. ?Suddenly at the elite end we have an opportunity to show off our best players and that hopefully will inspire the vast majority of non-elite players to come forward.? Hawkes pointed to the recent Australian Open, where 12 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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disabled golfers joined the rest of the field at the event. ?They were not tagged on at the end (of the draw),?he said. ?They were on the same course, using same tees, spread out amongst them, and I am pleased that on the last day the leading player with a disability outscored a number of international PGA European Tour players. How many sports will ever be able to emulate that?? Higgins said golf courses can benefit by welcoming more disabled golfers to their facilities. ?When you look at it from a business perspective I can only tell you I know a lot of disabled golfers,?Higgins said. ?But the people I enjoy golfing with the most are my able-bodied friends, my wife, my kids, and that party multiplier is pretty huge.?
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Grames, an above-the-knee amputee who carries a seven-handicap, said courses must make disabled golfers feel welcome. ?There is an element of fear with disabled golf as well,? Grames said. ?I have showed up with shorts on and people fear that I am going to be way too slow or wreck the golf course.? Jonasson said British Columbia Golf is committed to making golf more accessible for disabled players. ?I have been here for 20 years and we had dabbled a little bit with adaptive golf and people with disabilities,?Jonasson said. ?We provided some funding to athletes to attend championships and have done some things with blind golf. But we hadn?t really looked at it as a big part of our operation. Now we are.?
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A secure resource portal, accessible via whs.com, has also been launched to provide national associations with a library of materials that they can use to help support their own education efforts. Coinciding with this release, The R&A and the USGA have launched a social media video campaign to remind golfers of the eight key features of the new Rules of Handicapping and to reveal more details. These features include: Minimum number of scores to establish a Handicap Index and maximum Handicap Index of 54.0 Basis of calculation of Handicap Index Acceptability of scores for handicap purposes Course Rating and Slope Rating Calculation of a Playing Handicap Maximum hole score for handicap purposes Adjustments for abnormal playing conditions | M AY 2019
Frequency of updating a Handicap Index Significant progress has been made in preparation for the rollout of the new system, which includes building a library of education materials, finalizing the new Rules of Handicapping, release of the technical specifications and the continuation of testing. Many national associations around the world are busy ensuring that their golf courses are rated in accordance with the Course Rating System and working to update local software platforms so that they are ready to apply the new Rules of Handicapping. While many countries will be ready to transition to the WHS early in 2020, given both the magnitude of the change for some jurisdictions and varying seasonality throughout the world, it is anticipated that some will need more time. Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of The R&A, said, ?There are many ways in which CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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it is important for golf to modernize and become more appealing for people thinking of taking up the sport and handicapping is clearly one of them. The World Handicap System is a major new initiative for the sport which will establish a clearer and more consistent handicapping process for golfers throughout the world. ?We are working closely with national associations, as we do across all our core activities, to ensure they are fully prepared for the introduction of the new system as soon as possible after it becomes available for implementation.?
World Handicap System, this monumental collaborative effort will benefit everyone in golf.? Laurence Applebaum, CEO of Golf Canada said, ?We are pleased to align with golf?s global governing bodies in the development and 2020 implementation of the new World Handicap System. ?Over the coming months, we will work with national and provincial partners as well as golf clubs across Canada to educate golfers and ensure a smooth transition to this new system.?
Since its conception, the ?The World Handicap System is development of the WHS has the latest example of our work focused on three key goals: to to make the game more encourage as many golfers as welcoming,?said Mike Davis, possible to obtain and maintain CEO of the USGA. ?Golfers a Handicap Index; to enable throughout the world will be golfers of differing abilities, able to play equitably, measure genders and nationalities to their success and more fully transport their Handicap Index enjoy and engage with the game. to any course around the world After working with national and compete on a fair basis; and associations across the world on to indicate with sufficient Course Rating throughout the accuracy the score a golfer is past 30 years and now the reasonably capable of achieving | M AY 2019
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on any course around the world, playing under normal conditions. The system has been devised following extensive consultation with the six existing handicapping authorities: Golf Australia, the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) in Great Britain and Ireland, the European Golf Association (EGA), the South African Golf Association (SAGA), the Argentine Golf Association (AAG) and the USGA. The Japan Golf Association and Golf Canada have also been closely involved in developing the new system. Widespread support for the WHS was expressed in an international survey of 52,000 golfers with 76% in favour of the new system and a further 22% saying they were willing to consider its benefits. Focus groups were also held in different regions of the world to elicit detailed feedback on the features of the new system, which have contributed to the | M AY 2019
finalized Rules of Handicapping. The World Handicap System will unite the golf world under one single set of handicapping rules and will be governed by the USGA and The R&A, with support from the existing six handicap authorities. As an extension of their support of the Rules of Golf worldwide, Rolex has made a commitment to support The R&A?s and the USGA?s efforts to implement the World Handicap System.
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In total, the figure translates to an additional 7,920 students being introduced to the sport through the Fut ure Links, driven by Acura Golf in Schools program. The coast-to-coast campaign was elevated by support from Canadian industry partners? the Provincial Associations, PGA of Canada, the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA), Canadian Society of Club Managers and Canadian Golf Superintendents Association. A matching program for the first 30 adoptions was made possible by the Canadian Seniors Golf Association, who continue to be a leader in supporting Adopt a School Week. In the campaign?s four years of running, the CSGA has helped to adopt over 100 schools in Canadian communities from coast-to-coast.
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Since the program?s inception in 2009, adoptions have accounted for close to 50% of over 3,800 registered schools delivering the curriculum. For Jeff Thompson, Golf Canada?s chief sport officer, that number presents a great opportunity to build community relationships. ?The vision is to help establish a connection between golf facilities and schools in respective communities across Canada through the Golf in Schools program,?said Thompson. ?Nurturing these relationships will enhance the delivery of the program and build a connection that will last for many years to come.? For Golf in Schools programs in BC contact Tyler McKay at British Columbia Golf tyler@britishcolumbiagolf.org CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GOLF IN SCHOOLS.
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The JamesAllenby's'Flawless' Scorecard With His7-Under 65 Recorded At KingsLinksIn The RBC Canadian Open Regional Qualifier
34-year-old from Langley fired a seven-under 65 to top the 43-man field at a regional qualifier for next month?s RBC Canadian Open. Rounds like that one stoke the inner belief that fuels Allenby?s desire to make it as a professional golfer, despite the many setbacks he has endured over the last decade. ?Part of it is I kind of burned my bridges in college,?Allenby said after his round Monday. ?I didn?t graduate or anything so I don?t really have anything to fall back on. Another reason is this is all I know, this is all I want to do, even if it sucks that I am in the same spot year after year trying to get ahead, trying to get | M AY 2019
sponsors or trying to get starts in big events. Eventually, it is going to happen. I know my game, I know my level. ?That (inner belief) is absolutely why I keep going. If I didn?t have any kind of belief in myself I?d be done. I don?t know what I?d be doing, shovelling something.? Allenby played a flawless round Monday. His round was bogey-free and all but one of his seven birdies came from inside 15 feet. ?It was one of those rounds where if you were to just sit down and map it out, it was pretty much it. Just birdie all the easy holes and par the tough ones. It was very stress-free.? Ten players played their way Monday into the final qualifier
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for the RBC Canadian Open on June 3 at Heron Point Golf Links in Alberton, Ont. It took a score of even-par or better to finish among the top six and ties who moved on to the final qualifier. Allenby is looking for a place to play. He has had past status on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada circuit and the PGA Latino America Tour but hasn?t played well enough to keep his card. He has twice made it to the second stage of the European Tour qualifying school and this past fall failed to get through the first stage of the Web.com Tour Q-School. He also came up short at the Asian Tour Q-School in December.
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Chilliwack'sMitchell Thiessen Was The Low Amateur And Also One Of The Top 6 And Ties(T4) Qualifying For A Trip To Heron Point And A Shot At Playing In The 2019 RBC Canadian Open well lately, part of it is just the timing in my golf swing,?he said. ?It has been a little bit off, but Allenby does have an exemption today obviously it was there, it into the Mackenzie Tour?s was back.? season-opening event, the Allenby was one of five British Canada Life Open at Point Grey Columbians to advance to the Golf & Country Club in final qualifier for the RBC Vancouver, later this month. Canadian Open. Tsawwassen?s Allenby, who has played well the Austin Hughes finished alone in past couple of years on the second place after shooting a Vancouver Golf Tour, hopes to four-under 68. Amateur take another run at qualifying Mitchell Thiessen of Chilliwack for the Asian Tour later this year. tied for fourth with a one-under ?I hadn?t really been playing too | M AY 2019
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71, while fellow amateur Thierry Martine of Victoria, Noah Lee of Langley and Mewail Kidane of Vancouver were part of a five-way tie for sixth spot at even-par. Hughes got his round started in style when he eagled the par 4 first hole by holing a wedge from 100 yards. ?It was great,? Hughes, who plays out of Beach Grove Golf Club, said of his round. ?I have been battling some back issues the last two and half weeks. I haven?t been playing too much, just kind of taking the pressure off, but I was in Arizona for six months and working on my game pretty hard. It is improving, it is going in the right direction so I am happy about that. Good things to come, hopefully. ?Kings Links is very tough, it?s firm and you have to be very precise where you land your scoring clubs. You can?t throw any wedges at the pins. It is a very different game but it is very rewarding to shoot four-under. I will take it.? Like Allenby, the 24-year-old | M AY 2019
Hughes is looking for a place to play. His back forced him to withdraw prior to last week?s Mackenzie Tour Q-School at Crown Isle Golf Resort in Courtenay and he plans to try and Monday qualify his way into the first few events of the Mackenzie Tour. The 20-year-old Thiessen came to Kings Links on Monday
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looking to keep his game sharp for another big event he has coming up later this month. Thiessen plays for Rocky Mountain College in Billings., Mont., and his team has qualified for the NAIA National Championship tourney, which goes May 21-24 in Mesa, Ariz. ?I?m just trying to get some rounds in so I am ready for that,? Thiessen said. ?This was a no-brainer as a one-dayer.? Raoul Menard of Ange-Gardien, Que, finished alone in third with a three-under 69. Menard is looking forward to another crack at the final qualifier at Heron
Point. Last year, also at Heron Point, he missed a playoff for the last spot by just one shot. Other players who advanced Monday at Kings Links included Calgary?s Wes Heffernan, who tied for fourth after shooting 71, and Nova Scotia residents Bradford Curren and Eric Banks, who both shot even-par 72s and tied for sixth. The Canadian Open goes June 6-9 at Hamilton Golf & Country Club. The 10 players who advanced in qualifying on Monday at Kings Links will undoubtedly be dreaming about being a part of the big show.
Click HERE for complete scoring from the RBC Canadian Open Regional Qualifier at Kings Links in Delta.
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This secured her a spot in the 2019 U.S Women?s Open Golf Tournament to be held at the Country Club of Charleston in South Carolina May 30-June 2. Born and raised in Kelowna and a graduate of Kelowna Secondary School, Osland was recruited on a full scholarship to play division one golf at San Jose State. She had an impressive four-year career in California and was named to the First Team All Mountain West for the 2014-15 season. Osland, who also finished 8th at in the 2014 BC Women's Amateur, graduated from San Jose State University in December 2015 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Recreation Management where she was the Captain of the Women?s Division 1 Golf Team and won the Juli Inkster Invitational and the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate in her final year. She earned her first professional win, which included an incredible round of 11-under-par, in October 2018 and is currently playing on the LPGA's Symetra Tour with hopes of securing full LPGA status by the end of the season. Osland also played in the 2018 CP Canadian Women?s Open, which was won by fellow Canadian Brooke Henderson.
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