TOP STORIES 14 Victoria?sWilliam Bishop Rides Hot Putter To B.C. Juvenile Boys Title
16. Golf Canada Partners With First Tee To Establish First Tee ? Canada
18. Ten To watch At B.C. Women?s Amateur, Mid-Am & Senior Championships
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Golf Canada Launches COVID-19 Golf Relief Fund
21. UBC, UVic, UFV And UBC-Okanagan Planning A Made-in-B.C. Fall Golf Series
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Dan Swanson Successfully DefendsHis B.C. Mid-Amateur And Mid-Master Titles
Tristan Mandur CompletesThe B.C. Double By Winning 118th B.C. Amateur Championship
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Canada Life Series An Opportunity To Boost Canadian Content On MackenzieTour
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Golf Canada Foundation SweepstakesAre Now Live - Win Great VIP Golf Prizes
2020 CP Women?sLeadership Summit To Be Held Virtually
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SignatureHoles At Whistler?s Golf Courses
Golf Canada And PGA Of Canada AnnounceWomen In CoachingProgram
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Video: Two-Year Old Canadian Wins Best PeeWee Golf Swing In The World
B.C. Junior Boys Title A Big Deal For Victoria?sWilliam Bishop
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Liu's Brilliant Bogey Leads To B.C. Bantam Girls Championship
Golf Canada Tees Up New All-In-OneGolf App With InnovativeEnhancements
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Bennett Closes With 64 To Win B.C. Bantam Boys Championship
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE In this month's edition of The Scorecard,we are pleased to be able to recognize several championsfor 2020 in British Columbia Golf competitionsin a year when it looked very much like that was not going to be a possibility. BC Golf 's Brad Ziemer was on hand to provide physical distance coverage of the BC Men's Amateur (page 12), Mid-Am and Mid-Master, along with the Boys & Girls Junior, Juvenile and Bantam & Novice Championships.You'll find his reports on those events throughout this issue. As you read this, the BC Women's Amateur, Mid-Am and Senior Championshipsare getting under way at Campbell River Golf & Country Club. Following that, the Men's Seniors will be PG 8 | AUG 2020
contested at Sunshine Coast G&CC in mid-September.The fact that these championships have been able to take place during the Covid-19 pandemic is a testament to the organizers, volunteers,competitorsand particularly the host golf clubs who have worked so hard to put in place and adhere to strict protocols allowing these events to happen. Please also read the information on the Golf Canada Covid-19 Golf Relief Fund (page 18), intended to support golf clubs in helping their employees and golfers stay safe while also thanking front-line workers through encouragement of additional play and welcoming juniors to further experience the game. Enjoy your golf and please stay safe.
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Tristan Mandur hashad the goal since winning the B.C. Junior Boystitle back in 2016. The 21-year-old from Duncan wanted the ?B.C. double,?meaning he waslooking to add a B.C. Amateur Championship title to hiscollection. Mission accomplished. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 13 | AUG 2020
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Victoria?s William Bishop Rides Hot Putter To B.C. Juvenile Boys Title William Bishop rolled in six birdie putts, made a couple of great par savesand won going away at the B.C. Juvenile BoysChampionship at Cowichan Golf & Country Club. The 16-year-old from Victoria hashad quite the summer. Thiswin followed histriumph at the B.C. Junior BoysChampionship in late July at Okanagan Golf Club?sBear Course in Kelowna. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 14 | AUG 2020
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Golf Canada Partners With First Tee To Establish First Tee ? Canada Golf Canada and First Tee announced on August 10th a new partnership to launch First Tee ? Canada. The partnership will bring First Tee?s youth development emphasisto strengthen Golf Canada?sjunior golf activities. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 16 | AUG 2020
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Golf Canada Launches COVID-19 Golf Relief Fund Golf Canada and the Golf Canada Foundation have joined together to launch the COVID-19 GOLF RELIEF FUND, to support golf coursesin helping employeesand golfersstay safe while also thanking front-line workersthrough encouraging additional play and welcoming juniorsto further experience the game. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 18 | AUG 2020
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UBC, UVic, UFV And UBC-Okanagan Planning A Made-in-B.C. Fall Golf Series Four B.C. universitiesare planning a seriesof tournamentsthroughout the province thisfall as a way of salvaging some semblance of a collegiate golf season. University of British Columbia coach ChrisMacdonald came up with the idea when his team?sspring season ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 21 | AUG 2020
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The Golf Canada Foundation sweepstakesare now live nationwide and will run until August 27th at 9pm EST. You can win a number of incredible VIP golf experiencesincluding the 2021 RBC Canadian Open, CP Women'sOpen and the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 22 | AUG 2020
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Golf Canada And PGA Of Canada Announce Women In Coaching Program Thisyear hasbeen a unique one ? to say the least ? but a big positive that?scome from the lengthy break from event-planning hasseen Golf Canada accelerate meaningful initiativesthat will benefit the future of the sport. The Golf Canada Women in Coaching Program isone of those initiatives. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 24 | AUG 2020
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Ten To watch At B.C. Women?s Amateur, Mid-Am & Senior Championships The B.C. Women?sAmateur beginsthisweek at Campbell River G&CC. Thisyear?sevent is54 holes with no cut.The Women?sMid-Amateur and Senior Women?schampionshipsare also being contested at Campbell River. Brad Ziemer looks at 10 players who figure to contend in their respective categories. Here they are in no particular order: READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 25 | AUG 2020
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B.C. Junior Boys Title A Big Deal For Victoria?s William Bishop William Bishop summed up hiswin at the B.C. Junior BoysChampionship thisway: ?Thisis big,?he said. ?Thisisreally big.?The 16-year-old from Victoria, shot an even-par round of 72 to win the championship at the Okanagan Golf Club?sBear Course. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 26 | AUG 2020
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Canada?slargest golf community isabout to become more connected with the launch of the new Golf Canada app.The user-friendly app launched August 5 isnow available to all golfersnationwide. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 28 | AUG 2020
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Dan Swanson Successfully Defends His B.C. Mid-Amateur And Mid-Master Titles Dan Swanson got what he came for when he successfully defended hisB.C. Mid-Amateur Championship at Okanagan Golf Club?sBear Course. He also came tantalizingly close to adding what would have been a very big bonus. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 29 | AUG 2020
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Canada Life Series An Opportunity To Boost Canadian Content On Mackenzie Tour Canadian content. The PGA TOUR currently haslots of it. The Mackenzie Tour could use more of it. The four-event Canada Life Series, which began Aug. 10th at Bear Mountain near Victoria, isdesigned in part to give Canadiansaccessto the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada circuit. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 30 | AUG 2020
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Angela Arora Wins B.C. Juvenile & Junior Girls Championships To Complete Her ?Triple Crown? After a bogey on the par 4 17th hole, Surrey?s Angela Arora walked to the 18th tee trailing Luna Lu of Burnaby by two shots. She knew she needed a birdie and some help. She got both on the 18th hole to win the B.C. Juvenile and Junior Girls Championshipsat Cowichan Golf & Country Club. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 32 | AUG 2020
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2020 CP Women?s Leadership Summit To Be Held Virtually Golf Canada in partnership with Canadian Pacific (CP) hasannounced the third annual CP Women?s Leadership Summit will take place virtually on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, with complimentary access. The intent of the Summit isto bring together like-minded female businessleadersfor an opportunity to network, aswell as inspire empowerment and philanthropy among women. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 34 | AUG 2020
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Signature Holes At Whistler?s Golf Courses Although no hole isan island, sometimesone stands out. Maybe because of itsjaw-dropping scenery, the need for a strategy before you swing and something memorable about it that stayswith you well after you?ve left the green. In Whistler, the task of picking a signature hole must have been quite hard for the golf coursesgiven the dramatic mountain scenery, pristine glacier-fed lakesand the odd bear wandering majestically acrosstheir lawns. That?swhy we asked them to tell usabout their signature holesand personal favourites. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 36 | AUG 2020
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Video: Two-Year Old Canadian Wins Best PeeWee Golf Swing In The World Jack Cantin of Sudbury, Ont., at 25 monthsof age, finished first in the under-3 category in the Little LinkstersBest Peewee Swing Contest recently. Participantssend in a video and are judged in the Florida-based contest by such golf luminariesasJack Nicklaus, Jordan Spieth and Annika Sorenstam. Watch asSudbury.com met up with Jack and his parentsat Idylwylde Golf & Country Club. PG 38 | AUG 2020
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The well muscled DeChambeau says he wants to live past 130+ in an interview with GQ magazine. "... my goal is to live to 130 or 140. I really think that's possible now with today's technology. I think somebody?s going to do it in the next 30 or 40 years." READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 40 | AUG 2020
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Saanichton?s Daniel Bennett Closes With 64 To Win B.C. Bantam Boys Championship When hiseagle landed on the second hole of Wednesday?sfinal round, Daniel Bennett figured he might be in for a good day. Make that a great day. The 14-year-old from Saanichton scorched Mount Brenton Golf Club with a seven-under 64 to win the B.C. Bantam BoysChampionship by six shots. READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 42 | AUG 2020
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Greatness Giving Back Alison Murdoch's accomplishmentsasa world-class amateur competitor are literally too many to list in this space. A BC Golf Hall of Fame member who has won titlesprovincially, nationally and internationally, Alison embodiesso much of what isgood in golf. Not the least of which isgiving back to the game asshe did here volunteering at the BC Juvenile/Junior Championshipsat the Cowichan G&CC PG 43 | AUG 2020