• The ModGolf Podcast: Using Customer Feedback To Deliver Exceptional Value

    In this episode of The ModGolf Podcast show creator and host, Colin Weston, talks with Nick Longley, co-founder at Inrange Golf.

    Inrange is a company that,  "...uses technology, combined with the more informal environment of the range to open up the game of golf. To make practice fun again. To bring in a whole new generation of players. To redefine what 'playing golf' actually looks like."

  • Early Eagle Propels Mexico’s Luis Carrera To Canadian Men’s Amateur Win At Point Grey

    Rodrigo Pena (L) And Canadian Amateur Champion Luis Carrera (R) After 'Their' Win - Image Credit Brad Ziemer/BC Golf

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    An early eagle and some help from an old friend propelled Mexico’s Luis Carrera to the biggest win of his amateur career. Carrera and Rodrigo Pena were junior golf friends who were members of the same course in Mexico City.

    Neither could quite believe it when they ran into one another during the second day of the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship at Point Grey Golf & Country Club. Carrera was in the field playing the event, while Pena had started working in the Point Grey pro shop about a month ago after moving to Vancouver recently with his Canadian wife.

    On Thursday, the two old friends had a day they will never forget.

  • Shelly Stouffer Makes It Look Easy In Winning U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship

     BC's Shelly Stouffer Celebrates With Son Brett After Winning The USGA Sr. Women's Title - Image Credit Steve Gibbons/USGA

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    Shelly Stouffer not only won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, she also made a little history in becoming the first British Columbian to win a United States Golf Association championship. “That’s pretty cool,” the longtime Nanoose Bay resident said over the phone from Alaska.

    Stouffer won the event in the most convincing fashion. She steamrolled her way through the field and finished it off with a 4&3 victory over Australia’s Sue Wooster in the championship match at Anchorage Golf Course.

  • Keith Ng Loving His College Golf Life In Hawaii

    Richmond Resident Keith Ng Enters Final Round Of Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship T11 - Image Credit Brad Ziemer/BC Golf

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    Keith Ng’s summer is almost over. In less than two weeks he’ll return to the rigors of playing collegiate golf in Hawaii. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.

    “It’s hard not to like being in Hawaii,” says Ng, a Richmond native who plays at the University of Hawaii at Hilo on the Big Island. “The weather is the same, 30 degrees every day.”

  • Ziemer's B.C. Golf Notes: Sloan needs repeat performance at Wyndham; Stouffer sets course record at U.S. Senior women’s Amateur; Du Toit top-20s at Ontario Open

    BC's Roger Sloan Has His Work Cut Out For Him This Week - Image Credit Marcus Oleniuk/Golf Canada

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    Merritt’s Roger Sloan saved his exempt status on the PGA TOUR with a clutch finish at last summer’s season-ending Wyndham Championship. 

    Sloan needs an even bigger finish this week as he returns to the Wyndham, where he lost in a six-man playoff and tied for second last year. That finish moved him from 131st on the points list to 92nd, got him into the playoffs and secured his exempt status for this past season.

    Sloan enters this week’s event in Greensboro, N.C., in even more desperate straits than he was a year ago.

  • Ziemer's B.C. Golf Notes: B.C. takes team title at Canadian Women’s Amateur, where Surrey’s Lauren Kim ties for third; Jennifer Gu qualifies for U.S. Women’s Amateur; Five British Columbians to tee it up at U.S. Junior Amateur at Bandon Dunes; Stinson win

    BC's Interprovincial Women's Team Champions L-R: Ha Young Chang, Victoria Liu & Leah John - Image Credit Golf Canada

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    British Columbia won the interprovincial team title and Surrey’s Lauren Kim tied for third at the 108th Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship at Westmount Golf & Country Club in Kitchener, Ont.

    The B.C. team of Leah John of Vancouver, Victoria Liu of Vancouver and Ha Young Chang of Surrey beat Quebec by five shots in the 36-hole team competition. It was British Columbia’s first interprovincial team title since 2018 and the 21st since the competition began in 1947.

  • The ModGolf Podcast: Relationships Are The New Currency

    In this episode of The ModGolf Podcast, show creator and host, Colin Weston, chats with Ty DeLavallade the founder and president of Deuce, an upscale golf and cigar accessory company that can design golf accessories for every golfer.

    "I did some research to find out what other black-owned businesses are out there. To be fair, I didn't find any...

  • How Adaptive Golf Champion Jake Olson Finds Beauty In The Game

    Photo Credit: Susanne Nilsson

    This is a fascinating story by PGATOUR.com contributor Helen Ross. Very inspirational and well worth the read. - ed

     

    By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM

    Jake Olson was eight months old when doctors told his parents he had bilateral retinoblastoma, and they would need to remove his left eye.

    For the next 12 years, Olson lived as normal a life as possible – playing golf and flag football – in between chemotherapy treatments as the cancer kept attacking his right eye.

    At first, the chemo was introduced into his bloodstream and left him “sick as a dog,” Olson recalls. “It was pretty much poisoning your body to death, and you hoped that the cancer died before your body did.”

    Please click HERE to see full story on PGATOUR.com...

  • The ModGolf Podcast: Building A Women-Led Company That Positively Disrupts The Golf Industry

    In this episode of the ModGolf Podcast, show creator and host Colin Weston speaks with Jess McAlister, Founder of Digital Golf Collective.

    Jess's philosophy is essentially, "We felt we could 'positively disrupt' while loving and respecting the sport we love so much and fighting to ensure women athletes get what they truly deserve."

  • Four Northwest Players To Compete In Inaugural U.S. Adaptive Open

    U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Bryce Hodges

    by Tom Cade, Editor; with Clayton Bloemke, USGA P.J. Boatwright Intern

    In the upcoming U.S. Adaptive Open, four players from the Pacific Northwest have been selected to play in the inaugural national championship.

    The U.S. Adaptive Open is a new national championship, conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA), that will showcase the world’s best golfers with disabilities, and be held on the No. 6 Course at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, N.C. from July 18-20.

    Click here to see complete story...

  • Our Top Three Non-Golf "Golfy" Things You Can Do On Maui

    If you are with someone who is not a golfer and want to do some related activities, here are our top three...
     
  • Players’ Love/Hate Relationship With The Old Course

    The Old Course In St. Andrews, Scotland

    by Jeff Sutherland

    The Open Championship goes this week and it’s a guarantee some players will love their experience while others, not so much…

  • Ziemer's B.C. Golf Notes: Jace Minni eyes B.C. Amateur title after winning Washington State Amateur; Course records recognized at Nk’Mip; Svensson ties for 24th at John Deere

    BC's Jace Minni Is The Washington State Amateur Champion - Image Credit Vinny Fiorino/WSGA

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    South Delta’s Jace Minni is having himself quite the summer. A couple weeks ago, Minni shot a nine-under 63 at Kings Links in Delta and followed that up with a five-under 66 at his home course, Beach Grove Golf Club in Tsawwassen, to win the Vancouver City Amateur by five shots.

    This past week, Minni followed that up by winning the Washington State Amateur Championship at Meadow Springs Country Club in Richland, Wash.

    The 20-year-old Minni, who just finished his sophomore year at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., would like nothing more than to make it a hat trick of sorts by winning the B.C. Amateur Championship, which goes July 12-15 at Christina Lake Golf Course.

  • Delta, BC's Jace Minni wins 101st Washington Men's Amateur

    Delta, BC's Jace Minni - Image Credit Vinny Fiorino/WA Golf

    By WA Golf Site Admin

    (Jun 30, 2022) Richland, Wash. – Gonzaga golfer Jace Minni of Delta, B.C. shot rounds of 73-73-68 to win the 101st Washington Men’s Amateur Championship by one shot over Max Herendeen of Bellevue.

    The championship was held June 28 -30th at Meadow Springs Country Club in Richland, Wash. The three day championship was conducted by Washington Golf (WA Golf). 

    Minni and Herendeen were paired in the same group and entered the day in a tie for third, two shots back of leader Jordan Brajcich of Everett.

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  • Team Canada Golden In Japan At Toyota Junior Golf World Cup

    L-R: Team Canada Junior Boys Eric Zhao, Cooper Humphreys, Ethan Wilson & Félix Bouchard Hoist The 2022 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup At Hakusan Village Golf Club In Tsu, Japan

    Courtesy Golf Canada

    TSU, Japan – Canada Day was still a week away but there was reason to celebrate early for Team Canada’s National Junior Squad in Japan on Friday, June 24th.

    The Canadian Junior Boys team – made up of Félix Bouchard (Otterburn Park, Que.), Ethan Wilson (St. Albert, Alta.), Cooper Humphreys (Vernon, B.C.) and Eric Zhao (North York, Ont.) – captured the 2022 Toyota Junior Golf World Cup with a two-stroke victory over Japan in the seven-team competition.

  • Another Senior Moment For Shelly Stouffer As She Wins PNGA Title

    BC's Shelly Stouffer Added Another Title To Her Resume At The PNGA Senior Women's Championship - Image Courtesy PNGA/Twitter

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    Shelly Stouffer keeps crossing senior women’s golf titles off her list. A week after winning her third straight B.C. title, the reigning Canadian Senior Women’s champion from Nanoose Bay won the PNGA Senior Women’s Championship at the Suncadia resort east of Seattle.

    Stouffer won the 54-hole event by eight shots, finishing the tournament in style by eagling the 18th hole at Suncadia’s Prospector Course.

  • Some Parental Advice From Jack Nicklaus

    All Images Courtesy Brad Ewart

    18-Time Major Winner Jack Nicklaus Presents Coquitlam, BC's A.J. Ewart With The 2022 Jack Nicklaus Award 

    By Brad Ewart

    It’s not easy being a golf parent.

    But, there are times when advice from another source can be very helpful. Especially when that source is Jack Nicklaus. In 2009 I was working on a golf construction project in Bangalore, India where Jack Nicklaus and his staff also happened to be in the early stages of designing a golf course.

    Prior to arriving in India, the 12-man Nicklaus contingent made design stops in Japan and Korea and would be in India for only 24 hours. They toured the Nandi Hills site, Nicklaus made a number of design changes and then attended a dinner party with ten of the richest men in India.

    The next morning, while the group was finishing breakfast and preparing to head off to the airport, I had the opportunity to ask Jack a few questions.

  • Ziemer's B.C. Golf Notes: UBC sweeps team, individual titles at Canadian championships; Hadwin comes up aces at Memorial; Ewart wins Jack Nicklaus Award; Eight British Columbians to tee it up at Canadian Open; Bald Eagle in Point Roberts to re-open June 1

    It Was A Clean Sweep For UBC Golf At The Canadian University/College Championships - Image Courtesy Golf Canada

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    The University of B.C. women’s team put quite the exclamation mark on its perfect season at the Canadian University/College Championship in Bromont, Que.

    The T-Bird women won the event by a whopping 98 strokes to cap a season in which they won all 12 events they played, including the NAIA Championship. The UBC women have now won the past five Canadian championships and 15 in the event’s 18-year history.

    It was a perfect week for UBC, which swept both team titles at the Canadian championships as well as the two individual crowns.

  • Surrey’s Lauren Kim Finds Her First U.S. Women’s Open Experience To Be 'Amazing’

    BC's Lauren Kim, Seen Here During The Canadian Jr. Girls Championship At Beach Grove GC In 2019, Has Her Eyes Set On A Pro Career After Her Experience At the U.S. Women's Open - Image Credit Bryan Outram/BC Golf 

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    She played a practice round with Lexi Thompson, birdied her first hole at the U.S. Women’s Open and created some memories that will last a lifetime.

    Surrey’s Lauren Kim had an absolute blast at her first U.S. Women’s Open and will return home to her Grade 11 classes at Earl Marriott Secondary more determined than ever to one day becoming a full-time touring pro.

    “It has been amazing,” the 16-year-old Kim said over the phone from Pine Needles Resort in North Carolina.

  • Celebrate 2022 Women’s Golf Day – Play The British Columbia Scramble

    To celebrate Women’s Golf Day 2022, British Columbia Golf is hosting a fun, "cloud scramble" event and we would like you to take part!

    Women’s Golf Day is officially on Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 but to accommodate schedules, people wanting to play in our scramble can play their round anytime between June 5th and June 12th.

    The details of the event can be found below: