By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(May 29, 2025) - Wyatt Brook always knew that defending his B.C. Mid-Amateur title was not going to be easy and a recent look at the field for this year’s championship only served to reinforce that belief.

‘It’s a stacked field,” Brook said of the players who will be on hand June 3-5 at Highland Pacific Golf Club in Victoria for the first event of the 2025 British Columbia Golf championship season.

“I know for a fact looking at that field that you are going to have to put it together for three days to have a chance to win that one,” Brook said in an interview.

Coquitlam, BC's A.J. Ewart 

More Ziemer's Notes: UBC, UVic men struggle at NAIA championships; Heartbreak for Kim at NCAA Championship tourney; B.C. juniors impress at North Pacific team matches

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(May 26, 2025) - The southern swing of the PGA Tour Americas circuit wrapped up in Bogota, Colombia, where Coquitlam’s A.J. Ewart capped a run of solid golf with a tie-for-third finish.

Ewart was pleased with that result but also proud of one other fact about his golf journey through South and Central America. He played in all six events, made all six cuts and did not shoot a single round over par.

“Someone told me that and I didn’t believe them so I went back and checked,” Ewart said over the phone from Bogota. “I shot even a couple of times, but every other round was under par.”

L-R: Colin Lavers (Coach), Emma Kral, Lillian Zhao, Mandy Wang, Joanna Kim, Jenny Guo, Kaylee Chung, Grace Bell (Asst. Coach)

(May 22, 2025) -  The 2025 North Pacific Junior Ladies Team Matches are getting underway in Olympia, WA this year and Canada, represented by British Columbia, will be looking to get back in the win column after finishing second last year.

We have a great team to lead us into another top-ranked event and a good chance to bring home Lucille (the trophy).

Recently British Columbia Golf held a launch at Richmond's Quilchena GC, who are celebrating their 100th Anniversary this year, announcing the formation of four regional squads from Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver, The North Shore and The Okanagan.

It was a long-awaited introduction after a lot of hard work by the Performance team at BC Golf.

Check out the video below encapsulating the energy and excitement of the day...

DELTA, BC (May 12, 2025) - British Columbia Golf is excited to announce an enhancement to the Provincial Junior (U19) and U17 Championships.

Moving forward, players will be eligible to receive AJGA (American Junior Golf Association) Performance Stars (essentially points) for top finishes that contribute to their AJGA ranking and will help with entry to more AJGA events.

This means our Junior and U17 Championships are now recognized by the AJGA in their performance based entry system. You can find more information on Performance Based Entry here.

Quilchena G&CC - image credit: Jordie Oberg/BC Golf

British Columbia Golf is pleased to share the 2025 Team BC Regional Squad rosters announced recently at Richmond's Quilchena G&CC along with their respective BC Team Coaches and bios. You can see the team's makeup and individual bios below...

RICHMOND, BC (May 1, 2025) - British Columbia Golf has a proud history of helping to produce some very talented young golfers who have performed extremely well provincially, nationally and internationally.

In keeping with this tradition, BC Golf is pleased to officially launch the Boys Regional Squad teams representing Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver, The North Shore and The Okanagan.

The four squads and their coaches were formally announced on April 28th at the Quilchena Golf & Country Club in Richmond...

Global News sports broadcaster Jay Janower was on hand at Riverway Golf Course for the announcement that the Golf Burnaby facility will be hosting two British Columbia provincial amateur golf championships over the next two years. The BC Amateur is scheduled for Riverway in July of 2026 with the BC Women's Amateur being held there in 2027.

Janower took the time to speak with BC Golf CEO Kris Jonasson and Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley about the exciting prospect ahead for Golf Burnaby as they prepare to host the province's two premier amateur golf championships at their world-class facility. 

See the Global News story HERE.

Burnaby Golf Caps Decades of Innovation & Leadership With Multi-Year Commitment To Hosting Provincial Championships

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

Peter Sorokovsky will never forget his first day on the job as superintendent of Golf Burnaby’s four-course portfolio.

Sorokovsky had been hired after spending several years as assistant superintendent at Northview Golf Club in Surrey, where he had learned some things while helping oversee a massive slit drainage project. It didn’t take him long to realize that he was going to have to put that knowledge to work in a big way in Burnaby.

“I distinctly remember my first day of work with Golf Burnaby and I still have a picture I took that day of the foreman standing in the middle of the 10th fairway at Riverway in late January of 2007 and he has his rubber boots on and he is at least ankle-deep in muddy water and the grass is six inches long,” Sorokovsky says. “And I’m like, oh, no, what did I just step into.”

Turns out he had stepped into a great opportunity. Thanks to support from management at Golf Burnaby and the City of Burnaby, Sorokovsky and his staff were allowed to do the work necessary to turn Riverway into what it was intended to be: the crown jewel of Burnaby’s golf collection and one of the top municipal courses in the country.

Additional Notes: Taylor finishes Masters with birdie barrage; UBC women win in Southern Oregon; SFU women a close 3rd in California; Megan Osland 3rd on Annika All Pro Tour

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(April 14, 2025) - There’s a new sign out front, the nines have been flipped and considerable work has been done to get it in playing shape. Now all Point Roberts Golf & Country Club needs are golfers.

The course, which has been shuttered for the better part of two years, is reopening on April 18, and general manager Tracy Evans hopes British Columbia golfers will put aside all the tariff talk and fall back in love with the course.

On April 27th, Morningstar Golf Club in Parksville will play host to some very lucky junior golfers and your son or daughter could be one of them !

British Columbia Golf is pleased to announce registration is now open for two Regional Junior Golf Camps on Vancouver Island in late April. These camps are open to BC Golf Junior members age 10 to 15, both genders.

The BC Regional Camp is designed to bring the best up and coming young golfers together to test their skills, develop their game, compete with their peers and learn about the pathway ahead. 

The first regional camp on the South Island will take place at Uplands Golf Club April 26th, 8:00am to 7:00pm 

The second regional camp on the North Island will take place at Morningstar Golf Club April 27th, 8:00am to 7:00pm 

Ledgeview GC GM Brad Clapp, Seen Here During Last Year's BC Amateur At Ledgeview - BC Golf Photo

More Ziemer's Notes: Lauren Kim heads back to Augusta National; SFU women win in Colorado; Ewart top-20s in Argentina; Jackson Jacob triumphs in VGT season-opener

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 31st, 2025) - Ledgeview Golf Club, the Abbotsford layout that helped produce the likes of PGA TOUR winners Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin and NCAA champion James Lepp, has received a Golf Canada award for its commitment to junior golf.

And that makes Ledgeview general manager Brad Clapp especially proud. So does the view from the club’s pro shop.

“As I look outside now, we have a couple of five-year-olds rolling a ball towards the hole learning what a break looks like,” Clapp, a former PGA Tour Canada winner, says in an interview.

Lauren Kim - Photo Credit: Bernard Brault/Golf Canada

In Other News/Notes: Anna Huang impresses on Ladies European Tour; Vanessa Zhang second for Harvard; Ewart, Crisologo, Rowe set for PGA Tour Americas season-opener

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 24, 2025) - It was a one-under 71, which under normal circumstances would not get Lauren Kim overly excited. She can shoot that type of round in her sleep. But this one was different. It came in difficult conditions with the wind howling in the final round of her team’s home event at the University of Texas Golf Club.

That round — one bogey, two birdies and 15 pars — turned out to be the only sub-par round of the day at the Betsy Rawls Invitational and propelled the Surrey native to her second collegiate victory. “We were getting gusts of up to 35 miles per hour, so it wasn’t easy out there,” Kim said in an interview.

Lasy year British Columbia Golf provided our members a 'free-to-enter' contest that not only offered bragging rights for the winners but some very nice prizes as well.

We had a teriffic response from our members and many commented on how much they enjoyed the ease of entering/playing and of course the opportunity to see how many friends they could outperform with their prognostication skills. Hey, we're all for 'friendly' rivalries in the name of sport and good fun. And it's fun to win once in a while too. 

For 2025 we are going to run the Majors Challenge for each of the four men's Major Championships - The Masters, The PGA Championship, The U.S. Open, The Open Championship as well as the RBC Canadian Men's Open and the CPKC Women's Canadian Open. 

Julia Alexander Carew - BC Golf File Photo

Anna Huang impresses on LET; Zalli makes first cut on HotelPlanner Tour in India; Ewart loses Asher Tour playoff

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 17, 2025) - Their team nickname is the Heat and the University of B.C.-Okanagan women’s golf team are certainly bringing just that as they get their spring season underway.

For the second straight week, a UBC-Okanagan golfer took home an individual title at a Las Vegas-area tournament. Second-year player Julia Alexander Carew won the Vegas Warrior Invitational this past weekend at Wildhorse Golf Course.

Her win followed last week’s victory by the Heat’s Emily Cornwall, who captured the RMC Intercollegiate at Lake Las Vegas played at Reflection Bay Golf Course.

Those two events were the spring-season openers for the Heat and Alexander Carew is excited that the team was able to find some early success.

Other Notes: UBC sweeps RMC Intercollegiate in Nevada; Lauren Kim close again in South Carolina; Muncie Booth, Jack McDonald honoured by Golf Canada

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 10, 2025) - When we re-open it, will they come? That’s the question owners and staff of Bald Eagle Golf Course in Point Roberts are asking themselves.

General manager Tracy Evans has confirmed the course will indeed re-open this spring. An initial target date of April 1 likely will not be met, but the hope is shortly thereafter the highly regarded layout will be back open for business.

And if the course is to remain open, it must attract British Columbians, who in the past have accounted for 90 per cent of its play. Evans knows the current political climate is not great and many Canadians are vowing not to cross the border. “It’s a concern,” says Evans, a Whatcom County realtor who doubles as GM of the course.

“Point Roberts is definitely being impacted by it already. People are just not crossing the border to come down for gas and other things. The businesses down here are feeling it already.”