Yeji Kwon advances to final stage of LPGA Tour Q-school; Amy Lee commits to University of Texas; Zalli in Spain for second stage of DP World Tour Q-school

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(October 28, 2024) - When Dylan MacDonald reflects on his time as a UBC Thunderbird, he’ll undoubtedly remember being part of NAIA and Canadian championship teams. He will also never forget one very special week in Bremerton, Wash.

Last week at Gold Mountain’s Olympic course, MacDonald played what he called the best golf of his life and won the UBC Men’s Invitational tourney with a three-round total of 17-under par.

That broke the UBC program scoring record for a 54-hole event and MacDonald’s final round of eight-under 64 matched the school’s single-round record.

“This was definitely the best golf I have ever played,” MacDonald said in an interview.

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VICTORIA, B.C. (October 28, 2024) - Victoria Golf Club in Victoria has been selected by BC Golf as the host site for the 120th B.C. Women’s Amateur & Mid-Amateur, and Mid-Master Championship from June 23rd to June 26th, 2025.

“We are excited to host the Women’s Amateur and Mid-Amateur Championship at Victoria, which is one of British Columbia’s strongest and most historic golf courses,” said Jerome Goddard, BC Golf Director of Rules & Competitions. “Our long-awaited return to Victoria will be a memorable week for the membership and for British Columbia’s top female players.”

The Victoria Golf Club, founded in 1893, is the oldest 18-hole golf course in Canada in its original location, and second oldest in North America. Victoria Golf Club was recently ranked #13 in Canada in The Score Golf’s Top 100 ranking.

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VICTORIA, B.C. (October 16, 2024) - Highland Pacific Golf in Victoria has been selected by BC Golf as the host site for the 2025 B.C. Men’s Mid-Amateur & Mid-Master Championship from June 2nd to June 5th.

“We are excited to return to Highland Pacific, which is a fantastic golf course and boasts a strong community of pass holders and public players,” said Jerome Goddard, BC Golf Director of Rules & Competitions. “We are looking forward to this event and know that Highland Pacific will be an excellent host for British Columbia’s top Mid-Amateur Men.”

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Mississauga, Ont.(October 1, 2024) – The 2024 Junior Skills Challenge National Event will take place on Saturday, October 5 at Credit Valley Golf & Country Club in Mississauga, Ont.

A total of 31 golfers from four age groups will compete in the 15th edition of the Junior Skills Challenge National Event, which brings together the top-scoring juniors from coast-to-coast.

The participating junior golfers will compete in a three-part skills challenge (putting, chipping and driving) with one overall winner per age group and gender.

HOW IT WORKS

BDO National Golf League Championship

The BDO National Golf League regular season is a net Stableford points competition that’s built seamlessly into your existing league experience—so all you need to focus on is bringing your A-game.

During the regular season, your club will designate six weeks of your traditional league nights as BDO National Golf League Majors. You will play in your league nights as you always have and the BDO National Golf League will pull your best four 9 hole net scores from the 6 major weeks.

Shooting 59: Take three minutes to see our top 59 images from the 2024 edition of the Indigenous Challenge Match between teams from BC and Ontario...

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

British Columbia retained bragging rights after winning its second straight Indigenous Challenge Match with Ontario at the Bear Mountain Resort in Victoria.

Team B.C. outscored Ontario 9-7 in the two-day match-play event at Bear Mountain’s Valley and Mountain courses.

Taylor, Svensson, Sloan in field for fall season opener; Stouffer on to match play at U.S. Swomen’s Mid-Amateur; UBC men, women open their seasons

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

The PGA Tour Americas season ended in the worst possible way for Stuart Macdonald. The Vancouver native’s final round turned into an absolute nightmare as he dropped from seventh to 11th on the Tour’s points list and missed earning exempt status on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour by one spot.

Macdonald shot an eight-over 43 on the front nine of his final round of the Fortinet Cup Championship at TPC Toronto. And although he played even-par golf the rest of the way, it wasn’t enough to keep him inside the top 10 on the points list.

The 2nd edition of the Indigenous Challenge Match between British Columbia and Ontario is set to take place on Monday September 9th & 10th at Bear Mountain in Victoria. 

Schedule

Monday Sep.t 9 (VALLEY COURSE)

• 11:00am – 1:00pm Fourball Matches

o Players paired based on net with net / gross with gross (captains picks)

Tuesday Sept. 10 (MOUNTAIN COURSE)

• 9:00am – 11:00am – Fourball Matches

• Awards Presentation

• Player Departure

For more information and to follow scoring click HERE

To read the wrap-up from last year's inaugural Challenge Match click HERE

Juvenile champ Tim Hachey commits to UBC; Stouffer third at Canadian Seniors: Jenny Guo second, Tyson Valk third at Canadian U15 Championships

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(September 2nd, 2024) - Vancouver’s Stuart Macdonald took a big step toward securing a promotion to the Korn Ferry Tour with a tie for 12th finish at the PGA Tour Americas’ CRMC Championship in Brainerd, Minn.

That finish moved Macdonald up two spots to seventh on the Fortinet Cup points list. Just one event remains on the PGA Tour Americas schedule — this week’s Fortinet Cup Championship at TPC Toronto —and if Macdonald can remain inside the top 10 on the points list he will have full Korn Ferry Tour status in 2025.

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

BOWEN ISLAND (August 29, 2024) - It was not a question of whether Maggie Zhang would win the B.C. Bantam Girls Championship at Bowen Island Golf Club, but rather what her margin of victory would be.

The 13-year-old Richmond resident had opened up an eight-shot lead following a first-round 73 and when she opened her final round with a birdie, it became clear that everyone else was playing for second place.

A very distant second place, as it turned out.

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

BOWEN ISLAND (August 29, 2024) — Noah Reddicopp had a big lead and then suddenly he didn’t. Not just once, but twice.

The 14-year-old Abbotsford resident earned the B.C. Bantam Boys Championship the hard way, bouncing back from a pair of triple-bogeys to win the title for players aged 14 and younger by one shot.

“I feel quite relieved that it is finally over,” Reddicopp said with a smile after his final round at Bowen Island Golf Club.

By Mike Masaro/Golf Canada

Two-time champion Terrill Samuel grabs lead in both the Senior and Super Senior divisions following a 71 on Wednesday

Georgetown, Ont. (August 27, 2024) – Team British Columbia battled to the end to claim the Inter-Provincial Team title for the second time in three years at the 2024 Canadian Women’s Senior Championship, presented by BDO on Wednesday.

The team of Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C., Jackie Little of Procter, B.C. and Sandra Turbide of Maple Ridge, B.C. won together in 2022 at Breezy Bend Country Club in Headingley, Man. and have done it again this year at The Club at North Halton in Georgetown, Ont. finishing with a combined score of 16-over to win the Katherine Helleur Trophy by two.

 BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. (August 28, 2024) — Abbotsford’s Noah Reddicopp fired an even-par 70 and has a four-shot lead after the first round of the B.C. Bantam Boys Championship at Bowen Island Golf Club.

Reddicopp’s round included five birdies and put him in strong position to claim the title in the 36-hole competition for players aged 14 and under.

Brooks Lancaster captures Canadian Mid-Master Championship; Stouffer goes for Canadian Senior Women’s hat trick; Macdonald hanging on to top-10 spot on PGA Tour Americas points list

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

It was a five-foot putt, the kind Delta’s Jace Minni has spent countless hours practising on the putting green while imagining he needed to sink each one for a big win.

This time it was for real and Minni rolled it in to win the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open. “It was probably half a ball outside right,” Minni said of his winning birdie putt on Fraserview Golf Course’s 18th green.

“I have practised my putting so much this past year. I’d be on the putting green going, ‘this is a putt to win, this is a putt to do it,’ and now it finally came to fruition.”

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

SECHELT, B.C. (August 22, 2024) - Other than the circumstances, it was not a particularly difficult approach shot that Tim Hachey faced on the final hole of the B.C. Juvenile Boys Championship.

It was 91 yards, so Hachey grabbed his 56-degree wedge and after a couple of deep breaths, took dead aim at the pin and let it fly. “I thought it was long, to be honest with you,” Hachey said.

Turned out it was nearly perfect.

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

SECHELT, B.C. (August 2, 2024) - It was not exactly love at first swing for Jenny Guo and the game of golf. 

When she took up golf four years ago as an eight-year-old, the West Vancouver resident much preferred swinging a racket. “Her favourite sport was tennis, not golf,” her mom, Yu Na, said as she watched her daughter blow away the field at the B.C. Juvenile Girls Championship at Blue Ocean Golf Club in Sechelt.

Golf and the now 12-year-old have clearly come to love one another. Guo put in a most impressive display over the three-round competition, which she won by 11 shots with a score of eight-under par. Not bad for a kid about to start Grade 7.

Tim Hachey Of Osoyoos Holds One-Shot Lead In Juvenile Boys Championship

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

SECHELT, B.C. (August 21, 2024) - She is still only 12 years old, but West Vancouver’s Jenny Guo is playing like a seasoned veteran.

Guo fired a bogey-free, six-under 66 in Wednesday’s second round and has a seven-shot lead heading into the final round of the B.C. Juvenile Girls Championship at Blue Ocean Golf Club.

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

SECHELT, B.C. (August 20, 2024) - Tim Hachey of Osoyoos and Noah Reddicopp of Abbotsford both fired four-under 68s and share the lead after the first round of the B.C. Juvenile Boys Championship at Blue Ocean Golf Club in Sechelt.

The 14-year-old Reddicopp had seven birdies in his round, while Hachey, 16, had five of his own. They hold a one-shot lead over YuDa Nam of Coquitlam and Luke Bernakevitch of Victoria. Three players — Troy Gadalla of Vancouver, DJ Crowe of Armstrong and Jeffrey Jung of Surrey— are tied for fifth at two-under par. The 54-hole Juvenile Championship is for players aged 16 and under.

Crisologo birdies last three holes to tie for fifth; Taylor knocked out of PGA TOUR playoffs, while Hadwin moves on; 18th edition Vancouver Open set for City of Vancouver courses

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(August 19, 2024) - In one week, A.J. Ewart has gone from relying on sponsor’s exemptions to get into PGA Tour Americas events to now being tantalizingly close to earning Korn Ferry Tour status.

The 25-year-old Coquitlam native changed his professional golfing life in a big way with an impressive wire-to-wire win at the Elk Ridge Saskatchewan Open. That victory moved Ewart up to 14th spot on the PGA Tour Americas’ Fortinet Cup points list.

Three events remain and the top 10 on the points list at season’s end earn Korn Ferry Tour status for 2025.