SFU Golf Presents The John Buchanan Classic
In support of the SFU Men's and Women's Golf Team we invite you to The John Buchanan Classic presented by OpenRoad Audi Boundary at The Vancouver Golf Club on Monday, April 10.
The John Buchanan Classic is the annual tournament held in loving memory of SFU's Legendary Coach John Buchanan. John Buchanan was part of the fabric of Simon Fraser University Athletics & Recreation where for 50 years, he energized our community and exemplified our institutional ambition to be better tomorrow than we are today. Sadly, we said goodbye to Coach Buchanan in January 2017.
The John Buchanan Classic serves as the major fundraising event for SFU Golf. All proceeds from the annual event go towards the John Buchanan Golf Endowment, giving us an opportunity to remember Coach Buchanan and honour his legacy.
Last year we raised over $60,000 through thanks to the generous contributions from SFU Golf supporters and this fall we will award our first scholarship from the Endowment to an incoming student-athlete golfer.
Coach Buchanan always believed that the strength of a program was in its student-athletes. As Canada's only NCAA School, SFU continues to attract the best and brightest student-athletes from across Canada.
Since qualifying for NCAA Division II post-season tournament play in 2013, both our Men's and Women's teams have achieved success on the golf course and in the classroom. In additional to multiple individual wins and team titles, both the Men's and Women's Teams have won our GNAC Conference Championship twice. With the Men capturing the titles in 2014 and 2015 and the Women having won the last two years in 2016 and 2017.
In the classroom we continue to xx the high standards of Simon Fraser University. Both teams have achieved many individual awards with recognition in President's Honour Roll, Dean's Honour Roll, and GNAC All-Academic student-athletes. Even more impressive are the fall semester results where both the Men's and Women's team achieved their highest GPAs since moving to the NCAA with 3.2 GPA and 3.4 GPA respectively.
For the SFU Golf program to continue to grow and achieve new levels of success we look to the generosity of the SFU Golf family of supporters like you. You will help us to attract the best and brightest student-athlete golfers from across Canada. We hope that you will help support the John Buchanan Classic Golf Tournament through Tournament Registration or a donation to the John Buchanan Golf Endowment.
Athletics.sfu.ca/JBEndowment
Athletics.sfu.ca/JBClassic
Kind Regards,
Matthew Steinbach
Head Coach, Men's and Women's Golf
Simon Fraser University
golf@sfu.ca
