Ziemer's B.C. Golf Notes: Point Roberts re-opens on April 18
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.
“We have had lots of B.C. golfers reach out to us recently, which is tremendous,” she says.
“We hope to do a bit of a media blitz to get the word out. Word of mouth has been huge. We are getting so many likes and comments on Instagram and Facebook and also on our website. We are getting lots of phone calls and emails. We are kind of excited to get started on the 18th.”
Of course, there are concerns given the current political climate. Point Roberts businesses have been hurt by the severe decline in the number of Canadians crossing the border. Will golfers be different? Evans, a dual citizen, sure hopes so. If the course is to survive, it absolutely needs British Columbia players. Lots of them.
“We’ll find out as time goes on,” Evans says. “I was talking to the local sheriff and we were chit-chatting about tariffs and all the rest of it and talking about the golf course and he said there’s not tariffs on golf.
"So that became a hashtag that we are using on our Instagram account. It has a good buzz. With Point Roberts attached to Canada and not the U.S. mainland, we have so many Canadian friends who love the course and we want to welcome them again.”
Green fees are set at $60 U.S. on weekdays and $70 U.S. on weekends. A 20-per-cent discount will be applied to all green fees through May 15. For more information visit pointrobertsgc.com.
BIRDIE BARRAGE: Abbotsford’s Nick Taylor finished his Masters in style with birdies on three of his last four holes. One of those birdies came on the 18th hole, where he rolled in a 20-foot putt to complete a one-over par 73. He finished the week tied for 40th at three-over par. Taylor earned $90,300. Taylor will be joined by fellow Abbotsford product Adam Hadwin at this week’s RBC Heritage tourney, a Signature event at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, S.C.
Taylor is currently 17th on the FedEx Cup points list, while Hadwin is 106th. Surrey’s Adam Svensson will tee it up at this week’s opposite field event, the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic. Svensson is currently 155th on the points list. Only the top 100 players retain their full playing privileges at season’s end.
BEST OF BURNABY: Burnaby Mountain Golf Course is playing host to an event that will crown the ‘Best putter in Burnaby.’ And you don’t have to be from Burnaby to enter. The event goes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 and will be held on Burnaby Mountain’s new 7,000-square-foot synthetic putting green.
It costs $20 to enter and the rules stipulate that you must use a Callaway, Ping, Taylor-Made or Titleist putter to compete in the event. Prizes include a putter of the winner’s choosing (must be a putter from Burnaby Mountain's stock), a pair of Maui Jim sunglasses and a range card loaded with $210 worth of range balls. Door prizes will also be awarded throughout the event.
To register visit golfburnaby.ca and click on the 'What’s New' tab.
UBC SWEEP: The UBC men’s and women’s golf teams swept the Southern Oregon University Spring Classic. The women won going away, while the men had to battle from behind to secure their win. The UBC women won by 49 shots and were led by senior Grace Bell, who registered her second individual victory of the season and her fifth top-two finish. The top five players on the leaderboard were all T-Birds.
First-year player Sienna Harder was runner-up, finishing the 36-hole event one shot behind Bell at one-under par. The UBC men were down five shots to Lewis-Clark State College of Lewiston, Idaho after two rounds of their 54-hole competition, but rallied to force a playoff. That playoff involved all five players on the two teams re-playing the 18th hole. UBC finished the one-hole playoff at two-under par, four shots better than Lewis-Clark.
CLOSE THIRD: The Simon Fraser University women’s team came within one stroke of winning the Sonoma State Spring Invitational in California. The Red Leafs had to settle for third place after finishing just one shot behind CSU-Los Angeles and Dominica. Campbell River’s Dan Smith paced SFU with a fourth-place finish in the individual competition.
FAST START: Vancouver’s Vanessa Zhang, a freshman at Harvard University, registered her second straight top 10 at last week’s Terrapin Invitational in College Park, Md. Zhang fired rounds of 73, 69 and 73 and her total of one-under par earned her a second-place finish. Zhang finished just one shot behind individual winner Alisa Khokhlova of Delaware. Zhang had tied for eighth in her previous event, the Clemson Invitational in Sunset, S.D.
OSLAND THIRD: Kelowna’s Megan Osland tied for third at Lake Charles Championship in Louisiana on the Annika Women’s All Pro Tour. Osland’s 72-hole total of eight-under par left her four shots behind winner Michaela Korard of Huntsville, Ala. Former B.C. Junior Girls champion Mary Parsons of Delta tied for 37th at six-over par.
BACK TO BACK: Victoria’s Jeevan Sihota and Jake Lane of Charlie Lake combined to shoot an 11-under 61 and win the Vancouver Golf Tour’s Masters event at Chilliwack Golf Club by one shot over the team of Jace Minni of Delta and John Morrow of Tsawwassen. It was the second straight win of the season for Sihota on the VGT.
MATCH-PLAY MAGIC: Richmond’s Alex Zhang won all three of his matches at an international friendly match play competition in Florida between top juniors from Canada and the United States. Zhang won his singles match 4&3 on the final day of competition after he and Ontario’s Shauna Liu combined to win their foursomes and four-ball matches the previous day. White Rock’s Clara Ding and Austin Krahn were the other British Columbians who competed in the matches, which the United States won by a score of 16-8.