Andrew Reid Wins The 2018 Cooke Insurance Amateur Championship |
After a tough front nine Andrew Reid got hot when it mattered most and birdied the last four holes to win The Cooke Insurance PEI Amateur Championship at Green Gables Golf Club. The Cole Harbour Nova Scotia resident posted rounds of 71 – 76 to beat 2nd place finisher John Walsh by four shots. The event was changed to 36 holes (for all male competitors) after a rain storm mixed with lightning forced the organizers to cancel the 1st round.
Andrew Reid
71
76
147
1st
John Walsh
73
78
151
2nd
Brodie Ward
76
77
153
3rd
John-Anthony Langdale
77
77
154
4th
Brodie McGregor
75
80
155
5th
Todd Mcgowan
75
81
156
T6
Curtis Hall
74
82
156
T6
Tim Yorke
75
81
156
T6
Jason Poley
79
78
157
9th
Mackenzie Clow
77
82
159
10th
Mid Amateur Division
John Anthony Langdale won the Mid Amateur Division (40 to 55 years of age) with consecutive rounds of 77.
John-Anthony Langdale
77
77
154
1st
Todd Mcgowan
75
81
156
T2
Tim Yorke
75
81
156
T2
Cameron King
84
79
163
4th
Robbie Younker
84
82
166
T5
Darren Martell
77
89
166
T5
Women’s Division
Sherry White (above) won the Women’s Division going wire to wire after her opening round of 75. The Women’s division was contested over 54 holes since they completed the first round before the poor weather started.
Top scores are below:
Sherry White
75
79
81
235
1st
Fiona Thompson
82
77
78
237
2nd
Chrissie MacLauchlan
82
87
90
259
3rd
Myrna Millar
86
86
88
260
4th
Melissa Castle
84
88
89
261
5th
Senior Division
Steve Ball (above) won a playoff on the second hole of sudden death over Mel Bernard for both the Senior and Super Senior titles.
Special events like this one are the result of community support. The PEI Golf Association would like to thank the following for their help:
Cooke Insurance for sponsoring the event
All the volunteers who helped out over the weekend
Green Gables Golf Club for their excellent (and challenging) golf course
Special thanks to the turf team for getting the course back in shape after all the rain on Friday
TaylorMade for their generous support
Kays Wholesale for assisting with the water for the competitors
Our friends at Golf Canada who helped setup the live scoring
We’re already looking forward to next years event!
The PEI Golf Association
Post scores and you could win the golf trip of a lifetime
Bear Mountain Golf Resort, Victoria BC
The Great Canadian East-West Contest is back for 2018, giving one lucky draw winner the golf trip of a lifetime to one of Canada’s most renowned golf courses. This year will include an all-expenses-paid trip for two to either Bear Mountain Golf & Country Club in B.C., or Kingswood Golf & Country Club in N.B.
The winner is drawn from all score entries posted by Golf Canada members from April 1 – Oct. 31, 2018. Each additional score posted counts for an additional entry. In addition to the golf, the winner will receive:
Four nights accommodation at hotel near chosen golf course
Round trip airfare (with either Delta or WestJet)
Five-day car rental (with National/Enterprise)
One hour lesson and one round of golf with the PGA of Canada professional
$500 spending money
In 2017, the Great Canadian East-West Contest came to an end Oct. 31, with North Vancouver’s Patrick Lloyd winning the draw amongst over 7 million scores posted by Golf Canada members.
As the winner, Lloyd was given the choice of a golf vacation for two in 2018 to the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club (also in B.C.) or The Links at Crowbush Cove in Morell, P.E.I.
Lloyd, a member of Seymour Golf & Country Club in North Vancouver, B.C., will head east to Crowbush Cove alongside wife Linda this summer.
PEI Golf Association Hires a Sport Development Coordinator
The PEI Golf Association is happy to announce that Luke Reeves-Rollins has been named Sport Development Coordinator for the 2018 summer season. This newly created role will have Luke delivering the Golf in Schools & Future Links programs across the Island as well as helping our member clubs with their sport development programs. One of the priorities for the Association is introducing the game to as many new players as possible and this new role will have him travelling all across the Island over the next four months.
Luke is a former PEI Provincial Team member who has competed both regionally and nationally representing the PEI Golf Association. He is currently in the Business Program at UPEI and is scheduled to take the PGA of Canada’s Community Golf Coach seminar later this month. Luke has a real passion for the game and demonstrates a high level of professionalism and maturity that the junior golfers of PEI can look up to. He will be travelling the Island in the Future Links Acura all season long, be sure to wave when you see him!
Excel Accounting Services Women’s Sr Tour – 2018 Registration Now Open
Ladies we’re looking forward to another great season of golf for the Senior & Super Senior group. Last year the on line registration was a great success and like last season when you register you will be entered in all 7 events. If you cannot play in some of the events or if you have special request, please email bamcilwaine@live.com ASAP so the draw can be corrected. To register you must have a PEIGA/Golf Canada Membership Card which you can purchase at your home club.
The tour registration fee is $30.00 including tax (used for prizes and closing banquet) and will be posted on www.peiga.ca in early April. You must play 4 of the 6 events to be the Senior or Super Senior Tour Champion. Prizes for this will be awarded at the closing event.
Looking forward to another great season on the Excel Accounting PEI Senior Ladies Tour!
Brenda
Lorie Kane to receive honorary degree from Acadia University
Wolfville, N.S. – More than 800 graduates from Acadia University will receive their diplomas at ceremonies taking place May 13-14, joining Acadia’s more than 30,000 alumni worldwide. In addition, Acadia will confer Honorary Degrees on individuals who have distinguished themselves in public service, education and professional sports. Among those Honorees will be Canadian LPGA Tour professional Lorie Kane. Kane, an Honoured Member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame who graduated from Acadia in 1988, will receive a Doctor of Humanities.
“Our Honorary Degree recipients exemplify in every way how each of us can use our background and experience to make significant and meaningful contributions to our communities, our country and to the world,” said Acadia President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Peter Ricketts.
Kane has triumphed on the golf course and is recognized as a leader for the sport. Since her rookie year on the LPGA Tour in 1996, she has won nearly $7 million in career earnings. In that time, she recorded four LPGA Tour victories and 99 top-ten finishes, including eight in majors.
In 1998, she won the Heather Farr Player Award, given by the LPGA Tour to the golfer who demonstrates determination, perseverance and spirit through hard work, dedication and love of the game. In 2000, she won the William and Mousie Powell Award given by the LPGA Tour to the golfer whose behavior and deeds best exemplifies the spirit, ideals and values of the LPGA. In 2006, she became a member of the Order of Canada.
Prior to turning pro in 1993, Kane represented Canada as a member of the Canadian International Team from 1989 to 1992. She was also a member of the 1991 Canadian Commonwealth Team and the 1992 Canadian World Amateur Team. As a CP Ambassador, she embodies ongoing support of women’s golf through the CP Women’s Open and helps advocate and elevate the CP Has Heart charitable campaign which raises money and awareness for heart health.
Golf fans in Saskatchewan will be able to watch Kane compete live at the 2018 CP Women’s Open, taking place August 20-26 at Wascana Country Club in Regina.
Grow junior golf and your business
If you’re looking for a poster child for Golf Canada’s “Future Links, driven by Acura” program, Stephanie Sherlock is just about the ideal candidate.
OK, so “child” isn’t appropriate any more as she will attain the ripe old age of 31 next month, but she remains my top nominee for a number of reasons.
Her first recollections of competitive golf include Future Links tournaments in her home province of Ontario and neighbouring Quebec. Those were stepping stones to a stellar junior and amateur career (she was a Team Canada member from 2006 to 2010 and twice was the country’s top-ranked female amateur) that included winning the 2007 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship and a spot on Canada’s 2008 World Amateur Team. After her all-American performance at the University of Denver, she spent three years on the LPGA Tour before deciding the pro life wasn’t for her.
So Sherlock returned to her home town of Barrie, Ont., to work at the course she grew up on. Simoro Golf Links is owned by her parents, Dave and Angela.
“I wasn’t here very long before I looked around and thought, ‘Man, there aren’t very many kids here,’” she recalls. So she picked the brains of some more established club owners and pros who had thriving junior programs to discover their secret.
While a common theme was their dedication to growing the game, there was another factor: the multi-tiered Future Links programming.
The scope and depth of the Future Links concept are impressive, starting with the very young novice golfer and extending right through high-level amateur competitions. Since launching in 1996, more than one million youngsters have participated in the various Future Links programs including Learn to Play, mobile clinics, Future Links Championships, Junior Skills Challenge, Girls Club, and an awesome grassroots initiative called Golf in Schools.
Golf in Schools is offered in more than 3000 elementary and almost 350 high schools across Canada. It provides a basic introduction to golf through the school physical education curriculum and is endorsed by Physical Health and Education Canada. Almost half of the participating schools are the result of a “school adoption,” whereby an individual, golf club or corporation donates to bring the program to the school.
(For more on the comprehensive programming offered by Future Links, click here.)
Integral to the ongoing success of Future Links is a concept called Get Linked which connects schools and green-grass facilities such as golf courses and ranges. In 2017, there were more than 190 Get Linked initiatives conducted by PGA of Canada professionals across the country,
Sherlock shares her knowledge with kids in Grades 1 through 5 at five area schools via the Golf in Schools program. As a result, she says, Simoro has seen an uptick in junior and family participation.
“We’ve got to be dedicated to getting more kids into golf, not just because we care about the future of the game itself, but we have to ensure the future of our business, too. We consider it a long-term investment and it’s awesome just how much support and materials we get from Future Links.”
Her message is echoed from coast to coast.
In Corner Brook, NL, PGA of Canada professional Wayne Allen looks after three junior programs, all within an hour’s drive of his home base at Blomidon Golf and Country Club. Like Sherlock, he introduces Golf in Schools programming to five local schools every winter and has seen a tremendous impact.
“Six years ago, the nine-hole Deer Lake course didn’t have a junior program,” says Allen, who has been involved with Golf in Schools for 10 years and whose club was named the 2014 Future Links Facility of the Year. “So we started one with six kids. The next year, there were 20. That winter, we visited the schools for the first time and the following summer, we had 60 juniors in the program.”
Ten-fold growth in a couple of years. Impressive, to say the least.
The impact extends beyond increasing the participation rate among youngsters. As a result of the exploding junior programs, Blomidon introduced two new membership categories: An intermediate category for older kids and a family category.
The latter became necessary, says Allen, “because the parents would drop off their kids for golf, then go to the patio for lunch, waiting for the kids to finish. Eventually, they’d say to themselves, ‘Why am I just sitting here when I could be playing golf?’
“The growth in membership has been huge thanks to our junior programs.”
For more on Future Links, driven by Acura, contact Adam Hunter (Manager, Grow the Game) by email (ahunter@golfcanada.ca) or through Twitter.
At just 20, Henderson on pace to become most decorated Canadian pro golfer
PHOTO BERNARD BRAULT, GOLF CANADA
-Ottawa, Ontario:
CP Women's Open
Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club
4th round
August 27, 2017
Brooke Henderson is just three wins away from becoming the most decorated Canadian professional golfer of all time – and she’s only 20 years old.
After her sixth career LPGA Tour victory Sunday at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii, the native of Smiths Falls, Ont., is on track to eclipse the Canadian-high mark of eight wins, held jointly by Sandra Post, Mike Weir, and George Knudson.
“It’s actually amazing, when I think about it, that I’m this close already,” said Henderson from Los Angeles, where she is competing this week. “I’d love to get a couple more wins this season and go from there.”
Post, who was 31 when she notched her sixth victory, said Henderson has adapted well to the lifestyle of the LPGA Tour. Henderson’s early success hasn’t shocked the Canadian Golf Hall of Famer.
“I’m really not that surprised,” Post said by phone. “She’s always had a tremendous amount of talent and she loves to compete.”
Henderson is in just her third season as a pro, but said it’s becoming increasingly difficult to win on the LPGA Tour. There have been no two-time LPGA winners yet this season, while on the PGA Tour three golfers have already won twice.
“I feel like every week coming down the stretch on Sunday there are six people within a shot of the lead,” she said. “Last week was a little different, which was nice for me, but every other week I feel like anybody can win.”
Henderson dedicated her win to the community of Humboldt, Sask., and will be playing with the Humboldt Broncos in her thoughts through the rest of the season after a deadly crash involving the hockey team’s bus led to 16 deaths and 13 injuries.
Smiths Falls is approximately the same size as Humboldt, and she said she has a unique connection to a small town that supports its hockey team.
“Hockey is so important to almost every Canadian, I would say, and definitely Smiths Falls is a hockey town,” she said. “I think it gave me that little extra motivation and extra mental strength to keep pushing and try to get that win not only for me but for them as well.”
Although Henderson has four top-10 finishes this year, she sits 13th in the world rankings.
She admitted she is a bit of a victim of how many events she plays, as standings in the world rankings are determined by dividing total points earned by the amount of events a golfer plays. But is eager to get into the LPGA’s elite group.
She said getting into the top 10 of the world rankings along with getting into the top six of the season-long Race to the CME Globe are her two goals for the near future.
Post said Henderson will likely focus her attention on trying to win majors, as she’s already proven she can compete week in and week out on the LPGA Tour. The big events will have special meaning for her moving forward.
“There will be certain tournaments, like the CP Women’s Open, that she’ll aim at a little bit more,” Post said. “The big thing is to keep her enthusiasm and keep that fire lit as long as she can, and stay healthy.”
After this week in Los Angeles, Henderson will play the next two weeks, in San Francisco and Dallas, before the LPGA Tour has a week off where she will return to Smiths Falls and participate in a charity event in Ottawa.
Henderson said she would likely take the week off prior to the U.S. Women’s Open, the next major on the LPGA Tour schedule, to prepare.
She’ll play at her home course in Florida to get used to the warmer temperature and the different grass she’ll have to play on at the host course, Shoal Creek Golf Club in Birmingham, Ala.
“Hopefully I can win again soon,” Henderson said. “With the amount of talent out here, and the amount of players that don’t get a lot of credit, it’s going to be a tough challenge. But I’m ready for it.”
New Local Rule and video review protocols introduced for broadcasted golf events in 2018
In advance of the modernization initiative to the Rules of Golf which will take effect in 2019, Golf Canada, in conjunction with the R&A and the United States Golf Association (USGA), recently announced a new Local Rule effective January 1, 2018. The new Local Rule will eliminate the additional two-stroke penalty for failing to include a penalty on the score card when the player was unaware of the penalty.
In addition to this Local Rule, new protocols have been put in place to review video when applying the Rules of Golf at broadcasted events. For Golf Canada specifically, this will only impact our two professional opens and not have any impact on our amateur competitions.
For some time, it has been a point of contention with many enthusiasts of the game that viewer call-ins should not be permitted in our sport. Advances in technology and the use of high definition television and slow motion replay have added a level of complexity that has caused undesirable outcomes to many competitions in recent years.
Golf’s governing bodies felt this needed to be closely looked at and a group of experts from the PGA Tour, LPGA, PGA European Tour, Ladies European Tour and The PGA of America, as well as the governing bodies, was tasked with discussing the role video footage when applying the Rules.
As a result of these discussions over the last year, the protocol moving forward will be to assign one or more officials to monitor the video broadcast of a competition to help identify and resolve Rules issues as they arise. Committees will also discontinue any steps to facilitate or consider viewer call-ins as part of the Rules decision process.
All of the organizations represented on the working group will introduce the Local Rule for 2018, and this score card penalty will be permanently removed when the modernized Rules of Golf take effect on January 1, 2019.
As golf’s governing body, Golf Canada will be implementing this new Local Rule as part of their Standard Local Rules and Conditions of Competition for competitions in 2018.
If a committee wishes to introduce this Local Rule to modify the score card penalty, the following wording for the exception to Rule 6-6d is modified as follows:
“Exception: if a competitor returns a score for any hole lower than actually taken due to failure to include one or more penalty strokes that, before returning his score card, he did not know he had incurred, he is not disqualified. In such circumstances, the competitor incurs the penalty prescribed by the applicable rule, but there is no additional penalty for a breach of rule 6-6d. This exception does not apply when the applicable penalty is disqualification from the competition.”
Click here for more information on the Rules of Golf, or to send a rules question to our ‘Ask an Expert’ tool.
For many of us trying to squeeze in the last few rounds of the season, or for those planning on heading south this winter, it’s important to note the “active season” in the region, province or country you’re playing in.
Golf Canada’s Handicap System stipulates every player is responsible for returning all acceptable scores into one’s scoring record from rounds played on courses observing their active season, which is part of the golf season when courses have acceptable playing conditions.
Ultimately, it is the responsibility of authorized provincial golf association to declare active and inactive periods, and it is the responsibility of the area club and golfers to observe these dates for posting purposes.
Each year, provincial associations analyze numerous factors to determine their active seasons. This ensures consistency of when scores would be posted by the majority of golfers to help keep Handicap Factors accurate.
Scores made at any golf course observing an inactive season are not acceptable for handicap purposes. The rationale behind this is that posting scores during inactive seasons (periods of poor course conditions) could artificially increase a player’s Handicap Factor.
Scores made at a golf course in an area observing an active season must be posted for handicap purposes, even if the golf club from which the player receives a Handicap Factor is observing an inactive season. The club’s Handicap Committee must make it possible for a player to post these away scores at the beginning of the active season.
For example, if a player belonging to a golf club in Ontario plays golf in Florida during January, any scores made in Florida are acceptable and must be returned to the player’s Ontario golf club. If the player is also a member of a golf club in Florida, scores must be posted to the player’s Florida club.
In Canada, the active season in each province is as follows:
BC = Mar. 1 – Nov. 15 AB = Mar. 1 – Oct. 31 SK = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 MB = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 ON = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 QC = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 NS = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 NB = May. 1 – Oct. 31 PE = Apr. 16 – Nov. 14 NL = Apr. 1 – Nov. 30
It’s also important to note that if you are travelling to other countries, you should determine their active seasons to prevent posting unacceptable scores. Your home club needs all acceptable scores from the “off-season” as well to ensure your Handicap Factor is accurate once recalculated at the beginning of the season.
For a detailed list of active and inactive schedule in the United States, click here.
