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The 2019 Shippys: The Best, Worst, Weirdest, Funniest, And Craziest Of 2019 In Golf

To The Next Level, New BC Golf Performance Program

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Top 10 players of the decade, 2010-2019

The 11 Toughest Tee TimesIn The World To Get

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Victoria?s Uplands GC Home To Mackenzie Tour ? PGA TOUR Canada Players?

Choice for Tournament of the Year

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2020 CP Women?s Open At Vancouver's Shaughnessy Tickets Now On Sale

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Video: Little Billy Tries European Tour Interview Comeback. Results...Mixed

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New Morningstar Managers Look To Put Parksville Course Back On The Vancouver Island Golfing Map

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Golf Community Saddened By The Loss Of Golf Canada Director Jim Fraser

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This Guy Paid US$75,000 To Caddie For Tiger Woods ?

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Shots That Defined The Year In Golf

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No Filter! Players Sound Off On Brooks v. Rory, Tiger, Bryson, Hot Drivers, Much More

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7 Perfect Gifts For The Golfer Who Has Everything

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Victoria, BC's Wu Part Of Canadian Trio Advancing To 2020 Drive, Chip & Putt Championship At August Welcome To Golf Handicaps For Dummies: Why Having A Handicap Is Not A Handicap

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In si de t h i s Issue In this month's issue of The Scorecard our cover story features the upcoming implementation of the new Brit ish Columbia Golf Performance Program (page 12) designed to identify and help advance the best junior golfers in the province. It is meant to follow the model of the National Team programs with the goal of putting players from BC on those teams as they move forward in their careers.

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PGA TOUR players think about a number of subjects including their least favourite playing partners in this 'Unfiltered' survey on page 26.

As we continue to anticipate the World Handicap System coming into play in 2020 you'll want to read the article by Golf Canada's John Gordon outlining why the new system is both important and a big step forward for all recreational golfers on page 44.

We have a couple of lists that We have a few articles that take a should intrigue you such as The 11 look back on 'The Year That Was' in Toughest Tee Times In The World 2019 as we bring to a close the To Get on page 20 and 7 Perfect second decade of this century Gift s for the Golfer Who Has including The 'Shippys' from writer Everything(page 28).

Alan Shipnuck chronicling his Best , How much would you 'pay' to Worst , Weirdest , Funniest , And caddy for Tiger Woods? One fellow Craziest Of 2019 In Golf (page 22), put up $75,000 for the honour, The PGA TOUR's Top 10 Players of read about that on page38.

The Decade on page 24 and Shot s All that and more are here for you That Defined The Year In Golf on in our final edition of 2019 and page 18. with that BC Golf wishes you all You'll surely be enlightened and Season's Greetings and a Happy entertained by finding out what New Year!

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Golf Channel broadcaster Brandel Chamblee came just this close to a hole-in-one during his1st round of the Champions Tour Q-School final event.

On the left he would appear to be signalling he needed 'one more inch' as opposed to having a '1'.

Unfortunately for Brandel thisshot wascloser than he came to qualifying as he finished T62. Only the top 5 got cardsfor 2020.

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To The Next Level, New BC Golf Performance Program A new program designed to provide some of this province?s top junior golfers with the resources to help them take their games to the next level is a key initiative for British Columbia Golf in 2020.

The British Columbia Golf Performance Program is being rolled out in January, when eight athletes will be selected as the program?s first participants.

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The goal, quite simply, is to help more British Columbia junior golfers play their way onto Golf Canada?s national teams. ?This is a major enhancement to our existing programs and services,? says Debbie Pyne, Managing Director of Player Development for British Columbia Golf. ?This will be a year-round program and it is modelled after Golf Canada?s National CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Development Team. Athletes will work with our core leadership team -- a team of coaches and sports specialists that we have put together.?

Pyne and Colin Lavers, British Columbia Golf?s Performance Coach, have spent considerable time over the past number of months putting the new Performance Program in place. ?Ambitious is a good way to put it,?says Lavers, a Class ?A?CPGA Professional who works out of Seymour Golf & Country Club in North Vancouver.

"I think it is more in-depth and in line with where the national organizations are. It offers additional support for the athletes along the performance pathway. We want to provide opportunities for our best athletes to train together and for them to compete in high-level competitions."

Program participants will get together at least once a month for training and will be fully supported on site during tournament play. The first training camp has already been PG 13 | DEC 2019

set for February 21-23, 2020 at the Fortius Sport & Health facility in Burnaby, a multi-sport centre focused on optimizing athletic performance as evidenced by the fact that our Olympic athletes train there. ?We are going to do it through a combination of training camps and being at competitions with them and supporting them there,?Lavers says. ?We are also going to do assessments, goal-setting, tournament prep and all the tactical work that goes along with this kind of preparation.

"We'll have mental performance coaches, we're going to have fitness coaches, we're going to have someone who specializes in nutrition and rest and recovery.

We are working toward making

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Golf Canada?s 2019 National Orders of Merit winners unveiled Golf Canada is proud to announce the top finishers in the standings for its 2019 National Orders of Merit, a year that saw Québec-based golfers capture top honours in all four awarded categories, male and female in both amateur and junior golf.

On the amateur side, it is PG 14 | DEC 2019

Réunion-Island born and Gatineau, Qué. resident Julien Sale, of Rivermead Golf Club, who claims top spot overall for the National Men?s Order of Merit. A senior at Arkansas State, Sale is ranked #160 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR). The former Alexandre CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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de Tunis and Québec Men?s Amateur champion built on an impressive 2018 season by qualifying for the 2019 U.S. Men?s Amateur and making it to the round of 32. He also finished T4 at the 2019 Canadian Men?s Amateur Championship.

The runner-up for the National Men?s Order of Merit is full-time NHL referee and Team Canada Amateur Squad veteran Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont., who is currently the top ranked Canadian golfer on WAGR at #35. Rank had terrific results this season, notably winning the 2019 Western Amateur Championship, placing T5 at the Porter Cup, and finishing 2nd in the Canadian Men?s Mid-Amateur Championship.

2019 Team Canada Amateur Squad member Joey Savoie of La Prairie, Québec, was 3rd overall in the final men?s rankings. The Pinegrove Country Club member represented Canada at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, where he was part of a Canadian squad that captured PG 15 | DEC 2019

the bronze medal in the mixed team event. Savoie also had notable performances in 2019 including a T6 finish at the Australian Master of the Amateurs Championship as well as quarterfinal finishes at the 2019 North & South Amateur and the 2019 NSW Amateur.

Savoie also competed at the Mackenzie Tour PGA TOUR Canada Osprey Valley Open, placing T30.

After four straight years of domination for Ontario?s Maddie Szeryk, there is a new victor in the National Women?s Order of Merit for 2019: Brigitte Thibault.

The Rosemère, Québec, native and Team Canada Amateur Squad member is presently a junior at Fresno State and made quite a splash at the NCAA level

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LPGA Announces 2020 Schedule With Record-Breaking Purse Levels And Television Coverage In 2020, for the first time in the history of the LPGA Tour, the world?s best female athletes will compete for a combined prize fund of US$75.1 million, which includes the fourth playing of the UL International Crown, and air on more than 500 hours of television, both true signs of the continued growth for the game?s global tour.

The 2020 LPGA Tour schedule PG 16 | DEC 2019

will feature 33 official events across 11 countries and regions, with the most hours of television production in LPGA history, and at least seven tournaments that will air on network television.

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countries across the globe. 2020 will also see the world?s top players head to Japan for the Summer Olympics, bringing the game into even more households around the world.

The largest purse increase for the 2020 season comes at the KPMG Women?s PGA Championship. The purse for the season?s third major championship will grow to US$4.3 million, up US$450,000 ?As we close 2019 and move to 2020, I could not be more excited from 2019. Additionally, the purse at the ANA Inspiration, about what the future will bring traditionally the first major of for the LPGA Tour and the each professional golf season, sponsors that support us,?said will increase to US$3.1 million, LPGA Commissioner Mike up US$100,000 from 2019 and W han. the sixth consecutive year with a ?US$75.1 million in total purse. purse increase since ANA That number is a testament to assumed title sponsorship in the support we are receiving 2015. from sponsors and industry Other purses increasing in 2020 partners around the globe. As I are the CP Women?s Open enter my second decade as commissioner, we find ourselves (US$2.35 million, up in a new phase of the LPGA Tour. US$100,000), the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give (US$2.3 We?ve grown, but now we must million, up US$300,000), the flourish. We talk a lot about the next generation, but we will lift THIS generation. I know a lot of our fans understand the difference we are making for CLICK women?s golf in America, but H ERE TO they might be surprised to know about the impact our Tour is having all around the globe.?

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Shots That Defined The Year In Golf Some of them were breathtaking, such as Gary Woodland boldly going for the green on the 14th hole at Pebble Beach in the U.S. Open. Some of them were devastating, such as Francesco Molinari going into Rae?s Creek at the Masters.

What follows are 14 shots from every club in the bag of those who won majors, those who didn?t and some who didn?t win at all.

DRIVER Jordan Spieth was in range of the lead Saturday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am when he PG 18 | DEC 2019

hit a drive so far left on the 13th hole he had no idea where it was.

He looked along the edge of the adjacent ninth fairway. He even went down toward the ocean in case the ball ran through the ninth fairway and over the cliff.

Finally, it was found 150 yards off the tee after striking a tree.

Spieth made double bogey, and then another on the 18th with a drive off the rocks and into the ocean. It was the one club that contributed to a second straight year without a win.

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Toughest Tee Times In The World To Get

The courses feat ured on our ranking of t he world?s best are always challenging and oft en beaut iful, but some of t hem will never be accused of being welcoming, even t o t he paying members. These are our picks for t he most elusive t ee t imes in t he t he world.

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Cypress Point Club, Pebble Beach, CA World Ranking: 2 Bob Hope once memorably summed up Cypress Point: ?One year they had a big membership drive at Cypress.

They drove out 40 members.?Hope was himself a member for more than 40 years, but he didn?t recall playing there more than a half-dozen times outside of the ?Crosby Clambake.?He still paid, however. At the end of every year Cypress Point divides its total operating costs evenly among the members, even if they never set foot on the property that year.

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August a Nat ional Golf Club, August a, GA World Ranking: 9 The 300 or so members of Augusta National include generations of Southern society folks and corporate titans who are discouraged from using the club too often.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates was kept out for years for the sin of stating publicly that he wanted in. He made it, eventually.

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The 2019 Shippys The Best, Worst, Weirdest, Funniest, And Craziest Of 2019 In Golf What a year it was for golf, from the sublime to the ridiculous. In fact, 2019 was so memorable it deserves its own set of awards, so we?ve created the annual Shippys.

And the game will never be the same.

Cont ent Creat or of t he Year Matt Kuchar. The formerly bland veteran was a headline writer?s PG 22 | DEC 2019

dream in 2019, and only nominally because Kuch had a career year between the ropes.

The controversies were vast and varied, most memorably his stiffing of the caddie El Tucan (you can?t make this stuff up) after their victory together in Mexico.

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PGA TOUR?s Players Of The Decade

2010-2019

If the previous decade was dominated by a single player, the 2010s was about trying to fill the void Tiger Woods left atop the sport. It wasn?t a spot he vacated without a fight, though.

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Rory Mcllory Holds Up The FedEX Cup Trophy After Winning The 2019 Tour Championship.

Woods still had a large impact in the 2010s, authoring some of this decade?s most memorable victories and adding another PGA TOUR Player of the Year Trophy to his collection.

Woods entered the decade as golf?s biggest star, but his quest to rebuild his game and his life was the biggest story when 2010 began. No one asserted themselves in his absence, and he returned with a vengeance by winning eight times in 2012 and 2013.

As Woods?back started to give him trouble, a new crop of PG 25 | DEC 2019

stars arrived on the scene.

They?d grown up watching Woods and were inspired by his dominance. The latter half of the 2010s was defined by a crop of players who took turns atop the game -- players such as Brooks Koepka, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Jason Day. Where golf used to be a battle between the generations, it was increasingly becoming a young man?s game.

It was fun to watch and sets up well for the next 10 years.

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No Filter! Players Sound Off On Brooks v. Rory, Tiger, Bryson, Hot Drivers, Much More It?s baaaack... and it?s a doozy. For this year?s edition of our always-revealing GOLF.com Anonymous Pro Survey, we protected the identity of 52 card-carrying PGA Tour players so they could speak candidly about the hottest topics of the day.

In return, they gave us their unfettered takes on everything from Tiger Woods (yes, he?ll win PG 26 | DEC 2019

more majors) and Donald Trump (still popular), to driver testing (inadequate), backstopping (is it cheating?), best and worst Tour venues (sorry, TPC San Antonio), and favorite and least favorite playing partners (scroll down!).

They even told us who is the most famous person in their contacts (looking at you, MJ)...

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7 PERFECT GIFTS For The Golfer Who Has Everything Don?t you hate these guys? Fear not ? these gift ideas will surprise even the most well-equipped enthusiast on your list.

Links + Kings Glove Keeper $100.00 Treating gloves with some TLC PG 28 | DEC 2019

will extend their lifespans. Links + Kings has it covered with their premium leather glove?holder case. This zippered unit holds up to five gloves and cements the status of golfers who enjoy the finer things in life.

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Victoria?s Uplands GC Home To Mackenzie Tour ? PGA TOUR Canada Players?Choice for Tournament of the Year The Mackenzie Tour ? PGA TOUR Canada announced that Mackenzie Tour players voted the Bayview Place DCBank Open as the 2019 Tournament of the Year.

Officials handed out the inaugural award on November 20th during the PGA TOUR?s annual Tournament Meetings in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

The Players Choice award was voted on exclusively by Mackenzie Tour - PGA TOUR Canada members and included a number of criteria, including personal experience, tournament volunteers, hospitality, community support and attendance and the golf course among other considerations. ?We would like to congratulate

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the members of the board of the Victoria Open Golf Society for all of their hard work. They are very deserving of this award, and we are happy to award it for the first time,?said Mackenzie Tour Vice President Scott Pritchard. ?The Bayview Place DCBank Open has made a conscious effort to improve its event year in and year out, and no better indicator of that is its charitable contributions over the last number of years. This year, the event contributed just under $200,000 for the Children?s Health Foundation of Vancouver Island. It?s a hallmark of this tournament to align itself with worthwhile charities.?

The Bayview Place DCBank Open is one of the Mackenzie Tour?s longest-running events, a tournament led by a diverse group of community leaders in Victoria, British Columbia.

Murray Thomas, the long-term Tournament Director and member of the Victoria Open Golf Society board, accepted the award on the tournament?s behalf.

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Hosted at Uplands Golf Club since 2013, Mackenzie Tour players annually give positive feedback about the golf course conditions, especially the greens, which are known as some of the best-maintained on the Mackenzie Tour. ?We constantly strive to pull off the best event on the Mackenzie Tour, and we are extremely proud to be honoured by the Mackenzie Tour players,?said Thomas. ?I look forward to sharing this wonderful news with all of our tournament sponsors, partners and volunteers as we could not have done it without them.?

The Bayview Place DCBank Open was one of 12 events on the 2019 Mackenzie Tour. Earlier this year, New Caledonia?s Paul Barjon won the tournament. He went on to win the Order of Merit and earn Player of the Year honours and has since advanced as a member of the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour.

The Mackenzie Tour will embark on its eighth season in 2020. It will announce its regular season schedule in the coming months.

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Video: Little Billy Tries European Tour Interview Comeback. Results...Mixed

Remember 'Little Interviews'? In 2016, nine-year old child star Billy Jenkins found fame interviewing European Tour stars and golfing celebrities.

The controversial interviews caught the attention of the golf world but since then, Billy?s PG 32 | DEC 2019

career has stalled dramatically.

Three years on, a documentary crew follow him as he returns to Dubai for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai attempting to resurrect his failing career. All he needs is one more 'Big Interview'...

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New Morningstar Managers Look To Put Parksville Course Back On The Vancouver Island Golfing Map There was a time, not all that long ago, when Morningstar Golf Course was a must-play stop for golfers visiting central Vancouver Island. But Morningstar, beset with ownership and financial problems that took a heavy toll on course conditioning, fell out of favour with golfers in recent years. Happily, it seems the Parksville layout is on the road to PG 34 | DEC 2019

re-establishing its once lofty reputation. ?Morningstar had a great reputation and it certainly got tarnished, but not obliterated, and so we hope to get a lot of that back and have people put Morningstar on their play list again,?says Barrie McW ha, a familiar and highly respected name in British Columbia golf circles.

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McWha and his partners, brothers Ray and Mike Riva, own Wedgewood Golf Management, which took over management of Morningstar on Nov. 1. The course, which remains listed for sale, has been in the hands of a receiver since June of 2018 after its former Edmonton-based owners defaulted on mortgage payments and filed for bankruptcy.

The G-Force Group in Vancouver was appointed receiver and had been operating the course until it hired Wedgewood Management to run it. McWha, a life member of the PGA of Canada, is no stranger to the Vancouver Island golf scene. He managed Fairwinds in Nanoose Bay for a time in the early 1990s before spending 10 years at the Pheasant Glen Golf Resort in Qualicum. He knows better than most how good Morningstar was in its prime.

The Les Furber-designed layout opened in 1991. For a time it was the annual site of the Canadian Tour?s Spring Qualifying School. It also played PG 35 | DEC 2019

host to a former Canadian Tour event. It has been a past site of both the B.C. Amateur Championship and the Canadian University/College Championships.

McWha and his team hope to continue the work G-Force did in improving conditions at Morningstar. The Operating Engineers Pension Plan, a former owner of the course, is the main creditor. The OEPP recognized that Morningstar would not sell unless course improvements were undertaken and it made an investment to do just that. ?They have put almost $1.5 million into it in the last 15 months,?McWha said. ?You don?t usually see investment and receivership in the same sentence, but in this case it is

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Golf Community Saddened By The Loss Of Golf Canada Director Jim Fraser James Frederick Tooke Fraser December 31, 1937 - December 05, 2019

With profound sadness we share that Jim passed peacefully in his home, surrounded by family, on December 5, 2019 after a courageous trial with ALS.

cherished grandfather of Alex, Kayla, Sophie and Grace, he will be dearly missed.

Born in Montreal he was the son of the late Major George Climie Devoted husband of Lynne (nee Fraser and the late Gretchen Chaplin), loving father of Patty Tooke (Home) and brother to the Fraser, Karen (Lisson) and Gillian late D. George Fraser.

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He began his career in the family business before starting his own insurance brokerage.

He finished his career in his dream job as a Director in several posts at the RCGA where he also volunteered for years before and after retirement.

Jim loved to be active whether it be through ski racing, golf, marathon running and in his later years long, brisk walks.

He was also a very active volunteer in the community, in many capacities at the Toronto Golf Club, and in a number of other golf related organizations.

Jim?s passion for the sport of golf led him to happily dedicate his time to furthering the sport.

He was honoured to receive several recognitions for this devotion, most notably being inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame, receiving Distinguished Service Awards from Golf Canada and the International Association of Golf Administrators, being named a Patron of the Canadian PG 37 | DEC 2019

Seniors Golf Association and most recently with the establishment of the Jim Fraser Scholarship through Golf Canada and the CSGA. Jim was a true gentleman in every sense.

The family is grateful for the support they received from the ALS Clinic at McMaster University Medical Centre, ALS Society, wonderful home caregivers, the palliative care team, friends and family.

The family received friends at Kopriva Taylor Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville on Thursday, December 12th, while the Funeral service was held in St. Jude?s Anglican Church, 160 William Street, Oakville on Friday, December 13th .

In lieu of flowers we would ask that donations in memory of Jim be made to the ALSSociety of Canada or to the Jim Fraser Scholarship through the Golf Canada Foundation.

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This Guy Paid US$75,000 To Caddie For Tiger Woods ? Here?s What He Learned ?The three ?ups?to caddying,?

Tiger Woods told David Gilbert with a grin. ?Show up, keep up and shut up.?

Gilbert was in a rare position: a civilian caddying a full round of 18 holes for Tiger Woods. He?d bid US$75,000 for the opportunity to do so at Tiger Woods?annual charity event, Tiger Jam, in Las Vegas earlier this year. ?We like to support the organization and we?ve done so PG 38 | DEC 2019

for a few years,?said Gilbert, the founder and CEO of National Funding, a company specializing in small business loans. ?Growing up in Orange County (Calif.), Tiger went to Cypress, I went to Esperanza, so I?ve been following him since I was a kid,?Gilbert said. Gilbert played JV golf when Woods competed against his high school. ?When I saw this opportunity, I knew it was something I had to do.?

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Victoria, BC's Wu Part Of Canadian Trio Advancing To 2020 Drive, Chip & Putt Championship At Augusta Three Canadian juniors will be among the 80 competitors in the sixth annual Drive, Chip and Putt championship at Augusta National on April 5, 2020. In the Girls 7-9 division, Canada will be represented by the duo of Alexis Card (Cambridge, Ont.) and Anna W u (Victoria, B.C.).

Card punched her ticket to PG 40 | DEC 2019

Augusta with a score of 107 at the Oakmont Country Club qualifier while Wu posted a total of 122 at Chambers Bay Golf Course. The Canadians are rounded out by Cole Robert s of Oshawa, Ont., who qualified at TPC River Highlands with a score of 107. (scoring is based on a 25-point-per-shot basis, explained below - ed.)

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Canada has seen three juniors take home titles at the Drive, Chip and Putt nationals in as many years. Savannah Grewal (Mississauga, Ont.) won in 2017, followed by Vanessa Borovilos (Toronto) in 2018 and Nicole Gal (Oakville, Ont.) in 2019.

accumulated points per shot in all three skills (maximum of 75 points per skill = 25 points per shot x 3).

The overall winner in each age category was determined by the participant with the most points accumulated between all three skills (maximum of 225 points = 75 points per skill x 3).

Local qualifying for the seventh season began in May and was held at more than 300 sites Click here for all regional throughout all 50 states this qualifying result s. summer. The top-three scorers per venue, in each of the four age categories in separate boys? and girls?divisions, advanced to more than 60 sub-regional qualifiers in July and August.

The top two juniors in each age and gender division then competed at the regional level in September and October.

Regional qualifying was held at 10 courses around the country, including several U.S. Open and PGA Championship venues.

Championship scoring at the local, subregional and regional qualifiers was based on a 25-point-per-shot basis, with each participant taking three shots per skill. Each participant PG 41 | DEC 2019

The Canadian equivalent?

Future Links, driven by Acura Junior Skills Challenge National Event? took place at Magna Golf Club in 2019.

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2020 CP Women?sOpen At Vancouver's Shaughnessy

Tickets Now On Sale Golf Canada, in partnership with title sponsor Canadian Pacific (CP), are pleased to announce that tickets are now available for the 2020 CP Women?s Open, taking place August 31 to September 6 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver.

One of Canada?s premier annual sporting events, the CP Women?s Open features miles of front row seating for golf fans to experience Canada?s lone PG 42 | DEC 2019

stop on the LPGA Tour.

Cheer on Canadian sensation and CP Ambassador Brooke Henderson as she leads the stars of the LPGA Tour back to Vancouver alongside defending champion and world No. 1 Jin Young Ko, past champions Ariya Jutanugarn, Sung Hyun Park and So Yeon Ryu and rising stars Lexi Thompson, Nelly Korda, Jessica Korda, Danielle Kang and Minjee Lee. The 2020 CP Women?s Open CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Ticket s for t he 2020 CP Women?s Open Volunt eer Opport unit ies Hospit alit y Packages

will mark the sixth time that the province of British Columbia has hosted Canada?s Women?s Open Golf Championship, with the last time being 2015 at The Vancouver Golf Club, where Lydia Ko won her third CP Women?s Open title.

CLICK HERE to get your tickets for the 2020 CP Women?s Open General admission tickets, starting at just $20 for early week admission, provide access to the grounds to get an up-close look at the stars of the LPGA Tour.

Tournament rounds for Thursday, Friday and Saturday are just $50; a Sunday final-round ticket is $60; and a week?long, fully transferable badge is $130. A $60 Anyday Grounds ticket is also available for those looking for PG 43 | DEC 2019

ticket flexibility.

A specially-priced youth ticket (13-17 years old) is also available while juniors aged 12-and-under gain FREE grounds admission all week long.

In addition to general admission tickets and corporate hospitality products, the CP Women?s Open also offers a premium ticket product ? The Heritage Lounge.

The Heritage Lounge delivers an elevated fan experience within the Clubhouse of the prestigious Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club. This premium destination is the perfect home base to sit, relax and map out your experience following the stars of the LPGA Tour! It offers upgraded food and beverage for purchase, ample televisions with a live feed of the broadcast

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Heritage Lounge tickets cost $100 for single day access or $250 for a fully transferable tournament (Thursday ?

Sunday) pass.

Volunteer opportunities to be a part of the 2020 CP Women?s Open are also available with a full listing of committee positions here.

For an elevated experience, the CP Women?s Open offers many great hospitality packages to fit any budget. All corporate hospitality comes with private seating on one of Shaughnessy?s closing holes and all-inclusive

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food & beverage. A full list of offerings can be found here.

The CP Women?s Open is so much more than a sporting event. Enjoy world-class golf and a premium hospitality experience at a signature Canadian sporting event that will leave a meaningful charitable legacy through CP Has Heart in support of children?s heart health.

Get your tickets today at cpwomensopen.com/tickets. * Prices do not include applicable taxesor Ticketmaster fees.

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Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational (US$2.3 million, up US$300,000), the Marathon LPGA Classic presented by Dana (US$1.85 million, up US$100,000) and the Volunteers of America Classic (US$1.4 million, up US$100,000).

As previously announced, the 2020 LPGA Tour season will include two new events in Florida, making it four tournaments for the Sunshine State. The Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio will be held Jan. 23-26 at Boca Rio Golf Club in Boca Raton, one week after the season-opening Diamond Resort Tournament of Champions presented by Insurance Office of America in Lake Buena Vista.

Four months later, the Tour will return to the Sunshine State for the Pelican Women?s Championship presented by DEX Imaging, to be held May 14-17 at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair.

Finally, for the seventh consecutive year, the LPGA Tour will end its season in Naples at the CME Group Tour Championship, a competition | DEC 2019

that awards the winner with US$1.5 million, the largest single prize in women?s golf history.

2020 will also see the return of the Blue Bay LPGA, which was not conducted in 2019 to transition the competition into a Spring time slot. The tournament in the People?s Republic of China will now be held March 5-8 as part of the LPGA Tour?s Spring Asia Swing, following stops in Thailand and Singapore.

The major season will kick off in Rancho Mirage, Calif., with the ANA Inspiration celebrating its 49th year on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club. The U.S. Women?s Open, conducted by the USGA, will visit Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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while the KPMG Women?s PGA Championship will be held at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa. The final two majors send the LPGA Tour overseas, with the Evian Championship returning to Evian Resort Golf Club in Evian-les-Bain, France, and the AIG Women?s British Open heading to Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland.

In early August, between the Evian Championship and the Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open, the LPGA Tour will go on hiatus to accommodate the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. The women?s golf competition will be held Aug. 5-8 at Kasumigaseki Country Club, located 40 miles outside Tokyo.

Qualifying for the 60-player field ends following the KPMG Women?s PGA Championship, with the top 15 players in the Rolex Women?s World Golf Rankings automatically qualifying for the Games (no more than four players per country). The remaining spots | DEC 2019

will be awarded to the highest-ranked players from countries that do not already have two qualified players.

Weekly Olympic golf rankings are posted every Monday on the International Golf Federation website.

The 2020 UL International Crown will be held Aug. 27-30 at Centurion Club, located outside of London, England. Spain won the inaugural competition in 2014, with the United States winning in 2016 and the Republic of Korea winning in 2018.

The 2020 LPGA Tour season will again feature three season-long races. In its second year, the Aon Risk Reward Challenge will award US$1 million to the players on the LPGA and PGA Tours who best navigate risk across the season?s most strategically challenging holes.

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US$100,000 to the player with the most top-10 finishes, with Ariya Jutanugarn (2018) and Jin Young Ko (2019) earning the first two awards. Finally, the Race to the CME Globe will see the top 60 players following the season?s penultimate event heading to the CME Group Tour Championship with the opportunity to win the US$1.5 million winner?s cheque.

While the overall TV schedule is still being finalized, the 2020 LPGA Tour will see 500 global hours of broadcast coverage, including at least seven events aired on network TV. The Tour will be televised in more than 175 countries and in more than 500 million households.

The Symetra Tour, which is celebrating its 40th season, is still finalizing a schedule that will include at least 20 events for players on the LPGA Tour?s Official Qualifying Tour. Earlier this year, the Symetra Tour announced that the Circling Raven Championship, the first new event of the 2020 campaign, will be held at Circling Raven Golf Club at Coeur d?Alene | DEC 2019

Casino Resort and Hotel in Worley, Idaho. Since Symetra?s inaugural sponsorship year in 2012, the Symetra Tour has grown from 16 tournaments and US$1.7 million in prize money to a record US$4 million awarded over the course of 23 tournaments in 2019.

2020 will see a date change for the Senior LPGA Championship presented by Old National Bank.

After three years in October, the tournament will move to July 30-Aug. 1, but will remain at the Pete Dye Course at French Lick (Ind.) Resort.

Additionally, the LPGA?s Q-Series presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, the two-week qualifying tournament that replaced Stage III of Q School, will be held Oct. 19-31 in Pinehurst, N.C., while the LPGA T&CP National Championship will be held Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 at Reynolds Lake Oconee Golf Course in Greensboro, Ga.

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appropriate. The receiver felt that given our knowledge of the region and our reputation and so on, that we would be better placed to take it back to where it was.?

McWha said course conditions have dramatically improved in the past number of months. ?The biggest challenge they had here was the irrigation issue,?he said. ?They use effluent water and it became contaminated with salt five years ago and that was sort of the beginning of the downhill slide. That, combined with the ownership of the day being in the oil patch and having their difficulties. So spending just stopped.

completing the recovery.?

Play has already begun to rebound as word spreads about the improvements made to Morningstar. ?There are now about 140 members,?McWha said. ?That?s a 30 per cent gain over last year. They had a pretty loyal core here, but they lost a fair number of members. So I think we?ll see that recovery go on into 2020. Some people will certainly take a wait-and-see attitude, but right now it is certainly encouraging to see not only the ones that continue to be members, but the ones who are coming back and just new members period.?

McWha realizes that recapturing "Fast forward to this year, the the lost tourist market will be a receiver has been working key to Morningstar?s long-term diligently to fix all of the success. The course had been a irrigation problems. And as of the staple on the itineraries of many end of August those were fixed. golf groups visiting the There is now a daily monitoring Parksville-Qualicum area for golf program of the effluent and fresh vacations. Much of that business water mix. The members today disappeared in the past couple of are raving about the conditions. years.

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some of that business. ?We are now part of the Vancouver Island Golf Trail,?McWha says. ?And that was really important. You are more conspicuous by your absence than anything else.?

McWha said he also wants to reintroduce some of the programs that were lost when the course was having money troubles. ?What we have to do is get back to having some of the programs that you would expect

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at a place like this, things like instruction and junior programs.

The members play a lot of golf here, but what we have to do is get into that fringe market and grow it. (Head professional) Mark Forrest is a good player and a good teacher, but has been running a cash register for two years. So that is going to change. ?Ultimately, our goal is to create some events and just let people know that Morningstar is back.?

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LaversAddressesHis ChargesAt The 2019 North Pacific Junior LadiesTeam Matches Held At Richmond'sQuilchena Golf Club. BC Picked Up It's 4th Consecutive Win In The Event, A SuccessRate That The New Performance Program IsLooking To Build On And Continue With Top Junior Male And Female AthletesFrom BC

them the best athlete they can be, not just train a golfer.?

Both Pyne and Lavers emphasize the new Performance Program is designed to complement, not replace, the existing coaching that program participants are already getting from their own swing coaches. ?To be honest, our program is not going to be overly technically based,?Lavers says. ?Most likely, | DEC 2019

every athlete on this team will have a technical coach, a private coach. Our job will be to support that coach, be eyes and ears for them when they are not seeing their player in competition.? ?The whole idea is to work together so the junior can have the best of both worlds, actually,? adds Pyne. ?These athletes are going to be exposed to the performance world, especially CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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the multi-sport performance world. We are going to give them golf expertise and then we are going to provide performance expertise. This is the first time we are elevating performance with targeted athletes.?

Pyne and others thought a change was needed to give promising juniors an extra push.

British Columbia continues to be well represented on Golf Canada?s national teams, but results in major events have lagged the past year or two. ?If we go back and look at our results the evidence has shown we are not producing the number of high-calibre players we should in this province,?Pyne says. ?There is an expectation and we know we have the players who can do it. We believe they simply need more resources to get to that next level.?

Golf Canada recently announced its 2020 National Amateur and Junior teams. Mary Parsons of Delta is on the Women?s National Amateur Team, while Angela Arora and Angel Lin, both of Surrey, are on the Junior Girls | DEC 2019

Team. Jace Minni of Delta was named to the Boys?Junior Team.

Lavers says performance has lagged most notably on the boy's side in British Columbia. ?We have a lot of advantages here in B.C., mainly that we have got the best weather, so we have the longest golfing season, on some of the best golf courses in the country,?Lavers says. ?We have got a ton of amazing coaches here locally, so we have got a really good base. But the results haven?t been there, mainly on the boy's side. Our girls are still doing awesome.

"We have hit a bit of a lull the past couple of years. I see we've got quite a few 14-, 15- and 16-year-old boys now who we think are going to be knocking on the door in the next couple of years. We expect our program to help address that and put us at the top.?

For more information contact British Columbia Golf Performance Coach Colin Lavers at: coach@brit ishcolumbiagolf.org

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by notching eight top-15 finishes during her sophomore year.

Thibault followed up by winning the 2019 Mountain West Championship. Thibault has also claimed the title of 2019 Ontario Women?s Amateur Champion, represented Canada at the inaugural Augusta National Women?s Amateur and was a part of the Pan American Games bronze-winning Canadian formation.

(NCAA). Parsons?5th place finish was the highest individual finish for Team Canada at the Pan American Games, where she also claimed bronze as a member of the squad. Other notable results this year include a 4th place at the 2019 Women?s Porter Cup and a T3 result at the 2019 PNGA Women?s Amateur Championship.

Finishing third in the amateur women?s rankings was Madeline Runner-up behind Thibault for Marck-Sherk of Ridgeway, Ont. the National Women?s Order of The Bridgewater Country Club Merit is Delt a, B.C.?s Mary member graduated from Florida Parsons. The newly named Gulf Coast University in 2019. member of the 2020 Team During her final year at FCGU, Canada Amateur Squad ? and she notched five top-20 results former Junior Squad member ? is in her nine starts as a senior. a junior at Indiana University Marck-Sherk also had a T9 finish who was crowned champion of at the 2019 Ontario Women?s the 2019 Lady Boilermaker Amateur Championship.

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