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TOP STORIES 12 Leah John Rallies To Successfully Defend Her B.C. Women?s Amateur Championship

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Shelly Stouffer Wins Third Straight B.C. Senior Women?s Title At Her Home Course

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Now Swinging, Not Swimming, Leslie Cliff Enjoys Her Time On The Links

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Some Parental Advice From Jack Nicklaus

Surrey?s Lauren Kim Finds Her First U.S. Women?s Open Experience To Be 'Amazing?

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Dreams Of the PGA TOUR Do Come True For Eight Canadian Golfers

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Shelly Stouffer Wins Third Straight B.C. Senior Women?s Title At Her Home Course

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Another Senior Moment For Shelly Stouffer As She Wins PNGA Title

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BC Summer Games Gearing Up For Prince George This Summer These Irish Eyes Aren?t Just Smiling,They?re Golfing DreamsOf the PGA TOURDo Come True For Eight Canadian Golfers

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Now Swinging,Not Swimming, Leslie Cliff Enjoys Her Time On The Links

Junior Skills ChallengeSet To Go July 19th At Northview GC

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Christine Wong Wins Inaugural B.C. Women?sOpen

The ModGolf Podcast: Building An EngagingPlatform For The Everyday Golfer

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Parting Shot

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BC's Hadwin Jumps Up WGR After T7 At U.S. Open

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Ziemer'sBC Golf Notes

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BY BRYA N OUTRA M

INSIDE THIS ISSUE In this issue of The Scorecard our cover story features the 2022 BC Women's Amateur Champion. You can see Brad Ziemer 's wrap-up on page 12 as repeat Women's champion Leah John was crowned at Pitt Meadows GC. In keeping with a theme of crowning champions, we also have the stories on Nanoose Bay's Shelly Stouffer capturing her 3rd straight BC Senior Women's championship on page 16 and then adding the PNGA Senior Women's title shortly after on page 18.

Recently, Coquitlam's A.J. Ewart finished a remarkable college golf season by receivng the Jack Nicklaus Award for NCAA Div II. You can read about that and the 'parental advice' the Golden Bear gave to AJ's dad, Brad Ewart, many years ago along with Jack's PG 8 | JUNE 2022

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most recent tidbit of wisdom for helping to raise a budding PGA TOUR player, all on page 14. We also have a couple of Brad Ziemer stories as he spoke with 1972 Summer Olympics swimming silver medalist, Leslie Cliff, as she took part in the BC Senior Ladies Championships(page 20). Brad also has the reaction of Surrey's Lauren Kim to her first experience playing in the U.S. Women's Open on page 26. And you can read the latest version of Ziemer 's BC Golf notes on page 28, including a look at this week's BC Junior Championshipstaking place at Nk'Mip Canyon Desert GC in Oliver and a review of Canada's triumph at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan.

Enjoy your golf and please stay safe.

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Leah John Rallies To Successfully Defend Her B.C. Women?s Amateur Championship In a final round that had more twists and turns than the Sea to Sky Highway, Vancouver?s Leah John emerged on top and successfully defended her B.C. Women?s Amateur Championship at Pitt Meadows Golf Club. Dramatic. Crazy. Unpredictable.

Surprising. Pick an adjective. They all describe a final round at Pitt Meadows that included a number of lead changes and plenty of ups and downs.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 12 | JUNE 2022

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Some Parental Advice From Jack Nicklaus It?s not easy being a golf parent. But, there are times when advice from another source can be very helpful. Especially when that source is Jack Nicklaus.

In 2009 I was working on a golf construction project in Bangalore, India where Jack Nicklaus and his staff also happened to be in the early stages of designing a golf course.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 14 | JUNE 2022

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Shelly Stouffer Wins Third Straight B.C. Senior Women?s Title At Her Home Course One of her sons works in the pro shop, her mom and dad had a house near the first tee and her late husband was the longtime head professional at Fairwinds Golf Club, so yes, this one meant a lot to Shelly Stouffer. The Nanoose Bay resident won her third straight B.C. Senior Women?s title Wednesday on her home course and had to work a little extra time to do it.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 16 | JUNE 2022

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BY BRA D ZIEM ER, BRITISH COLUM BIA GOLF

Another Senior Moment For Shelly Stouffer As She Wins PNGA Title Shelly Stouffer keeps crossing senior women?s golf titles off her list. A week after winning her third straight B.C. title, the reigning Canadian Senior Women?s champion from Nanoose Bay won the PNGA Senior Women?s Championship at the Suncadia resort east of Seattle.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 18 | JUNE 2022

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Now Swinging, Not Swimming, Leslie Cliff Enjoys Her Time On The Links It is the golden anniversary of her silver medal. Leslie Cliff doesn?t dwell on that great Olympic memory of winning silver in the 400metre individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. The swimming part of her life ended a long time ago and Cliff has had a busy and productive business career that is just now starting to wind down. That allows for more time to enjoy another sporting passion: Golf.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 20 | JUNE 2022

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BY BRA D ZIEM ER, BRITISH COLUM BIA GOLF

IMAGE CREDIT BRAD ZIEMER/ TW ITTER

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Christine Wong Wins Inaugural B.C. Women?s Open The par 4 seventh hole at Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club is rated as the toughest on the Richmond layout, but Christine Wong made it look easy in Sunday?s final round of the inaugural GolfBC Group B.C. Women?s Open.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 22 | JUNE 2022

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BY BRA D ZIEM ER, BRITISH COLUM BIA GOLF

BC's Hadwin Jumps Up WGR After T7 At U.S. Open Abbotsford?s Adam Hadwin is proud of the way he battled as he contended in a major championship for the first time. After holding the first-round lead at the U.S. Open, Hadwin remained in contention all weekend and settled for a tie for seventh place.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 24 | JUNE 2022

IMAGE CREDIT BERNARD BRAULT/GOLF CANADA

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Surrey?s Lauren Kim Finds Her First U.S. Women?s Open Experience To Be 'Amazing?

She played a practice round with Lexi Thompson, birdied her first hole at the U.S. Women?s Open and created some memories that will last a lifetime.

Surrey?s Lauren Kim had an absolute blast at her first U.S. Women?s Open and will return home to her Grade 11 classes at Earl Marriott Secondary more determined than ever to one day becoming a full-time touring pro.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 26 | JUNE 2022

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Ziemer's B.C. Golf Notes: B.C.?s best juniors tackle Nk?Mip; and much more...

Gayvn Knight of Parksville will defend his title at this week?s B.C. Junior Boys Championship, but a new champion will be crowned in the B.C. Junior Girls Championship. Both competitions are being held at Nk?Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course in Oliver.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 28 | JUNE 2022

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BC Summer Games Gearing Up For Prince George This Summer Prince George will host the 2022 BC Summer Games July 21-24 in venues throughout the community and surrounding area. Volunteers are working to put details into place and finalize the plans to host over 3,000 participants this summer.

The 2020 BC Summer Games were originally scheduled to take place in Maple Ridge but were cancelled due to Covid-19. Maple Ridge is on tap to host the games in 2024.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 30 | JUNE 2022

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BY BRA D ZIEM ER, BRITISH COLUM BIA GOLF

These Irish Eyes Aren?t Just Smiling, They?re Golfing The first thing you need to know about the Vancouver Irish Golf Society is that not all of its members are of Irish descent. ?We have Australians and unfortunately we also have a few English,?jokes co-founder Roddy Carroll. ?It?s a pity we have to put up with them.?Which brings us to the first annual VIGS Open, which was played late last spring at Squamish Golf Course.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 32 | JUNE 2022

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Dreams Of the PGA TOUR Do Come True For Eight Canadian Golfers It?s only natural to be a little nervous before hitting your opening tee shot in your first PGA TOUR event. It intensifies when it also happens to be your National Open championship. With so many new things happening around you it?s hard to keep your focus. Changing your shoes in the same locker room as Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas is as cool as it is exciting.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 34 | JUNE 2022

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Junior Skills Challenge Set To Go July 19th At Northview GC The 2022 Junior Skills Challenge event takes place at Northview Golf & Country Club on Tuesday, July 19th. It's free for juniors to play the event, they must fill out the form found through the link in this article to enter. The entry deadline is Friday, July 15th & the field is limited to 36 players on a 'first come, first served' basis.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 36 | JUNE 2022

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The ModGolf Podcast: Building An Engaging Platform For The Everyday Golfer In the first episode of season 12 for the ModGolf Podcast, show host and creator, Colin Weston, speaks with Jordan Lunetta, Co-Founder Of Odin Golf.

READ COMPLETE STORY HERE PG 38 | JUNE 2022

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Taking The Club Lane While attending the recent RBC Canadian Open at St. Georgesin Toronto, where son AJ wascompeting, Brad Ewart captured thisphoto of a gentleman off to the course with his clubsin tow behind hisbicycle. Not sure if the lane said 'CartsThisWay' PG 40 | JUNE 2022

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