FLORA AASEN
MEMORIAL
Westwood Plateau Head Professional
Dave Zibrik
brought his best game forward at this
year’s Flora Aasen Memorial, firing an
impressive round of 65 for a one shot victory
over Redwoods Professional Doug Morgan. Zibrik’s
round of 8 birdies and a bogey was rewarded with
a $2,000 first place cheque and 1,500 points on
the CLEVELAND/SRIXON Order of Merit.
Seymour Creek’s Bryn Parry
continued his solid play again, firing a score
of 67 for share of 3rd place in the event, good
enough for 850 points and $1,100.
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VGT GUILDFORD
CLASSIC
Former
Canadian Tour Pro turned Amateur Kris Yardley
dominated the Championship field at Guildford
with a score of 67 for his 4th victory in just 8
events this year. Yardley’s card was a sea of
red, with six birdies and an eagle, before a
late double bogey on the 16th kept him from
going lower. Yardley’s win pushed him almost
2,500 points ahead of his next challenger Derek
Wray leading up to the Vancouver Open
Championship!
KOMM WINS
$5,000 JOHNSTON MEIER
HOLE-IN-ONE!
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Congratulations to VGT Team Member Holly Pearson
for winning the 2010 McCleery Women’s Club
Championship
Going
into the event with a 21 handicap factor, VGT’s
Holly Pearson defied all odds this weekend at
McCleery as she followed up her personal best
round of 77 last weekend with an 86 this Sunday
to capture the Overall Gross Title of the 2010
McCleery Women’s Club Championship by one shot.
Congratulations on your huge victory Holly and
for continuing to believe in yourself and your
game the past two weeks! You make us all proud
at VGT!!!
VGT HAZELMERE
CLASSIC
After
playing flawless golf thru the first 16
holes at -3 for the day, 18 year old
Pitt Meadows Junior Member Andrew
Rasmussen seemed like he was in the
clear to win his first VGT event.
However, after a triple bogey on 17 and
a bogey on 18, Rasmussen closed with a
score of 73 and looked like his chance
at the title was in jeopardy. One of
VGT’s most consistent Amateurs in 2010
David Cao was half way through the turn
at +1 and Rasmussen waited patiently to
see if his score would hold up or not.
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GOLDEN EARS
INVITATIONAL
After three consecutive
birdies (by both players) on the first
three playoff holes, Canadian Tour
Professional
Ryan
Williams
outlasted VGT’s Matt Makinson by
making a fourth consecutive birdie to
take the title as Champion of the 2010
Golden Ear’s Invitational. Williams
certainly showed everyone this year that
he is a force to be reckoned with on the
Canadian Tour with his play on Sunday,
birdying five holes in a row on the back
nine to get him into contention and
eventually win the event. His two day
total of 69, 68 (-7) earned him a cheque
for $2,200 and edged him up to 3rd place
on the CLEVELAND/SRIXON Order of
Merit with 6,875 points for the year
after playing in 9 of 14 VGT events.
Williams sits behind 2nd place Phil
Jonas (8,600 pts) and 1st Place Bryn
Parry (13,433) with only two events to
decide who will win the coveted $5,000
U.S. PGA Tour Qualifying School entry.
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VGT News Release – Monday, July 26th
ADAM HADWIN LOW
CANADIAN AT ’10 RBC CANADIAN OPEN
Capping
his first PGA Tour event in style with a
birdie-birdie finish, VGT and Canadian Tour
Member
Adam Hadwin finished t37th at this year’s
RBC Canadian Open and was awarded the Rivermead
Cup for the best score by a Canadian at the
event.
Hadwin has made a tremendous assault up the golf
ranks since turning pro on the Vancouver Golf
Tour in 2009. After a strong ’09 season on the
Vancouver Golf Tour (winning 3 times and
tying 2nd on the Cleveland/Srixon Order of
Merit) Hadwin’s confidence continued to rise
through the winter where he won another event
down south on the All American Tour and another
on the Gateway Tour that earned him a $12,000
prize of free entries on their winter schedule.
More success and confidence came on the Gateway
winter tour, and Hadwin was off to the Canadian
Tour spring Q-school to gain membership for the
2010 season.
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2010 Chilliwack
Men's Open
For
the second consecutive year, past Nationwide
Tour Professional
Bryn Parry
was crowned CHILLIWACK OPEN CHAMPION, edging
Professionals Phil Jonas and James Harper on the
first playoff hole with a clutch 4-foot putt for
birdie.
After a 3-way tie at -2 from Professionals Bryn
Parry, Galen Johnston and Kyle German after the
opening round, the 2010 Chilliwack Open turned
out to be a dramatic conclusion that everyone in
attendance would enjoy and remember for quite
some time.
With a few holes to play it came down to a four
player race between Parry, Jonas, German and
Harper to see who could close out their rounds
and become the Champion.
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28th Annual
Hadassah WIZO
Charity Pro-am
Firing an impressive round of 66 in blustery British Open-like
conditions, Hazelmere Professional
Phil Jonas wiped out the
field of 27 VGT Professionals by en route to his 2nd Hadassah Pro-am
in as many years and his 2nd
win of the 2010 VGT season. Jonas ousted Cleveland/Srixon Order of Merit
Leader Bryn Parry by 4 shots and claimed a $2,000 winner’s cheque and 1,500
points towards the 2010 Order of Merit Race. Parry’s second place score of
70 earned him $1,400 and 1,100 points, keeping his lead in the Cleveland/Srixon
Order of Merit with 9,833 points, some 2,000 points ahead of 2nd
place Jonas.
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VGT Welcomes
SUN LIFE FINANCIAL
as Newest Premier Partner
Vancouver
Golf Tour is very pleased to welcome SUN LIFE FINANCIAL to their team of
Premier Partners of VGT. Thanks to SUN LIFE FINANCIAL VGT’s players will have
various opportunities to shoot-out for some fabulous hole-in-one prizes
throughout the year as well as a guaranteed prize of a trip for two down to
VEGAS at the conclusion of the year. “I am very excited to have SUN LIFE on
board this year giving members of VGT a number of opportunities to shoot-out and
win some fabulous hole-in-one prizes this year”. If it is anything like last
year on VGT (with two hole-in-one winners), we look forward to presenting one of
our players with a big cash prize to help them further their golf endeavours”
stated VGT Commissioner Fraser Mulholland.
BACK-TO-BACK 2ND PLACE FINISHES FOR VGT’S ADAM
HADWIN ON CANTOUR
VGT
would like to congratulate one of its own,
Adam Hadwin
for his second straight runner-up finish on the
Canadian Tour this week in Edmonton at the ATB
Financial Classic. Hadwin fired rounds of 68,
67, 68, 68 (-13), good for a $24,000 pay-day,
shooting him up to 2nd place on the Canadian
Tour Order of Merit through 5 events and right
into an exemption to this week’s $800,099 Ford
Wayne Gretzky Classic on the Nationwide Tour.
For full details on the ATB Financial Classic,
visit
www.cantour.com.
You can follow Adam in action out on the
Nationwide Tour this week by
clicking here. Or see the live coverage on
the Golf Channel starting this Thursday at
10am-12pm.
Congratulations again to VGT’s Adam Hadwin this
week and all the very best on the Nationwide
Tour this week!!!
2010
LEDGEVIEW OPEN
Adding to his long list of achievements,
Abbotsford sensation
Nick Taylor
finished in style, birdying 3 of his
last 6 holes en route to a 65 and a two
shot victory over VGT Professionals Matt
Makinson and John Shin in VGT’s 17th
event of the season – the LEDGEVIEW
OPEN. Littering his card with 8 birdies
on the day, Taylor showed the Open field
exactly what he’s been doing the past 4
years – playing exceptional golf.
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GUILDFORD OPEN
June 22nd, 2010
Guildford Golf Course
Guildford
Head Professional
Dan Swanson
played an almost perfect round at Guildford yesterday in the
2010 Guildford Open carding eight birdies for the day.
Capitalizing on his local knowledge of the course, Swanson
finished at 65(-7) to capture the Guildford Open title two shots
ahead of a tight group that was in close chase for most of the
day. In the chase group included Can Tour Pro Ryan Williams,
Fraserview Pro Mewail Kidane, Shaughnessy Pro Brandan Price,
Abbotsford Pro Joshua Taylor and Seymour Creek Professional Bryn
Parry.
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GREEN ROOM OPEN
Squamish Valley Golf & Country Club
June 21st, 2010
Littered his card with 9 birdies on the
day,
Canadian Tour Pro Matt Daniel
charged his way into the first official
day of summer with his first victory on
the 2010 VGT schedule. Daniel's course
record round of 65 topped the field of
81 players including 35 Professionals in
the field and took home $1,050 for the
day.
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RBC
Invitational Pro-Am
Hazelmere Golf Course
June 16th, 2010
Canadian Tour Professional Stuart
Anderson’s first VGT win of the season
came at the 2010 RBC Invitational Pro-am
hosted at Hazelmere with an impressive
round of -7(65). Starting on hole #5 in
the Pro-am Anderson birdied his first
two holes and his great start would
continue throughout the day with another
five birdies and ending bogey-free.
Anderson walked away with not only the
RBC title but with a hefty cheque for
$2,000.00. Finishing right behind
Anderson with solid rounds of -5(67)
were Westwood Plateau Professional Dave
Zibrik and Semiamoo Professional Clark
MacPherson, who each pocketed $1,300 for
their one-day performances.
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WEST COAST GOLF GROUP
Invitational Pro-Am
Belmont, Hazelmere & Swan-e-set Resort
June 10th -12th, 2010
Being paired with fellow Canadian
Tour member
Adam
Hadwin
on the final round, 25 year old Langley
Professional
James Allenby
knew he would have his hands full. With
a six shot lead over Hadwin on the final
day, Allenby did his best to fend off
the charging Rookie Can Tour Pro on day
three. And in a nail-biting finish,
Allenby managed to seal the deal on the
18th hole with a clutch 10 foot putt for
par to take the title of the Inaugural
West Coast Golf Group Pro-am with a
score of -10, one shot better than
Hadwin who missed a 20 footer on the
18th himself.
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VGT MAYFAIR LAKES
CLASSIC
Despite
the wet weather, Mayfair Lakes proved no match for one of its
own as amateur David Cao captured his first title of the 2010
season. On this day Cao found himself not only battling 63 other
competitors, but often battling the changing weather too. After
finishing with a solid round of 68, Cao was headed for a
play-off against recent VGT Swan-e-set Champion Kris Yardley who
finished his round birdie-eagle for the tie. Although Cao carded
four birdies in regulation, his most important one would come in
the second play-off hole.
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2010 VGT PRO
Spring Championship
Despite
a forecast of extreme wet weather,
Canadian Tour Professional Ryan Williams
(Srixon) found a way to really turn up the heat at Swan-e-set
Bay Resort today, site of the 2010 VGT Pro Spring Championship.
Williams fired a stellar round of 66 (-6) to beat out a field of
42 pros to capture his first VGT tournament victory in 2010. The
29 year-old Surrey resident carded 8 birdies throughout the
round, besting fellow Canadian Tour veteran Darren Griff,
rookie Can Tour player Adam Hadwin and Seymour Creek
Professional Bryn Parry by one shot.
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2010 VGT Amateur
Spring Championship
It’s
been a long time since many locals have heard
Kris Yardley’s
name in the winner’s circle in golf. So long that Yardley
himself attested to the difficulty of closing out his round
yesterday at the VGT Amateur Spring Championship at
Northview’s Canal Course. Other than an opening bogey on the
1st, Yardley really had it going on the day, carding 5 birdies
over the next seven holes and closing the nine with a solid
score of 33 (-3). After trading off a bogey and birdie on 14 and
15, Yardley stumbled slightly making back-to-back bogeys on 16
and 17 to go back to 1-under par before rallying with a final
birdie on 18 to close out his round. The birdie would prove
critical though, as Yardley edged out VGT’s Order of Merit
leader Adam Cornelson by one shot on the day.
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2010 VGT SWAN-E-SET
CLASSIC
On a perfectly sunny day
at the scenic Swan-e-set Resort course
in Pitt Meadows, 22-year old Adam
Cornelson came to play and he did
just that. Firing off 4-birdies and a
solid round of even par 72, Cornelson
bested the 76 player field to take his second victory on the
Vancouver Golf Tour in 2010. "The golf course was in fantastic
shape today so hats off to Swan-e-set’s greens crew for putting
the golf course in Championship shape for the event".
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2010 ROYALWOOD OPEN
On
one sunny, yet very windy day at Royalwood Golf Course, past
Nationwide Tour Professional Bryn Parry of North Vancouver
battled a field of 92 golfers to claim his first victory in 2010
on the Vancouver Golf Tour (VGT) schedule. Parry played amongst
one of VGT’s strongest fields yet, which included fourteen
current Canadian Tour Professionals. By shooting a solid round
of 68 (with six birdies), Parry managed to dodge a sudden death
play-off with rookie Canadian Tour Pro Adam Hadwin and veteran
Pro Phil Jonas of Hazelmere Golf Club.
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2010 MTC NORTHVIEW OPEN
After
a Runner-up finish in the Championship Amateur Flight at Kings
Link’s last Monday, Derek Wray continued his fine play on the
Vancouver Golf Tour at the MTC NORTHVIEW OPEN with a solid round
of 2-under par 70 to capture his first VGT Amateur Title this
year. With the Ridge Course stretched to its max of 7,000 yards,
Wray fired off 5 birdies and 3 bogeys for a three-shot victory
over last week’s Amateur winner Geoff Butt. After the round,
Wray (a local at Northview) commented on his play as being
riddled with ups and downs.
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2010 KINGS LINKS OPEN
VGT
Professionals John Shin and Lindsay Bernakevitch
prevailed at the 2010 VGT Kings Links Open today, both shooting
rounds of 4-under par 68 for a shared victory at Vancouver Golf
Tour’s fourth event of the year. Both Shin and Bernakevitch took
home $1,025 each for their win and moved to 3rd place and 7th
place respectively in the 2010 CLEVELAND GOLF/ SRIXON CANADA
Order of Merit. Seymour Creek’s Bryn Parry was one shot back in
a four way tie for 3rd, maintaining a solid lead in the Race for
the $5,000 PGA Q-School Entry with 3,550 points.
2010 CANADA
BREAD
BC MATCH PLAY
Congratulations
to 2010 CANADA BREAD BC MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONS DAVE ZIBRIK and
KEVIN HOGG for their fine play at today’s 36 Hole Finals at
Northview’s Ridge Course. Westwood Plateau Academy’s New Head
Professional (Zibrik) and Swan-e-set Amateur (Hogg) were too
strong a force for the Defending Champions Burke/Kidane of the
Golf Institute at Fraserview, blazing a total of 12 birdies and
one eagle on their card over the duration of the match.
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2010
VGT MEMBERSHIP DETAILS
NEW 2010
MEMBERSHIP DETAILS NOW AVAILABLE
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VGT
Welcomes COMPLETE GOLF PERFORMANCE
as Newest
Premier Partner
Complete Golf Performance
“Official Conditioning and Mental Game
Specialists”
Vancouver
Golf Tour is proud to welcome COMPLETE GOLF
PERFORMANCE to their team of Premier
Partners as the OFFICIAL CONDITIONING AND MENTAL
GAME SPECIALISTS of VGT. Through this unique
partnership, VGT’s members will be privy to the
services and expertise of PEAK PERFORMANCE GOLF
at 24 VGT Golf Championships in 2010. “I am very
excited to give the members of VGT exposure to
the knowledge and expertise of COMPLETE GOLF
PERFORMANCE at our events this year” states VGT
Commissioner Fraser Mulholland. “VGT’s mission
statement from day one has been to ‘Prepare
Tomorrow’s Champions’ right here in Vancouver.
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VGT
WELCOMES MT & C LAWYERS
AS NEWEST SPONSOR FOR
2010
The
Vancouver Golf Tour (VGT) is excited to announce
Murchison Thomson & Clarke Law Firm (MTC)
as the newest addition to the team of sponsors
for 2010. "I am very excited to welcome
Murchison Thomson & Clarke as our latest sponsor
of the Vancouver Golf Tour" states VGT
Commissioner Fraser Mulholland. “I have had the
privilege to get to know both Mr. Murchison and
Mr. Patterson (both partners in MTC) this year
through their participation in a number of the
VGT events. They are both true golf enthusiasts
and competitors at heart".
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UPDATES FROM ON TOUR
HADWIN CONTINUES HOT STREAK DOWN SOUTH
After successfully qualifying (t5th) through to
2nd Stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School, VGT's
Adam Hadwin flew back to Phoenix for a
well deserved rest before his Nov.18th start at
2nd Stage of Qualifying School. But it wasn’t
long before he got back into competitive form,
tee-ing it up in another mini-tour called the
All American Pro Golf Tour. After a fairly
ho-hum start in round one shooting 72, Hadwin
showed his true form in rounds 2 and 3, firing
scores of 65, 64 to capture his fifth
professional victory this year, good for $4,625
and more importantly a huge boost for his
confidence as the 21-year heads into 2nd Stage
of PGA Q-School.
Hadwin’s great play all year has come from his
ability to hit a lot of greens in regulation and
avoid making a lot of big mistakes during his
rounds. His putting has been very sharp,
ultimately leading to very low scoring. In the
16 VGT tournament rounds he played in 2009,
Hadwin amassed an incredible stroke average of
67.75. He has continued to hold onto these stats
through the 1st round of Q-School and his last
Pro event in Phoenix, shooting -24 over 7 rounds
played. Well done!
THREE VGT PROFESSIONALS
PREPARE FOR 2nd STAGE OF PGA Q-SCHOOL
Along with Morgan Creek's Adam Hadwin
making it through to 2nd stage are VGT's Order
of Merit Champion
Bryn Parry and Bear
Mountain's Stuart Anderson. Parry
qualified right on the number at his site in
Texas after having some difficulties reading the
putting surfaces the first three days. “I
unfortunately heeded some advice from a player I
knew in the practice rounds that made me
interpret there wasn’t much grain to read on the
greens”. “The problem was this player comes from
a region where there is a ton of grain, so his
perspective (seeing no grain) was totally
different from mine where we typically do not
get a lot of grain in our greens”. “By the
middle of round 3 I figured it out that I was
missing a lot of putts because the grain was in
fact playing a bigger role that I was allowing
for”, stated Parry. Some great ball-striking
throughout the week and a putter that finally
caught a bit of fire allowed the 38-year old
North Vancouver Pro to advance to 2nd Stage
where he will be slotted to qualify in Texas
once again.
Anderson made a very solid mark at first stage
this year, shooting final rounds of 67, 67 to
win the qualifying site at San Juan Oaks with a
four round total of -13. Anderson has had his
strongest year out on the Canadian Tour this
year, winning the Desjardins Montreal Open and
placing in the top 10 four times, finishing 5th
on the Can Tour Order of Merit. He was also a
winner on the Vancouver Golf Tour schedule this
year only playing three events, but posted an
incredible stroke average of 67.5 over the 6
rounds he played. Both Hadwin and Anderson have
requested to play at the Oak Valley site for 2nd
stage and will most likely get their choice
given their showing in 1st stage. Anderson will
also head over to China right after the 2nd
Stage of Q-school to represent Canada in the
Omega Mission Hills World Cup with his partner
Graham Delaet. Our three VGT representatives
will be in fine company as a total of 21
Canadians will tee-it-up at 2nd Stage starting
Nov.18th, all looking to join Canada’s newest
PGA Tour member Chris Baryla who gained full
status on the PGA Tour by finishing in the top
25 on the Nationwide Tour this year. VGT would
like to congratulate Chris for all his hard work
in making it to the PGA Tour!!! We also want to
wish all the Canadians a successful campaign in
2nd Stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School!
FIVE CANADIANS ADVANCE TO FINALS OF CHAMPIONS
TOUR Q-SCHOOL
BC’s Jim Rutledge and Ray Stewart
have both successfully qualified through to
Final Stage of PGA Champions Q-School after
placing t4th and 11th place respectively this
week. Both players were qualifying at Mira Loma,
California where the top 16 players advanced to
the Finals, slated for Nov.17-20 in Scottsdale,
Arizona. Quebec’s Yvan Beauchemin and
Ben Boudreau and Ontario's Rod Spittle
will join Rutledge and Stewart in the Final
Stage as they were all successful at their
sites. Beauchemin and Spittle finished 2nd and
t4th respectively at the Milton, Florida site
and Boudreau finishing t11th in Orlando.
VGT's Norm Jarvis and Daryl Stubbs
were not so fortunate with their Q-School bids,
finishing t14th and 29th respectively in Texas
where only 10 spots were available.
All PGA Tour and Champions Tour Qualifying
action can be found online by following
this link .
We will do our best to keep you up-to-date with
all of latest scores from our Canadians in their
bid to reach the PGA Tour and Champions Tour for
2010!!
Vancouver Golf Tour (VGT)
Creates
Allegiance with Europe’s Hi5 Pro Tour
VGT is proud to announce it’s newly formed allegiance with
Europe’s fastest growing Pro Tour
– The Hi5 Pro Tour (www.hi5protour.com).
In
this new allegiance Hi5 Pro Tour membership will
be waived for all VGT members in good standing
for 2010 Hi5 Pro Tour Winter Series.
"The Hi5 Pro Tour offers great tournament experiences in the
beautiful Mediterranean climate of
Spain
from the months of December through March"
states VGT Commissioner Fraser Mulholland.
“Their Tour is very well organised and includes
great accommodation packages for all its players
including the world renowned 5-Star Polaris
World Resort with 5 Nicklaus courses for as low
as 6 Euro a night!!!”
www.polarisworld.com (see
PDF Flyer)
"The Hi5 Pro Tour offers all serious golfers a great opportunity to
play in Europe against some of the up and coming
talents from across the world" states Hi5 Pro
Tour Director Wayne Hatchey, who has been
operating professional golf tours in
Europe for the past 12 years. "I
would like to extend a warm welcome to all VGT
professional and amateurs who wish to come to
Spain
this winter.
Myself and our staff will be there to assist you once you arrive in
Spain
with any travel queries that may arise".
2010
Hi5 Pro Tour Entry Fees are as follows:
-
Ladies €215 per event
-
Seniors €265 per event
-
Men’s € 315 per event
If you have any further questions,
Wayne
will kindly answer them for you at
w.hachey@hi5protour.com
For more information about the Hi5 Pro Tour including registration
and details, please visit
www.hi5protour.com.
