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Golf North Delighted With Wolf Creek GR Purchase
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf With the sale of one of Alberta’s most iconic golf courses finalized, the new owners of the Wolf Creek Golf Resort feel they will definitely get their money’s worth in taking over the 36-hole property. In court filings...
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Some Gift Ideas For The Golfer Who Has Just About Everything
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf NORTH POLE, Alberta — Okay, I’ll admit it: it’s time to drag my wallet out of my pocket and fork over some hard-earned cash for Christmas golf gifts for those special people on my list. But most golfers I...
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Two Distinctly Different Nines In Westlock & A Welcoming Committee
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf WESTLOCK, Alberta — The Westlock Golf Club is one of the thousands of courses across the country located in rural areas where a small town doesn’t mean a small layout. At Westlock, you get a lot for your money including...
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Dinosaur Trail G&CC A Unique Mix Of Nines
Inside Golf Some of the most enjoyable golf one can experience is often in unexpected places. Many of those places across Alberta lie in rural areas, where small towns don’t mean small layouts. These courses provide some of the most relaxed, fun,...
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Edmonton Golf Show Cancelled; Calgary Show Still Teed Up
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — While this isn’t exactly the storyline of that great Christmas movie The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, it appears that some sort of evil being has stuck a lump of coal in the stockings of...
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Family Golf Festival Could Lead To Shot At $100,000
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — Let’s face it: Chances of recording a hole-in-one are pretty remote, especially for weekend warriors. Odds are set at 12,500 to 1. And your reward for that all-time great shot? Likely buying rounds of...
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The Track GC Philosophy Is Simple: “Have Fun. Enjoy.”
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf LANGDON, Alberta — If there was one word to sum up the philosophy of The Track Golf Club in Langdon, Alberta, it would be ‘fun.’ That’s what this rural golf course wants to bring back to the game....
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14-Year-Old Eileen Park Of Red Deer Wins Canadian Junior Girls Championship
By Lauren Christie, Alberta Golf HAMPTON, New Brunswick — Eileen Park of Red Deer, Alta., played an amazing and dominant final round to win the 68th playing of the Canadian Junior Girls Championship presented by BDO at Hampton Golf and Country Club in...
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Whitecourt G&CC A Wonderful Rural Golf Experience
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf WHITECOURT, Alberta — A word of advice from a golf guy — if you haven’t been to the Whitecourt Golf & Country Club for a while, get there as quickly as you can. If you have teed it up at this wonderful layout recently,...
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McCourt Pens A Golf Book With A Different Sort Of Instruction
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — When a golf professional undertakes the chore of writing a book you’d expect it to be in the vein of a how-to instructional pamphlet. Or perhaps something along the line of humorous on-course...
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Benson Overtakes Heffernan To Win Canadian Assistants’ Championship
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — Missed it by thaaaat much! That could well have been the utterance of both Murray McCourt and Wes Heffernan at the end of the 2023 PGA of Canada Assistants’ Championship at The...
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Slices, Spices & Oh So Much More In Surrey, B.C. (Part 1)
Montgomery, Inside Golf SURREY, British Columbia — With the influx of advertising highlighting British Columbia hitting Alberta’s visual markets over the past while, including the much-ballyhooed Surrey Spice Trail, it seemed only fitting that we hop on...
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The Devon Golf & C.C. Proves A Course Doesn't Need To Be Long To Be Challenging
course joins a list of others in the province that was built in two stages. The first nine holes in Devon coincided with Alberta’s oil boom, and the running of Leduc #1, a historic part of the province’s petroleum industry. They were built in 1954 to...
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Calgarians Step Up In Big Way To Fill Vacant Positions
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — When Albertans need help, it’s never far away no matter what the issue. Case in point: volunteers filling in spots left open in preparation for the 2024 LPGA championship in Calgary at...
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Gibson Finishes With Flourish To Take PGA of Canada Head Pro Title
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — With a scorecard that read more like one from a Texas Scramble than a tournament round — birdie, birdie, birdie to finish regulation play and then birdie, birdie, par, birdie to end a playoff —...
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Does SIM Golf Transfer To Your Outside Game?
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — Say what you want about some of the shortcomings of simulator golf, but it does serve a purpose in improving our outdoor game. That’s the word coming from a man who should know, Ryan Latta, a...
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Edmonton’s VIP Golf Show Ready To Tee It Up For Another Year
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — The one thing golfers like more than playing the game is talking about the game. That’s being proven week after week during the season on Edmonton radio. The TSN 1260 VIP Golf Show is now headed into...
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PGA TOUR Canada, Northern Bear Ink Three-Year Deal
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SHERWOOD PARK, Alberta — In for a dime, in for a dollar. That was the philosophy behind the idea the Jack Nicklaus-designed Northern Bear GC’s management took to the PGA TOUR Canada and the tour bought in. And that...
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A Relaxed, Social League Play Aspect Offered By Spark Golf
to keep track and see how they’re doing against everybody else. But this is fun and social first.” With over 20 courses in Alberta already in the fold, Klaus sees that there is a possibility of expansion in the province, much like it grew in the States....
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New Nine Holes At Trestle Creek Coming, But Will Be A While
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf PARKLAND COUNTY, Alberta — It will be a bit longer before the delivery of the new nine holes at the Trestle Creek Golf Resort. Head professional Art New explained what’s taking place with the expansion of the 18-hole...
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