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Shaw Charity Classic Presented By Rogers Raises Over $100 Million For Children’s Charities .... Rogers Announces New Five-year Deal As Title Sponsor, Commits To PGA TOUR Champions Tournament Long-Term
CALGARY, Alberta — The Shaw Charity Classic presented by Rogers announced that the 11th annual tournament has reached a key milestone, raising over $100 million since its inception for children’s charities across Alberta. Rogers Communications also...
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Gord’s Alberta Golf Notes: Volume 1
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf It’s going to be a busy season on the Alberta golf scene in 2024 and that is highlighted by two major events. The biggest of the pair will be on the LPGA circuit when the CKPC Women’s Open tees things up...
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First Tee – Canada Set To Launch Soon In Alberta
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — A program designed to not only teach children about golf but also about life skills is close to teeing off in Alberta. First Tee is Golf Canada’s youth development program that provides children with...
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PGA TOUR Canada Chips In To Help Alberta’s Youth on Course Program
Bear and other Alberta courses join together for the 2023 season to break down cost barriers and allow all youth in our province to discover golf.” The thing about the financial support from the ATB Classic, to be held in late June and early July at the...
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Golf North Delighted With Wolf Creek GR Purchase
are thrilled to be taking over. Said Breem, “We’ve been looking at Alberta for a long time. Alberta is certainly a great province to do business in. There are a lot of positives there, a lot of upsides. We think it’s a great place to do business and we...
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Dinosaur Trail G&CC A Unique Mix Of Nines
By Gord Montgomery, 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...
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Mills Honoured With HOF Induction Through Work With Junior Golfers
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — When Dunc Mills’ mother, Marion Kolthammer, introduced him to the game of golf oh so many decades ago, she likely had no idea where that would lead her son. As it turned out, it was most likely a lot...
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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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The Devon Golf & C.C. Proves A Course Doesn't Need To Be Long To Be Challenging
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf If there was ever a golf course where yardage means next to nothing, it’s most definitely the Devon Golf & Conference Centre. The top distance on this river valley beauty is a whopping 5,559 yards. Yes,...
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Team Alberta 3-Peats At Canadian Assistants’ Championship
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — When Jeff Cuthbertson, the executive pro at the Stony Plain GC that played host to the Alberta Assistants Championship, told the winner, Calgary’s Wes Heffernan, that Team Alberta...
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The Ranch G&CC Set To Host Canada’s Best Assistant Professionals
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — If the Ranch Golf & Country Club was good enough for the Canadian Tour back in the day, then it’s certainly good enough for Canada’s top assistant club professionals. That will be...
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Tee Time Booking Site Swings Into B.C. Courses
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SHERWOOD PARK, Alberta — Slow and steady, like a good backswing, is the path golf entrepreneur Jeff Sveen is taking with his online tee time booking site, Play Golf Canada (www.playgolfcanada.com). Sveen,...
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Heffernan Repeats As PGA Of Alberta Assistants Champion
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf STONY PLAIN, Alberta — While Wes Heffernan showed brilliance with his long game in the 36-hole Cobra Puma Golf Alberta PGA Assistants Championship at the Stony Plain GC, it was a 14-foot eagle putt...
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Alberta’s Major Amateur Championships Dates Announced
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — One of the sure signs that winter is slowly coming to an end in Alberta is the release, by Alberta Golf, of their official dates for the major championships in the coming season. As always, the...
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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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A Relaxed, Social League Play Aspect Offered By Spark Golf
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf Spark Golf is a friendly way to meet other golfers and the idea seems to be catching fire. At present, there are 21 courses involved in the Calgary (11) and Edmonton (10) areas, plus one in Red Deer, along with leagues...
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Gord’s Alberta Golf Notes
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf It’s hard to say which of two major announcements (well, one for sure and the other a pretty solid rumour) that hit the air on February 28 is the biggest. But, we’ll start with the one that is known for sure. The LPGA is...
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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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