Northern Alberta: Local News / Central Region

Packed Field And Playoff Highlight MJT Alberta Season Opener At Paradise Canyon

Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 01:32 Tuesday, 07 May 2013 01:25

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Four Shortlisted For Callaway Junior World Golf Championship

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta -- The Boston Pizza-presented Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour's (MJT) two-day Albertan season opener on May 4-5, 2013 at Paradise Canyon Golf Club in Lethbridge was packed with an oversubscribed field of 113 competitors from Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC in the Golf Alberta-ranked tournament, and needed a playoff to decide the Overall Champion. Four players also qualified for age-specific shortlisted spots into the Callaway Junior World Golf Championship in San Diego, California this July, with the final winners to be announced once all MJT qualifiers across the country have completed.

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Alberta’s PGA Pros Reaching Out To Public To Grow Game

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:38 Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:31

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by Gord Montgomery

In the “olden days” one had to go to a golf course, and into the pro shop to meet the golf professionals face to face. Nowadays however, the Alberta PGA is on the road to making that initial meet-and-greet a little easier by putting the pros’ faces out in the community to better interact with the general public.

Phil Berube, the executive director of the Alberta PGA, explained that a trial run with such an undertaking proved to be a huge success in Calgary last year and as such the association is looking forward to growing the game through more of the same this year.

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CJGA Partners with PGA Tour Canada Events in Alberta

Last Updated on Monday, 21 January 2013 22:16 Monday, 21 January 2013 22:09

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Richmond Hill, ON – The Canadian Junior Golf Association (CJGA) announced its partnership with Linx Marketing, operators of two PGA TOUR Canada events in Alberta, the ATB Financial Classic presented by TELUS and The Syncrude Boreal Open presented by AECON.

The partnership will see the creation of the ATB Financial Junior Qualifier and The Syncrude Junior Qualifier with a tournament exemption into each of the aforementioned PGA TOUR Canada events up for grabs.

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Golfapaloosa or Four Guys Play Five Courses In Three Days In Two Provinces

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 10:25 Monday, 27 August 2012 15:07

by Jim Claggett

 

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It started on a very bright, warm Friday in July at the Coyote Creek course a bit west and south of Sundre, Alberta.
 
From the time we got our first glimpse of the course we could feel this was going to be special and we were not disappointed.

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Even After All These Years, Wolf Creek Still Has All Sorts Of Appeal

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:40 Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:20

by Gord Montgomery

 

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Is your game good enough to take a bite out of the Wolf? Or, is the Wolf still the one doing the biting?
 
There’s no better way to answer that question than to head along Hwy. 2 in Alberta to the famed, and still fantastic, Wolf Creek Golf Resort and test your game on a track where the pros used to play on the Old Course – and now, test it again on another great 18 hole loop as well, known as the Links Course.
 
Opened in 1983, the Wolf (as those who have stared down its throat love to call it) still retains its appeal as a must-play course and rightly so, says Ryan Vold, the director of golf at the links-style layout, during a recent playgolfalberta.com junket.

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