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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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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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Alberta Pair Honoured By Golf Canada
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf Two Albertans, long known for their work in the golf industry at the amateur and professional levels, have been honoured by Golf Canada with Distinguished Service Awards, for their efforts to foster the...
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PGA TOUR Canada Chips In To Help Alberta’s Youth on Course Program
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — In an effort to continue growing its Youth on Course program, Alberta Golf has gained financial support through the PGA TOUR Canada stop in Edmonton, by teaming up with the Northern Bear GC at the ATB...
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PGA of Alberta Golf Show Set To Go In Calgary
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf When you come right down to it, the PGA of Alberta Golf Show, which runs in Calgary on March 17 and 18 in Hall D at the BMO Centre, is a win-win deal for both golf vendors and consumers. After all, for those with...
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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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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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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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Gord’s Alberta Golf Notes
two holes after his ace, then recorded a couple of pars, then the albatross, meaning he went 7-under in a six-hole stretch. Alberta golfers fared quite well in the recent Shaw Charity Classic pre-qualifying round in Calgary, with hopes of advancing to...
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Two Alberta Pros Play & Learn In Shaw Charity Classic Qualifiers
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — For one Alberta PGA pro, the pre-qualifying tournament for the 2023 Shaw Charity Classic was all about learning to go forward. For another, it was all about taking what he’d learned to...
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Golf Industry Seeing “Tiger Woods Wave Number 2” In Alberta
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — Like the influx of people hitting the links in the recent past, the number of new faces in pro shops across Alberta is also rising dramatically. On both counts, the executive director of...
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Alberta Team Rebounds Nicely To Finish 5th At RBC Scramble
Success in sports often comes through overcoming adversity. In the case of the five-man team from The Track GC in Langdon, Alberta, that typified their experience at the 2023 RBC Scramble finals at two of Canada’s premier golf courses. They, along with...
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Fire Damage At Alberta Golf Course Limited But Precautions Still Being Taken
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf PARKLAND COUNTY, Alberta — With over 85 wildfires raging across north-central Alberta, many golf courses have found themselves close to the infernos, but as of yet, none that Inside Golf was able to contact have suffered...
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PGA of Alberta Golf Shows Set To Return
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf After a three-year timeout, the PGA of Alberta Golf Shows are set to return with organizers hoping everyone, vendors and the public, get a bigger bang for their buck. Trevor Rioux, the event manager, said there is lots...
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Gord’s Alberta Golf Notes
hit the air on February 28 is the biggest. But, we’ll start with the one that is known for sure. The LPGA is coming back to Alberta, and to Calgary, in 2024. The host site this time will be a city course rather than the countryside venue of Priddis...
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Alberta Couple View PGA Event From ‘Inside The Ropes’
event uses. But get one thing straight: official scorers are not those carrying the players’ number on a big sign. The two Albertans had much more teed up with their roles as they trod around the courses. Michael has volunteered at this event for six...
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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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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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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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Some Hope Edmonton Golf Show Will Return In The Future
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — The decision to cancel the 2023 PGA of Alberta Golf Show in Edmonton didn’t come without a lot of deliberation and, likely, hair-pulling. The event was slated to run for the first time in four years,...
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