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First Tee – Canada Set To Launch Soon In Alberta
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 life-enhancing experiences...
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Tee Time Booking Site Swings Into B.C. Courses
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, a Class A professional, said he has always had the...
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Edmonton’s VIP Golf Show Ready To Tee It Up For Another Year
listeners in its time slot. And to think this broadcast, which now stretches over 90 minutes, almost never got off the first tee. Murray McCourt, who along with Curtis Stock hosts the weekly chatfest, explained when this idea was first broached three...
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The Desert Willow Golf Resort Is A Top-Notch Facility
tracks. Szydlowski noted neither is better than the other. Firecliff Sees Forced Carries, Which Aren’t Overly Large, Off Each Tee, Meaning Drives Best Be Airborne To Reach Immaculate Fairways. (Photo By Gord Montgomery/Inside Golf) “We’ve been guilty of...
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Sagebrush GC Prepared For A New Season
now, watering, and everything is starting to happen. We’ll open in a couple of weeks.” For 2024, customer services beyond the tee box have seen improvements. Hood explained that the food and beverage end of the operation has been expanded dramatically....
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Mountain View No Longer Has To Live Up To Big Sister
at Desert Willow Ryan Szydlowski pointed out that while newcomers to this 36-hole facility almost automatically want to tee it up on the big sister Firecliff built in 1997, the staff here don’t hesitate to recommend its younger sister Mountain View as...
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Apple Creek GC Is A Good Test Of Target Golf & The Whole Family Is Welcome
with around 60 video games onsite in the arcade, let’s talk about this golf course. This is a course where you likely want to tee it up more than once. Apple Creek’s Director of Golf Tyrel Babkirk noted this 18-hole layout, located a scant five minutes...
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Two Distinctly Different Nines In Westlock & A Welcoming Committee
nines here,” course general manager Ryan Provencal emphasized. “The front nine gives you a little more freedom off the tee, but there is fescue so you can get in trouble there. You go to the back nine, which is the old nine, and it’s small, small...
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Silver Rock Offers Great Golf & Photo Ops
nine were altered, it’s still a great test of your game, including sand play and putting abilities. It’s a wonderful place to tee it up and pull out your camera, regardless of your skill level in both pastimes. “Silver Rock was opened in 2005 and the...
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Mill Woods GC, An Unexpected Pleasure To Play
approach shot is hit fat but lands on a sprinkler head and ends up on the green, leaving you a makable birdie putt; and you tee it up on a course you don’t know much about and find it to be one of those pleasant surprises. That last descriptor fits the...
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Slices, Spices & Oh So Much More In Surrey, B.C. (Part 1)
You Have To Think Hard About Whether You Have Enough In The Tank To Cross The Water Hazard At Its Furthest Point From The Tee Box. (Photo By Gord Montgomery/Inside Golf) Teeing It Up on Surrey’s Slice Trail Let’s get this straight: I’m a golfie, not a...
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Whitecourt G&CC A Wonderful Rural Golf Experience
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, get back as quickly as you can. Andy Neilsen, the CPGA Head Professional/General...
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Fire Damage At Alberta Golf Course Limited But Precautions Still Being Taken
change the shape of the holes or anything. On the existing course, on our Creekside Nine around the fourth green and fifth tee box, itburned some trees on the edge and some brush. We were very lucky. If the wind had gone the other direction it would...
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Some Hope Edmonton Golf Show Will Return In The Future
thanks largely to the pandemic where golf was the only sport to play (for a while at least), courses have seen their tee sheets full day after day. “Whether it was private clubs that had participated in the past or public courses, they’re saying ‘Our...
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PGA TOUR Canada, Northern Bear Ink Three-Year Deal
on making this deal happen. That agreement will now see the Edmonton-area stop on the Canadian golf tour, the ATB Classic, tee it up at Northern Bear for the next three consecutive seasons. “I had a relationship with the PGA TOUR up in Fort Mac...
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Sirocco Golf Club Has An Ever-Changing Feel
get. A phenomenon known locally as the Sirocco Swirl means you could well be playing a different course today than when you teed it up here yesterday. Founded in 2005, Sirocco is a links-style course that plays to over 7,100 yards from the back tees....
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Strathmore GC’s Challenges Come Early On In Your Round
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf STRATHMORE, Alberta — If you’re teeing it up at the Strathmore Golf Club, you best have your game face on right away. According to the professional staff there, the toughest tests come early on. Executive...
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Slices, Spices & Oh So Much More In Surrey, B.C. (Part 2)
and played from 1996-2002 on the Ridge Course. Northview is also home to the Canal Course, a links-style layout. I teed it up on the Ridge, where you find an interesting mix of holes. The front nine is quite heavily treed in areas while the home stretch...
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Dinosaur Trail G&CC A Unique Mix Of Nines
with short, rough, and greens that are both receptive and relatively flat. It plays out to justover 3,200 yards off the back tees, winding down to 2,900 off the white blocks and 2,657 from the front deck. With your confidence built up after maneuvering...
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Some Gift Ideas For The Golfer Who Has Just About Everything
(up to a specific amount) to a motorized golf cart, and window replacement insurance in case of a wicked slice off the tee into someone’s front window. You can also receive rental car and hotel discounts for those golf trips everyone loves to take....
https://insidegolf.ca/read/16511-some-gift-ideas-for-the-golfer-who-has-just-about-everything