It’s kind of like fantasy camp, I guess!” Held at Valley Ridge in Calgary, Cuthbertson said he didn’t put any pressure on trying to move on himself. “I think mostly because I had an idea of what I had to shoot to make it to the second qualifier. I...
where the cup is. There’s a shuffleboard game; a corn hole game. Beer pong is a game where there are ten lights and you’re trying to roll your ball like you toss your ping-pong ball into a cup. Then there’s the putting challenge, which is great for wage...
Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf LA QUINTA, California — It’s one thing to be a spectator at a PGA TOUR event, trying to keep up with players as they make their appointed rounds. For one Stony Plain, AB, couple, keeping pace with particular...
final were second to none. For that reason, he suggests that everyone, no matter their skill level, should take part in trying to qualify for this event which takes place yearly following local qualifying rounds. Schubert’s course hosted a qualifier...
where they are offered simpler styles of games. Adults are also more than welcome in these areas. “The owner was just trying to create a year-round model, how he could best use his space,” Babkirk said of why the arcade was started. “Airdrie was missing...
which in the end makes this layout, as flat and as open as it may be, a true test of golf. “Every green is a challenge,” in trying to figure out break and slope. “We’re not that type of course,” where the ball always goes the same direction on every...
the penultimate hole. Of those closing holes where nothing would fall for Heffernan, he noted, “You start thinking more of trying to protect the lead. I think I did a pretty good job of not doing that. I just didn’t make the putts. I’d say less...
Overall, that’s the prevailing feeling here. One of fun and making everyone feel welcome on this course. “Here, we’re trying to take it a bit lighter. Not take it so seriously. Not be so uptight, I guess, is the best way to put it,” Schubert explained...
[and their massive firestorm of 2016] our owner lost his house,” and McDowell was then working up there. “So, I was trying to be proactive rather than standing there with our hands in our pockets.” To that end, the maintenance crews and course staff put...
the schedule, there were an awful lot of little towns around Alberta that had junior tournaments already so we were trying to coordinate the best of these courses and work with courses that had junior-friendly attitudes.” And there is no doubt that...
engagement, some excitement, from golf courses, from B.C., and the U.S. that promote to this Canadian demographic. We’re trying to get as many courses as we can signed up, plus manufacturers with their latest and greatest products. We are back and we...