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[Mike K.]

Good grief, eh?

It’s worth a lot, but not a billion bucks. C’mon, now.

[Victoria Watcher]

Gorge Vale will be golf central for some of the best players in the province over the next three years. It was announced the 2025 B.C. junior girls’ championship will take place at the Craigflower Road course from June 30 to July 4 and that the B.C. Men’s Amateur will also be hosted at Gorge Vale in 2027 to celebrate the club’s centenary.

 

“The centennial year of the Gorge Vale Golf Club is 2027 and what better way to celebrate than to invite the best amateur golfers in the province,” club president Bryan Thomson said in a statement.

 

“We are also proud of our commitment to junior golf and our junior girls in particular. We are very excited host the best junior girls in the province.”

 

Gorge Vale has a history of hosting championship tournaments, including at the pro level, with nine Victoria Opens held at the A.V. Macan-designed course from 1986 to 2007, with winners there on Craigflower that included future PGA Tour players Craig Parry, Steve Stricker, Brandt Jobe and David Hearn.

 

The B.C. junior girls’ championship next year will be 72 holes featuring the 39 best junior female players in the province. This year’s winner, at Gallagher’s Canyon in Kelowna with an astonishing record-shattering 18-stroke victory, was the 16-year-old prodigy Amy Lee of Langley, considered the next big thing coming out of B.C. female golf.

 

Gorge Vale GM Mike Heenan laid out the challenge his course will provide for Lee and the other hopefuls next year: “For golfers to score well at Gorge Vale, ball striking is key. Keeping your ball in play off the tee and finding the right spots on the greens will set the competitors up for a successful week.”

 

 

https://www.timescol...onships-9766094

 

 

 

 

 

This year’s winner, at Gallagher’s Canyon in Kelowna with an astonishing record-shattering 18-stroke victory, was the 16-year-old prodigy Amy Lee of Langley

 

 

 

Holy cow!

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 November 2024 - 04:41 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/Daniel...762105376653316

 

 

 

 

 

What a guy.

 

 

 

Bernhard Langer wins for 18th straight year on Champions

 

https://www.theglobe...ampions-austin/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bernhard Langer won on Sunday. Again. To break his own record for being the oldest PGA Tour Champions winner. Again. Golfers have longer careers than other professional athletes, but this is just ridiculous.

Langer has had a longer career than most if you just count his time on the senior tour. And he's certainly made more than most. Heck, the two-time Masters champ has made three times as much since turning 50 than he did on the regular PGA Tour. And the dude showed his longevity isn't stopping any time soon after his dominant win at the 43rd U.S. Senior Open.

 

https://www.golfdige...-by-the-numbers

 

 

 

With 46 career victories on the senior circuit, the 65-year-old German has passed Hale Irwin's seemingly unbreakable record. Here are some other numbers that tell just how amazing Langer's (long) run of dominance has been.

16: The number of seasons Langer has played as well as the number of seasons in which he's recorded a win.

11: The number of consecutive seasons Langer has won at least two tournaments. That's a decade straight of multiple victories. Since turning 55 and being eligible for senior discounts at most places.

6: The number of times he's won the season-long Schwab Cup. Bernhard was nice enough to let Steven Alker or Padraig Harrington win that this year.

40: Langer's number of career runner-ups on the senior tour. That's a lot of close calls on top of those 46 wins!

12: Langer's record number of career PGA Tour Champions majors. He's also the only golfer to have won all five of the senior tour's majors. Let's just call is the Bernhard Slam.

11: Langer's record for being the tour's money leader, including seven times in a row. Sorry for using the same number twice, but that's amazing.

10: The number of times Langer has won a tournament by at least five shots, including on Sunday. As if that's not crazy enough, consider he's separating himself from the field this much during mostly 54-hole events.

13: Langer's biggest blowout came over four rounds at the 2014 Senior Open Championship. As if you needed another example of why this dude is the Tiger Woods of the senior tour.

 

$34,367,569: Langer's career PGA Tour Champions earnings. And that doesn't even include all his Schwab Cup bonuses! Add in another $8.2 million for that and that puts him up to nearly $42 million!

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 11 November 2024 - 06:58 AM.

[aastra]

 

I have it at about 40 acres.  So it would have to sell at $25M per acre to be worth a $ billion.

 

Aerial view suggests the golf course property could comfortably accommodate ~500 houses if south Oak Bay's neighbourhood lot format were extended over it. Set aside some exceptional waterfront properties and maybe one or two spots for midrise buildings here or there and methinks that land would have to be worth $500 million at a minimum.

[aastra]

We've never been able to make up our minds re: the golf course crisis. Are there too many golf courses or not enough golf courses? Are the clubs under threat or are they making out like bandits?

 

 

Daily Colonist
September 19, 1973

Golf Courses Need Tax Aid

Special provision to control municipal tax increases for golf courses was urged in the B.C. Legislature Monday by Oak Bay MLA Scott Wallace.

If something is not done to improve the tax situation for golf courses, many in B.C. might have to close, he warned.

For the Uplands... this would likely mean an increase in dues of 50 per cent just to cover the taxes -- from $180 a year to $270. This would mean that golf would soon become a rich man's game again in B.C., he said.

...many municipal assessors assess the market value not as a golf course, but as a "hypothetical subdivision." The government appears to consider golf courses as business properties although most are non-profit...

Wallace agreed that golf clubs should not be allowed to "speculate and profit" at the expense of tax concessions, but neither should they be subjected to such extreme tax increases.

[lanforod]

I'll vote for not enough. Need more. More i tell ya!  Bring back some par 32 9 hole courses please...

[Victoria Watcher]

Canadian Nick Taylor prevails in playoff at Sony Open in Hawaii

 

Abbotsford, B.C. pro eagles 18th hole of final round to tie Nico Echavarria

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/s...jan12-1.7429458

 

 

Canada's Nick Taylor delivered another theatrical finish Sunday, this time chipping in for eagle on the 18th hole to get into a playoff at the Sony Open and winning with a superb pitch that set up birdie to defeat Nico Echavarria.

 

Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., never looked like a winner at Waialae, especially after missing two short birdie chances down the stretch. That changed all so suddenly when his eagle chip from 60 feet rolled in on the par-5 closing hole for a 5-under 65.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 January 2025 - 11:37 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/Daniel...620148200079613

 

[Victoria Watcher]

https://x.com/Collin...694289865535901

 

 

Blue shirt guy for the win!

 

Gotta be careful who you fight on the golf course in Kelowna.  Home of hundreds of former NHLers.

 

 

Expanded version on Reddit:

 

https://www.reddit.c..._on_the_course/

 

 

Most annoying thing is the woman telling Justin to step in.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 April 2025 - 01:42 AM.

[Mike K.]

You mean to tell me, these guys understand Bank of Canada economic policy better than I do?

[Victoria Watcher]

The owners of a golf course in West Kelowna say they are demanding restitution from those involved in a physical altercation on their course earlier this week — an incident they describe as a desecration of the property and a breach of community values.

 

The confrontation at Two Eagles Golf Course and Academy was caught on video Monday and has since circulated online. It shows a heated dispute between two groups of golfers, escalating into shouting, shoving and punches, as others attempt to intervene.

 

The course is located on Westbank First Nation land and is under Indigenous ownership.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...fight-1.7512635

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 April 2025 - 08:12 AM.

[Matt R.]

Haha the golf course wants a payout? I guess someone had to clean the bloody golf cart.

Those guys certainly understand monetary policy.

[Mike K.]

In that screen grab, only the lady is looking away, probably rolling her eyes.

[Matt R.]

She was right in the middle of it all.

[Victoria Watcher]

Ya she was almost hit with a club.