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[pontcanna]

Fore!: Three-year sponsorship for newly-named Royal Beach Victoria Open

 

Jon Stovell of Reliance Properties, left, and Jeff Luccock, with Seacliff Group, announce a new sponsorship deal for the Royal Beach Victoria Open, presented by the Times Colonist, on Monday at Uplands Golf Club. 

Jeff Luccock says Phil Mickelson became his favourite player because lefties tend to be kindred spirits. Jon Stovell liked the freshness Rory Mcllroy and Rickie Fowler brought to the sport when they were emerging a few years ago.

Whoever they root for, Lower Mainlanders Luccock and Stovell are united in their love of golf. They have secured the future of the Island’s annual $200,000 pro tournament for at least the next three years with the announcement Monday the event will be known as the Royal Beach ­Victoria Open, presented by the Times Colonist, through 2024.

Stovell is the president and CEO of Reliance Properties and Luccock president of Seacliff Properties, which have partnered on the $1.2-billion Royal Beach residential and commercial development in Colwood to be built out over 15 years.

Stovell came on board last year as a co-title sponsor of the then-named Reliance Properties DCBank Victoria Open.

 

More: https://www.timescol...ia-open-5014310

[pontcanna]

Whoa - the kid's got a little attitude - may even have the game to back it up

 

Victoria's Jeevan Sihota turns down NCAA golf to turn pro

The recruitment letters and calls just kept coming for ­Jeevan Sihota of Gorge Vale Golf Club. He turned them all down.

Cleve Dheensaw


Eighteen-year-old Jeevan Sihota will be among the 99 players at this weeks PGA Tour Canada qualifying tournament at Crown Isle Golf Resort in Courtenay. 

The recruitment letters and calls just kept coming for ­Jeevan Sihota of Gorge Vale Golf Club. It was a dizzying array of more than 60 offers, from most of the biggest-name NCAA Div. 1 sports programs in the U.S., all who coveted landing the most heavily recruited graduating Grade 12 Canadian golfer in ­several years.

Sihota turned them all down and will instead begin his quest for the PGA Tour by turning pro immediately on the PGA Tour Canada, beginning with the hometown Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by the Times Colonist from June 2-5 at Uplands Golf Club. Sihota is also playing in the PGA Tour Canada qualifying tournament, beginning today at Crown Isle in Courtenay, but has been granted a sponsor’s exemption into the 2022 season-opening Tour event at Uplands.

Sihota’s move is surprising a lot of people, including family members and others around him, who strongly urged him to take one of the many NCAA offers he received for a fully paid four-year post-secondary education worth close to, or into, the six figures. But Sihota took his high schooling online, to better build his life around golf, and the ivy-clad buildings, campus life, cheerleaders and football and basketball games mean nothing to him.

“I received a lot of NCAA offers, for sure, but none of that [campus atmosphere] stuff matters to me,” said Sihota, a member of the Canadian junior national team.

“I want to pursue my dream.”

But there is no guarantee all this will happen overnight for an 18-year-old pro rookie, who could end up spending more than one season on the PGA Tour Canada. Even a prodigy like Sihota, who made a spectacular debut last year as an amateur on the PGA Tour Canada by placing in the top-six in two of his first three pro tournaments, including tied for second in the Victoria Open at Uplands where he was followed by a large gallery.

Whether it’s a quick ­ascension from the minor-pro tours to the big time, or a several-years slog, Sihota said: “I am prepared for both scenarios. If it doesn’t go my way right away, I have many years ahead of me to make improvements. I am taking it just one step at a time.”

 

More: https://www.timescol...urn-pro-5299849

[Victoria Watcher]

He was already making the news at 13 years old.

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[Victoria Watcher]

Stevens outlasts Knapp on third playoff hole to win dramatic Royal Beach Victoria Open

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 June 2022 - 02:47 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Swinging into spring will be replaced by putting into fall for the Victoria Open presented by the Times Colonist as the pro tournament’s traditional June dates will be switched to Sept. 18-21 next year at Uplands Golf Club.

 

The 16-tournament 2025 PGA Tour Americas schedule, which plays across eight nations, was unveiled Monday. The top 10 on the season will earn 2026 cards into the Korn Ferry Tour, which is the gateway to the PGA Tour in the pro-golf ladder.

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 December 2024 - 08:54 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Fore!: Three-year sponsorship for newly-named Royal Beach Victoria Open

 

Jon Stovell of Reliance Properties, left, and Jeff Luccock, with Seacliff Group, announce a new sponsorship deal for the Royal Beach Victoria Open, presented by the Times Colonist, on Monday at Uplands Golf Club. 

Jeff Luccock says Phil Mickelson became his favourite player because lefties tend to be kindred spirits. Jon Stovell liked the freshness Rory Mcllroy and Rickie Fowler brought to the sport when they were emerging a few years ago.

Whoever they root for, Lower Mainlanders Luccock and Stovell are united in their love of golf. They have secured the future of the Island’s annual $200,000 pro tournament for at least the next three years with the announcement Monday the event will be known as the Royal Beach ­Victoria Open, presented by the Times Colonist, through 2024.

Stovell is the president and CEO of Reliance Properties and Luccock president of Seacliff Properties, which have partnered on the $1.2-billion Royal Beach residential and commercial development in Colwood to be built out over 15 years.

Stovell came on board last year as a co-title sponsor of the then-named Reliance Properties DCBank Victoria Open.

 

More: https://www.timescol...ia-open-5014310

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our sponsorship was announced this morning, along with another major sponsor. So let’s make it official: The full name of the event will be the Times Colonist Victoria Open, presented by Andrew Sheret Limited.

 

https://www.timescol...a-open-10085910

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 January 2025 - 10:49 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

They need to grow this thing.

[Victoria Watcher]

Times Colonist title sponsor, Norris-Jones new tournament director of Victoria Open

 

Tournament set for Sept 18-21 at Uplands

 

https://www.timescol...a-open-10088877

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 January 2025 - 02:58 AM.

[lanforod]

Rory McIlroy just won his career grand slam. Amazing feat!

[pontcanna]

Rory is prodigiously talented (on ability up there with Tiger/Jack) but is prone to incredibly lunkheaded flubs like dumping wedges in the water/bunker and missing 4 footers when it's all on the line. Glad he made it over the line at last, but he very nearly blew it. Never seen a golfer alternate between sheer brilliance and dufferdom like he does.

[lanforod]

ive got the dufferdom part down pat... Golf is hard 

[Victoria Watcher]

 

[LJ]

I was exhausted after watching the Masters, I thought Phil was hard to watch, Rory just took his place.