Golf Course News

  • Fernie Boasts Earliest Golf Of The Year

    During the annual Griz Days festivities in early March, area golfers had the chance to a play a six-hole loop...  in the snow!

  • MaraHills Lot Sales By Auction Proving Very Successful

    When Kelowna-based PintoWest bought Hyde Mountain Golf Course in 2021, there was a clearly different approach for development…

  • Playing Tobiano With Head Professional Shannon McGeady

    Tobiano boasts a great course with a website to match. Drone flyovers of each hole are enhanced by "How-To-Play" video clips from Shannon. Here she takes us through her favourite, the par-four 6th...

  • Coming Home To Quesnel Proving A Perfect For Kathy

    When a group of local business people took over the Quesnel GC in 2022, one of the first things they did was hire Kathy Gook as General Manager & Director of Golf and things could not have gone any better...

  • PGA of Canada Members On The Move

    Kate Weir Has Moved To Bighorn Golf & Country Club

    From Kamloops To Osoyoos there have been almost 30 PGA Professionals who have found a new Club to call home. Find out who is new behind the counter or on the teaching deck at your course here...

  • Kelowna Springs Still A Golf Course… For Now Or Forever?

    The Denciti Development Corp. bought the Kelowna Springs property last year expecting to redevelop it as an industrial park… Not so fast.

  • Les Furber To Revive Stalled Peachland Project

    Les Furber (Image Credit: Where2GolfPeachland (Image Credit: KDBelliveau/Wikimedia)

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    Les Furber’s footprints are all over the British Columbia golfing landscape and the prolific 76-year-old course designer isn’t done yet. 

    Furber has been tabbed to revive a long-stalled project in Peachland on the site of the former Ponderosa Golf Course...

  • The Pro's Favourites: BC's Interior Golf Courses (Part Two)

    Eagle Ranch GC, Invermere 

    Earlier we offered a look at 9 of the favourite golf holes found in BC’s interior according to golf professionals and executives from many of those facilities. Roy Wood spoke with Head Pros & Directors of Golf to get their input on what they consider to be the ‘favourites’ from their home tracks. As promised here is the second nine to be profiled. - ed

    By Roy Wood

    There are any number of factors that go into what makes a golf hole someone’s favourite -- difficulty, risk/reward, natural beauty and much more....

  • Quaaout Lodge In Shuswap To Be Rebuilt After Devastating Fire

    Image Courtesy NShuswap Kicker Facebook

    by Martha Wickett/Pentiction Western News

    Devastation, sadness and heartbreak are widespread following a fire that destroyed the guest wing of Quaaout Lodge in Skwlax, Secwépemc territory, in the Thompson-Nicola region.

    On the shores of Little Shuswap Lake, about 45 kilometres northwest of Salmon Arm, Quaaout Lodge & Spa at Talking Rock Resort is described by its social media as the pride of the Little Shuswap Lake Band.

    Click HERE to read complete story...

  • The Pro’s Favourites: BC’s Interior Golf Courses

    We offer here a look at 9 of the favourite golf holes found in BC’s interior according to golf professionals and executives from many of those facilities. Roy Wood spoke with Head Pros & Directors of Golf to get their input on what they consider their ‘favourites’ from their home tracks. Another 9 holes will be profiled later in the summer. - ed

    By Roy Wood, British Columbia Golf

    There are a number of factors that go into what makes a golf hole someone’s favourite — difficulty, risk/reward, natural beauty and much more. Inside Golf was curious about the views of folks with up-close relationships with various courses.

    So we spoke with head professionals and directors of golf at a number of Southern Interior courses from the Okanagan to Kamloops, to the Kootenays. In the first of a limited series, here are responses from senior staff at nine courses. The interviews have been edited for clarity and length.

  • Talking Rock GC Gets Set To Host 2022 BC Mid-Amateur

    By Roy Wood, British Columbia Golf

    On the tree-lined fairways of Talking Rock Golf Course, the British Columbia Golf championship season begins in mid-May, as 144 men and women over 25 embark on 54 holes of stroke play competition.

    With generous maximum index requirements, the Women’s and Men’s Mid-Amateur/Mid-Master provide an opportunity for players with a range of playing abilities to enjoy the experience of a big-time tournament.

  • After Almost A Century, Purcell Golf Getting A Makeover

    By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf

    KIMBERLEY, British Columbia — After thousands of birdies and bogeys, and almost 100 years of good and bad swings, Purcell Golf, home of the Kimberley Golf Club, is undergoing a massive facelift. Actually, it’s more of a face mulligan in a manner of speaking.

    You see, thanks to the magnificent Ponderosa pine that encompass the first nine holes and cast long shadows over this pristine Kootenay area track, the grass on the putting surfaces has met its maker. So, a new nine holes have been drawn up and they’ll move down toward the St. Mary’s River, adding more challenge, and sunlight, to those areas. And put a totally new face on an old facility’s opening stretch.

  • B.C. Senior Men’s Championship Competitors Loving Bootleg Gap

    John Gallacher

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    KIMBERLEY, British Columbia — John Gallacher recently turned 70 so the fact he shot a four-under 68 to share the lead after the first round of the B.C. Senior Men’s Championship at Bootleg Gap Golf Course was noteworthy. But Gallacher, a two-time B.C. Senior Men’s winner from Burnaby, was more interested in talking about the golf course than his impressive play.

    “I think this is the best course we have been at since the Canadian Senior was at Capilano (in 2014) or maybe since I have been a senior,” Gallacher said of Bootleg Gap after his round, which left him tied with Jim Shaw of Sooke and defending champion Norm Bradley of Kelowna.

  • ‘Super’ Dogs: Meet The Best Friends Of Many B.C. Golf Course Superintendents

    By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

    We’ll start with the obvious: The subjects of this story are all very good boys and girls. They are also very lucky dogs.

    What a life they live. Up before the crack of dawn and free to run all day on the golf course with their owners.

    Those owners — golf course superintendents all over British Columbia — are lucky as well. They get to go to work with their best friends, who often ride shotgun in their Gators when they are not racing alongside.

  • Video Clip Of The Month: Wildlife At Cordova Bay

    This Twitter post from Cordova Bay may look benign but the eagle has an ulterior motive...

  • Video: Cordova Bay Employee Swims The Extra Yard

    When a member's pull cart and bag took an unexpected dip, Woo Park took the plunge to save the day...

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