Global News sports broadcaster Jay Janower was on hand at Riverway Golf Course for the announcement that the Golf Burnaby facility will be hosting two British Columbia provincial amateur golf championships over the next two years. The BC Amateur is scheduled for Riverway in July of 2026 with the BC Women's Amateur being held there in 2027.

Janower took the time to speak with BC Golf CEO Kris Jonasson and Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley about the exciting prospect ahead for Golf Burnaby as they prepare to host the province's two premier amateur golf championships at their world-class facility. 

See the Global News story HERE.

Burnaby Golf Caps Decades of Innovation & Leadership With Multi-Year Commitment To Hosting Provincial Championships

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

Peter Sorokovsky will never forget his first day on the job as superintendent of Golf Burnaby’s four-course portfolio.

Sorokovsky had been hired after spending several years as assistant superintendent at Northview Golf Club in Surrey, where he had learned some things while helping oversee a massive slit drainage project. It didn’t take him long to realize that he was going to have to put that knowledge to work in a big way in Burnaby.

“I distinctly remember my first day of work with Golf Burnaby and I still have a picture I took that day of the foreman standing in the middle of the 10th fairway at Riverway in late January of 2007 and he has his rubber boots on and he is at least ankle-deep in muddy water and the grass is six inches long,” Sorokovsky says. “And I’m like, oh, no, what did I just step into.”

Turns out he had stepped into a great opportunity. Thanks to support from management at Golf Burnaby and the City of Burnaby, Sorokovsky and his staff were allowed to do the work necessary to turn Riverway into what it was intended to be: the crown jewel of Burnaby’s golf collection and one of the top municipal courses in the country.

Additional Notes: Taylor finishes Masters with birdie barrage; UBC women win in Southern Oregon; SFU women a close 3rd in California; Megan Osland 3rd on Annika All Pro Tour

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(April 14, 2025) - There’s a new sign out front, the nines have been flipped and considerable work has been done to get it in playing shape. Now all Point Roberts Golf & Country Club needs are golfers.

The course, which has been shuttered for the better part of two years, is reopening on April 18, and general manager Tracy Evans hopes British Columbia golfers will put aside all the tariff talk and fall back in love with the course.

On April 27th, Morningstar Golf Club in Parksville will play host to some very lucky junior golfers and your son or daughter could be one of them !

British Columbia Golf is pleased to announce registration is now open for two Regional Junior Golf Camps on Vancouver Island in late April. These camps are open to BC Golf Junior members age 10 to 15, both genders.

The BC Regional Camp is designed to bring the best up and coming young golfers together to test their skills, develop their game, compete with their peers and learn about the pathway ahead. 

The first regional camp on the South Island will take place at Uplands Golf Club April 26th, 8:00am to 7:00pm 

The second regional camp on the North Island will take place at Morningstar Golf Club April 27th, 8:00am to 7:00pm 

Ledgeview GC GM Brad Clapp, Seen Here During Last Year's BC Amateur At Ledgeview - BC Golf Photo

More Ziemer's Notes: Lauren Kim heads back to Augusta National; SFU women win in Colorado; Ewart top-20s in Argentina; Jackson Jacob triumphs in VGT season-opener

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 31st, 2025) - Ledgeview Golf Club, the Abbotsford layout that helped produce the likes of PGA TOUR winners Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin and NCAA champion James Lepp, has received a Golf Canada award for its commitment to junior golf.

And that makes Ledgeview general manager Brad Clapp especially proud. So does the view from the club’s pro shop.

“As I look outside now, we have a couple of five-year-olds rolling a ball towards the hole learning what a break looks like,” Clapp, a former PGA Tour Canada winner, says in an interview.

Lauren Kim - Photo Credit: Bernard Brault/Golf Canada

In Other News/Notes: Anna Huang impresses on Ladies European Tour; Vanessa Zhang second for Harvard; Ewart, Crisologo, Rowe set for PGA Tour Americas season-opener

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 24, 2025) - It was a one-under 71, which under normal circumstances would not get Lauren Kim overly excited. She can shoot that type of round in her sleep. But this one was different. It came in difficult conditions with the wind howling in the final round of her team’s home event at the University of Texas Golf Club.

That round — one bogey, two birdies and 15 pars — turned out to be the only sub-par round of the day at the Betsy Rawls Invitational and propelled the Surrey native to her second collegiate victory. “We were getting gusts of up to 35 miles per hour, so it wasn’t easy out there,” Kim said in an interview.

Lasy year British Columbia Golf provided our members a 'free-to-enter' contest that not only offered bragging rights for the winners but some very nice prizes as well.

We had a teriffic response from our members and many commented on how much they enjoyed the ease of entering/playing and of course the opportunity to see how many friends they could outperform with their prognostication skills. Hey, we're all for 'friendly' rivalries in the name of sport and good fun. And it's fun to win once in a while too. 

For 2025 we are going to run the Majors Challenge for each of the four men's Major Championships - The Masters, The PGA Championship, The U.S. Open, The Open Championship as well as the RBC Canadian Men's Open and the CPKC Women's Canadian Open. 

Julia Alexander Carew - BC Golf File Photo

Anna Huang impresses on LET; Zalli makes first cut on HotelPlanner Tour in India; Ewart loses Asher Tour playoff

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 17, 2025) - Their team nickname is the Heat and the University of B.C.-Okanagan women’s golf team are certainly bringing just that as they get their spring season underway.

For the second straight week, a UBC-Okanagan golfer took home an individual title at a Las Vegas-area tournament. Second-year player Julia Alexander Carew won the Vegas Warrior Invitational this past weekend at Wildhorse Golf Course.

Her win followed last week’s victory by the Heat’s Emily Cornwall, who captured the RMC Intercollegiate at Lake Las Vegas played at Reflection Bay Golf Course.

Those two events were the spring-season openers for the Heat and Alexander Carew is excited that the team was able to find some early success.

Other Notes: UBC sweeps RMC Intercollegiate in Nevada; Lauren Kim close again in South Carolina; Muncie Booth, Jack McDonald honoured by Golf Canada

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 10, 2025) - When we re-open it, will they come? That’s the question owners and staff of Bald Eagle Golf Course in Point Roberts are asking themselves.

General manager Tracy Evans has confirmed the course will indeed re-open this spring. An initial target date of April 1 likely will not be met, but the hope is shortly thereafter the highly regarded layout will be back open for business.

And if the course is to remain open, it must attract British Columbians, who in the past have accounted for 90 per cent of its play. Evans knows the current political climate is not great and many Canadians are vowing not to cross the border. “It’s a concern,” says Evans, a Whatcom County realtor who doubles as GM of the course.

“Point Roberts is definitely being impacted by it already. People are just not crossing the border to come down for gas and other things. The businesses down here are feeling it already.”

After the huge success of the Pebble Beach Classic, we’re taking things to the next level—expanding across British Columbia for an even bigger and better Masters-Inspired Indoor Sim Series!

See below for dates and information, sign-up soon to guarantee a spot and compete for prizes straight from Augusta National! 

MEDIA RELEASE

Oakville, Ont. (March 6, 2025) – Golf Canada’s 2025 Annual General Meeting concluded on Thursday, March 6 with the election of Adam Daifallah of Montréal, Que. to serve as the 118th President of the National Sport Federation.

A volunteer with Golf Canada since 2013, Daifallah joined the Board of Directors in 2018 and most recently served two consecutive terms as vice president (2023-2024). He is currently a Senior Managing Director at Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm, with responsibility for Teneo’s Montréal office.

Previously he was co-founder and Managing Partner of the public affairs firm HATLEY Strategy Advisors, which was acquired by Teneo in 2020. Prior to that, Daifallah practiced law at the Montréal office of Norton Rose Fulbright (then Ogilvy Renault), sat on the editorial board of the National Post, and was Washington correspondent of The New York Sun.

Courtesy Golf Canada

Oakville, ON(March 6, 2025) – Four accomplished contributors to Canadian golf will be acknowledged for their dedicated efforts in and around the game as the 2025 recipients of Golf Canada’s Distinguished Service Award.

Long-time Golf Canada volunteers Lee Griffin of Cambridge, Ont., Jack McDonald of Kamloops, B.C. and Jean Stone-Séguin of Rockland, Ont. along with retired PGA of Canada professional Muncie Booth of Vancouver, B.C. will be acknowledged for their tremendous contributions to Canadian golf.

“Golf Canada is proud to honour the outstanding contributions of Lee Griffin, Jack McDonald, Jean Stone-Séguin and Muncie Booth, as our 2025 Distinguished Service Award recipients,” said David McCarthy, President, Golf Canada.

“The incredible dedication that these four honourees have for the game is truly outstanding. The impact they have had in both their home communities and across the country has left an indelible mark on golf in Canada and we are proud to honour and recognize them.”

BC's Cooper Humphreys In The 2023 BC Amateur At Morningstar GC - BC Golf Photo/Bryan Outram

Other Notes: Tough weekend for B.C. pros; Belmont re-opening set for June; No Crown Isle Q-school this year

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(March 3, 2025) - Cooper Humphreys has that laid-back, California surfer-dude persona and has always seemed like the kind of guy who would feel right at home in shorts, shades and flip-flops.

So it should come as no surprise that the two-time B.C. Amateur champion is loving life playing collegiate golf for the University of San Diego. “It has been awesome,” the Kelowna native said in a telephone interview.

“After growing up with snowy winters, it’s so nice to wake up to 70 degrees and sunshine pretty much every single day. I can remember one day where it has rained a little bit and a couple of days where it has been cloudy. The weather has been awesome.”

So has the golf. Humphreys has registered two top-10s in the first two spring events of his freshman year and his team has taken home titles in three of its last four starts.

For Immediate Release

PITT MEADOWS, BC (February 26, 2025) - Pitt Meadows Golf Club has been selected by BC Golf as the host site for the 2025 Men’s Senior and Super-Senior Championships from August 4th to August 7th.

“We are excited to continue our partnership with Pitt Meadows,” said Jerome Goddard, BC Golf Director of Rules & Competitions. “The Club has invested tremendously in their facilities and golf course over the past several years and Pitt Meadows continues to be a strong Championship host site.”

“The club is very excited to host the BC Men’s Senior Championship this summer and this championship will be a great opportunity to show what Pitt Meadows Golf Club has to offer.” said Wes Doka, Head Professional of Pitt Meadows Golf Club.

This page provides access to documents created specifically with respect to British Columbia Golf's new Bylaws scheduled to come into effect March 5, 2025. 

Please note the details to attend the Special Meeting are contained within the President's letter in the link below. 

North Bellingham GC - image courtesy North Bellingham GC

Taylor top-10s at Genesis Invitational; Jessica Hadwin pokes fun at her husband; SFU men start spring season in impressive fashion

By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf

(February 17, 2025) - Golf course operators south of the border in Whatcom County will be nervously examining their tee sheets in the coming weeks to determine what effect the threats of tariffs and Canada becoming a “51st state” will have on their businesses.

With snow on the ground last week and courses closed, it was too early to say what effect U.S. President Donald Trump’s tough talk regarding Canada is having on golfers who regularly play Whatcom County layouts.

But with polls showing that many Canadians are vowing to avoid travel to the United States, it seems likely that Bellingham and Blaine-area courses like Loomis Trail, North Bellingham and Shuksan could be hurt. Those courses rely heavily on play from British Columbians.