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Golfers out in full force to see Weir

Friday, August 27th, 2010

It’s a spectacular day to raise money for the Childrens Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.

Golfers young and old were out in full force this morning at St. Charles Country Club, joining PGA Tour star and Masters champion Mike Weir for the fourth annual Mike Weir Miracle Golf Drive For Kids.

The Mike Weir Foundation has set a goal of raising $10 million across Canada for children’s care.

Teams of players flooded the MacKenzie and Ross Nines early this morning for 18 holes of action. Sunday night at a kick-off reception, four groups successfully bid to play a few holes with Weir today.

Later in the morning, 18 local professionals and 54 kids assembled at St. Charles to participate in the nine-hole Safeway Junior pro-am.

All the players got to meet and have their photos taken with Weir before starting their event.

“That was exciting meeting him, shaking his hand and taking pictures with him,” said Brynn Todd, 12. “I just said hi, but it was so exciting.”

Todd was one of the lucky junior members at St. Charles who won a draw to play in the pro-am. Other juniors around the area earned their spots in club competitions or in contests.

“This was so cool to meet someone in the pros and on TV and to see that you actually get to meet him,” Todd added. “This will be fun but I’m nervous, too.”

Weir, who was a junior obsessed with golf long before he ever won a major championship, hit the first shot of the pro-am and spoke to the juniors, pros and parents assembled around the first tee at St. Charles’ Woods Nine.”Keep working hard,” Weir said. “Because you never know what can happen.”

The fund raising-day continues with a clinic by Weir this afternoon, then tonight’s gala dinner at the Ft. Garry hotel.

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Back in the swing of things Minnewasta’s front nine up and running again

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Members at Minnewasta Golf and Country Club should be strong finishers these days.

That’s because their front nine was closed for more than a year, between July 2008 and July 2009, while Enbridge installed the Alberta Clipper crude oil pipeline beneath three front-nine holes on

the Morden golf course.

The work was supposed to be finished by the end of 2008, but the deadline was missed and the closure continued into 2009.

Instead of closing just the three holes, course officials decided to shut down the entire front nine and play only the back during the construction work. “Yeah, everybody’s really good at it,” Minnewasta pro Chris Worley joked about the back nine. “I mean really good at it.”

Now, however, they must contend with all 18 holes, as Minnewasta is back up and running at full speed. Worley wants Manitoba golfers to know that one of Manitoba’s finest courses is back and better than ever.

“Now we’re just trying to get back on our feet, because we’ve had two years where people hadn’t thought of us,” Worley said.

There were two silver linings to Enbridge installing the Alberta Clipper, which runs from Hardisty, Alta., to Superior, Wis., through the golf course. The executive decided to install a new irrigation system since the course was being dug up anyway, and they were also able to make contour improvements in areas where some of the 1,200 trees were removed.

“The nice thing is where they did take out trees we put mounding, and we got rid of some of the problem areas,” Worley said. “So the course actually came through better than it was in the first place. And it was a good track to begin with.”

Worley also noted that the area that was dug up is in such great shape that people won’t be able to tell where the pipeline work took place.

Enbridge first ran a pipeline through Minnewasta about 10 years ago and was planning to come back in a few years to put down a third one, but they decided to do them both at the same time so the course wouldn’t be affected again.

Worley said every revenue stream at the course took a hit when the front nine was closed, from memberships to pro shop sales to green fees to driving range usage. Minnewasta worked out a deal with Enbridge to make up the financial gap while the work was being done, but now it’s up to them to bring the customers back.

“How long until we get those people back again?” Worley said. “We just need them to come out and try it again, and take a look and actually see what the finished product is.”

OFF TO NATIONALS: The University of Manitoba men’s and women’s golf teams are off to the Canadian University/College Championships, which begin early next week in New Brunswick.

The four-day tournament begins on Monday at Kingswood Park in Fredericton.

Bobby Wiebe, Ryan Pitzel, Burke Wiebe, Jesse Skelton and Riley Unger will make up the Bison men’s squad, while Lindsay Stewart, Chelsea Hummelt, Anne Thorimbert, Lauren Rousseau and Sarah Stebeleski will tee it up for the women’s team.

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE: Golf Manitoba’s women’s alternate shot championship will be played on Thursday at Southwood Golf and Country Club.

Forty-five teams have registered for the tournament, which will also serve as a fund-raiser for the Golf Fore the Cure charity.

BIG HITTERS WANTED: Just a reminder that registration continues for the Manitoba Long Drive Shootout, which will take place June 19 and 20 at Winnipeg’s Fast Golf & Driving Range.

The top four hitters will be sponsored by the event’s organizers to compete in a Re/Max World Long Drive Championship qualifier in Calgary in July.

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Manitoba’s driving force Club craftsman, long bomber power behind long drive event

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

They say chicks dig the long ball.

If that is indeed the case, they’ll want to be at Fast Golf & Driving Range in Headingley, Man., on the weekend of June 19 and 20.

Citing an absence of long drive competitions in the province, a pair of Winnipeggers — a club maker and a long-ball hitter — have teamed up to organize the Manitoba Long Drive Shootout.

The top four finishers in the event will be sponsored to compete in the Re/Max World Long Drive Championship qualifier in Calgary this July.

“I’ll send the four of them out, pay for their travel and their accommodations, and give them the equipment to try to play out there,” said Rob Engley, owner of Professor Golf Products and one of the event’s organizers.

Frank Lagorio is the other driving force behind the event, and he’ll be teeing it up in the competition against all comers.

After learning recently that he had competitive club head speed, Lagorio was ready to enter long drive events. There were only two problems: He didn’t have the tools, and he didn’t have anywhere to compete.

“It turned out it was next to impossible to find long drive (equipment),”

the 27-year-old graduating student said. “One thing led to another, I’m giving people my name, trying to find where I can get some of this stuff, and that’s how I ran into Rob.”

Engley started working in a pro shop in Edmonton when he was just 16, and he’s had a passion for making clubs ever since. He decided five years ago to begin making premium equipment, and after meeting Lagorio he started producing drivers that are meant to launch balls into neighbouring area codes.

“I’ve really gotten into the long drive stuff because of it,” said Engley, who teams up with Justin DeBaets to make the specialized big sticks. “I’ve learned as much as I can.”

In other words, Engley and Lagorio are a match made in long drive heaven, and they hope others will want to join in on the fun next month.

Engley will have several clubs at the Shootout that participants can use during the competition. Engley is putting up $500 towards the purse, as is his employer, Community Electric. There will be prizes for spectators as well.

Lagorio has crushed some monster drives with the wind in his career, but he is most proud of a 388-yarder he had against the wind. He simply finds joy in pounding a golf ball, and he’s hopeful that next month’s competition will be the first of many long drive events in Manitoba.

“We’re not here to make money,” said Lagorio, whose goal is to create a provincial long drive association. “I love hitting the ball. Just like catching fish, it’s just that primal, instinctual feeling … of just crushing a ball. You get it with baseball or hockey when you’re taking slap shots. For me, it’s a great feeling.”

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Ontario Wins the Dominion

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

The Ontario men’s and women’s teams were the winners of this afternoon’s finals of  The Dominion National Curling Club Championships, Canada’s first-ever national championship for club curlers, played at the St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto.

The women’s final against Manitoba went to two extra ends, with the 9th end being blanked, and Ontario winning 6-5  with a stolen single in the 1oth. The men’s championship game also went to an extra, where Ontario recorded a triple, for a 7-4 win.

The men’s team, skipped by Robert Stafford, are from the Chatham Granite club, while the women’s rink, with skip Kelly Cochrane, are from the High Park Curling Club, in Toronto.

In the final round robin draw on Saturday, PEI’s women’s team, from the Crapaud Community Curling Club, spoiled Newfoundland and Labrador’s chance to advance to a tiebreaker round, with the Newfoundland team  stealing a single in the eighth to force an extra end. With Newfoundland lying shot rock in the back four-foot with a guard at the top of the twelve, the ninth end came down to a final shot from PEI skip Vanessa Hamming. Her weight was dead-on s her rock came to a stop right on the button, winning the game for PEI, and eliminating the need for a tiebreaker.

The PEI women ended play with a 2-4 win-loss record, while the men’s team, skipped by Louis Walsh of the Silver Fox, were win less in six starts.

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Maus rink moves into first place

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Tara’s Codey Maus and his Team Ontario is 4-1 and in first place after the seventh draw at the 2010 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship at the Burlington Golf & Country Club.

Skipped by Mark Brice, the Ontario rink dropped its opener 8-4 to Dave Boehmer’s Manitoba squad Saturday and has since reeled off four straight wins.

They include a 7-5 win over Quebec’s Simon Hebert Sunday, a 10-4 victory over B. C.’s Jason Montgomery Sunday, an 8-6 win over Yukon/Northwest Territories Wade Scoffin yesterday as well as a 7-4 victory over P. E. I.’s Kyle Stevenson.

Ontario meets Jason Ackerman’s Saskatchewan rink at 9 a. m. and Matt Blandford’s Newfoundland/ Labrador squad at 1:30 p. m.

If no tiebreakers are needed, the semifinals go Friday and the final Saturday.

If there are tiebreakers, they’ll go Friday with the semis Saturday and the final Sunday.

The Ontario rink includes Leslie Bishop at vice, Courtney Davies at lead and Maus at second.

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Senior Golf Play

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Todd Fanning seems to be soaking up every minute of a return to the Canadian Amateur for the first time in 16 years.

The 40-year-old, who won the Manitoba Amateur in 1984, 1990 and 1991, turned pro in 1993 and slaved away on the Canadian Tour and, in his last year of 2002, the Nationwide Tour with little gain.

So he got a real job, national sales manager for the golf and turf division with National Leasing, and eventually applied for his amateur reinstatement.

“Three kids, not on the PGA Tour and a hell of a lot of travel,” smiled the member of Manitoba’s Willingdon Cup team and third-place finisher in the recent provincial championship. “To be honest, though, I didn’t see my game really improving the last two years out there so the timing was right.

“And I was 35 already.”

Fanning opened with a wind-blown round of 78 on Monday and fired back with a two-under 69 on Tuesday as he continues to shed considerable competitive rust.

“I’ve played one tournament in five years and that was the provincial championship,” he said of a tie for third at four-under. “So it’s great to be here . . . it’s a beautiful spot.”

Fanning is almost a fossil in this field of young guns and if he didn’t feel like one before, he does now.

“I was playing with a young guy from B.C. and when he told me he was from the Capilano club, I told him I played the World Amateur there in ’92,” said Fanning. “He turned to his dad and said, ‘that’s the year I was born!’

“But the caliber of play from the younger players, and when I say younger I mean the under 20s, is amazing. It’s great to see the young guys playing so well and what the RCGA is doing with its amateur programs.”

Fanning doesn’t know if he’ll be back for another Canadian Amateur or not. He says he’s not going to go at the game seriously.

“I’ll play the provincial amateur and if I make the team, I’ll play this one.”

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