Southern Alberta Current Features
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Fairmont's Historic Canadian Rockies Golf Properties Ready for a Banner Year
BANFF, Alberta -- Summer is on the way and bringing with it a big anniversary and some new additions for Fairmont's historic golf properties in the Canadian Rockies -- The Fairmont Banff Springs and The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. The Fairmont Banff Springs in the heart of Canada's beloved Banff National Park celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. The 2013 golf season kicked off Saturday, May 4, 2013 with the opening of the Tunnel Nine Course. The acclaimed Stanley -
Owning Your Golf Swing…No Matter What It Looks Like
by Mark Corrigan I’ve done it! I know exactly what I want out of my golf swing. A golf swing that proves manageable and repeatable. And being relatively mobile, I’m light years ahead of the curve. My ideal shot shape is a slight push. No draws, no fading in conventional terms, just aim left of my target and push the golf ball towards it. Never going left of the initial target is all that really matters. Everything that stays right… or righter… of -
Exciting Future Ahead For Greywolf Golf Course
PANORAMA, B.C. -- An exciting future lies ahead as Panorama Mountain Village finalizes full ownership transfer of the award-winning Greywolf Golf Course at Panorama Mountain Village to Totem Golf Ltd. With completion of the purchase, Totem Golf Ltd. has announced a renewed focus on customer service and released plans for a new clubhouse to be open in 2014. -
Final Word: The Anchored Putter Witch Hunt
by Mark Corrigan Golf balls go forever, great old courses are becoming irrelevant, we are in the midst of a battle to keep golfers around. Trying to fill courses and feed the machine that is the golf business is hard. And all the powers that be want to do is chain golfers to the furnace and force a gag ball in their mouth. -
Alberta PGA Intent On Bringing Youth Into The Game
by Gord Montgomery Realizing that youth is the future of their game is one thing for golf’s professional staff. Having those same youth become part of the game is quite another. Because of that, the Alberta PGA and its member clubs are striving to bring more kids on-stream with the game of a lifetime, by giving them access to opportunities anywhere and everywhere. Included in that was the putting zone set up for kids at the recent -
Shaw Communications Named Title Sponsor For New Calgary Champions Tour Event
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA and CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2013) - The Champions Tour today announced Shaw Communications (TSX:SJR.B) (NYSE:SJR) as the title sponsor for the Champions Tour tournament to be played at Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The tournament, to be known as the Shaw Charity Classic, will be held the week of August 26-September 1, 2013. -
Fit To A Tee - Getting The Most Out Of Your Golf Vacation Experience
by Mark Corrigan I played The Links at Crowbush Cove while on holiday with my family this past summer and, being originally from PEI, to play golf back in my old 'stomping grounds' was all that I remembered and more. -
Edmonton Golf Show A Sure Sign Of Spring
by Gord Montgomery There may still be snow on the ground in Edmonton, but with the days getting longer, and somewhat warmer, there are indications that spring is just around the corner. The surest sign that the winter is about to go into hibernation though is an annual affair that draws thousands of people through the door – the PGA of Alberta Golf Show. -
Auditioning For The Next Big Break? Best Have A Great Game... And A Better Story
by Gord Montgomery There are two things you really should have packed into your golf bag if you’re going to take a shot at appearing on Golf Channel’s reality-based TV show, Big Break. That’s the word coming from an Albertan who made it to the final audition stage but was knocked out of play, he figures, by one of the two main things the network seeks in contestants/players for the show. -
Edmonton’s Goplin Named As CPGA’s Murray Tucker Award Winner
by Gord Montgomery While Trevor Goplin was given the Murray Tucker Award as the country’s Golf Professional of the Year for 2012, the honour may have just as easily been referred to as the Mentor of the Year Award. You see Goplin, the head professional at the Derrick Golf and Winter Club in Edmonton, doesn’t just run a golf pro shop and the staff therein.
Southern Alberta Breaking News
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PGA of Alberta Award Finalists For 2011 Named
The PGA of Alberta will hand out its annual awards on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Edmonton Expo Centre, as part of its annual -
Canadians Claim First Cup on Foreign Soil at Stephen Ames Cup
via press release Moka, Miraval (August 20, 2010) The team of ten Canadian junior golfers from the Canadian Junior Golf Association -
CJGA Team Canada Set For Stephen Ames Cup
via press release Markham, ON (August 12, 2010) Ten junior golfers are set to embark on a experience of a lifetime come Saturday when -
CanTour Members And Alumni At Final Stage Of European Tour Q-School
Four-Time Canadian Tour Winner Wes Heffernan Is Looking To Earn His European Tour Card And Joining The 2010 Race To Dubai As He Plays The -
2009 PGA of Alberta Awards Nominees Announced
courtesy APGA The PGA of Alberta is pleased to announce the nominees for its annual Awards, to be handed out on Wednesday, October -
Canadian Grabs One Of Final Four Spots For CN Women’s Open
Red Deer's Own Adrienne White Grabbed One Of The Four Available Monday Qualifying Spots For This Week's CN Canadian Women's Open by
Southern Alberta News
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Fairmont's Historic Canadian Rockies Golf Properties Ready for a Banner Year
BANFF, Alberta -- Summer is on the way and bringing with it a big anniversary and some new additions for Fairmont's historic -
Owning Your Golf Swing…No Matter What It Looks Like
by Mark Corrigan I’ve done it! I know exactly what I want out of my golf swing. A golf swing that proves manageable -
Exciting Future Ahead For Greywolf Golf Course
PANORAMA, B.C. -- An exciting future lies ahead as Panorama Mountain Village finalizes full ownership transfer of the -
Final Word: The Anchored Putter Witch Hunt
by Mark Corrigan Golf balls go forever, great old courses are becoming irrelevant, we are in the midst of a battle to keep -
Alberta PGA Intent On Bringing Youth Into The Game
by Gord Montgomery Realizing that youth is the future of their game is one thing for golf’s professional -
Shaw Communications Named Title Sponsor For New Calgary Champions Tour Event
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA and CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2013) - The Champions Tour today announced Shaw
