By Brad Ziemer

Jake Knapp was strolling confidently up the ninth fairway at Gallagher’s Canyon Golf & Country Club and couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing. The Costa Mesa, Calif., native spotted a leaderboard and his name was not on top.

“I saw the board and I was like, you’ve got to be kidding me,” Knapp said.

Continue reading

By Brad Ziemer

The first phone call Greyson Sigg planned to make, of course, was to his dad.

“I think it will be a pretty good Father’s Day present,” Sigg said after carding a 59 in Sunday’s final round of the GolfBC Championship at Gallagher’s Canyon Golf & Country Club.

The 24-year-old native of Augusta, Ga., scorched Gallagher’s par-71 layout with 12 birdies and did not make a bogey. It is only the second 59 recorded since the PGA Tour-Canada-Mackenzie Tour circuit started in 2013. Brady Schnell, at the 2014 ATB Financial Classic in Calgary, has the only other 59 in Mackenzie Tour history.

Continue reading

…Kelowna native off to Lethbridge to try and Monday qualify his way into next event

By Brad Ziemer

John Mlikotic got a taste of his first full PGA Tour Canada-Mackenzie Tour event and wants more.

So just a couple hours after finishing his fourth and final round of the GolfBC Championship at Gallagher’s Canyon Golf & Country Club, Mlikotic was on his way to the airport for a flight to Calgary and a drive south to Lethbridge.

Continue reading

By Brad Ziemer

Many of the pros competing in the GolfBC Championship will tell you that Gallagher’s Canyon Golf & Country Club takes the driver out of their hands on many holes.

Some are only hitting their driver two or three times a round, preferring to play more conservatively from most of the tees. Not Chris Crisologo, the reigning B.C. Amateur Champion from Richmond who is determined to grip it and rip it around the Kelowna course.

Continue reading

By Brad Ziemer

Lorens Chan has the lead heading into Sunday’s final round of the GolfBC Championship, an event the Hawaiian native credits with helping jump-start his professional golf career.

Chan played the first two years of the PGA Tour Canada-Mackenzie Tour event, in 2016 and 2017, on a sponsor’s exemption granted by Caleb Chan, owner of GolfBC’s parent company, Burrard International Holdings.

Continue reading

By Brad Ziemer

No introductions were needed on the first tee when Jonathan Garrick and Jake Knapp played in Saturday’s final pairing of the GolfBC Championship. These two guys know one another really well.

Garrick and Knapp, who at 11-under share the 36-hole lead of the PGA Tour Canada-Mackenzie Tour event, spent four years as college roommates at UCLA. And their closest pursuer, Lorens Chan, played on the same Bruin golf team.

Continue reading