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 In a star-studded field of 45
Professionals, including 26 past or
present Canadian Tour players.
Hazelmere’s own Teaching Professional
Phil Jonas showed them all how it’s
done, shooting 68 (-4) on a challenging
Hazelmere layout for a one shot victory
over Guilford Head Professional Dan
Swanson. Jonas’ lone bogey on the day
came on the long par 3 – 7th
hole, where he failed to get up-and-down
for what would be his fault on the
card. When interviewed after the round,
Jonas owned up that it wasn’t the
prettiest of rounds, but as he is so
well known for, he made the very most of
his good play and ‘worked his way around
the golf course’ like he knows how to
better than most anyone in the game,
certainly here in Vancouver. Jonas took
home $1,500 for his victory and vaulted
himself some $1,300 ahead of past
Nationwide Tour Player Bryn Parry.
MarketPlace IGA’s John MacNichol was on
hand to award the professional cheques
to all winners. When Jonas was given
the opportunity to speak, he very quick
to add how thankful he and everyone
playing VGT was for their continued
support of local golf in Vancouver.
China Tour player Dong Su and
Shaughnessy Professional Lindsay
Bernakevitch tied for 3rd,
each winning $672.50. Swanson earned
$1,000 for his 2nd place
showing.
VGT gave a warm welcome to one of
Canada’s finest young talented golfers,
James Lepp - 2005 NCAA Champion and
2-time Greater Vancouver Charity Classic
winner. “It was great to have James in
our field today” stated VGT Commissioner
Fraser Mulholland. “Not only does James
add to the credibility of our tour by
his presence, but it was great to see
him back in action at what he does so
very well”. Lepp fired 71 (-1), good
for 5th place and $550. He
commented after the round that it was
‘good to get back into his first
tournament in over 6 months and feel the
competitive juices flowing’. With only
a bit of expected ‘tournament rust’ from
not competing for so long, Lepp got the
job done for the most part in the event–
and other than a couple of late bogeys
on his last two holes, looked very
impressive and ready to return to action
in both the Victoria Open and City of
Surrey Open coming up on the Canadian
Tour schedule starting next week. Lepp
has been hard at work lately developing
his own personal brand of golf shoes and
golf apparel - KIKKOR GOLF (www.kikkor.com).
 The Spring Championship was the final
event on the VGT Spring Series of events
and CLEVELAND GOLF/SRIXON CANADA
President Dan Dodman was present to
award some bonus money to the top
CLEVELAND/SRIXON staff player at the end
of the Spring Order of Merit. Seymour
Creek’s Dave Zibrik took home the $500
CLEVELAND/SRIXON BONUS cash for being
the top CLEVELAND/SRIXON staff player at
the conclusion of the Hazelmere event.
VGT’s 7th Open tour event of
the year was a great opportunity for the
top local Professionals to see Hazelmere
a couple of weeks in advance of the
Canadian Tour event (City of Surrey
Open) being hosted there on June 8-15th.
We want to personally thank Hazelmere
Golf Course for giving our local players
this opportunity and hope that this
might be the slight advantage our local
players need to bring home a local
victory in this major event on the
Canadian Tour schedule.
 VGT also invited 20 of its top Amateur
players to play in the Spring
Championship this Thursday. Low Amateur
honours went to Coquitlam’s Matt Rohatensky, who carded 75 (+3) on the
tough Hazelmere set-up to win by 2 shots
over Delta’s Jarda Kollar. Rohatensky
leapt ahead of Northview’s Derek Wray by
400 points in the Championship Amateur
Order of Merit with his second victory
of the year, earning himself a Cleveland
Travel cover and $200 in Perfect Lies
Gift Cards.
VGT’s top 5 Amateurs in Flight A were
invited to the Hazelmere event and it
was Greenacres’ own Daniel Lee who
prevailed, winning a Cleveland Travel
cover and a $100 Perfect Lies Gift
Card. Pete Fung was the Low Amateur in
Flight B, also winning a Cleveland
Travel cover and a $100 Perfect Lies
Gift Card. |
