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Weir quite a big hit ‘03 Masters champion fondly remembers Canadian Tour during stop in Saskatoon

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

The 2003 Masters champion, in Saskatoon for this week’s Mike Weir Miracle Golf Drive for Kids, made the prairie trek between Canadian Tour stops during his formative years. But he never stopped for a round — not with Saskatchewan serving as an obstacle to be crossed rather than a destination point.

“We’d be in Alberta and work our way over to Manitoba by driving right through here,” said Weir, who adds he was happy to hear the Tour added Saskatoon to its stable starting this summer.

“(Adding a Saskatoon stop) makes a lot of sense. You can tell there’s big golf fans here and a good golf community. It’s a great stop.”

The Canadian Tour touches down at Dakota Dunes with a full-fledged event next week, bringing in golfers from across the world who would love to trace Weir’s career path.

He played the Canadian Tour from 1993 to 1997 and says it’s the route to go for aspiring Canadian professionals.

Weir was named rookie of the year in 1993.

“The Canadian Tour was huge for me,” Weir said. “There’s good international flavour on the Tour, and the idea of having to make a cut was important. A lot of guys chase these mini-tours around, these one and two-day events. But I always preferred playing a full tour and having to get used to making a cut and what that entails.

“You’ve got to play the Canadian Tour. But you need to play overseas, too — that’s a big thing. Instead of settling for making this the whole route, then going to Q school, going overseas was a big thing for me. You learn how to handle yourself in travel. That’s important.”

Weir is in Saskatoon on a fundraising effort for the planned Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan. Tuesday, he played 18 holes of golf at the Riverside with a rotating group of foursome partners who paid for the privilege. He later donned a microphone and conducted a joint clinic and question-and-answer session at Griffiths Stadium.

Weir, who paid his own costs for the trek to Saskatoon, was also involved with a gala dinner in the evening.

Organizers hope to raise more than $1 million this week, with all of it going to the yet-to-be-built Children’s Hospital.

Weir’s reception from Saskatoon fans showed the impact he’s had on the Canadian golf scene — one he credits to hard work rather than raw talent

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Winnipeg Manitoba Golfer Speirs one clear in Vancouver

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Adam Speirs shot a three-under 69 on Saturday and is still atop the leaderboard after three rounds of the Greater Vancouver Charity Classic.

Speirs is through 54 holes at 13-under 203 at Hazelmere Country Club.

Derek Gillespie fired a course-record, 10-under 62 on Saturday to vault into second place at minus-12.

Wes Heffernan (67) and Byron Smith (69) share third place at 10-under 206.

Speirs, who has held at least a piece of the lead after each round, double- bogeyed the second hole on Saturday and three holes later started making up the lost strokes with a birdie.

He birdied his first three holes after the turn, then Speirs birdied the par- three 15th to go past Gillespie into first place.

If Speirs can hang on Sunday, it would be his first Canadian Tour win.

Joseph Lanza (68) and Mike Grob (69) share fifth place at minus-nine. Adam Bland (67) and Brad Heaven (73) are knotted in seventh at eight-under-par 208

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Lepp, four others atop GVCC leaderboard

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Defending Greater Vancouver Charity Classic champion James Lepp found himself back atop the leaderboard after the first round Thursday, after carding a five-under-par 67 at Hazelmere Golf Club.

He did, however, have some company.

Five players – including Brad Heaven, Mitch Tasker, Joseph Lanz and Canadian Adam Speirs – were tied after the first round. The second round got underway Friday morning.

Two other players, Ryan Carter and Andrew Smeeth, were at four-under-par after 18 holes.

Hazelmere golf pro Philip Jonas had the best round among the local competitors, shooting a one-under-par 71. Langley’s Patrick Ericson shot even par Thursday, while Guildford’s Dan Swanson finished with a four-over-par 76

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Canadian GOLF: AMATEUR WINS PRO EVENT

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Stephanie Sherlock of Barrie, Ont., won the CN Canadian Women’s Tour event in Winnipeg yesterday by making a birdie on the fourth playoff hole. Sherlock, fellow amateur Kira Meixner of Richmond, B.C., and Toronto native Seema Sadekar had tied at one-under-par 143 after 36 holes of regulation play at the Glendale Golf and Country Club. Meixner bowed out on the first extra hole with a double bogey. Sherlock and Sadekar continued until Sherlock made the birdie on the fourth playoff hole, a par-5

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Sherlock: Birdies fourth playoff hole to win at Glendale

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Stephanie Sherlock of Barrie, Ont., birdied the fourth playoff hole to win the CN Canadian Women’s Tour event, yesterday at Glendale Golf & Country Club.

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Golf: Sherlock ahead by one

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Stephanie Sherlock of Barrie, Ont., shot a 4-under-par 68 yesterday for a one-stroke lead over Corina Kelepouris of Drayton Valley, Alta., in a CN Canadian Women’s Tour event at Winnipeg. Brittany Henderson of Smiths Falls shot an 83 and was tied for 42nd going into today’s final round. The tournament winner will qualify for the CN Canadian Women’s Open in Ottawa, unless it turns out to be Sherlock, who is already in that event thanks to her 2007 Canadian amateur championship.

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Winnipeg pro shoots even par in final round

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Winnipeg’s Adam Speirs put together four solid rounds of golf to record his first ever Canadian Professional Golf Tour win in the Greater Vancouver Charity Classic at South Surrey’s Hazelmere Golf and Tennis Club Sunday.

Speirs’ worst round of the week came Sunday when he posted an even-par 72, but earlier rounds of 67, 67 and 69 were enough to carry him to a one-stroke win over Wes Heffernan and Byron Smith.

Speirs finished the tourney at 13 under par and collected a cheque for $16,000 for the win.

The win comes one week after Speirs endured a wild weekend at the CanTour’s Victoria stop where he opened with rounds of 67 and 66 but closed with a 71 and a 76 to wind up in a tie for 37th.

Ben Fox finished in fourth place at (71-69-70-68) 278 while fellow American John Ellis was one stroke back in fifth. Ellis was a sentimental favourite for many local golf fans at the GVCC in the wake of the tragic death of South Surrey teen Patrick Dooley. The Elgin Park student caddied for the American golfer when he placed fourth at Hazelmere last year but when the teen passed away from viral encephalitis in February, Ellis welcomed Patrick’s father Stephen as his caddy for this year’s event.

Canadian Derek Gillespie fired a course-record 62 on Saturday but was unable to replicate the magic on Sunday where he shot a 77 to finish tied for ninth overall at (72-70-62-77) 281.

Defending champion James Lepp of Abbotsford was part of a four-way tie for first after the opening round only to wind up in a tie for 17th at (67-71-72-74) 284.

Hazelmere teaching pro Philip Jonas was consistent all weekend with rounds of 71-73-71-71 to finish in a tie for 24th.

Playing in just his second CanTour event, North Delta’s Mark Kitts missed the cut after opening rounds of 74 and 73. Things didn’t go any better for Guildford Golf and Country Club head pro Dan Swanson who also missed the cut with scores of 76 and 74.

Hazelmere club member Shane Dent posted the best score of any amateur in the tourney with rounds of 78 and 77 but it was not enough to make the cut.

- Meanwhile in Vernon, Surrey’s Elaine Blatchford placed fourth overall at the 2008 B.C. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship.

Port Alberni’s Jackie Little took top honours when she was the only golfer to break par at the event held at Spallumcheen Golf and Country Club.

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Southwood Golf Course – Going South

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

But when Thomas McBroom peers out on the 297-acre parcel of land in St. Norbert, the renowned Canadian golf architect envisions endless possibilities for the future home of the Southwood Golf & Country Club.

“I see it as a fresh palate,” McBroom said last week at the official sod-turning ceremony. “It is flat ground but I look at this through architect’s eyes. All of the land will get graded. We don’t have a lot of natural features to work with, so we have to make them.

“It’s a really exciting creative opportunity for me.”

McBroom boasts a number of impressive courses on his resume and this is his first foray in Manitoba, something he does not take lightly.

“It’s a challenge,” said McBroom. “I’m a Canadian guy and I’ve built in most provinces. It’s one of those things where you want to leave a mark and this will be my mark in Manitoba. I’m pretty sure about that.”

After seeing the completion of the purchase of the land in St. Norbert and the sale of its existing golf course to the University of Manitoba, Southwood’s 700-plus members are finally starting to get a glimpse of what the future will hold.

Turning a relatively flat piece of land into a championship golf course doesn’t happen overnight, but the sight of work being done on the site is a constant reminder that the new track could be open as early as the summer of 2010 — though it’s possible they could wait until the spring of 2011.

“For the future of golf in the province, it’s a great thing,” said Southwood president Darcy Jones. “It will be the best golf course in Manitoba. Undoubtedly.”

Some might consider Jones’ sentiments to contain a fair amount of bias, but Southwood has high hopes of creating a golf experience that can attract some big-time events, like the Canadian Open.

CHAMPIONSHIP STYLE

“Not that the other clubs in the city can’t, but we’re bringing the new championship style of club,” said Jones. “Maybe we can attract the big-gun (PGA) Tour or something like that, maybe a skins game, to raise the profile a bit.”

Fear not, mid-to-high handicappers, this new course won’t leave you behind either as it will feature tees ranging from 5,200 to 7,400 yards.

The initial phase of the development includes 18 holes, but the long-term vision features 27 holes, a world-class practise facility and a posh clubhouse.

McBroom explained the next step in the building process takes essentially two years, noting the first year consists of rough grading and shaping, along with irrigation work right up until the bad weather hits in October or November.

Come the spring of 2009, it will be time to finish the golf course with top-soiling, finishing the bunkers and preparation for the seeding.

By the summer of 2009, the course should be ready for seeding and after that takes place, it will be require roughly a year for the grow-in stage before Southwood is ready to complete the move south.

As part of the official ceremony last Tuesday, five individuals were asked to hit a tee shot.

Past president Kae Koga was the first person to make contact, drilling her drive right down the middle.

Koga can’t wait for the next tee shot she takes on the St. Norbert site.

“It’s exciting,” said Koga. “It’s going to be hard for some of us to leave (the current site), but for the future it’s going to be wonderful.”

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Winnipeg City becoming more reliant on user fees as revenue source

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Not so on another source of revenue: user fees.

The charges borne only by people who actually use the related services are on the rise — increasing by $42-million from 1998 to 2006.

There are more municipal user fees than there were a decade ago and they account for a greater proportion of all revenues the city receives.

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Officials in Winnipeg and other cities have discovered that keeping a lid on property taxes while hiking user fees can boost city coffers without inciting public riots.

“People don’t scream about those user fees,” said Dick Stewart, a former department head in Ottawa’s civic government. “That’s why you’re seeing the proportion of revenues growing from fees. Because they’re not as contentious. That doesn’t mean they’re a good thing. That doesn’t mean that (civic governments) should keep doing that.”

Before his retirement in 2002, Stewart was the general manager of the department of people services, which covered public health, recreation, libraries and social services at Ottawa city hall.

He is now an advisor to the public-interest group People for a Better Ottawa.

User fees, defended by their supporters as a responsible way of covering a city’s costs, can actually divide a city along class lines, Stewart said.

If a city begins charging higher fees for children’s swimming or skating lessons, parenting courses or other programs at community centres, a city’s quality of life stands to suffer and underprivileged people feel the most pain, Stewart said.

“When you begin to commodify (civic services) and set fees that exclude people, we’re down a slippery slope,” he said.

In 1998, Winnipeg had revenues of $1.071 billion. Forty-nine per cent came from property and business taxes, 28 per cent from user fees and other charges. Grants, interest, a Manitoba Hydro dividend and other taxes accounted for the rest of the city’s revenues.

In 2006, the city’s revenues were virtually the same: $1.069 billion, but only 44 per cent came from property and business taxes, a $58-million reduction in an eight-year span.

Meanwhile, 32 per cent of city revenues in 2006 came from user fees and other charges, a $42-million increase over those same eight years.

When asked to explain the rise in user fee charges, Mayor Sam Katz pointed to the skyrocketing price of gasoline. Every one-cent increase in the price of gas meant the city’s costs jumped $250,000, Katz noted.

“Any time the cost of a product goes up, usually it’s the end user who’s paying more.”

Even so, some user fees have far exceeded inflationary pressures.

A continuous foundation property — one with concrete or granite walls — at Brookside Cemetery is $1,350 today. The price in today’s dollars back in 1998 was $1,180.

An outdoor food-vendor’s licence for fresh fruit and vegetables has almost quadrupled: $64 in 1998 ($80 in today’s dollars), $235 this year.

“We all pay taxes for certain services which the majority of us use on a regular basis: street cleaning, garbage (collection), a lot of the basics,” Katz said.

“But then there’s a lot of stuff some use, but others don’t use, and that’s where you get into user fees. And I think there’s some logic to that.”

When it comes to user fees, Winnipeg is in the middle of the pack of Canadian cities. Western cities in general – Calgary and Edmonton in particular – have much higher user-fee revenues than cities in the east.

In 2006, Calgary collected $401 per capita in user fees, and Edmonton $382, compared to Winnipeg’s $201.

About half of the money collected in Winnipeg as user fees comes from water and sewer revenues.

Rates for those services have increased significantly in the last two years.

Some observers warn cities could grow too reliant on user fees and in doing so, could neglect one of the cornerstones of municipal government: to nurture well-being among all citizens.

“Usually the motivation around user fees is to increase city revenues, so it’s fiscal,” Stewart said. “But you don’t introduce user fees or increase them exponentially without having social impact. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t raise user fees. All I’m saying is that unless you’re prepared to do the analysis of the social impact and value that, then it’s not a balanced approach.”

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