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As the fall season begins, The University of  Manitoba Bison Golf teams are getting ready for the 2009 schedule with six tournaments for the men’s side and five tournaments for the women’s squad. The 2009 edition of Bison Golf has eight women golfers and 12 men golfers.

The first action will take place on the September 11th weekend with the men teeing it up at the Concordia Invitational at the Meadows Golf Club while the women play  the Cobber Invitational at the Wildflower Golf and Country Club.

Bison golf co-coach Garth Goodbrandson says they had some strong results from Bison golfers at the recent Canada Games and look forward to producing a good season.

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Brodie Gobin, 15, of St. Claude is taking one last kick at the can this weekend. The Portage Golf Club member originally passed up the Club Championship at his home course to rest up for a junior tournament, but after the PGC tourney was rained out last weekend, he says he’ll be joining his clubmates on the links this weekend for the last tournament of 2009.

Gobin’s season didn’t go the way he had been hoping. Some bad finishes didn’t rain on his parade, though. He said Thursday, “I improved my mental game, because even though I didn’t have the finishes that I wanted, I was able to deal with it better.” He agrees that despite having some tough outings, the challenges he faced over the course of the 2009 season made him stronger.

Collectively on the year, the young man who just golfs for the love of the game, said “even though everything didn’t go right, I still had fun.”

Gobin said his best tournament was one of his more recent ones, the Manitoba Blue Cross Men’s Amateur Rural Championship Aug. 9 and10 at Minnedosa Country Club. This year was Gobin’s first appearance at the Men’s Rural Championship, and he finished tied for fourth.

Spending the summer on the open road, driving to many golf tournaments all over the province, Gobin gets to see a lot of different golf courses. One of the ones he said he’d like to go back to is in Pinawa, where he played at the Men’s Amateur Championship July 20 – 23. “Yeah, I think I’d like to go back there. Pinawa is a nice course,” he mused.

Thursday also marked the first day of Gobin’s off-season from competing. While he did admit to feeling a little sad, he says he’s still going to get out as much as he can. “I golf in Portage, and at another course too, so I try to get out as much as possible, go to the golf dome and hit balls.”

Armed with his new-found mental toughness after overcoming many obstacles in 2009, Gobin is already looking forward to his 2010 season.

With the standard answer of striving to improve all his finishes out of the way, the one tournament Gobin said he really wants to do better in is “The Manitoba Junior Tournament. I want to finish better.”

At his most recent tournament, The National Bank Financial MJT-Manitoba PGA Junior Championship, held at Transcona Golf Club in Winnipeg, Gobin finished tied for tenth on a messy course, muddy and wet after the weekend’s downpour. “The course is easy, but it was in poor condition. It was drenched, muddy ….” There’s nothing anyone can do about the ground being soggy and wet, and Gobin says, “you just have to go out and play the game. It’s the same for everybody.” While mother nature was against all the participants, Gobin says it does get frustrating when trying to play on a wet course. The course was not the major worry on his mind, though. “I couldn’t putt the two days that I was there,” he said, admitting it does stress him out a little when the strongest part of his game isn’t coming together.

Now that the season is over, to curb the boredom, he says he plans to hang out with his friends and hit some balls at the driving range.

The plan for 2010 is already in place — “I’m going to do better,” he said with certainty. “I’m going to have better finishes and just improve overall.” Some other things on his list of goals includes making Team Manitoba, and “going to Nationals. I’m going to try and do that next year, too.”

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HE has gained golf fame in the province and across the country.

Now Garth Collings is going international.

The 2009 Manitoba Amateur champion is a featured face in this week’s Sports Illustrated, on the Faces in the Crowd page of the Aug. 24 issue.

Collings, 51, became the oldest winner of Manitoba’s Amateur championship last month, a title he’s now won three times. He’s also the Canadian mid-amateur champion and Canadian Club Champions champion of 2003.

Collings, who’s playing this week at the Canadian mid-amateur championship in Saskatchewan, was inducted to the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame last fall.

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Study concludes sport has massive impact on national economy

It was already known that golf is No. 1 in Canada when it comes to participation in a recreational activity.

Now, based on an economic impact study a year in the making, the National Allied Golf Associations (NAGA) knows just how big it is.

Golf accounted for an estimated $11.3 billion of Canada’s gross domestic product in 2008, nearly one per cent of the national total. That included 341,794 jobs nationally.

Nearly six million golfers in Canada played an estimated 70 million rounds last year, down about 10 per cent from the previous five-year average largely because of poor weather.

In Manitoba, the study showed golf contributed $452.7 million towards the province’s GDP of $41.2 billion in 2008, and the industry was responsible for 18,025 jobs.

NAGA is the combined efforts of the Canadian PGA, golf course owners, superintendents, club managers, the Canadian Tour, the golf industry and the RCGA and it released its findings on Tuesday after Strategic Networks Group Inc., compiled them. Six months of fieldwork began in August a year ago and included interviews with more than 4,000 golfers and 350 golf courses.

The sample sizes provided Strategic Networks Group a large degree of confidence in its results, vice-president Thomas McGuire said.

The study showed major economic impact generated by golf. For example:

“ö Total direct sales from the Canadian Golf industry was $13.6 billion.

“ö Of that, revenue generated by courses, their facilities and stand-alone driving ranges was $4.7 billion, nearly the same as all other participation sports and recreation facilities combined ($4.8 billion), and far more than spectator sports which include the NHL ($2.4 billion). What will all the numbers mean?

It’s hard to say, NAGA chair Steve Carroll, the executive director of the Canadian PGA said Tuesday.

“Golf in Canada has been presented with an up-to-date, reliable set of facts and figures,” Carroll said. “The opportunity now exists for all Canadian golf stakeholders to take this information and utilize it in support of their contribution to the Canadian golf economy.”

Carroll said the association members will take a short time to contemplate the numbers, then get together again to try to brainstorm future strategies to improve their lot.

Jeff Calderwood, CEO of the National Golf Course Owners Association, already has a few things in mind.

“If I was going to put my finger on one thing that rises to the top that I think is good and transcends to the entire industry, it would be our ability to lobby government more effectively,” Calderwood said during a national conference call on Tuesday. “Government advocacy is a huge and growing-every-year detriment to this industry.”

He said he currently has a binder of 28 different issues that golf course owners and municipal, provincial and federal governments are butting heads on, from water to taxes.

“It’s hard for any industry to fight government, but even harder when you have an industry that hadn’t risen to the level where you have credibility and follow it up with facts,” Calderwood said, noting golf has simply always settled for claims that it’s “big,” or “important.”

“Now we have facts to back it up, give us ability defend against everything from a municipal pesticide bylaw to a provincial HST issue to the federal level where golf is not allowed as a business entertainment expense,” he said. “Increased expenses cause prices to go up and that’s detrimental to growing the game.”

Calderwood said the study won’t simply erase those issues.

“Our ability to take on those challenges will not be easy but they will get easier with this information,” he said.

Harry Brotchie, master professional, former president of the Canadian PGA and president of Lakeland Golf Management, which operates eight courses in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, said last night the study was no simple document.

“At first glance, I wonder what we’ll do with all these numbers,” Brotchie said. “I’m always a little nervous on numbers until I’ve had a chance to digest them.

“But based on Jeff’s comments today, I think this study might be beneficial if it’s helpful to the NGCOA in representing the course owners in a variety of issues.”

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Summer weather a challenge for golf

Local golfer Bill North played well the last two rounds of the Manitoba Senior Men’s Golf Championship in Winnipeg and earned a spot on the provincial team that is going to compete at the National Championship on August 31-Sept. 4 in Victoria, B.C.

Another  local golfer, junior competitor Matt Dodds won the Carman Junior Open on July 31. Dodds also won the Portage and Winkler junior opens.

The Carman Golf Club Championships were in late July. Wayne Giesbrecht won the Men’s title shooting a 70 and 74 to beat out runner-up Kevin Giesbrecht by six strokes.

Lionel Walz took the Seniors Men’s title edging out Gary McKinnon. And Karen Funke captured the Ladies division.

WEATHER CONDITIONS CHALLENGING

Less than ideal weather conditions during the spring and into the start of summer has proved quite challenging for Carman Golf Club staff.

However Sherri Moorhouse, the assistant professional at the golf club, said they rescheduled only a single tournament this summer. The course was closed for two days in June due to wet conditions. Moorhouse said the course is now in excellent condition and is helping to make up for the slow start.

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IT may look like a gaggle of Winnipeggers got lost on the way a Minnesota Wild game, but that’s not the case this week in the Twin Cities.

The local lads are cheering on Canadian Mike Weir at the PGA Championship at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. They were decked out in Team Canada hockey jerseys and helmets on Thursday, when temperatures reached 28 C, but each had a beer in hand soon after Weir teed off at 8:55 a.m., according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

“That’s kind of a national thing, too,” local firefighter Jason Wiebe, 36, told Star-Tribune’s Jerry Zgoda.

Wiebe’s travelling companions include Casey Case, Jason Miller, Paul Kingerski, Glen Gray, Justin Smook and Brian Milne.

The fans didn’t get to see Weir at his best however, as he finished Friday at 11 over par and missed the cut.