The First Fifty Years 1 Cover: August 12, 2020, Guido Devita, Alan Oloman, Moe Jones & John Lewis Getting Ready to Tee Off on Hole No

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 1 Cover: August 12, 2020, Guido DeVita, Alan Oloman, Moe Jones & John Lewis getting ready to tee off on Hole No. 1 in the 2nd round of the Covid-19 delayed Spring Handicap. Photo by Wes Hastings 2 Inside Cover: Aerial of 1st Fairway. Aerial photos by Wes Hastings and Alex Ludeman. BURNABY MOUNTAIN SENIOR MEN’S GOLF CLUB THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS A HISTORY: 1970-2020

Table of Contents Opening Remarks 4

Part I: The Recent 13 Years: 2007-2020 5 Introduction 6 Burnaby Mountain Golf Course and Facility Improvements 7 Applying for Membership in 2020 and Moving Forward 14 Golf Software 15 Rules of Golf 17 World Handicapping System 18 Burnaby Mountain Golf Course Personnel 20 The BC Cancer Prostate Research Annual Golf Day Fund Raiser 21 The Golf Community & Golf Environment 22 Burnaby Golf “Reach-Out” Program a Major Success Story 24

Part II: The First Thirty-Seven Years, A History: 1970-2007 25 *Plus Updates and Modifications Introduction 26 Prologue 28 Chapter One Burnaby Mountain: A Course Record 31 Chapter Two The Founders and the Traditions 36 Chapter Three Birdies and Bogies of Burnaby Mountain* 48 Chapter Four rophies and Champions: 1970-2020* 53

Appendix A Golf: The Royal and Ancient Game 73 Appendix B Club Presidents, Captains and Meritorious Service 77 Award: 1970-2020* Appendix C Constitution and Bylaws of Burnaby Mountain 83 Senior Men’s Golf Club*

Acknowledgements 93

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 3 Moe Jones

Opening Remarks Moe Jones, Club President 2020

It is a pleasure for me to introduce you to our club history, especially at this time as we celebrate our 50th anniversary. We can be very proud of the fact that for over 50 years, many men have enjoyed the game of golf and each others’ company here at Burnaby Mountain. I know you will be thoroughly engaged as you read this history. We can all agree that the inspiration and dedication of the charter members continues through our membership to this day.

Thanks to Phil Boase for his vision and contribution of the Club’s history. I want to recognize and thank Don Buchanan and Tom Grieve for their many hours of work to produce this publication.

Thank you to Leslie MacDonald of Golf Burnaby, the City of Burnaby Marketing & Communications Department, and club members Ron Pound, Brian Strom and Dennis Houle for their editorial contributions to the 50th anniversary history document.

Finally, thank you to Golf Burnaby for their support over the years to make our Senior Men’s Golf Club one of the most sought-after clubs in the Lower Mainland.

4 PART I: THE RECENT 13 YEARS: 2007-2020

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 5 Introduction

The Recent 13 Years

In 2020, the Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club celebrates 50 years of operation. To commemorate this milestone, the Board of Directors of BMSMGC determined that a 50-year history of the Club should be produced. Don Buchanan and Tom Grieve were asked to take on this project and happily agreed to do so.

First Edition

Our work was vastly simplified by the previous efforts of Phil Boase who had produced an excellent 37-year history of the Club in 2007. That document serves as the foundation for this one. We have updated it with the names of tournament and event winners and runners-up and of Club Presidents and Club Captains.

Latest Edition

Our work then was to update Phil Boase’s work with a history of the signal developments of the Club and Burnaby Mountain Golf Course over the past thirteen years. These have been significant. The golf course and the Burnaby Mountain facility have witnessed major improvement over this time. Membership in the Club has grown and significant new developments in our operations have occurred – most notably the recent introduction of a new software program to manage our events and to keep track of scoring and handicapping. Also, significant changes to the rules of golf have come into effect and, most recently, a new World Handicapping System is in the process of being instituted.

An Unlikely Year

A most unlikely impediment to our celebration of the Club’s 50 years is the current catastrophic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This has dramatically affected our golf season – not to mention our lives and our world! The Spring Luncheon and Silent Auction had to be cancelled, but mercifully our delayed season recommenced in early May. And although we need to maintain two meters separation from each other, refrain from handshakes or high fives, initially drive alone in our carts, never touch a flag or a rake or our playing partners’ balls, wait for our prizes, and initially go home without an aprés-round beer, we are golfing again. The Board of Directors now zooms for our meetings, a shortened schedule has been devised, we’ve gone from 15-minute to 12-minute to 10 minute tee-time intervals (we have 104 golfers for our August, September and October draws), and life goes on. 6 David O’Connor Assistant Director, Golf Operations

David has over 38 years of diverse golf management experience throughout western Canada, which includes experience in many private, public, and resort operations. He currently manages our staff of over 120 and continues to work on Golf Burnaby’s future- focused organizational goals. He looks forward to continued growth of the brand and experience at Burnaby’s four golf locations.

Peter Sorokovsky Superintendent, Golf Course Maintenance

With a Master’s degree in soil science (UBC), Peter oversees golf course maintenance, turf operations and capital improvement projects. He is the Director of the Western Turf Grass Association, providing and promoting research and education within the industry. His extensive knowledge and experience are evident in the continued improvement of turf health and playability on Burnaby’s golf courses.

Leslie MacDonald Administrative Officer, Golf Course Systems & Services With extensive experience with the City including working on the front lines in the golf division and a BA (SFU), Leslie oversees the business unit information and reporting, the administration staff, and the servicing/programming of the golf course management, Online booking, and POS software. In addition to assisting our club with our weekly draws and tee sheet templates, Leslie enjoys researching and utilizing new technologies and procedures to enhance the golf experience. She and her team are currently looking at newer, more effective systems.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 7 Burnaby Mountain Golf Course and Facility Improvements

Thanks to the Burnaby City Council (and Burnaby tax payers), Dave Ellenwood (Director of Parks), the advocacy of David O’Connor (Assistant Director, Golf Operations), and the on the ground work of Peter Sorokovsky (Superintendent, Golf Course Maintenance), BMSMGC members have been the beneficiaries of extraordinary improvements in Burnaby Mountain Golf Course and its facilities since 2007.

Those who have played the course since the early 2000s can testify to the dramatic improvements in the greens, tee-boxes, sand traps, cart paths, the driving range and, most notably, the drainage on our course. Burnaby Mountain is now one of the best maintained courses, with perhaps the best year-round playing conditions, in the Lower Mainland.

Peter Sorokovsky has overseen all these improvements. Peter started his golf career at Predator Ridge at seventeen years old. He moved on to Northview, first as an irrigation technician and then as Assistant Superintendent in charge of drainage from 1998 to 2003. During this time, he continued his studies, achieving a MSc in soil science from UBC in 2005 before being hired by Burnaby Golf in 2007.

On January 3, 2020, with a break in the weather after three days of brutal cold rain, this writer went out and played 18 holes on Burnaby Mountain and barely got my golf shoes wet. The fairways and greens were in excellent shape. Ten years before, the course would have been unplayable.

Peter explained that this very positive change was due for the most part to a new drainage system, slit or grid drainage (as opposed to the old herring-bone system), that was installed first at Burnaby’s Riverway Golf Course in 2007 at a cost of $750K and then at Burnaby Mountain GC fairways from 2009-2013, with work continuing into the present. In the Winters of 2015 and 2016 all the greens underwent the installation of slit drainage. All the trenching and laying of pipe was done by hand: two days of work and about $7000 per green. Capital expenditure at Burnaby Mountain of some $1 million on all this new drainage was rewarded by an increase in green fee players from 30 a day to 130 in the winter months.

Conditions were improved by substantial capital expenditure over the last decade on top dressing with sand and deep tining to improve aeration. Annual expenditure on materials (mostly fertilizer and sand) is about $150K per annum on Burnaby’s golf courses. In late 2019 alone, some $35K was spent on 800 tons of sand spread over Burnaby Mountain’s fairways and greens.

8 Improvements to our facilities also saw the construction of a new two-tiered driving range in 2010, which expanded the old 24 stall range to 64 stalls. Capital expenditure of some $4 million on this new facility included new slit drainage on the range, new fencing, and new training equipment, with the addition of swing speed analyzers at a number of stalls. It is now one of the best driving ranges and training facilities in the Lower Mainland.

In 2011, the limestone cart paths were all paved with asphalt ($150K). In 2014, major work was completed redoing all twenty-one sand traps, changing the old pea stone hardened base to stiffened concrete, resulting in much improved drainage to the traps.

This brings us up to the present and the future. In May of 2020 all the new forward tees were completed. Burnaby Mountain GC now has four sets of tees: blue, white, silver (the old red), and red (the new forward tees), with yardages of 6431, 6211, 5832, and about 5100. Over the winter of 2019-2020 the bush clearing and tree-trimming that had commenced a few years earlier continued, most noticeably along the right side of hole #7. This work will have a substantial positive effect on speed of play.

2020 will also see major new developments to our course. A 19th hole all along the right side of the 18th fairway will be constructed. Eventually, this will serve as a practice facility, but its immediate use will be as a substitute replacement hole while work proceeds first, on building a new green on hole #15 and second, a new green on hole #14. These new greens will be somewhat more level, BMSMGC members will be happy to hear. You’ll have to really work at four-putting once they’re completed. All in all, we are exceedingly fortunate to have one of the premier golf facilities in the Lower Mainland as our home course. Much gratitude is due to those who have worked so hard to make a good course a great one.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 9 A Slit Trencher digs trench, places base, lays pipe and backfills, all in one operation.

Watch a short video on the activities involved with improving drainage on Sports Fields and Golf Courses.

Drainage on the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course

The main concern for the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course was the control of water – not anymore. The underground irrigation system was working well; however, the removal of water was a major deterrent to year round play.

The installation of a narrow slit de-watering pipe system seemed to be the answer as it worked well at Riverway. This system is an integrated network of trenches, using small diameter perforated pipes and sand to drain away excess water. When installing a slit de-watering system, pipe is easily “buzzed” in, with a trencher, 30cm to 60cm deep. The machine is laser controlled for accurate grade, the spoils are loaded and hauled away and a 5cm drainage pipe filled in behind. The trench is then backfilled with coarse sand and a 7.5cm wide sand filled channel is all that is visible. This system is clean, fast and the results are amazing. This de-watering system is able to remove more than 50 mm of surface and soil water in an hour. New grass was seeded over the trench and is almost invisible a year later.

10 Roller smoothing out Improving drainage on the green. putting green after core aeration.

A Slit Trencher digs trench, places base, lays pipe and backfills, all in one operation.

Fairway slicing occurring using a Aer-Way aerator.

Drainage for a Par 4 360 Yard Hole » To drain an average fairway requires about 4,000 meters of drainage lines depending on soil conditions. » Drainage line spacing is 3 meters in non-landing zone areas and 1.5 meter spacing in landing areas. » A crew of 6 to 7 staff can install up to 2000 meters of drainage in one day depending on soil conditions. 2-3 days of work at an average of 1500 m/day would easily install the necessary amount of drainage.

What does drainage do? » Drainage produces drier turf conditions which in turn improves playability all year long. » Drainage produces drier soils which are stronger and resist compaction more than wet soils, hence reducing soil damage from equipment and players alike. » Drainage removes water from the soil profile which in turn increases the amount of oxygen in the pore space. Most plants (like animals) require oxygen to survive, hence, more oxygen and reduced soil water improves overall turf health.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 11 Burnaby Mountain Golf Course Re-Opens State of the Art, 64-Stall Driving Range Facility in June 2010

This facility is climate controlled with heaters to warm you up on cool or cold days, and a misting system to keep you cool on very hot days

Innovations ES15 Range - Ernest Sports Golf Launch Monitors Introduced to Burnaby Mountain Driving Range

12 Click here to see Alex Ludeman demonstrate how to use the ES15.

Know Your Yardages to Improve Your Game

If we asked you what your 150-yard club is, would you be able to give us a confident answer? How about if we asked you to perform that shot now on the golf course. Would you still be as confident in that answer?

If you do not know your yardages when you play, you’ll face two issues: 1. You can hit a perfect shot and come up short or long from your target. 2. You can feel unsure of your shot during your swing, which results in poor execution. You need to trust what you are doing to perform at your best.

The Solution

Dial in your yardages by using the ES15 and write down your yardage on a good shot or use the App and email yourself the information. Each club should increase or decrease in yardage by the same amount (typically 10 yards). So if your 7 iron is the perfect 140 club, chances are your 6 iron will be just right for that 150-yard shot. Are your yardages not consistent through your irons? Then come get your clubs and swing checked by one of our pros. Your swing may be different from club to club, or your shaft/ club make up isn’t right for your swing (Hint: hybrids make this game a lot easier!). The ES15 provides ball speed, club speed, smash factor distance, launch angle and spin rate.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 13 Applying for Membership in 2020 and Beyond

During the late 1980s as the waitlist continued to grow, new applicants could expect to wait at least six years before attaining member status. Today the time it takes to move from Waitlist to Regular Membership status could be as short as two to three years.

Numerous changes have been made to the Waitlist application to join. Applicants must be at least 57 years of age and are expected to have already taken up the game of golf and can provide a verifiable handicap print out proving they can play to a maximum handicap of 35. Once someone applies and their application to join has been approved, they will go through a three-step process to move from the Waitlist Member, to Prospective New Member and eventually to Regular Member status.

During this process, if space permits, a Waitlist Member may have an opportunity to golf with the club members as a walk-on most Wednesday mornings. Prospective New Members and Regular Members will have an opportunity to sign up electronically on a weekly basis with different timeline restrictions. The Club tries to maintain a healthy Waitlist to support 20 Prospective New Members and 150 Regular Members.

“ I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” – Groucho Marx

14 Golf Software Moving into the computer age or “embracing new technology”

In 2012, one of our members saw a demonstration of a website with a computerized draw program at a Golf Show at BC Place. This looked interesting, so towards the end of the 2012 season, a committee was formed to look into Golf Group Manager (GGM), a local company who had developed a website with on-line signup, computerized draws, scoring, and the ability to email the draw to members. One of the website principals gave us a live demonstration of the program, and we were sold.

During the winter off season, we tried and tested the various features, set up test games and had members sign up on-line. We produced test draws and the committee was satisfied that this would be a major improvement in how we could manage our club. We recommended to the directors that we proceed and the directors approved on February 3, 2013. The website was up and running at the start of our 2013 season. Most of the members embraced the new website, but some had difficulty signing up, and some members did not have computers. We developed an internet buddy system, assigning each non-computer member to another member who they could call to sign up. The internet buddy would sign up his buddy, when requested, and inform him of his tee time. This worked well, and over time we were able to enlist family members to act as the internet buddy for their dad. To this day, we still have a few sons, daughters and wives who sign up for their dad/husband.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 15 The GGM website served us well from 2013 to 2019, but there were two drawbacks to GGM. It was not searchable on any of the search engines like Google, so the public and prospective new applicants could not find us. But more importantly, there was no way of downloading handicaps from Golf Canada, so we had to manually update member’s handicaps from Golf Canada to our GGM website weekly in order for the draw and scoring programs to work effectively.

In early 2019, we learned of another website program by Golf Software. com which had both a handicap program and a tournament manager program that was integrated and worked as one. Weekly scores could be easily exported to the handicap system and, similarly, updated handicaps could be imported back into the tournament program. At the same time, cost increases in Golf Canada dues prompted a second look, so we surveyed the members to see how important an official Golf Canada handicap was to them. Only 20% felt it was important to maintain an official handicap.

On that basis, an ad hoc committee of three was appointed to review the new software and make a recommendation to the Board of Directors. One of the committee members had already began to produce a new public website that was searchable. Testing of the new software began in November 2019, and by December, the committee was satisfied that this new software, combined with a new public website, would serve our needs better than GGM, and eventually reduce the workload of our volunteers. On Dec 27, 2019, the directors voted unanimously to adopt the new software program at the start of the 2020 season, to cancel our membership in Golf Canada/British Columbia Golf Association, but to continue to support both organizations through annual donations to their junior golf programs.

We went live with the new software on March 4, 2020, and after sorting out a few minor issues, the transition went better than expected. The members like it because they no longer need to worry about entering their scores for handicap purposes; the program takes care of that automatically. The group captains like it because they no longer need to calculate team scores, especially stableford points; the software does all those calculations. The initial workload of the Draw Chair and the Scorer Chair increased in the first few months, but quickly resulted in reduced workload, better draws and scoring. It’s hard to imagine how we could go back to manually produced draws, manual scoring, and having to phone or drive up to the club to learn of our tee time.

16 Click here to get the New Golf Rules for 2019

Rules of Golf (Abridged New Rules in Play for 2019)

1. Lost ball, 3 minutes to search, then rather than going back to last shot, drop where considered lost, 2 stroke penalty. 2. Ball lost Out of Bounds, drop on fairway, 2 club lengths from edge, no nearer the hole, 2 stroke penalty. 3. Hazards are now “Penalty Areas,” player can ground club, make practice swings touching the ground, remove impediments around the ball, no penalty. 4. Un-playable ball in a sand trap, player can drop ball, 2 club lengths from spot, in trap, 1 stroke penalty; player can drop ball outside sand trap no closer to the hole 2 stroke penalty. 5. Flag stick can remain in the hole for putting, on or off the putting surface, player’s choice. 6. If when searching for lost ball someone inadvertently moves the ball: replace in original position, no penalty. 7. Player allowed to fix other marks on the green before putting, e.g. spike marks or other indentations. 8. No penalty if player hits own bag or body or double hits ball: play ball where it comes to rest. 9. Ball drops must be done from knee height. 10. If player accidently moves ball or ball marker on the green, replace it in the original position, no penalty.

Cartoonist, Jerry King

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 17 World Handicap System (WHS)

The club managed the implementation of the new rules in January of 2019 with the anticipation of yet another change: the World Handicapping System to be in place worldwide on January 1, 2020.

The purpose of the World Handicap System (WHS) is to make the game of golf more enjoyable for golfers by providing a consistent means of measuring one’s performance and progress and to enable golfers of differing abilities to compete, or play a casual round, with anyone else on a fair and equal basis.

Through the WHS, each golfer establishes a “Handicap Index” which is the measure of a player’s demonstrated ability on a course of standard playing difficulty.

The Handicap Index is calculated using the lowest 8 of the player’s most recent 20 Score Differentials and updated with each new round played. The Handicap Index travels worldwide with the golfer from course to course (and tee to tee) and is used to calculate a “Course Handicap.” The Course Handicap is the number of strokes a golfer receives from the specific set of tees at the course. The more difficult the golf course, the more strokes the golfer receives and vice versa.

The relative difficulty of a golf course is determined jointly by Golf Canada and the provincial golf association using the WHS Course Rating System as administered by Golf Canada. Specially trained Course Rating Teams evaluate the difficulty of a golf course based on such variables as length and several obstacle factors (e.g. topography, bunkers, lateral & crossing obstacles, severity of rough, etc.).

The idea for a new, unified system was conceived by the USGA and The R&A and developed following an extensive review of systems administered by six existing handicapping authorities: Golf Australia, the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) in Great Britain and Ireland, the European Golf Association (EGA), the South African Golf Association (SAGA), the Argentine Golf Association (AAG) and the United States Golf Association (USGA).

“ Golf is played by twenty million mature men whose wives think they are out having fun” – Jim Bishop Journalist / Author

18 The World Handicap System launched in Canada on January 8, 2020 featuring the following: » Flexibility in formats of play, allowing both competitive and recreational rounds to count for handicap purposes and ensuring a golfer’s handicap is more reflective of potential ability. » A minimal number of scores needed to obtain a new handicap. The number of scores needed to establish a Handicap Index is 54 holes from any combination of 18-hole and 9-hole rounds. » A consistent handicap that is portable from tee to tee, course to course and country to country through worldwide use of the World Handicap System. » An average-based calculation of a handicap, taken from the best eight out of the last 20 Score Differentials and factoring in memory of previous demonstrated ability for better responsiveness and control. » A calculation that considers the impact that playing conditions (including course set up and weather conditions) might have on a player’s performance each day. » Daily handicap revisions, taking account of the course and weather conditions calculation. » A limit of Net Double Bogey on the maximum hole score (for handicapping purposes only). Net Double Bogey will replace the existing Equitable Stroke Control (ESC) procedure for determining the maximum hole score. » A maximum Handicap Index of 54.0, regardless of gender, to encourage more golfers to measure and track their performance to increase their enjoyment of the game.

Click here to learn more about WHS golfcanada.ca/handicapping

Image from the Golf Canada website.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 19 Burnaby Mountain Golf Course Personnel

Greg McClure Head Professional

Greg became a member of the BCPGA in 1993 and joined the Golf Burnaby team in 2003; assuming the role of Burnaby Mountain’s Head Professional in late 2014. Greg is Burnaby Mountain’s only “lefty”; he is highly knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and has a great sense of humor. Because of his fun and charismatic nature, Burnaby Mountain’s customers and staff truly love and respect him.

Favourite sports franchise LA Chargers & Vancouver Canucks Favourite PGA Tour player (past or present) Tiger Woods Favourite hobby besides golf Hockey Favourite time of day to play golf 10:30am Lowest score ever shot: 66 Oldest club in the bag Sand wedge Favourite type of golf lesson to teach Break 90 Age when he started golfing 14 Favourite golf course outside Talking Rock the Lower Mainland Favourite golf club in the bag Callaway Apex 3 hybrid

Burnaby Mountain Golf Course and Food Burnaby personnel who interface most often and provide excellent support to BMSMGC members:

Kelly Teigen, Alex Ludeman, Amyn Rajan, Cathie Kulcheski, Mark Ludeman, Brian Crowe, Wes Hastings, Billy Drummond, Vince Ricci, Matt Holowko, Chris O’Connell, Mandy Pavan, Joanne Saunders, and Michelle Villanueva.

20 Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club Prostate Cancer Event

It was in 2010 when Joe Galvin and Phil Boase, both victims of prostate cancer, met to discuss an idea to hold an annual fund-raising event for prostate cancer research. They met with a representative of the B.C. Cancer Foundation to outline their plan and to solicit support. The foundation enthusiastically endorsed their idea.

The next step was to obtain permission from the Board of Directors who unanimously accepted the idea. The first event was held on June 8, 2011 when over $2,000 (average over $20 per member), was raised. There was a representative from BC Cancer on site to collect donations and later to provide receipts.

The event has been held in consecutive years in early July with increasing participation from members. In 2018, the appeal included an online link to donate by credit card which raised the donations substantially. In 2019, despite being delayed by rain (first time since the start of the event), over $5600 was raised. To date $38,844 has been raised for this worthy cause.

2019 BC Cancer Research representative Jennifer Northrup at the collection station under the Gazebo at Burnaby Mountain Golf Course on the golf fundraiser day.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 21 The Golf Community and Golf Environment

Over our 50 years the BMSMGC has contributed, in 2020 dollars, between $6,000,000 and $8,000,000 to the local economic benefit of the business of Golf.

Many BMSMGC members play in our clubs away games and also travel to play golf adding more dollars to the golf economy.

Canadian travelers make more than 1 million trips involving golf, spending $2.5 billion annually on golf-related travel within Canada (including on-course spending at courses visited). Foreign visiting golfers spent $1.6 billion on golf related travel and on-course spending.

Golf Benefits the Environment: Removes Carbon from the Atmosphere

Who knew that being a member of BMSMGC you are helping save the planet as well as keeping healthy!

Stands of healthy turf grass play an important role in carbon sequestration (a fancy term used to describe the removal of carbon from the atmosphere). Carbon dioxide is converted into plant biomass during photosynthesis, allowing for long-term storage of carbon within the root system. 22 Bear foliage feasting in the left rough on the 7th fairway. Sandhill cranes

Grassland systems differ from other ecosystems because the ratio of below-ground biomass to above-ground biomass is relatively large. Since turf grass is an undisturbed and highly productive system, it has the ability to remove a large amount of carbon. Because the sequestration occurs primarily within the soil, it’s a more stable form of carbon storage than above-ground plant biomass. Studies show that a hectare of golf course turf is capable of sequestering one-ton of carbon into the soil every year for 30 years.

Wildlife on the Course In Canada, golf courses manage over 175,000 hectares of green space which is approximately 2,308 golf course operators, including 30,000 hectares of unmanaged wildlife habitat under golf course stewardship. Wildlife commonly viewed on Burnaby Mountain Golf Course are pesky crows, squirrels, many small birds, duck, geese and coyotes; often deer, sandhill cranes and raccoons; and, once in a while, a bobcat, owl and the occasional bear.

Golf Health: Getting Vitamin D Soaking up a few hours of sunlight (while applying an appropriate amount of sunscreen) will help your Vitamin D levels. This helps with bone growth, heart health and keeps anxiety levels to a minimum (as long as you don’t agonize excessively over your double-bogeys).

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 23 BMSMGC annual donations help support both the Burnaby Golf Junior programs as well as the Junior golf programs managed by Golf Canada. Burnaby Golf “Reach Out” Program a Major Success Story

Fifteen years ago, Burnaby’s Golf Operations Department recognized that the number of players taking up the game of golf was not going to make up for the numbers of players leaving the game. Burnaby’s golf population was starting to decline.

With this situation in mind, it was decided that we could no longer wait for the future golfers to come to us, and that we had to take a basic level of introduction and instruction out into the community.

Over the past 15 years, Burnaby’s Golf Operations department has worked hard to take golf out to the children of Burnaby via the schools’ physical education classes. In conjunction with the Burnaby School Board, Burnaby Golf has exposed the game of golf to students at the grade 5 and grade 10 levels throughout the City of Burnaby.

In addition to the instructional costs, Burnaby Golf incurred additional costs to develop, schedule and administer the program.

This program has been taught to more than 16,000 children over the years that this program has been in effect.

We felt we needed to do more to take golf out to the community. Currently our golf facilities teach more than 400 individual juniors per year, and more than 500 adults per year. We also host high school golf matches from the Burnaby, Vancouver and Independent School Leagues. By making the effort to take the basic introduction and instruction out to the schools of Burnaby, our efforts have reached more than almost 30,000 students. Many of these students may never have been exposed to the game of golf if it was not for these programs.

24 PART II: THE FIRST THIRY-SEVEN YEARS A HISTORY: 1970-2007* * With updates and modifications to Chapter Four and Appendices B and C.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 25 Introduction

The Club history project was in the minds of Allan Armstrong and Harold Brown back in 1998 and the idea was put forward to the Directors. Approval to go ahead with the project was granted and these keen members went to work to gather information and to plan the construction of the history book.

At first a coffee table type book of around 100 pages in full colour complete with pictures was envisioned. In 2000, after hours of research and interviews with several Life Members, much anecdotal and factual information was gathered. This information, together with the knowledge of the committee members, formed the foundation upon which this history project was built.

In 2000, a meeting of several key members was held to assess the progress to date and to enlist the help of these members. Fresh ideas were presented and tasks were assigned. Gradually the project took shape. Draft after draft was critiqued, redrafted and reformatted. The committee agreed to the layout of four chapters and four appendices.

Work started on the design of the cover and the selection of pictures. The initial enthusiasm started to wane after a few years of information gathering, drafting and redrafting whole chapters. Finally, after about three years of work, the original members of the committee struck a brick wall so to speak. The project stalled and it was not until 2004 that an attempt to resurrect the project took place.

The Board instructed the President to appoint an ad-hoc committee of three to re-examine the original Committee’s guidelines, to investigate the feasibility of continuing with the project and to report back to the Board at the following meeting.

The ad-hoc committee reported back to say that it considered the amount of material gathered and the progress achieved by the original committee made the continuation of the project worthwhile. The committee recommended that a consultant be hired to examine the material and to report back if the material was indeed worthy of continuation and if so to provide a preliminary plan and budget.

26 The consultant’s report stated the material and work to date was of sufficient merit to continue with the project and a preliminary plan and budget was provided. The ad-hoc committee was formalized and instructed to proceed expeditiously to complete the project. The time is now June 2006, a first draft of the completed work was compiled and submitted to the consultant for critique. The recommendations of the consultant were accomplished in May and a meeting arranged with a Burnaby graphics design group for input on the cover and general formatting of the publication. There followed an intense session of re-drafting and re-formatting according to these recommendations.

A final draft was prepared in September and sent to the Advisory Committee. This committee was appointed by the Directors to peruse the final draft and to either approve it for publication or return it to the committee with recommendations for change.

This final draft was also submitted to some outside specialists in the golf club history publications for comment. All input from other parties was considered and the recommendations of the Advisory Committee were discussed and compromises made prior to publication.

The reader now sees before him the fruits of many years of labour from many people. It is a factual recording of the history of the Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club from within the ranks of the membership.

“if you wish to hide your character do not play golf” – Percey Boomer, Pro Golfer

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 27 Prologue

In the Beginning

Nearly two million years ago, long before man evolved, Mother Nature held the future Municipality of Burnaby in her frozen grip. As frigid winds blew over a 5,000-foot deep layer of lifeless ice, she was performing her work on the future geography of the land. If anyone could have seen what was going on at the surface, they would not have suspected what was taking place far below. She was gouging out Indian Arm and depositing the remains on what we know as Burnaby mountain. The land, slowly released from glaciations, continued to rise, shift, and settle, exposing a residue of large boulders and clay-laden marine soil.

Gradually, over many thousands of years, as temperatures continued to warm and the waters receded, life began to emerge. Evergreen and deciduous trees grew up side by side. Cedar, fir, and hemlock thrived, along with alders, birch, and willow. Undergrowth, in the form of vine maples, ferns, mosses, ground shrubs, and berry bushes formed a thick carpet over the ground.

As the food supply expanded with new plant life, the land came alive with birds and wild animals. Salmon and other native species of fish filled the lakes and streams. Waterfowl, song birds, and birds of prey made their appearance. Among four-legged animals, deer, bear, cougar, beaver, wolves, and coyotes established their dominion over the land. Last to come was man – first the aboriginals, then the European settlers.

The Urbanization of Burnaby

In the late 1800s, after the neighbouring cities of Vancouver and New Westminster had established themselves, Burnaby remained largely a rural settlement. Small farms, devoted chiefly to raising mushrooms, berries and chickens, dotted the landscape. Logging activity provided not only a source of jobs and profit, but also a means of clearing land for more farms. Despite this pastoral setting, the citizens banded together in 1892 to incorporate the Municipality of Burnaby. The population was then a mere 200 souls.

Over the next 30 years, not much changed. Some subdivisions were established in the 1920s, during a mini land boom. Nevertheless, it wasn’t until the 1930s that the population slowly started to grow. Building sites were plentiful, and inexpensive, with 33 foot lots selling for $25 to $50.

28 Central Park, 1921. City of Burnaby Archives, 521-018

Many people built their own houses, which were typically quite small and simple in design. Even as this house building was going on, the community retained its rural character. Logging companies remained active on Capitol Hill, and farming was everywhere in evidence. Most homeowners had small vegetable gardens and chicken coops. It was common to shoot a pheasant from your front porch for dinner.

The 1940s brought World War II and relief from the Great Depression. The decade also marked, in 1942, Burnaby’s 50th birthday. Following the war, there was a new housing boom, with subdivisions springing up to accommodate 20 to 200 commercially built homes. New homes in these subdivisions typically sold for about $4,000. In 1949, Burnaby obtained its own Post Office and a bus service to replace the old B.C. Electric “Toonerville Trolley” along Hastings Street in North Burnaby.

The 1950s were a time of rapid and extensive growth. A huge addition to Oakalla Prison raised its inmate accommodations to 1,200. The prison was designed to be self-sufficient, raising its own vegetables, chickens, and pigs. It even had its own dairy. The inmates earned money from working in the fields or with the livestock. They received tobacco as a reward for good behavior.

Many civic and commercial projects were to follow. Burnaby General Hospital opened in 1952; a new Municipal Hall was built, as was the Lake City Industrial complex. A new park and pavilion were established, on the North Slope near the top of Burnaby’s most prominent land feature, Burnaby Mountain. Willingdon Heights, an ambitious development of

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 29 500 home sites, complete with sidewalks, streets, and sewers, brought in a totally new approach to home building. On the commercial side, the Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Terminal was completed, and Simpson Sears established a large new department store on Kingsway. In 1957, seeking to provide more amenities for its growing population, Burnaby Parks Commission struck a committee, to find land to set aside for the eventual construction of an 18-hole Municipal Golf Course.

Municipal growth accelerated even more in the 1960s. With a population approaching 180,000, Burnaby was beginning to attract the attention of the corporate world. Near the City’s western boundary, the new 30- acre Brentwood Shopping Centre proclaimed itself to be the largest of its kind in British Columbia. By the close of the decade, Lougheed Mall was established on the eastern boundary, with The Bay and Safeway becoming its anchor tenants. The Mall was depicted as being located “dead centre” of the metropolitan area as the population pushed relentlessly eastward. The Safeway store, at 35,000 square foot area, was recognized, at the time, as being the largest food market in Western Canada.

In 1963, construction for Simon Fraser University began on top of Burnaby Mountain on land donated by the Municipality. Two years later the University opened its doors, with a full complement of students at all levels, graduate and undergraduate. Down below, on a 157-acre site on Burnaby Mountain’s southwest slow, construction was about to begin on what Reeve Alan Emmott proudly proclaimed would be “the best golf course in the world”.

Aerial photograph of Burnaby Mountain, [1957 or 1958] City of Burnaby Archives, 476-024

30 Chapter One Burnaby Mountain: A Course Record

Shortly after construction of Simon Fraser University began in 1963 Alan Emmott, the Reeve of Burnaby from 1957 to 1969, turned his attention to the proposed construction of a golf course on the 157-acre site on Burnaby Mountain’s southwest slope, just below the university site. Alan Emmott was to be in office during all phases of the planning, development, and construction of the golf course.

The selected site had many challenges to overcome, notably the large gulch at the centre which had been used for a number of years as a garbage dump by local residents. They could hardly be blamed as regular garbage pickup was non-existent at the time. The site was thickly forested with a variety of trees and brush, layers of clay-packed glacial soils, soggy peat bogs, natural streams and gullies. The site had very little topsoil that could be preserved during construction, necessitating the importing of many truckloads of topsoil.

In 1964, Reeve Emmott asked long-term Burnaby resident, David Herd, a founding member of the Burnaby Parks Commission to chair a committee to seek an architect/designer for the proposed golf course. Dave Herd was well qualified for this task and later went on to be one of a few people in Burnaby to be honoured with “keys of the City”. Dave also became President of the Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club in 1994-95 and in 1998 was made a Life Member. Subsequently, in 2002 he was given the trophy “For the Good of the Club” in recognition of his long and loyal service.

In 1964, Dave Herd, after a diligent search, contracted with Ernie Brown Golf Services to design and build the golf course. Mr. Brown was eminently qualified for the job as during his career he had built or reworked 22 golf courses in British Columbia.

In the spring of 1965, construction was about to begin. Expectations were that the course would be ready for play by the fall of 1967.

“My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch” – Lee Trevino, Pro Golfer Aerial photograph of Burnaby Mountain, [1957 or 1958] City of Burnaby Archives, 476-024

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 31 This was reported with great fanfare in the Burnaby Courier:

Best Golf Course in the World

“The best golf course in the world,” is how Alan Emmott designated the 18-hole golf course to be built on 150-acres of land on the southwest slope of Burnaby Mountain, east of Duthie and on line with Halifax.

The course, designed by Ernest E. Brown, spirals around a centrally located clubhouse, a parking area, a nursery, a practice driving range and a putting green of 15,000 square feet. Rolling greens, with gullies and lakes, created from natural water sources, are the prize features of the course.

The golf course, latest of the Park and Recreation Commission’s achievements, and first to be built by a municipality in Canada, will be operated by the municipality. Costing an estimated $300,000 to build, it will run from $40,000 to $50,000 annually to operate. Returns are expected to gross from $65,000 to $70,000.

An abundance of golf enthusiasm, generating from 11,000 golfers in Burnaby, and some 80,000 in Vancouver, only about one third of which are members of clubs, will be augmented, it is hoped, by the interest of the university students and the sports-minded public of Burnaby, especially the younger set. Adult and junior clubs will be formed, with classes for instruction and special rates at certain periods of the day.

Construction of the course is scheduled to begin in June. The greens are expected to be ready for use in the fall of 1967.

Access to the golf course will be along Halifax from the north to its centre. An east-west connection from Sperling to Broadway will skirt along the eastern boundary of the course.

Burnaby Courier, Spring 1965

The golf course site was a jungle of original growth. And the area immediately surrounding the proposed site was also completely covered in bush. It was first described by Ernie Brown as “a challenging site, yet the overall topography was gently rolling, enough to make it easy for walking, and such that drainage would be easy to control.”

32 Above: Construction of Burnaby Mountain Golf Course. City of Burnaby Archives, Robert Bailey, 526-001. Top right: Reeve/Mayor Alan Emmott, City of Burnaby Archives. 231-002, 1958. Bottom right: Course Contractor & Designer Ernie Brown

Mr. Brown further stated: “Our objective was to produce a golf course the City could be proud of, one which would be easily walkable, interesting, challenging, and yet very playable by all handicaps. Our formula followed the six-six-six theory of six difficult holes, six easy holes, and six of medium difficulty. To do this, we had to get every level on every hole, every 100 yards, on both sides of the fairway, and mark the boundaries with coloured flagging tape. Then we started to selectively clear out the trees, stumps, and undergrowth, and pile everything in the centre for burning, until less than five percent was left.”

Many interesting ideas went into the golf course design. The long drive into the parking lot was deliberately created to give the “feeling” that a person had arrived at the golf course and had left the world at large far behind. The teeing grounds were designed with good size to create more challenge for the longer hitters, and to reduce wear and tear on the tees. Greens were designed to be visible to players and large enough to permit daily pin movement during the height of the playing season. Bunkering was kept to a minimum as the course was designed for all handicaps.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 33 Work on the course began in June 1965 with completion scheduled for September 1967. Unfortunately, many unanticipated challenges lurked beneath the thick undergrowth and in the gullies, challenges which would result in continuing delays in the course’s opening. Because of Burnaby’s high average rainfall, drainage swales were built into grade levels on each fairway. This gave the fairways more character, yet they did not affect the golfer. Where the driving range is today was originally a huge, dry gully, 50 feet deep by 200 yards in length. During construction, this was partially filled by stumps, logs, rocks, and old cars, and then it was covered over with thousands of truck loads of dirt fill. In spite of its many challenges, the driving range was opened for use in 1972.

When the clearing of the course was completed, the architect faced another major problem. The site, because of is glacial history, provided very little topsoil required for finishing the fairways and greens. Council approved funds to buy enough topsoil to shape the greens, bunkers, and teeing grounds. This purchase greatly increased the cost of building the course – by perhaps as much as $400,000. In the final analysis, total costs for the golf course, range and buildings, would rise to more than triple the initial amount allotted – about $1,000,000 in total.

Following a search that had begun in the fall of 1967, and in the expectation that the course would open in the spring of 1968, Burnaby hired its first golf professional, Mr. Tryg Wenn. He was to take up his duties April 1, 1968. Mr. Wenn was the Head Professional at Edmonton’s Broadmoor Club before coming to Burnaby.

Official Opening of Burnaby Mountain Golf Course © City of Burnaby Archives, Robert Bailey. Tryg Wenn, first Golf Pro at Photo ID 526-001- 38 Burnaby Mountain Golf Course.

34 Mayor Bob Prittie and the City of Burnaby officially opened the course in May of 1969 with some considerable fanfare. The plaque marking this event still stands just outside the course Bistro.

The course officially opened for play at 1:00 PM on May 15, 1969. From conception to completion, it had taken thirteen years in development. Green fees, which were designed to make the course competitive with its neighbors in Vancouver, were set at $2.50 for 18 holes on weekdays and $3.00 on weekends and holidays. For nine holes the fee was $2.00 on weekdays and $2.50 on weekends. Fees for yearly adult passes, which could only be used on weekdays, were set at $100. Yearly passes for students, also restricted to weekdays, were $70. Passes for juniors, ages 11-18, and seniors, 65 and older, were $50 per year for weekday play only. At the time of the opening, many of the ravines on the course had not yet been filled, resulting in a course that played at 5,228 yards; far less than the architect’s planned 6,500 yards. Ever optimistic, Parks Commissioners pointed to a five-year plan which would see the course reach its full potential.

Not long after the course opened, a labour strike against the municipality occurred. As the strike dragged on, Tryg Wenn became very concerned that the greens would be lost if the grass was not kept short. He would come to the course early in the morning before the pickets were set up and hand-mow the greens. He continued this practice until the strike was settled.

Many changes have taken place over the years since the course was completed. A new pro shop was built and the front nine was reversed to become the back nine and vice versa to allow the starter to have better control of play.

Other changes of note are the installation of an underground sprinkling system and construction of all-weather cart paths. During the past few years drainage has been improved by the installation of new underground lines and the addition of many truckloads of sand on the fairways. Regular sanding and aerating has vastly improved the greens. Pace of play improved when all the trees were limbed to approximately five feet above ground.

There are many golf courses on the Lower Mainland but few offer the daily challenges of the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course at an economical cost, which is one reason the course is so popular to golfers, young and old.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 35 Chapter Two The Founders and the Traditions

It all started with an idea. In the fall of 1969, while playing the newly opened Burnaby Mountain golf Course, Dick Allan, Alf Keel, Jock McNeil and Ben Sutherland envisioned the formation of a club for senior men. They approached the current pro, Tryg Wenn, who supported the idea as he recognized an opportunity to have some guaranteed tee times every Wednesday morning.

This forward-thinking foursome then went to work to promote the idea of a senior’s club. Initiation fees were set at $15.00, and annual dues at $5.00. They were successful in getting the Club started as thirty Charter Members agreed to join.

R. Allan R. Higgs E. Miles G. Atkinson R. Hobbs S. Nairn N. Bailey L. King T. Peacock G. Craig A. Keel J. Pentland D. Cubitt N. Lanyon T. Rigby I. Douglas J. Larson G. Scholes J. Downing W. Martin B. Sutherland F. Everitt B. McLaren A. Thompson R. Hatley G. McLaren H. Tite D. Heritage J. McNeil J. Wilson

Charter Members

The first foursomes teed-off on April 1, 1970, which was declared as Charter Day. It was the beginning of a long and still continuing tradition; the Senior Men’s Wednesday morning golf game. Gradually an organization was formed, rules developed and relationships built. None of this would have been possible without the contributions of many gifted and dedicated volunteers.

Initially the list of Charter Members contained street addresses and telephone numbers. Cities or municipalities of residence were identified on the roster by arbitrarily assigned letter codes as there was a genuine fear the playing privileges could be denied if other than Burnaby residents were included on the Club’s roster. However, in 1979 there was a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling which barred municipalities from discriminating against non-residents using public facilities.

36 Following that theme, albeit several years later, in 1991 the club dropped a requirement in its Bylaws that at least 51% of the members be Burnaby residents. Statistics kept over the intervening years show that the majority of members are indeed from Burnaby.

The Early Organization

The written records of the Club’s early years are sketchy, but some of the first members have recalled how the Club operated in these early days. Others, who became members during the 1970s and early 1980s, have also provided an insight into the Club’s activities. It is from these written records and interviews of these members that information has been gleaned to form the foundation for this project.

The Burnaby Mountain Men’s Club, formed in 1970, was a separate club playing on weekends with reserved times slots. This club joined the British Columbia Golf Association (BCGA) in 1973, but when the Men’s Club lost playing privileges at the golf course in 1976, it was forced to withdraw from the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) as well as the BCGA.

There is clear evidence the Seniors’ Club did not use the name of Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club (BMSMGC) from its initiation. The Charter members roster was headed by the name Burnaby Mountain Golf Course Senior Members Club in an attempt to distinguish itself from the weekend men’s club.

In 1978, the Club made application to the BCGA under the name of Burnaby Mountain Golf Course – Seniors Club. The BCGA replied that the Club should drop the “over 55 years of age rule”. After due deliberation the Club responded that it would drop the word “Senior” from the name. It would henceforth be known as Burnaby Mountain Men’s Golf Club. In May 1978 the application was approved by the RCGA but no approval from the BCGA is on file. Initially there was some confusion with the application as the BCGA thought it was the original men’s club reapplying. However, the confusion was cleared through the intervention of an unknown supporter who wrote a letter to the BCGA explaining the difference.

It is interesting to note that in 1979, the year after joining the BCGA and the RCGA, the Club started to refer to itself internally as Burnaby Mountain Men’s Club Seniors. Then, in 1980, the minutes of an executive meeting were titled Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club, the present name of the Club.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 37 The Charter Members roster has been preserved but no other rosters were found until 1977. These rosters were in the form of a typewritten sheet on legal sized paper with name, address, phone number and a code defining the resident municipality of each member.

At the time the first rosters were published in 1977 a pocket-sized folder of four pages printed on both sides began to appear. The folders showed the fixture list, the names and phone numbers of the executive and a list of the starters and draws. The amount of information on these folders gradually increased over the years until 1989 when the first booklet in the format which is presently in use was published.

No minutes of meetings have survived from the early days; the earliest copy of the minutes found were dated October 30, 1980. It is evident that the Club operated under a well-devised set of bylaws from the beginning. However, the first printed version of the Club’s bylaws are dated 1980 with revisions in subsequent years. In 1996, the bylaws were finalized, approved by the membership at a special general meeting and registered with the provincial government under the Society Act. The official name of the Club was registered as Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club which remains the same to this day.

It is evident that in addition to the elected officers, President, Vice- President, Secretary, Treasurer and Club Captain, Directors were also elected to serve as Chairs of various committees. However, it was not until the late 1990s that widespread volunteerism became the norm, as previously it was not uncommon for one person to act as Drawmaster and Starter for six weeks running.

The Early Membership

While the club started with a mere 30 Charter Members, it didn’t take long for the idea of a regular Wednesday morning golf game for seniors to become popular. The challenge was, and still is, how to get an adequate number of tee times to accommodate those who want to play without inconveniencing the general public. In the early years, when the course attracted smaller numbers of weekday players, this problem was solved informally, with the cooperation of the head professional, Tryg Wenn, who decided each week how many tee times could be allotted. However, there was resistance to permanently accommodate additional members by expanding allotted tee times above the then current 16 tee times.

As the roster grew in numbers to exceed the allotted tee times, people who wanted to join the Club were given spots as “tail-enders” but could not be 38 guaranteed a tee-time. Membership vacancies were filled from the “tail-enders” list, upon recommendation by two members in good standing.

By the early 1980s, membership had grown to well over 70 but allotted tee times held to 16. This meant that only 64 members could be assured of starting times. For the first time, the Membership Committee was faced with the problem of refusing applications for membership. By 1983, the problem had grown serious enough that the Club’s constitution was amended to permit establishment of a formal waiting list of up to 20 applicants. (The list was subsequently expanded to include an unlimited “shadow” list). This amendment also gave Directors the power to remove members whose participation in weekly events became too sporadic and to admit new members, acting on the recommendation of the Membership Chair.

In the late 1980s the wait list continued to grow, new applicants could expect to wait at least six years before attaining member status. Still, the Club continued to hold fast to the idea that anyone over 60 years of age, and not working full time, should be eligible to join. In 1991 the Club dropped all residency requirements, but restricted new applicants to those who were 55 and older.

In 2000, the Club was provided with six more tee times to bring the total to 22 tee times which in theory will accommodate 88 golfers. Statistics have shown, however, that except for the busy summer months and prestigious events, the Club can comfortably carry up to 140 playing members on the roster and still remain within its allotted tee times.

The Life Membership category was introduced into the Club in 1986 when 13 members were inducted, 6 non-playing and 7 playing. The conditions of entry have remained the same as when introduced. That is, a member must have been with the Club for ten consecutive years and have reached the age of 80 years. At first a Life Member was exempt from paying dues. However, in 1999 the Club, realizing the ever-increasing numbers of Life Members and the consequential effect on the treasury, changed the exemption rule. Now Life Members are required to pay a reduced amount of a regular playing member’s dues.

Since the Club is a group of “seniors,” various reasons arise that preclude a member from playing golf on a regular basis for the entire year. Recognizing the need to accommodate these members, the Club, in 1984, created an Associate Membership category. The dues to be paid are reduced from the amount paid by regular playing members. However, an Associate Member is allowed to change status at the beginning of the following year.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 39 Competitions and Handicapping

From its beginning, the Club has strived to provide its members with interesting competitions for each week. Most weeks a prize is awarded to the winner of an individual low net, a long drive or a closest to the pin. Prestigious trophies such as the Club Championship are also competed for during the schedule of events.

Early days also saw a few “fun” games, many of which would baffle today’s purists. Regular events on the schedule were an “Alibi Even,” where a member was permitted to replay as many shots as he had handicap strokes; a “Foot Contest,” in which a player was permitted to move his ball, twelve inches at a time, until the total of such moves equaled his handicap; a “String Event,” in which every player was given a 15 foot piece of string. He could then move his ball closer to the hole, but had to cut off a corresponding length of string. These events, although “fun,” are no longer scheduled.

Several team competitions are scheduled throughout the year such as two ball foursomes and four ball scrambles. These popular events have been in the schedule almost since the Club was formed.

Today, many of the original competitions are continued in basically the same formats. Traditionally, at the Annual General Meeting, each winner is called individually to the podium to accept his award.

In the early days all handicapping was done by manual methods which proved to be quite tedious at times. One Life Member, who joined the Club in 1975, recalls the job as an assistant to the Club’s first Handicap Chair was to check and validate each member’s scorecard before manually calculating handicaps. Evidently establishing proper handicaps for Club events was taken seriously.

When Equitable Stroke Control was introduced by the RCGA (Royal Canadian Golf Association) in 1975, the Club was among the first to adopt the new rules. However, BCGA (British Columbia Golf Association) membership was later in coming. In 1978, the Club affiliated with the BCGA and formally adopted the RCGA rules for establishing handicaps. In 1992, the Handicap Chair purchased a computer for personal use which could also handle the software supplied by the RCGA. The Slope System was then introduced into the Club and implemented for calculating handicaps.

40 Today, thanks to computer technology and the RCGA programs, handicapping has been simplified. The Club obtained its first computer in 2000 (in conjunction with the Burnaby Mountain Ladies Golf Club) and after a somewhat adventurous start most members became capable of entering their own scores into the computer located in the clubhouse. In 2005, a new computer was purchased, again in conjunction with the Ladies club. Weekly lists of members’ handicaps are calculated and posted on the bulletin board at the clubhouse. Members are also required to enter their scores from rounds played on other courses. Internet technology is now available to permit a member to enter his score from his own home. It is anticipated the Club will be on such a program by 2008.

“of all the hazards, fear is the worst” – Sam Snead, Pro Golfer

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 41 The Club

Organization and Management

The Club is managed by the President and the Club Captain. Their duties and responsibilities are roughly divided between off-course and on-course activities. Both positions report to the members through the Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors is composed of five elected Directors and four elected Officers plus the immediate Past President and the Club Captain for a total of eleven Directors. All serve for a two-year term.

Elections are held yearly at the Annual General meeting, usually in late October. The nominating committee, composed of the three immediate Past Presidents, propose a slate of members to the membership and elections are held. Generally, half the Board is elected each year in order to provide continuity in management of Club affairs.

Directors’ Meetings are generally held three times during the year and when special issues arise. In addition, Directors are frequently asked to deal with day-to-day issues, usually in relation to their specific duties and responsibilities.

Each of the four Officers, President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer perform duties generally associated with these positions. The immediate Past President automatically assumes a seat on the Board upon the completion of his term. The Past President will add his guidance to the board and will also handle Member Welfare Responsibilities.

The five Directors also serve individually as Chair of a Committee (see Appendix C for an Organization Chart).

The drawmasters, starters and scorers work under the general direction of the Club Captain who is responsible for all competitions and rules interpretations. The Club Captain is assisted in this work by the Chairs of the Drawmasters/Starters Committee and the Scorers Committee. The Chair of the Handicap Committee oversees the proper entry of scores, handicap adjustments and compiles a weekly list of handicaps for all playing members.

Less frequent duties, but no less demanding, are carried out by the Past President managing member welfare tasks and the Chair of the

42 Membership Committees. Still other members serve as assistants to committee Chairs and as representatives to external organizations, including and liaison committees with the City of Burnaby.

Two meetings are held each year to give the members an opportunity to socialize with each other and with the executive on an informal basis. The spring luncheon to which wives and partners are invited is a very popular event. The AGM, held in October after the fiscal year ending (September 30), is well attended and is an opportunity for the members to hear reports on the activities of the past year, what is planned for the following year and to vote on nominations of Directors and Officers to replace retiring Board members.

Membership

From the start of the Club some order had to be introduced into the organization of the tee times. Drawsheet forms were originally hand done. Later as new members entered the Club, bringing newer technical knowledge, the drawsheet forms were computerized. The drawsheets are completed by the Drawmaster and given to the Starter who oversees the weekly game. The drawsheets are still completed in pencil to simplify the inevitable changes, especially the day of the draw. Age, travel, medical issues and weather all contribute to an uncertainty of the number of members who will appear for the weekly draw.

Each year prior to the first of December, each member must renew his membership in the Club and he must make the decision of whether to be a Playing Member or an Associate Member for the entire year. Applications are mailed out by the Secretary together with the notice of the Annual General meeting usually held in late October. Once the member makes his decision it is non-changeable for the year.

Determining the number of members each year is not an exact science. In the spring and fall the Club sometimes does not reach its quota of players, yet fine summer days bring out a majority of members. For the Directors to balance the number of playing members to be allowed into the Club with departing members each year demands experience and a certain amount of luck.

So what is the Club’s status? As the length of the waiting list and weekly turnouts suggest, it is healthy indeed. Many members play golf the year round and they will be found (along with other seniors) on the course virtually every day of the week, at all hours of the day. People want to join

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 43 the Club to have the opportunity to share the enjoyment of the game with others who are like-minded and for the camaraderie generated within the Club.

The popularity of the Club is illustrated by the fact that potential members are willing to endure the current wait time of a few years or more to join the Club. It would be safe to claim that Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club is one of the best managed golf clubs in British Columbia.

The Ball

In my hand I hold a ball White and dimpled, rather small Oh how harmless it does appear This innocent looking little sphere By its size I could not guess The awesome power it does possess But since I fell beneath its spell I’ve been through the fires of hell My life has not been quite the same Since I chose to play its game It rules my life for hours on end A fortune it has had me spend It has made me curse and cry And hate myself and want to die It promises me a thing called “Par” If I can hit it straight and far To master such a tiny ball Should not be very hard at all But my desires the ball refuses And does exactly as it chooses It hooks and slices, dribbles and dies Or disappears before my very eyes Often it will have a whim To hit a tree or take a swim With miles of grass on which to land It finds that tiny patch of sand Then has me offering up my soul If it would first drop in the hole It’s made me whimper like a pup And swear that I will give it up And take to drink to ease my sorrow But “The Ball” knows I’ll be back tomorrow.

44 Circa 2004 ( left to right) Jed, son of Golf Burnaby’s Greg McClure coaching a Administrator Leslie MacDonald, Sydney and Kendall, teen golfer nieces of BM’s Cathie Kulcheski, and new friend Emily.

Junior Golf

Throughout the years prior to 1998 many of the members volunteered for various events in support of the Junior Golf program at Burnaby Mountain golf course. The amount of time given is not measurable as many members volunteered on their own and not through the Club.

In 1996 the Club was incorporated under the Society Act and was now eligible to request funds from the Gaming Commission. An application was sent to Victoria in 1997 and in 1998 a group of members volunteered their time at a casino where they were able to raise slightly more than $17,000. Later, through Direct Access applications, additional funds have been raised to bring the total to just under $100,000, all of which has been contributed towards the Junior Golf program at Burnaby Mountain golf course.

As a result of an audit conducted by the Gaming Commission, the Club has modified its support role for Junior Golf and is now dispensing funds through a program of support to eligible children and teens by subsidizing a Loyalty Pass purchase. Another program has recently been initiated where the Club is sponsoring CPGA professionals to visit schools in Burnaby to provide a hands-on introduction and short training sessions to interested students. All support for the program is administered by the Club in conjunction with Burnaby Golf Operations.

“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how child-like golfers become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”– John Updike, Novelist

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 45 Ray Kirstein Celebrating his 90th Birthday with the family at Burnaby Mountain G.C.

The Spirit of Volunteerism

The smooth operation of the Club is no accident. From the very beginning, the Club has been blessed with selfless members whose only interest has been the furtherance of golf and its long traditions. Mere desire, however, is not enough. Talented, knowledgeable, and skilled individuals have come forward, learned new tasks, and freely donated their time for the benefit of others. Each year, nearly half of the 170 playing members serve in one or more volunteer roles.

Consider the contributions of drawmasters, starters, and scorers to each weekly competition. A drawmaster must take the current roster and determine who is eligible to play the following week. He must, rotate the draw from last week, refer to the “special considerations” list, identify members sharing carts and then lay out the draw, striving to mix the players from the previous week’s draw. He then must deliver the briefcase to the clubhouse, post the draw on the bulletin board and provide a copy of the draw to the pro shop. The briefcase contains all the forms and other information to enable the drawmaster and starter to properly accomplish their tasks. (Please review page 15 to appreciate the many changes in a Volunteers activities comparing the pre to the post 2008 years.)

46 The Starter is required to pick up the briefcase from the clubhouse and be on call for members wishing to make changes to their tee time. He then must be at the clubhouse in plenty of time to organize the first tee and fulfill the requirements of the particular event. He then checks in the members as they arrive, changes the drawsheet as required to accommodate “no-shows”, identifies cart partners for the following week, dispenses prizes from the previous week and all with a smile. He then has his own tee time at the last of the draw which means when he finishes he will have been at the golf course for at least eight hours.

The Scorer must arrive at the golf course for the first tee time as he is in the first foursome. At the completion of his round he must stay at the clubhouse until all players have completed their rounds. He checks scorecards, enters the scores on the drawsheet and determines the winner(s) of the current competition. He too will have been at the golf course for at least eight hours.

The duties and responsibilities of managing and operating the Club are not occasional duties, but responsibilities that demand meticulous attention to detail, week after week. The Club is indeed fortunate that, over the years, it has been able to identify and draw members into dedicating their time and skills to the operations of the Club.

Most of these hard-working members have no prior experience in carrying out their duties. They learned their craft by attending seminars, working with more experienced members, and toughing it out under fire. In the background, there are always Chairs of these groups ready to offer advice and, when required, to make rulings. Why do these people do it? The answer is simple: For the good of the game.

“Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves will let you do.” – Bruce Crampton, Pro Golfer

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 47 Chapter Three Birdies and Bogeys of Burnaby Mountain

Each golf course has its own identity, its own idiosyncrasies, its own character, all dictating to the experienced golfer a certain method of play. Golf has often been described as 80% mental and 20% physical. This stroke-by-stroke and hole-by-hole description of the method of playing Burnaby Mountain Golf Course will address the mental aspect of the game. The physical side is left to the golfer. That said, the player is encouraged to play from the appropriate tee box to reflect both the physical ability of the golfer and the level of fun that can be had from a round of golf.

Note: Click here to watch a hole-by-hole round Tee Box assignments played at Burnaby Mountain. and yardages will be finalized and updated soon.

Hole 1 – Par 5 This is the first of the sixteen greens that have front slopes. If a ball lands on these slopes, it will not run up onto the green and a bogey will loom. This hole looks easy, and it should be, but it is not. The tee shot must be on the fairway, so most players use a three wood. The second shot must be through the chute. Hitting or being behind the cedar trees can turn a par into a double bogey. The third shot must pitch onto the green, preferably below the hole. Be careful with putts from above the pin.

Hole 2 – Par 4 Hit a left to right tee shot down the left-hand edge of the fairway. This will avoid the bunker on the right. Unlike hole one, the second shot can be run onto the green. Use enough club on the second shot. The green slopes back to front and runs true.

48 Hole 3 – Par 5 This is a three-shot hole for all but the longest hitters. Avoid trees on the right side of the fairway. Most players will then lay up in front of the pond. As on hole one, the ball must carry onto the green on the third shot. Balls hitting short of the green will plug. Keep the pitch shot below the hole. Putts from above the hole can be treacherous.

Hole 4 – Par 3 Hit a left to right or straight shot. Keep the ball below or in front of the pin. Read putts from both sides of the pin before addressing the ball.

Hole 5 – Par 4 The tee box tends to encourage a drive to the right, so alignment is crucial. Avoid the temptation to cut the dog-leg left. There is a ditch and some nasty lies waiting in that direction. The area in front of the green is quite soft, so a second shot that hits the green on the fly is best. Use enough club.

Hole 6 – Par 3 This is a challenging uphill tee shot, be sure to take enough club. A tee shot to the back of the green can be easy par. A tee shot short of the green can still lead to a par with a good up and down chip and putt.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 49 Hole 7 – Par 4 The tee box alignment tends to encourage a drive to the right, or over the fence, so again alignment is crucial. A left to right tee shot avoids the tree on the right. The green is very receptive to long second shots.

Hole 8 – Par 4 This number one handicap hole on the front nine requires a straight tee shot, over the ditch. For some, this hole might require three shots to reach the green. An accurate third shot can still produce a one putt par on a near level green.

Hole 9 – Par 4 The tee shot should be aimed up the left centre of the fairway, toward the white 150 yard stake. Take enough club to carry the second shot onto the green.

Hole 10 – Par 4 A long par four that may require three shots to reach the green. An accurate third shot can still produce a one putt par. Read putts carefully, as there is more break than is evident.

50 Hole 11 – Par 4 Another tester lengthwise, but this is a good safe hole for the “big” drive. The second shot can be run onto the green. Then, sink a twenty-foot putt for birdie.

Hole 12 – Par 4 This is an easier hole. Stay on the fairway, and this becomes a possible birdie hole. Again, take enough club for the second shot, as shots that come up short will probably have to be chipped onto the green. The lake on the right can be a problem for long hitters.

Hole 13 – Par 3 This hole calls for a straight tee shot that avoids the trees on the left and the bunker on the right. It is not a mistake to leave a tee shot a little short of the green or bunker. Chip close and one putt for par.

Hole 14 – Par 4 This is the toughest hole on the course, but it is fun and challenging to play. Tee shot should be hit centre or centre right so that the flag and green are visible for the second shot. A three wood might get to the green, but most require three shots from the tee to green. As this is a two-tiered green, it is imperative that the second or third shot lands on the same tier as the flag. A poor shot to the wrong tier can easily lead to three putts.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 51 Hole 15 – Par 3 This is the toughest par 3 on the course. A well- struck tee shot that lands short of the green will not carry onto the green. However an accurate chip shot that stays below the hole, can lead to a satisfying one putt par. Putts from above the hole are very difficult. Beware!

Hole 16 – Par 5 A neat hole! Aim the tee shot at the big cedar tree in the centre of the fairway. A tee shot too far right will leave a difficult second shot. If the second shot is a lay-up, use enough club to get the ball reasonably close to the creek. Aim the third shot to the left side of the green, as everything slopes to the right. If the flag is on the right side of the green, putt carefully.

Hole 17 – Par 4 This hole calls for an accurate tee shot. Notice that the white 150 yard stake is not very far from the tee box. Possibly hit an iron off the tee? The trees both left and right can easily turn a par into a double bogey.

Hole 18 – Par 4 A good finishing hole – not too long, but tight. A tee shot left of centre opens up the green and the flag more readily than a shot hit to the right of centre down the tree line. The green is very deep, so whether the second shot is over the trees or from the fairway, take enough club to land on the green. A good green to one putt.

“The only time my prayers are not answered is on the golf course.” – Billy Graham, Evangelist

52 Chapter Four Trophies and Champions

Each year, nearly from the beginning, the Club has produced, as part of its roster, a list of Club competitions and the rules for them. Many of these events have prizes, such as sleeves of balls awarded to the winners. But some are, deservedly, held in high regard, and are deemed to be deserving of trophies. In this Chapter the trophy competitions are described and the winners listed.

The trophies and awards for the season are listed in this table. Alongside of the name of the competition is listed the trophy or award given to the winner of each event as well as when the event is held.

Event Award Timing Spring Handicap Trophy May Air Canada Trophy May Putting Contest Trophy July Don Topp Memorial Plaque Discontinued Club Championship Trophy August Flt. Winners Club Championship Trophies August Charter Members Memorial Trophy July Fall Handicap Trophy September Match Play Trophy Season long Age Grp. Champion Junior Trophy Summer/fall Age Grp. Champion Intermediate Trophy Summer/fall Age Grp. Champion Senior Trophy Summer/fall Age Grp. Champion Super Senior Trophy Summer/fall Most Improved Golfer Plaque Season long

“You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket” – Lee Trevino, Pro Golfer

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 53 There were a few other competitions that are worth mentioning but are no longer in the Schedule of Events. The first record found of the Weston Cup was 1981 and the tournament continued to 1994 when it was discontinued for no apparent reason. No background for this competition was found.

The Rod Gott Special was of great interest and was held in the earlier days before detailed records were kept (there was on reference found for 1977). The competition was net best three out of four rounds. Evidently Rod Gott was an artist of some distinction and would paint a picture of a scene from the golf course of the winner’s choice. This competition possibly ended in 1989 as Rod Gott’s name appears in the 1989 roster but not in the 1990 membership list.

Another historical event of interest, when the Burnaby men’s Club ceased functioning in the late 1970s the club’s trophies were displayed in a glass case in the coffee shop. It is thought that in 1980 or 1981 the coffee shop needed the space so the trophies were given to the Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Club Champion trophy and the then current Senior Men’s trophy became the Runner-up trophy.

It is also thought the Charter Members Memorial Cup competition was instituted at this time as another trophy became available from the Men’s Club.

Photo of Tiger with inserted quotation by avid golfer, rock and roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper. Alice is also a regular on the pro-am circuit.

54 Club Championship

Foremost among the competitions is the Club Championship. This competition is the longest standing competition within the Club. In the early days the competition was conducted in the traditional format for events such as the Club Championship, that is, in the match play format. However since 1988, it has been based on stroke play and it can only be deduced the Club had changed to conform to the current practices of the golfing world.

Originally the competition spanned four weeks and was composed of a qualifying round followed by three rounds of five flights each with eight competitors. Winners and runners-up were declared for each of the five flights as well as the Club Champion and all derived from match play.

The Club Championship has now been changed to a three-day competition held over two weeks and occurring in August. The competition is open to all Regular Members provided that they have played at least 8 games at the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course and have an established handicap. To further encourage participation in the Club Championship, net and runner up champions in each flight are recognized and prizes are awarded.

Until 2002 handicaps were not admitted; only the 24 best golfers and ties after the first round could qualify for the final competition. The remaining golfers competed on a handicap basis over the following two rounds. The golfer who emerged from the pack after three grueling rounds of competitive golf in any given year is, indeed, worthy of the title, Club Champion.

Subsequently, in 2002 the format was changed once again. The Club Championship is now determined by aggregate low gross score over the three rounds. The Runner-up also receives recognition and a trophy. Each year trophies and a cash honorarium are awarded to the Club Champion and Runner-up at the Annual General Meeting. To further encourage participation in the Club Championship, net and runner up champions in each flight are recognized and prizes are awarded.

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself, you forget to hate your enemies. – Will Rogers, Actor & Humourist

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 55 Club Champions since the Formation of the Club 1970 Archie Thompson 1987 Ray Kirstein 2004 Joe Galvin 1971 Jack Larson 1988 Glen Merrifield 2005 Barrie Brown 1972 Gil McLaren 1989 Glen Merrifield 2006 Menno Martens 1973 Rod Gott 1990 Albert Moser 2007 Menno Marten 1974 Rod Gott 1991 Albert Moser 2008 Joe Niccoli 1974 Rod Gott 1992 Joe Mulvihill 2009 Joe Niccoli 1976 Fred Parker 1993 Joe Mulvihill 2010 Joe Niccoli 1977 Gil McLaren 1994 Merrill Gordon 2011 Brian Strom 1978 Doc Gilbert 1995 Merrill Gordon 2012 Joe Niccoli 1979 Glen Merrifield 1996 Jim McLennan 2013 Joe Niccoli 1980 Glen Merrifield 1997 Merrill Gordon 2014 Guy Thompson 1981 Les Cooper 1998 Jim McLennan 2015 Joe Niccoli 1982 Ernie Manson 1999 Merrill Gordon 2016 Frank Fan 1983 Glen Merrifield 2000 Ed Ledlin 2017 Guy Thompson 1984 Ray Kirstein 2001 Merrill Gordon 2018 John Edgar 1985 Ray Kirstein 2002 Ross Weber 2019 Tom Grieve 1986 Ernie Manson 2003 Joe Galvin 2020 James Diao

Joe Niccoli Tom Grieve James Diao Joe was our Club After becoming a regular James shares the later Champion for a record member in 2019, Tom portion of 2020 as six times in 2008, 2009, went on to win the Club being Club Champion 2010, 2012, 2013 & 2015. Champion in his first year with Tom Grieve He was Runner up to the at BMSMGC. He held during our Club’s 50th Club Champion in 2007 the Club Championship Anniversary year. & 2016. He won the Air Trophy through the Canada Trophy in 2015, majority of the golf club’s the Intermediate Age 50th anniversary 2020 Group event in 2016, season. He also won the Senior Age Group in 2020 Intermediate Age Group and Putting Contests in Event in 2020. Tom is our 2007 & 2008. Joe also current assistant Club shot a hole-in-one on Captain and Chair of the the 4th in 2018. Prize Committee. 56 Record of Runners-up for the Club Championship 1981 R. Milne 1995 Joe Mulvihill 2009 Al Johnston 1982 Glen Merrifield 1996 Tony Eppler 2010 Joe Galvin 1983 D. Eldridge 1997 Jack Logan 2011 Louis Riba 1984 Metro Mudry 1998 Jack Logan 2012 Guy Thompson 1985 Glen Merrifield 1999 Jack Logan 2013 Bill Messinger 1986 K. Ross 2000 Jack Logan 2014 Al Johnston 1987 Metro Mudry 2002 H. Haslauer, 2015 John Yun 1988 Ray Kirstein M. Gordon 2016 Joe Niccoli 1990 Ernie Manson 2003 Jim McLennan 2017 Frank Fan 1991 J. Mulvihill, 2004 Peter Liu 2018 Frank Fan R. Kirstein 2005 Joe Galvin 2019 Frank Fan 1992 Glen Merrifield 2006 Joe Galvin 2020 Glen Sayer 1993 Glen Merrifield 2007 Joe Niccoli 1994 Norm Hughes 2008 Al Johnston

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club The First Fifty Years 57 There are no records of the winning aggregate scores for this competition. However in recent years winners have been in the 240s over the three rounds which is truly a well-earned accomplishment.

Al Johnston Frank Fan

Al was very helpful to the Club with Frank was our Club Champion coordination and interfacing with Golf in 2016 and Runner up to Club Burnaby. He was Runner-up to Club Champion the last three years Champion in 2008, 2009 & 2014. Al in a row in 2017, 2018 & 2019. won the Fall Handicap in 2004, the Spring Handicap in 2007. He won the 2006 Junior Age Group event, the 2018 Senior Age Group event and won the Match Play event in 2018. He won the Putting Contests in 2004 & 2010 and shot a hole in one on #6 in 2016.

Spring and Fall Handicaps

The principal handicap tournaments are the Spring and Fall Handicaps. Both are played using identical formats, individual net scores with full handicaps. Originally, the Spring handicap was a three-week, 54 hole, competition but in 1998 it was changed to a two week, 36 hole competition.

The Spring Handicap has been part of the Club’s annual competitions from almost the beginning. It started in 1973 with the donation of a trophy by Capt. Gil W. McLaren entitled “Burnaby Seniors, Handicap Competition.” The Fall Handicap did not start until 1987 and no record exists on how or why this competition started.

The winners are determined as having the low aggregate net score over two consecutive rounds of golf played usually in late April and late August. Trophies are awarded at the Annual General Meeting.

58 Spring Handicap

Spring Handicap winners from 1973 onwards are listed below. Evidently this competition was not instituted until 1973. Why the award was not made in 1987 and 1988 remains a mystery.

1973 Angus MacDonald 1997 Jim Alexander 1974 Tom Rigby 1998 Ron Williams 1975 Jack Pentland 1999 Bill Beaton 1976 Reg Hobbs 2000 Ron Williams 1977 Sid Dickenson 2001 Gerry Elliot 1978 Jock McNeil 2002 Gordon Blair 1979 Reg Hobbs 2003 George Saunders 1980 Les Cooper 2004 Roy Porter 1981 Gordon Haddon 2005 Gerry Roberts 1982 Fred Hall 2006 Louis Riba 1983 Doug Thicke 2007 Al Johnston 1984 Ben Sutherland 2008 Joe Galvin 1985 Ray Kirstein 2009 Gerry Roberts 1986 Frank Everitt 2010 Gerry Roberts 1987 Not Awarded 2011 Lou Laakmann 1988 Not Awarded 2012 Gerry Roberts 1989 Les Cooper 2013 Bob Radbourne 1990 Jack Douglas 2014 Peter Liu 1991 Ron Hartney 2015 Marijo Carr 1992 George Harrison 2016 John Ellis 1993 Peter Moffat 2017 Silvano Padovan 1994 Jim Alexander 2018 John Dailly 1995 Merrill Gordon 2019 Doug Maruno 1996 H. Brown, R. Williams 2020 Howard Sum

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 59 Fall Handicap

Fall Handicap Winners from 1987 Onwards

1987 Sid Hardy 2004 Harold Brown, Al Johnston 1988 Metro Mudry 2005 Alistair Fraser 1989 Larry Wickwire 2006 Ray Caron 1990 Gerald Nakatsuta 2007 Jim Alexander 1991 Bill Mehlen 2008 Doug Player 1992 Phyl Cyr 2009 Frank Montemurro 1993 Ray Kirstein 2010 Louis Riba 1994 Paul Gottschau 2011 Phil Boase 1995 Harold Brown 2012 Peter Zosiak 1996 Jim McLennan 2013 Tony Martens 1997 Les Durham 2014 Joe Salley 1998 Jim Alexander 2015 Ron Sturdy 1999 Tom Carlile 2016 Guido Gabriele 2000 Merrill Gordon 2017 Barrie Brown 2001 Fred Hester, Russ Parker 2018 Alan Dalkin 2002 Henry Klippenstein 2019 Ron Pound 2003 Orville Brown 2020 Gord Miller

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Charter Members

How or why this competition started is unknown. However, it is thought that the origin of this competition is somehow related to the acquisition of the Burnaby Men’s Club trophies circa 1980.

The competition is played with full handicaps in play or low net for 18 holes. In case of a tie, a full 18 hole game is played to determine a clear winner.

Charter Members Memorial Cup Winners

1980 Tom Minato 2001 Lorne Bailey 1981 Frank Everitt 2002 L. Lacamell, B. Morton 1982 Dave Thomson 2003 Frank Blair 1983 Jack Rear 2004 Ray Kirstein 1984 Bob Hatleye 2005 Louis Riba 1985 Les Cooper 2006 Reg Sequin 1986 Ernie Manson 2007 Doug Nielsen 1987 Ray Kirstein 2008 Ken Lien 1988 Not Awarded 2009 Ken Parkinson 1989 Fred Hall 2010 Jake McBurney 1990 Sid Hardy 201 1 Frank Montemurro 1991 Austin Shaw 2012 Bill Steward 1992 Walker Simpson 2013 Gordon Thompson 1993 Les Durham 2014 Joe Galvin 1994 Clare Hummel 2015 John Comuzzi 1995 Les Durham 2016 Alan Dowding 1996 B. Hannula, J. Alexander 2017 Ed Logan 1997 Ken Diewold 2018 Glen Dennis 1998 George Burkett 2019 Nick Calla 1999 Not Awarded 2020 Ron Pound 2000 Jim McLennan

Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three. – Anonymous

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 61 Photo of signage created by Chris Golding, 2020 Club Vice President

On July 8, 2020 BMSMGC members payed tribute to the original 30 Charter Members who established our club 50 years ago. The above sign, created by Chris Golding, 2020 Club Vice President, was posted on the number 1 tee box so all participating in The Charter Members Memorial Cup tournament could reflect on the clubs founders. Some hoped for inspiration as they looked forward to the challenges the matured course would offer up that Wednesday morning 50 years later.

Air Canada Trophy

The Air Canada Trophy was presented to the Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club by Air Canada through the efforts of Captain Gilmour W. McLaren, a founding member of the club who served as President in 1974, 75 & 76 and was Club Champion in 1972 & 1977. He also donated the Spring Handicap Trophy. After serving in the war, Gil was chosen in 1947 as Captain of the first North Star in regular Trans Canada Air Lines service across the Atlantic.

Air Canada Captain Gil McLaren

62 The Air Canada trophy is awarded to the golfer who has the lowest net score for the day of competition. When the award was initiated, an age criteria was stipulated: only those members 70 years and older could compete. Again, records do not show a winner for 1988.

Air Canada Trophy Winners 1974 Jack Larson 1998 Joe Mulvihill 1975 Geo.Pendygrasse 1999 Alex Turkington 1976 Tip Corson 2000 George Wong 1977 Tip Corson 2001 Merrill Gordon 1978 Tip Corson 2002 Ed Wittal 1979 Bert Dean 2003 Gordon Monteith 1980 Jack Pentland 2004 Len Tabe 1981 Doc Gilbert 2005 Roy Williams 1982 Tom Minato 2006 Ray Johnson 1983 Jack Rear 2007 Reg Sequin 1984 Herb Mitchell 2008 Loyal Branson 1985 Gerald Nakatsuka 2009 Ken Crowter 1986 Gordon Haddon 2010 Ken Baker 1987 George Scholes 2011 Ken Crowter 1988 Unknown 2012 Dick Lim 1989 Gordon Hamblin 2013 Merrill Gordon 1990 Walker Simpson 2014 Dennis Della Coletta 1991 Fred Parker 2015 Joe Niccoli 1992 Bill Mehlen 2016 Guido Gabriel 1993 Gunnar Nielson 2017 John Dailly 1994 Gunnar Nielson 2018 Jeff Tucker 1995 Ron Hartney 2019 Hans Oelmaier 1996 G. Haddon, C. Hummel 2020 Not Contested 1997 Bill Mehlen

Match Play

In 1998 an idea of having a competition in match play format on a voluntary basis was approved by the Directors and announced to the membership. Each player entered in the competition was to contribute $5.00 to the “kitty” with the ultimate winner receiving the lion’s share of the proceeds. The competition proved to be a popular event as each year it is usually fully subscribed at 32 players. The eventual winner must prevail over all others faced as to lose one match eliminates a competitor from the event. *Today no entry fee is required to enter.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 63 Match Play Trophy Winners 1998 Merrill Gordon 2010 John Murphy 1999 Merrill Gordon 2011 John Murphy 2000 Merrill Gordon 2012 Peter Zosiak 2001 Bob Regan 2013 John Comuzzi 2002 Joe Galvin 2014 John Comuzzi 2003 Ozzie Hyland 2015 Ron Pound 2004 Eduardo Feijoo 2016 Jim Partridge 2005 Louis Riba 2017 John Comuzzi 2006 Phil Boase 2018 Al Johnston 2007 Louis Riba 2019 John Comuzzi 2008 Menno Martens 2020 Not Contested 2009 Barrie Brown

Don Topp Memorial

Don Topp was a member in the Club from 1982 to 1997 when he unexpectedly passed away. Don was Club President in 1990 and 1991 and was a very popular member. He was instrumental in the organization of several tournaments for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia.

In 1997 the Directors agreed to allow a trophy for a tournament to be held in the regular schedule of events for the Club commencing in 1998. Initially the scoring was based on a modified Stableford method where points were awarded for double bogies (1 point) through to double eagles (6 points). However after the 2005 season the Directors decided to revert to a full handicap competition with one winner to be declared. In case of a tie, a full round of 18 holes is to be played to determine a final winner.

Don Topp Memorial Winners 1998 Lou Lacamell 2003 Roy Porter 1999 Peter Zoziak 2004 John McLean 2000 Harold Crockett 2005 Loyal Branson 2001 Joe Jessup 2006 Eduardo Feijoo 2002 Ross Weber 2007 Norm Forshaw Discontinued

64 Age Group Championship

Very little is known about the origin of this competition. The fixture list for 1977 shows a “Monthly medal” in which three handicap divisions (15 and under; 16-21; 22 and higher) would compete and the winners of the monthly competitions would play at the end of the season to determine the overall winner. The earliest reference to this competition listed a winner in 1985.

The monthly medal competition continued to 1989 but had changed sometime during this intervening period to four groups (18 and under; 19-23; 24-28: 29 and higher) which is the same handicap groupings in use today.

In the 1990 roster book the first reference to the AGF (Aging Grouping Foursomes) is discovered. The names of the winners of all four groups were included in the AGM minutes.

The membership is divided into four categories according to age as of January 1 of the current year.

Junior Age 60-69 Intermediate Age 70-74 Senior Age 75-79 Super Senior Age 80 and over

During the season four qualifying rounds for each category are scheduled and the winner of each category advances to the final round played usually in September. The winners of each of the four rounds are matched in the same group to encourage friendly competition.

The trophy or award is a “keeper” plaque on which the winner’s name is engraved. The award is presented to the winner of each category at the AGM and, since it is a “keeper,” diligent research was required to find a history of the winners.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 65 The winners of each category for the years since 1990 are listed below:

Junior Intermediate Senior Super Senior 1990 G. Neilson R. Hartney J. Rear F. Hall 1991 G. Neilson R. Hartney J. Rear F. Hall 1992 J. Mulvihill J. Hill R. Kirstein F. Hall 1993 No Record No Record No Record No Record 1994 G. Reid W. Davies Haddon/Shaw D. Thomson 1995 K. Diewold L. Durham T. Tanner No Record 1996 J. Alexander W. Hutchings R. Kirstein W. Smith 1997 O. Brown G. Harrison K. Collier G. Hamblin 1998 G. Wong R. Johnson J. Mulvihill R. Kirstein 1999 P. Ranger A. Armstrong J. Mulvihill R. Kirstein 2000 F. Miller O. Brown L. Durham R. Tanner 2001 G. Saunders K. Hanney G. Burkett G. Haddon 2002 Caron/Ranger M. Gordon W. Coplick R. Kirstein 2003 P. Ranger G. Monteith G. Harrison E. Feijoo 2004 H. Dexter D. Lee N. Richards R. Kirstein 2005 R. Porter R. Sequin V. Evans E. Feijoo 2006 A. Johnston P. Ranger L. Branson Roy Williams 2007 F. Blair J. Catherwood K. Crowter E. Feijoo 2008 Brian Strom Joe Galvin Gino Caletti Fred Hester 2009 Colin Snell Barrie Brown Louis Riba Merrill Gordon 2010 Brian Strom H. Burgemaster Louis Riba Merrill Gordon 2011 Chris Jackson Bill Messinger H. Burgemaster Jim McLennan 2012 Jack Belhouse John Yun Joe Galvin Gino Caletti 2013 S. Wakabayashi Sam Shalaby Barrie Brown Phil Boase 2014 Brian Strom Peter Liu H. Burgemaster Marijo Carr 2015 Brian Strom Frank Fan H. Burgemaster Jim McLennan 2016 John Dailly Joe Niccoli Joe Salley H. Burgemaster 2017 Ron Pound Doug Player Jack Major Gord Miller 2018 Gary Jenkins John Dailly Al Johnston H. Burgemaster 2019 Doug Maruno Peter Iacus John Comuzzi Barrie Brown 2020 Robert Dion Tom Grieve Joe Niccoli John Comuzzi 66 Most Improved Golfer

The winner of the award for most improved golfer is determined from the handicap list. The handicap for each member at the first of the year is compared to the corresponding handicap at the season’s end and the member showing the greatest downward difference is declared the winner. A plaque is awarded at the AGM which the winner is allowed to keep for the year. It is always a challenge to improve a handicap, thus any member winning this plaque truly deserves the honour.

Winners of Most Improved Golfer 1994 Harold Cassin 2008 Louis Riba 1995 Glen Merrifield 2009 Merrill Gordon 1996 Jim McLennan 2010 Jack Catherwood 1997 Merrill Gordon 2011 George Torbica 1998 Ken Hanney 2012 Art Shippam 1999 Ralph Van Nes 2013 Bob Radbourne 2000 George Wong 2014 Lorne Lindsay 2001 Marijo Carr 2015 Bob Boase 2002 Joe Galvin 2016 Doug Player 2003 Alastair Fraser 2017 Brian Strom 2004 John Murphy 2018 Doug Maruno 2005 Eduardo Feijoo 2019 Doug Maruno 2006 Ken Crowter 2020 Dick Adams 2007 Doug Nielsen

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 67 Hole-in-one Shooters

It truly is a thrill for any golfer to achieve a hole-in-one. It is equally thrilling to have this feat recalled during the AGM when each golfer who shoots a hole-in-one in any given year is recognized in front of his peer group. Those members achieving a hole-in-one at the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course are recognized in the table below. There were no records found of members achieving a hole-in-one prior to 1995. It should be noted there was no attempt to record the names of members who have achieved a hole-in-one on other courses.

Hole-in-one Shooters Year Player Hole Date 1991 D. Thomson 4th Hole June 5 1991 J. Hill 4th Hole July 3 1991 S. Braathern 13th Hole July 31 1995 J. Alexander 13th Hole May 3 1995 Glen Merrifield 13th Hole September 5 1996 Allan Armstrong 6th Hole June 12 1996 Harold Crockett 6th Hole September 11 1997 Joe Mulvihill 4th Hole August 23 1998 Tony Eppler 6th Hole June 17 1999 John Hayward 4th Hole May 26 1999 Joe Salley 15th Hole October 6 2003 Alastair Fraser 4th Hole July 16 2004 Jim McLennan 6th Hole April 7 2004 John Murphy 4th Hole May 5 2005 Lou Lacamell 4th Hole July 20 2008 Frank Blair 13th Hole April 23 2012 Joe Galvin 15th Hole June 29 2015 Yvan Ah-Yu 6th Hole April 22 2016 Al Johnston 6th Hole March 30 2016 John Dailly 6th Hole August 24 2016 Daolin Liang 4th Hole September 7 2018 Jeff Tucker 13th Hole May 2 2018 Joe Niccoli 4th Hole May 16

68 Scoring a hole in one is a rare feat. A hole-in-one is scored once in every 3,500 rounds. Only 1-2 percent of golfers score an ace in a year. The average number of years of playing golf for a player before making an ace is 24.

Only two members have aced a hole-in-one on the 15th hole and they are no ordinary Joes.

Joe Galvin was our Club Captain in 2005, 2006 & 2008. In addition to the before mentioned ace, Joe was Club Champion in 2003 & 2004, runner up in 2005, 2006 & 2010. He won the Spring Handicap in 2008 and Match Play in 2002. He was the most improved player in 2002. Won the Seniors Age Group in 2012, the Intermediate Age Group in 2008, the Charter Members Memorial event in 2014. Joe Galvin

Joe Salley in addition to being the first club member to ace what many say is the most difficult par 3 they have ever played back in 1999, Joe went on to win the 2014 Fall Handicap and then in 2016 he won the Senior Age Group event.

Joe Salley

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 69 Putting Contest

First introduced in 1998, the putting contest has proved to be a very popular event. A nine hole “course” is laid out by the pro staff on the large practice green beside the Mulligan’s restaurant using tees and string to delineate the boundaries. Each member who wishes to enter the competition pays an entrance fee of $5.00 which goes towards the purchase of prizes.

Each contestant “tees off” at the start and progresses around the course using only a putter. Out-of-bounds occurs when a contestant’s ball crosses any of the string lines and the normal penalty of stroke and distance applies.

Originally this contest was scheduled to immediately follow the Shot-gun start. The Shot-gun eventually proved to be an unpopular event and was cancelled.

Putting Contest Winners 1998 Jack Catherwood 2010 Al Johnston 1999 Ron Williams 2011 Dennis Houle 2000 Unknown* 2012 John Murphy 2001 Bill Messinger 2013 John Yun, John Comuzzi 2002 J. Jessup, R. Johnson 2014 Guy Thompson, Menno Martens 2003 H. Haslauer, T. Martens 2015 Pat Bell 2004 A. Johnston 2016 Jim McLennan 2006 Lou Lacamell 2017 Doug Beckett 2007 Joe Niccoli 2018 Guy Thompson 2008 Joe Niccoli 2019 Brian Findlay 2009 Walter Coplick 2020 Not Contested *2000 was possibly rained out and was not rescheduled.

“You don’t necessarily have to be a good golfer to be a good putter, but you have to be a good putter to be a good golfer.” – Tony Lema, Pro Golfer 3 former members in a past putting contest (Al Ranger, Jim Alexander & Ed Wittal)

70 Current Schedule

During the golfing season of March to October there is an event planned for each week including ten weeks of intense competition for the special awards previously described. Other events include KPs (closest to pin), long drives and least putts. All these events are carefully monitored for popularity over the season and revised when deemed necessary. There is something for every member to compete for regardless of handicap level. One of the many reasons the Club continues to be popular in the community.

Yes, the competitions are popular and, yes, members strive to do their best to meet the tests this course provides, but all comes down to loving “the game.” Those members who have challenged Burnaby Mountain over the years know that the course always (well, usually) wins. The course plays a lot differently now than it did in 1969, but it presents the same challenges to the average golfer.

Rules Update

The most significant rules update went into effect on January 1, 2019 and is summarized below and can now be found as an online tool and app for your phone showing short videos describing and demonstrating the new rules.

Another big push by the governing bodies was the concept of “Playing Forward.” Employing several different measures like swing speed, length of the tee with driver, how far one hits a 9 iron or 5 iron, a player can determine which tees to play from that would produce the most enjoyment. For example, The PGA of America recommends the following driver distance and corresponding 18 hole course length:

Recommended Driver Distance 18-hole course yardage Recommended Tee

275 6,700 – 6,900 Blue 250 6,200 – 6,400 Blue/White 225 5,800 – 6,000 White 200 5,200 – 5,400 Silver 175 4,400 – 4,600 Silver/Red 150 3,500 – 3,000 Red

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 71 Hole 14 – Par 4

This is the toughest hole on the course, but it is fun and challenging to play. Tee shot should be hit centre or centre right so that the flag and green are visible for the second shot. A three wood might get to the green, but most require three shots from the tee to green. As this is a two-tiered green, it is imperative that the second or third shot lands on the same tier as the flag. A poor shot to the wrong tier can easily lead to three putts.

”Happiness is a long walk with a putter” – Greg Norman, Pro Golfer

72 APPENDIX A: GOLF: THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 73 It is thought that the game of golf began over eight centuries ago in Northern Europe, primarily in Scotland. It is believed that the game may have started as an activity by shepherds minding their flocks, and it developed by knocking round objects with the head of the shepherd’s crooks toward a target. There was a similar activity that had developed in Holland called “Het Kolven” and as there was ongoing trade between Holland and Scotland, it is believed this helped to polish the rather crude activities then practiced in Scotland. But it is without doubt that Scotland is the true home of the game called “Golf.”

In the 12th Century several golf societies or clubs developed in the main towns of Scotland such as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Prestwick, and St. Andrews. Soon the enthusiasm for the game caused other golf clubs and courses to develop in England and the rest of the British Isles. Historical records show that the “Old Course” at St. Andrews, Scotland, which is now considered the true home of the modern game of golf, was in existence in 1414. Although many of the social clubs were made up of the lords and the landowners, the game of golf was practiced by men in all walks of life. The “Old Course” at St. Andrews was, and still is, a public course owned by the community of St. Andrews and open to all to play as they wish. So it was that men from all walks of life, rich and poor, became golf enthusiasts. Over time, with the emigration of these golf enthusiasts from the British Isles, the game of golf took root and grew almost everywhere throughout the world.

There are three significant factors that have helped the game grow and gain popularity. The first of these is the evolution of the ball. One of the first balls was made of stitched leather stuffed with flock or wool. A further improvement was made using a leather stitched ball crammed with feathers and was referred to as the “feathery” which, in 1618, became the standard ball of the day. Next, a Scottish golfer had been sent some ‘gutta-percha’ which is sap from a tree in Indonesia, from which he was to make heels for his boots. Instead, he shaped some of the ‘gutta-percha’ into a ball to match the standardized size of the day for golf balls. Thus in 1848, the “guttie” became the new standard ball and the use of the ‘feathery’ soon disappeared. An immediate benefit of the gutta-percha ball was that it was a lot easier and cheaper to produce. Therefore, more of the general population could afford to buy and use these new balls. Hence, the game opened up to artisans and the peasantry in much larger numbers. But the “guttie” too had its disadvantages. So, in 1902, an avid golfer at the B. F. Goodrich rubber factor at Akron, Ohio, developed the first “wound ball” covered with gutta-percha, later with balata.

74 The second significant factor that helped build the game of golf to its current state of popularity, was the development and refinement of the clubs used to propel the ball to its destination, the hole. All of the early clubs used were made from various hardwoods. The use of hickory for the club shafts, with its resilience and strength, became the preferred material for club makers, who interestingly were artisans who also made weapons of war such as long boys and spears. In addition to the wooden headed clubs used to tee off and hit from the fairway, some clubs were added with steel heads called “cleeks.” It is interesting to note that in the early days, with the wooden shafted clubs, the players often played with a handful of clubs and carried them that way. But the big handicap was that they tended to break and were costly and took time to replace.

Fritz Kirstein father of early BMSMGC member Ray Kirstein. Photo taken after Fritz won the Alberta Invitational Golf Tournament in 1928.

Thus, when the steel shafted clubs were introduced in Britain in 1929 it allowed for mass production. This brought the cost of clubs down and made them much more available to the general public. The downside to this breakthrough is that golfers found that the steel-shafted clubs didn’t have the same flexibility as the old wooden-shafted clubs. So golfers had to use more clubs to achieve the same result, and the use of canvas golf bags came into being.

The third factor that made the game of golf popular and indeed challenging, came with the standardization of the rules of the game. From the beginnings, the game was played with no code of rules and on very primitive fields. Besides using rather crude forms of balls and clubs, there were no greens keepers and the only grass trimmers were herds of sheep.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 75 In 1744, the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh developed the first formal rules of golf for a tournament at Leith Links. These in turn were fully adopted by the Society of St. Andrews golfers when it was created in 1754. So it was this place, this group and this date that marks the founding of the modern game of golf. The society’s name was changed to its current “The Royal and Ancient Club,” more commonly referred to as the “R&A”, in 1834 by Royal prerogative of King William IV of England. From its beginning, the Society was made up of men and wealth and influence, including members of the Royal Family. The various golfing clubs had inter-club competitions, and it was soon determined that standard rules of play were required to settle wagers and matches. Beyond the forming of the R&A and the adoption of the thirteen rules of golf used by the Leith golfers, the real beginning of the modern form of golf as we know it came when the first code of rules was adopted by the R&A on September 26 1899, for all courses throughout the world. Meanwhile, as the game of golf spread throughout the world, golf associations were formed to set the rules of the game for their various constituencies. Although they were based on the code of rules set by the R&A in 1899, there were differences. So it is very significant that the R&A met with representatives of the USGA, the RCGA and the Australian Golf Union in the spring of 1951. The outcome of this event was the unified and consistent R&A- USGA code of 1952 which opened up a new era of international golf competition and recognition.

The last important date in the development of the rules of the game came in 1984 when the R&A and the USGA made more refinements and reorganized the rules. Thus, wherever in the world that golf is played, a standardized format ensures fair play for all.

“A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game.” – Anonymous

76 APPENDIX B: CLUB PRESIDENTS, CAPTAINS AND MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD: 1970-2020

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 77 Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club Presidents

The first president of the Club is believed to have been appointed in 1970 by the charter members. Although no records support this assumption subsequent president were elected. But it is not until 1991 when the first set of bylaws was published that proof of elections was known.

Typically the President of any organization provides the leadership and direction to the organization as well as attending to members’ issues. He is to possess the skills necessary to fulfill these obligations in an efficient and orderly manner. The Club has been fortunate to have had dedicated men with these capabilities to step forward and assume the role of President and to do so for various reason, primarily, as mentioned before “for the good of the game”.

Club Presidents 1970 - 2020 1970 Jock McNeil 1996 Ken Collier 1971 Jock McNeil 1997 Harold Brown 1972 Jock McNeil 1998 Harold Brown 1973 Jock McNeil 1999 Harold Brown 1974 Gil McLaren 2000 Merrill Gordon 1975 Gil McLaren 2001 Merrill Gordon 1976 Gil McLaren 2002 Fred Hester 1977 George Scholes 2003 Fred Hester 1978 George Scholes 2004 George Gilder 1979 Ross McLean 2005 George Gilder 1980 Ross McLean 2006 Phil Boase 1981 Angus Macdonald 2007 Phil Boase 1982 Angus Macdonald 2008 Don Rankin 1983 Angus Macdonald 2009 Don Rankin 1984 Glen Merrifield 2010 Alastair Fraser 1985 Glen Merrifield 2011 Alastair Fraser 1986 Ron Hartney 2012 John Murphy 1987 Ron Hartney 2013 John Murphy 1988 Gordon Snider 2014 Ron Zapp 1989 Gordon Snider 2015 Ron Zapp 1990 Don Topp 2016 Dennis Houle 1991 Don Topp 2017 Dennis Houle 1992 Jack Armour 2018 Brian Strom 1993 Jack Armour 2019 Brian Strom 1994 Dave Herd 2020 Moe Jones 1995 Dave Herd

78 Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club Captains

It was traditional in many clubs to appoint the Club Champion as the Captain for the following year. In the early years there was no Club Captain until 1980 when it was decided to appoint the past year’s Club Champion, Glen Merrifield to be Club Captain. The Club Captain is now an elected position reporting directly to the Board of Directors. His duties encompass on-course rules and operations. He updates the schedule of events for the next season, maintains a list of event winners and distributes trophies and awards at the AGM. He must have current knowledge of the Standard Rules of Golf and the local rules and he must be prepared to adjudicate on any questions arising during the course of the year. The Club Captain is the one of the most important positions on the club and has been filled in the past by some well-known and respected members.

Club Captains 1980 - 2020 1980 Glen Merrifield 1994 Glen Merrifield 2008 Joe Galvin 1981 Glen Merrifield 1995 Joe Mulvihill 2009 Menno Martens 1982 Glen Merrifield 1996 Joe Mulvihill 2010 Menno Martens 1983 Frank Everitt 1997 Tony Eppler 2011 Brian Strom 1984 Frank Everitt 1998 Tony Eppler 2012 Brian Strom 1985 Ben Sutherland 1999 Fred Hester 2013 Ron Hughes 1986 Ben Sutherland 2000 Fred Hester 2014 Ron Hughes 1987 Ray Kirstein 2001 Tom Carlile 2015 Ron Hughes 1988 Ray Kirstein 2002 Bill Messinger 2016 Ron Hughes 1989 Metro Mudry 2003 Bill Messinger 2017 Ron Pound 1990 Tom Bremner 2004 Bill Messinger 2018 Ron Pound 1991 Tom Bremner 2005 Joe Galvin 2019 Ron Pound 1992 Joe Mulvihill 2006 Joe Galvin 2020 Ron Pound 1993 Glen Merrifield 2007 Harry Cottle

Ron Pound was our Club Captain in 2017, 2018, 2019 and is our Captain in our 50th anniversary year 2020. He won the Match Play event in 2015 and Junior Age Group event in 2017. Ron also won the 2019 Fall Handicap event and the Charter Members Memorial Ron Pound Cup in 2020.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 79 Meritorious Service Award

The Meritorious Service Awards are presented to individuals who have a record of significant contribution to voluntary positions and who have demonstrated outstanding service in enabling BMSMGC to attain the objectives for which it was founded (not awarded annually).

2000 Ray Kirstein 2010 Phil Boase 2001 Glen Merrifield 2016 John Murphy 2002 Dave Herd 2019 Dennis Houle 2004 Merrill Gordon

80 Ray Kirstein was our Club Champion in 1984, 1985 & 1987 and runner up in this event in 1988 & 1991. He was the Spring Handicap winner in 1985, the Fall Handicap winner in 1993, the Chapter Members Memorial Cup winner in 1987, the Age Group (age 75-79) winner in 1992 & 1996, and the Age Group (age 80 +) winner in 1998, 1998, 2002 & 2004. Ray was the Club Captain in 1987 & 1988. In 2000, he was the first recipient Ray Kirstein of the Club’s Meritorious Service award.

Glen Merrifield was our Club President in 1984 and 1995, Club Captain in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1993 & 1994. Glen was our Club Champion in 1979, 1980, 1983, 1988 & 1989, He was runner up in 1982, 1985, 1992 & 1993. Shot a hole-in-one on the 13th in 1995.

Glen Merrifield

Dave Herd was our Club President in 1994 & 1995. He was also the founding member of the Burnaby Parks Commission. He chaired the committee to seek an architect/designer for the proposed Burnaby Mountain Golf Course.

Dave Herd

Merrill Gordon was our Club President in 2000 & 2001. He was Club Champion five times in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999 & 2001. Merrill was also the Runner up to the Champion in 2002. Merrill was Match Play winner in 1998, 1999 & 2000 and twice the Most Improved Player (1997 & 2009). He won the Spring Handicap in 1995 and later the Fall Handicap in 2000. Merrill won the Air Canada Trophy twice (2001, 2013), the Intermediate Age Group event in 2002 and the Merrill Gordon Super Senior in 2009 & 2010.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 81 Phil Boase joined Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club in 1996. In 2001, Phil was elected as Chair of Drawmasters/Starters Committee and served in that capacity until 2004 when he was elected as Vice President. In 2006, he was elected as President. During this period, he spearheaded the publishing (2007) of the BMSMGC History Booklet. In 2009 he was Past President, and then at the completion of his Phil Boase 2-year term, he was appointed Statistician and Archivist and has been responsible for publishing the Members’ Handbook. Phil also manages and coordinates the club’s annual prostate cancer fund raiser. He served as Club President in 2006 & 2007. He won the 2006 Match Play event and the 2013 Super Seniors Age Group event.

John Murphy was our Club President in 2012 & 2013. He was president when the club introduced computer assisted draws and club management systems. John won the match play events in 2010 & 2011, the Most Improved Player in 2004. He shot a hole in one on the 4th in 2004 and won the Putting Contest in 2012.

John Murphy

Dennis Houle spearheaded our club’s successful effort to join the computer age, managing the adoption of software to handle signups, prepare the draw and record scores. In 2013, he took on the job of Website Administrator for Golf Group Manager and, in 2019, the role of System Administrator for our new website portal from Golf Software.com, which provides us with an enhanced draw Dennis Houle program and an integrated handicap system (and saves us lots of money). Dennis was Vice-President (2014-15), President (2016-17), and Past President (2018-19). Somehow he also managed to fit in winning the putting contest in 2011.

82 APPENDIX C: CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS OF BURNABY MOUNTAIN SENIOR MEN’S GOLF CLUB

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 83 Constitution

The name of the Society is the “Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club”.

Purposes of the Club

1. Promote interest in the game of golf and in the true spirit of the match as exemplified in the game’s ancient and honourable traditions, harmony, fellowship and sportsmanship, chiefly at Burnaby Mountain Golf Course in the City of Burnaby.

2. Support the Royal Canadian Golf Association, the British Columbia Golf Association and the Vancouver and District Inter-Club Committee.

3. To provide support for the cause of Junior Golf in the Province of British Columbia through charity fund raising as required.

4. Not to own, operate, or manage a social club.

This society is a member-funded society. It is funded primarily by its members to carry on activities for the benefit of its members. On its liquidation or dissolution, this society may distribute its money and other property to its members. (Explanatory note: Although a member-funded society “may” distribute its money to members on dissolution, it is not required to do so. Our Bylaws part 7.5 takes precedence) As revised at the Annual General Meeting on October 25, 2017.

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84 Bylaws as revised at Annual General Meeting on October 29, 2020 Bylaws of the “Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club” (the “Society”)

Part 1: Interpretation In these bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, 1.1 “Directors” means the Directors of the Society as elected from time to time. 1.2 “Society Act” means the Societies Act of British Columbia, from time to time in force, and all amendments to it. 1.3 “Registered address” of a member means the address as recorded in the register of members. 1.4 The definitions in the Societies Act on the date these bylaws become effective apply to these bylaws. 1.5 Words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa.

Part 2: Membership 2.1 Types of Members a. Regular Member – shall be 60 years of age or older, who commits to play a minimum of twelve (12) Club Competitions during the year. Consideration shall be given by the Directors to extended absence from golf for one (1) year, due to ill health or unavoidable circumstances. b. Associate Member – a Regular Member who is unable, or chooses not to golf in Club competitions, but wishes to maintain a social connection to the Club. Associate members may play in a limited number of non-tournament games to a maximum of five (5) per season. Associate members may apply to rejoin as a Regular playing member at the start of a new season. c. Life Member – a Regular or Associate member who has reached the age of eighty (80) years and has ten (10) or more consecutive years of membership in the Club, will become a Life member on January 1 of the following year. 2.2 Voting Regular, Associate and Life Members shall have voting rights at Annual General Meetings and Special General Meetings.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 85 2.3 Application for Membership Application for membership shall be submitted to the membership committee for approval by the Directors. 2.4 Annual Dues a. The amount of the annual membership dues will be determined by a majority of votes cast at a General Meeting. b. The annual dues are payable on or before our Annual General Meeting each year, and any member failing to pay by the Annual General Meeting shall be held to be in arrears and shall not be considered in good standing. Such members shall be notified by telephone or electronic mail, and if dues are not paid by November 1, the individual will cease to be a member of the Society. c. If an individual whose membership has lapsed wishes to be reinstated, he must apply in writing to the Board of Directors. It shall be at the option of the Board of Directors to reinstate him on good cause being shown and on payment of arrears. d. Membership dues are refundable only up until March 1 in the new season, upon application to, and approval of the Board of Directors. There will be no refunds after March 1. 2.5 Conduct of Members a. Every member must uphold the Constitution of the Society, and must comply with these Bylaws and any Rules or Practices of the Society. b. The Directors shall have the power by a unanimous vote of those Directors present at a meeting of the Board of Directors to suspend or expel any member whose conduct has been determined by the Directors to be detrimental to the interests or to the reputation of the Society, or who willfully commits a breach of the Constitution, Bylaws or Rules or Practices of the Society. Any such member must be notified and given an opportunity to meet and present any defense before action is taken.

Part 3: General Meetings 3.1 The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held in the City of Burnaby, at such place as may be selected by the Board of Directors, not later than October 31 of each year. 3.2 All meetings of members shall be called by the President or Secretary. 3.3 Members shall be notified of any General Meeting at least fourteen (14) days in advance by mail, posted notice, telephone, electronic mail, and/or inclusion in the calendar of events in the Club roster booklet.

86 Bylaws as revised at Annual General Meeting on October 29, 2020 3.4 The accidental omission to give notice to any member shall not invalidate any resolution passed at any meeting. One third (1/3) of members entitled to vote, who are present in person, or attending by electronic conferencing shall constitute a quorum. Each member shall be entitled to vote. Vote by proxy shall not be allowed at any General Meetings. 3.5 The financial statement will be presented at the Annual General Meeting. 3.6 The order of business at each Annual General Meeting shall be: a. Roll call of Officers and proof of quorum. b. Reading minutes of preceding members meeting. c. Report of Committees. d. Unfinished business. e. Election of Directors and all officers in connection with the Society. f. New Business. g. Adjournment. 3.7 Special General Meeting a. The President will call a Special General Meeting when petitioned by at least five (5) members of the Board of Directors, or at least twenty (20) members in good standing and delivered to the Secretary at least thirty (30) days prior to the meeting date requested. b. The notice of a Special General meeting must provide an agenda and any motions to be presented; and only such business that has been announced may be considered. The first order of business shall be a roll call of Directors and a proof of quorum. 3.8 Electronic General Meeting The Board of Directors may conduct an Annual General Meeting, or a Special General Meeting in person or by electronic conferencing.

Part 4: Board of Directors 4.1 The President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Captain along with the Past President and a maximum of five (5) Directors shall constitute the Board of Directors. 4.2 Between Annual General Meetings, the general business of the Club shall be conducted by the Board of Directors. 4.3 During odd numbered years the President, Vice President, Treasurer and two (2) Directors shall be elected for a two year term at the Annual General Meeting.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 87 4.4 During even numbered years, the Secretary, Club Captain and three (3) Directors shall be elected for a two year term at the Annual General Meeting. 4.5 No Director shall serve on the Board of Directors in any one position for more than two (2) consecutive terms (4 years). 4.6 Election for Officers and Directors shall be decided by a simple majority of votes cast at the Annual General Meeting and their term of office shall commence at the conclusion of that meeting. Voting, if necessary, shall be by secret ballot. The Board of Directors shall have the power to fill any vacancies occurring in their numbers in the course of the term being served. 4.7 A three member Nominating Committee comprising three past Presidents shall nominate a slate of candidates to serve on the incoming Board of Directors. 4.8 At the Annual General Meeting, any member in good standing may be nominated from the floor or in absentia provided the Secretary has received their written acceptance. 4.9 The election of Directors at the Annual General Meeting shall be conducted by the Nominating Committee. 4.10 The members may, by special resolution, remove a Director before the expiration of his term of office and may elect a successor to complete the term of office. 4.11 No Director shall be remunerated for being or acting as a Director but a Director shall be reimbursed for all expenses necessarily incurred by him while engaged in the affairs of the Society.

Part 5: Officers and Duties 5.1 President – shall be responsible for the general operation of the Club; shall call and preside at Annual General Meetings, meetings of the Board of Directors, and such other Club meetings as may be necessary. He shall have the power to appoint members at large, regular and standing committees, and ad hoc committees. 5.2 Vice President – shall assist the President in the general operation of the Club, and in the absence of the President shall carry out the duties of the President. 5.3 Secretary – shall take minutes of all meetings, maintain a minute book, and conduct Club correspondence. He shall provide the membership mailing list, and circulate to all members the minutes of each Annual General Meeting. He shall distribute minutes of Directors’ Meetings to Directors as soon as possible following each meeting.

88 Bylaws as revised at Annual General Meeting on October 29, 2020 5.4 Treasurer – shall receive membership dues and other revenues. He shall issue receipts, pay accounts, do necessary banking and maintain records of all financial transactions. He shall regularly and on request submit to the Board of Directors complete and detailed information as to the financial position of the Club. He shall prepare for distribution to all members at the Annual General Meeting a current financial statement to the end of the fiscal year. 5.5 Club Captain – shall be responsible for organizing all golf activities for the Club. This includes the weekly competitions, and regulations governing play. He shall have the responsibility for the dissemination of information about the Club rules, regulations and practices to the membership and for fostering adherence to them. He may recommend to the Board of Directors the appointment of individuals and committees to assist him in discharging these duties.

BMSMGC Organization Chart

Members

Board of Directors

President Club Captain

Past President Vice President Membership Scorer Director Director

Treasurer Secretary Drawmaster Director Director at Large

Technical Administrator Director

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 89 BMSMGC Committee Chart

Member Welfare Membership Lead Past President Lead Membership Director Delegate President Prize Committee Delegate Vice President Delegate Past President Lead Vice President Delegate Club Captain Chair Member Volunteer Delegates Member Volunteers Junior Golf Rules, Tournaments & Lead Club Captain Handicap Committee Lead Club Captain Technology Administration Delegate Vice Club Captain Lead Web Master Delegate Head Scorer Delegate Vice President Nominating Committee Delegate High HC Member Lead 1st Immediate Past President Delegate Low HC Member Delegate 2nd Immediate Past President Delegate 3rd Immediate Past President

Part 6: Proceedings of Directors 6.1 Director Meetings a. Meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or three (3) Directors. b. The quorum for a Director’s Meeting is normally a majority of Directors in office. A meeting of Directors may vary the quorum to conduct business, but any decisions made must be ratified at the next meeting of Directors with a full quorum. c. The President shall be Chairman of all meetings of the Directors, but if at a meeting the President is not present within 30 minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Vice President acts as Chairman; but if neither is present the Directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman at that meeting. d. Directors may communicate with each other electronically and by email without limitation. However if the board decides to make a decision by electronic means, the chairman ensures that every member eligible to vote is aware of the question and has an opportunity to vote. Votes must be made available to all members eligible to vote (no secret ballots).

90 Bylaws as revised at Annual General Meeting on October 29, 2020 6.2 Director Delegation a. The Directors may delegate any, but not all, of their powers to committees consisting of one or more Directors and/or such members in good standing as they think fit. b. A committee so formed in the exercise of the powers so delegated shall conform to any rules imposed on it by the Directors, and shall report every act or thing in exercise of those powers to the earliest meeting of the Directors to be held next after it has been done. 6.3 A committee shall elect a Chairman of its meetings; but if no Chairman is elected, or if at a meeting the Chairman is not present within 30 minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting, the Directors present who are members of the committee shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of the meeting. 6.4 The members of a committee may meet and adjourn as they think proper.

Part 7: Funds 7.1 Membership dues, handicap fees, and any other revenue or donation shall be directed to the Treasurer and shall be deposited to an account in a Canadian financial institution. 7.2 Other accounts may be established as approved by the Board of Directors. 7.3 Signing officers for the Club’s accounts shall be either the President or Vice President, and the Treasurer. Alternate signatories shall be named by the Board of Directors. 7.4 The Society may retain monies and reimburse itself as the case may be for all outlays, costs and reasonable fees, professional or otherwise, as are fit and proper, and required for the maintenance or operation of the Society, as determined by the Board of Directors. 7.5 Upon winding up or dissolution of the Society, the assets which remain after payment of all costs, charges, and expenses which are properly incurred in the winding up shall be distributed to such charitable organization or organizations in British Columbia having a similar charitable purpose. This provision shall be unalterable.

Part 8: Borrowing 8.1 No member, Board of Directors or Committee has been, or will be given, nor shall assume to have been given, borrowing power for the Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club.

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 91 Part 9: Fiscal Year 9.1 The fiscal year of the Society shall begin on the 1st day of October, and end on the last day of September in each year.

Part 10: Auditor 10.1 An auditor shall be appointed by resolution of the members at the Annual General meeting and he shall hold office until the date of the next Annual General meeting or until his successor is appointed unless previously removed by resolution of the members at a special general meeting. It shall be his duty to make an audit on the closing of the books at the end of the fiscal year.

Part 11: Bylaw Amendment 11.1 Notice of motion to amend the bylaws must be received by the board of Directors at least thirty (30) days prior to a proposed vote. 11.2 Notice of a motion to amend the bylaws must be made available to all members eligible to vote by a posted notice or by email at least twenty (20) days prior to the voting deadline. 11.3 A motion to amend the Bylaws may be considered at the Annual General Meeting, or at a Special General meeting. A motion to amend the bylaws requires a majority of more than two thirds (2/3) of the votes cast.

92 Bylaws as revised at Annual General Meeting on October 29, 2020 As the BMSMGC 50th Anniversary season is in its closing weeks, Al Johnston, Jim Lanzo, Terry MacDonald and Barrie Brown are putting out on the 9th green as the fog lifts, October 7, 2020.

Acknowledgements 1970-2007

The long span of time since the first inception of this project presents a daunting task to acknowledge and thank all the people involved in this project. Inevitably some will be missed and to those persons please accept the sincerest apologies of the Editorial Board and the membership in general.

The first formal record to start construction of this booklet is dated January 15, 2000 when Allan Armstrong, Harold Brown, Tom Carlile, Merrill Gordon, John Herzog, Fred Hester, Ray Johnson, Glen Merrifield, Phil Ranger and Gary Temlett met to discuss at what stage the history project was at and to assign certain tasks. The work accomplished by this group has been the foundation upon which this publication has been based.

This project began with Angus MacDonald, a member from 1977 (earliest membership roster found) to 1994, who together with Ben Sutherland drafted the first document on the history of the Club. This resulted from a request from the B.C. Golf House Museum which was just opening in the old clubhouse of the University Golf Course. Much data for this version of the history was derived from this document.

Thanks are also extended to many “old-timers” (and some not-so-old) who were interviewed; their recollections of earlier times have been invaluable to fill in many empty spaces. These members are: Allen Burris, Jack Douglas, Gordon Haddon, Gordon Hamblin, Ron Hartney, John

Burnaby Mountain Senior Men’s Golf Club: The First Fifty Years 93 Hayward, Alan Jackson, Jack Jones, Ray Kirstein, Jack Logan, Tom Minato, Ernie Manson, Jim McLennan, Glen Merrifield, Herb Mitchell, Joe Mulvihill, Gordon Snider and Dave Thompson.

A special thanks goes to Dave Herd who was one of the instigators to build Burnaby Mountain Golf Course. Dave was a member of the Club since 1988 and served as Club President in 1994 and 1995.

A big thanks goes to Allan Armstrong, Harold Brown, Ken Collier, Dave Herd and George Gilder who kept the history project embers from extinguishing by maintaining enthusiasm and eventually restarting the project.

Credit is also due to various members in the latter stages of the work such as Tom Carlile and John Murphy who contributed articles to the document. The Editorial Board composed of Joe Galvin, Fred Hester and Don Rankin requires special mention. They not only put in hours poring over drafts but offered constructive suggestions on how to improve the document. Last, but certainly not least, and deserving of a great deal of credit is George Saunders who toiled for many hours writing, editing, critiquing and providing moral support.

Our deep gratitude goes to David O’Connor for his very real assistance and support; David was instrumental in getting this document into its final format for publication. Our heartfelt thanks to the Burnaby Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Graphics Department who turned the rather mundane original document into a professional publication.

Much appreciation is expressed to Bernice Davidson whose wise counsel, enlightened input and words of wisdom greatly influenced the final version of this document.

Finally, great appreciation must be expressed to the membership who agreed many years ago to fund the project and then waited patiently for it to unfold.

Phil Boase

Acknowledgements 2008-2020

Thank you to Phil Boase for his input and direction, to Dennis Houle, Ron Pound and Brian Strom for their contributions to the document, to Moe Jones for championing this project, to Tom Kirstein for providing family photos of his grandfather and father, to Larry Johns and Deedee Lannon

94 of Air Canada for providing information on Captain Gil McLaren, and to Wes Hastings for providing the cover photo and for his collaboration with Alex Ludeman in providing golf course drone photography.

Thank you to Leslie MacDonald and Jennifer Merry for their professional assistance with formatting and creative input to greatly enhance the look of the Club History document.

Don Buchanan and Tom Grieve

Ken Parkinson Chris Golding Club Photographer Club Vice President Thank you very much Ken for & Public Website Creator providing many of the photos used Thank you for providing the in the BMSMGC 50 Year History BMSMGC website photos and Document. You have a way of golf course images from your showing us that not all the best personal collection. shots are made on the golf course.

Wes Hastings Alex Ludeman Jennifer Merry Golf Administration CPGA Professional Graphic Designer & Drone Pilot & Drone Pilot

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