Photos from various events that Golf Barrie has attended.

The 15th Annual General Meeting of the Members and Awards/Recognition Ceremony Saturday January 23rd, 2016 at Weston Golf & Country Club. Please click here for more information and to register.

In total, the Golf Association of Ontario crowned 12 Leaderboard Champions (six men and six women) during the 2015 season. In addition, the GAO selected over 125 prize winners who received great items from TayorMade, Turkish Airlines, Muscle Milk, and TED Books. The GAO is truly thankful to all of the sponsors for their support of the vTOUR.

As the 2015 edition of the GAO vTOUR closed out, the GAO is very happy to announce that the Grand Prize winner of a trip for two to participate in the GAO 2Ball Invitational this December in St Kitts, courtesy of the St Kitts Tourism Authority, is Nancy Vince from the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto.

Congratulations to Nancy, the GAO looks forward to hosting you and your guest in St Kitts. There are still a few places available to join the 2Ball Invitational and more information can be found here.

The GAO Skills Combines are of a series of assessments in Full Swing, Short Game, Putting and Physical Fitness Screening and that are conducted by PGA of Canada Regional and Provincial Coaches. Each participant that attends the skills combine gets a complete report of their test results as well as a chart that shows how their results compares to other athletes in Ontario of the same age & gender.

Please visit gao.ca/combines

2015 Investors Group Ontario Men’s Amateur Championship

2015 Investors Group Ontario Women’s Amateur Championship

2015 Investors Group Men’s Mid-Amateur Highlights

100 Years of the Ontario Women’s Amateur Championship

Team Ontario Cup- 2015

She Swings She Scores

2014 Year in Review

NXTee

2014 Baka Wireless Public Player Championship

One on one with Corey Conners

2014 Investors Group Senior Men’s Championship

2014 Ontario Summer Games- Ontario Juvenile Championship

2014 Investors Group Senior Women’s Championship

2014 Investors Group Ontario Junior Girls’ Championship

2014 Investors Group Women’s Amateur Championship

2014 Investors Group Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship

GAO vTours

2014 Ontario Golf Hall of Fame

GAO Regional Teams

Team Ontario 2014

MISSISSAUGA— The Golf Association of Ontario (GAO) and the She Swings She Scores (SSSS) program is pleased to announce that Program Ambassador Gillian Apps will be on site for the SSSS event at the Mississauga Chiefs Christmas Classic Tournament Dec. 27-28.

The three-day tournament will be held at the Iceland Arena (705 Matheson Blvd. E, Mississauga).  The GAO’s SSSS booth will be set up from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 27 and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Dec. 28.

Apps is a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and three-time World Champion with Canada’s Women’s Hockey Team. Originally from North York, Apps currently plays for the Brampton Thunder in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. Apps was named Program Ambassador in September.

SSSS is a program that targets female athletes currently participating in hockey and introduces them to golf at community hockey tournaments across Ontario.

The program, which began this past fall, will visit 20 tournaments across the province during the 2014/15 hockey season and will expose more than 6300 girls to the game of golf.

The program represents a partnership between the GAO and the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association that is made possible by the Ontario Sport and Recreation Communities Fund.  The partnership between the two complementary sports will provide opportunities for these girls and their teammates to participate in sport all year round.

WINDSOR— The Golf Association of Ontario’s (GAO) Juvenile (U17) Boys’ Championship, held in conjunction with the Ontario Summer Games, wrapped up on Aug. 10 with the final round of play. After many lead changes and names atop the leaderboard, it was Scarborough’s Gavin MacIver who took the title in the end with a final round of one-under (69) to bring his tournament total to three-over.

The 16-year-old Cherry Downs Golf & Country Club member entered the final round in a tie for third at four-over. But after round-two leader, Niagara Falls’ Jaret Chipman, faltered during the day, MacIver was able to take advantage.

“The final round started off ok,” said MacIver. “The leader (Chipman) was playing well. Then we got to the back nine and I had the lead. I soon found out that Jake (Bryson), in the second last group, was one up on me. Things really turned around on 11 and 12 when I birdied them and got the outright lead. I just brought it home from there.”

MacIver put a string of three birdies on four holes together on the ninth, 11th and 12th holes to help galvanize his round. In the process, he was also able to move ahead of Dunrobin’s Jake Bryson who also held the lead during the round.

“I was rolling in a lot of putts. I made a 20 footer on 12 downhill, which really got things going, from there I just tried to par the rest of the holes,” said MacIver.

It was that putting along with his play off the tees that MacIver attributed his success to. “My putting and shots from the tee were the strongest parts of my game this week. I gave myself good birdie chances all week. Today, I made all my short putts and drained a couple long ones that got my game going.”

Bryson, a member of the GAO’s Ottawa Regional Team, finished the day at even par (70) and was four-over for the tournament, earning the silver medal.

Rounding out the podium was Waterloo Regional Team and Greenhills Golf Club member Jackson Bowery. Bowery, the London resident, shot a three-over (73) and ended the tournament three shots back at six-over.

The Golf Association of Ontario would like to thank the volunteers and staff from Roseland Golf & Curling Club, along with the Ontario Summer Games for hosting the championship.

For the final leaderboard see the tournament site at: http://gao.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/gao14/event/gao1422/index.htm

The Ontario Juvenile Boys’ Championship is a 54-hole competition that features the province’s best junior golfers under the age of 17 competing for the Mike Weir trophy. This year the event is contested as part of the 2014 Ontario Summer Games.

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