Meet our 2025 Champions of Champions!
Our Zone 4 Champion of Champions tournament is a season-ending event that, one might assume, is mirrored by other golf regions around the world. That assumption would be wrong. Along with our neighbours in Zone 3, it appears we have the only one, according to Mike Riste at the golf museum. (You can check out our report of the 2019 tournament for more on this.)
Well, too bad for the rest of them, because it’s a terrific event, never more so than this year when it went off in perfect weather on a perfect golf course, Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. Seventeen teams featuring club champion men, senior men, women and juniors went at it, with an 18th, from Sunshine Coast Golf Club, sadly marooned at home by a ferry malfunction. And after 18 holes, as has so often been the case in the best three of four gross-score format, three teams landed within a stroke of each other.
Those teams were from Marine Drive, Beach Grove and host club Shaughnessy, all impressively under par. But there has to be a winner, and this year it was Darren Whitehouse, Doug Roxburgh, Nonie Marler and Jeevyn Lotay of Marine Drive, with Beach Grove landing second on a countback.
Event chair Sean Crowther also handed out individual awards, assisted not by former Canuck Corey Hirsch, as was the case last year, but by co-chair Mike Marino. These went to Darren Whitehouse (men, 75), Andrew Pinette (senior men, 71), Nonie Marler (women, 74), junior girl Jenny Kwon (74) and junior boy Ben Black (72).
Thanks to Shaughnessy for an amazing meal and firm, fast greens highly reminiscent of PGA and LPGA Tour hostings, and congrats to all who qualified.
Darren Whitehouse, Doug Roxburgh, Nonie Marler and Jeevyn Lotay of Marine Drive,
- Jim Sutherland