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History
The perpetual trophy records that this championship dates back to 1932
with K. Lawson recorded as the first winner, The event was formerly known
as the Victoria & District Junior Golf Championship ( City Junior).
Many of our local golf professionals have their names suitably engraved
on the trophy, namely; Bill Wakeham, Don Billsbourgh, Cec Ferguson, Bob
Beauchemin, Jim Rutledge, Blair Piercy, Todd Mahovlich, and Lance McCullough.
There have been repeated event winners. J. Squire, G. Smith, and most recently
Gord Scutt won the cup three years in a row. Jim Rutledge also won the event
on three occasions.
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BCGA Zone 5 Junior Championship
Thirty-six holes of medal play, played at two courses, and scheduled for
the first week of June. All juniors are encouraged to play. ( sixty entries
with lowest handicap slope factor ) Three divisions, “Bantam”, “Juvenile”,
“Junior”. “Gross and “Net” honours. Girls are permitted and encouraged to
participate. All boys and girls play from the mid or back tees. Girls handicaps
are adjusted in accordance with the RCGA Handicap Manual. “Ties for Junior
Champion and all Division Champions are decided by sudden death playoff.
This event is worth two hundred points in the Zone Order of Merit. (Point
Standings) The four low gross players are selected as the Zone Five junior
team at the BCGA Junior Championship. As well the four low gross juveniles
and Bantams are selected as the Zone five team to the respective BCGA Juvenile
and Bantam Championships
James Pettersen Junior Match Play
The James Pettersen
tournament as part of the Zone Five Junior Tour is
a “match play” event. The best thirty-two junior
golfers are selected from the previous year junior
order of merit. Matches are scheduled on a
rotational basis at zone five golf courses on
weekends throughout the month of March / April.
The winner is presented with the
James Pettersen Memorial Trophy. The winner and
runner-up also receive “Keeper” trophies.
Additionally the winner, runner-up, and the
Consolation event winner and runner-up receive
“gift certificates” entitling them to receive
reasonable expenses, incurred in amateur
competitions (of their choice) during the current
golf year.
The event beginning in 1999, is
sponsored by the family of James Petterson, and
administered by Dorothy Clarke, and Alfred
Pettersen in memory of their departed son, a
professional golfer. Dorothy, Alfred and the
Pettersen family remember just how expensive it
was for an aspiring young golfer and wish to
assist other hopefuls with financial support.
James Pettersen
was born January 12,1965 in Victoria, B.C. James
attended local schools and graduated from Oak Bay
High School. He played hockey at the Victoria
Racquet Club with Russ Courtnall and was a junior
member of Uplands Golf Club. Throughout his life,
James worked at different vocations but always
kept in the back of his mind his dream of becoming
a professional golfer. James also played out of
Olympic View Golf Club and with the encouragement
of longtime golf pro and friend Dave Campbell, his
cousin Michael Essery, and with strategy coaching
from Vic Lindal; James finally put his skills to
the test and became a professional golfer on
October 4, 1996 in Innisfail, Alberta. In November
1996, he entered the Rocky Mountain Tour in the
Palm Desert area of California. Unfortunately, he
died of a massive heart attack two days before
entering the third tournament of the tour.
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