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Great big shout out to our small, but determined group of golfers who braved the heat for a MASSIVE day on  August 25th @ Victoria GC. 

Congrats to our 2022 Club Champion, Logan Baich who battled through a tie break 19th hole to 'just' beat Arran Green into 2nd place. 

 

3rd place went to Taylor Ritchie and Levi Somerville won the draw prize 

Well done Chaps!! 

Are y'all ready for the 2022 Season Event Finale @ Rundle CG on Sept 10th? It's the parent/junior Texas scramble... so bring our your ma, pa, grandma or grandpa for a super fun day out!

For more info and to register, go to our events page Events Calendar

posted by: Kyrstie Green 

On Aug 12th we held our  ‘hot texas scramble‘ event and it was a success! With 10 of our Juniors turning up to play on what must have been one of the most beautiful days of the year so far - not too hot, not too cold, juuuuuuust right. 

Although this was a non competitive event, our Juniors played their putts off for the best scores possible and posted the following scores: 

The Beige Boys and The Blue Hue  :  -4
The Bulls : -2
The Birds : -2

Winners of tourney prizes:
Guess the #Tees in the jar: Connor Verhage $25.00 Golf Town Gift Card

Draw Prize #1: Daniel     (golf hat)
Draw Prize #2: Preston  (golf glove)
Draw Prize #3: Harrison (divot tool)

Big thanks to de Boers, Riverside Golf Club and The Greenhouse Restaurant for supporting our club and to our volunteers Lindsay, Heather and Barb who turned out to help with important tournament day tasks.   We couldn’t do it all without you!

And well done to all our players for your maturity and sense of humor on the course and for keeping up the speed of play so well. 

***Hope to see you at our Club Championships at Victoria GC on 25th August AND at our regular Sunday league sessions. See ‘events’ for more details.***

from: Kyrstie Green - Tournament Lead

There was plenty of fun and definitely plenty sun to be had at our July 15th Drive Your Future event at Victoria Golf Course. There were 12 golfers playing in two divisions in this event. The division winners were: Competitive division: 1st place: Logan Baich received a $25 Golf Town Gift Card. Non competitive Division: 1st place:  Jack Dawson &  2nd place: Jake Olson. Both of which received $10 Booster Juice Gift cards. Closest to the pin prize went to Logan Baich who received RVJG golf towel and the Longest putt winner for hole #9  went to Hudson Bossel who received a divot tool set. In addition there were random draw prize winners for the rest of the participants. Thank you to all those who attended!

We had 13 juniors join us for the Schools Out golf day on June 29, 2022.  Weather forecasted 100% chance of rain, but the rain stayed away and the kids had a beautiful day to golf. 

The juniors started off the day with games and exercises on the putting green then headed onto Rundles 3 par course for a 4 person Texas scramble event. 

All juniors each received a welcome gift and the following team had the lowest score at 59: Harrison Wells, Connor Verhage & Hudson Bossel each received $25 Golf Town Gift cards.

Closest to the pin on holes 9 and 18 winners are: Harrison Wells & Casey Fedynak who received $10 Booster Juice gift cards each. 

Various draw prizes went to: Preston Boettcher, Maxwell Jones, James Choo, Keisha Verhage, Matthew & Tyler Ozum

Thanks juniors for a great day, see you at the next event!

On June 11th 2022, RVJG celebrated GIRLS IN GOLF at Rundle Park Golf Course. Our aim was to create a fun, relaxed golf event with music, movement (and donuts!) whilst creating a space for the girls to build connections with other girls who golf or who would like to try golf. 

Everyone had GREAT fun on the putting green playing putting games like ‘humpty dumpty’, ’leapfrog’ and others. It was so exciting to see all the girls on the green with big smiles on their faces.  A big shout out goes to the girls who did all of this AND played a round of golf too! Phew!!  

We’d like to extend a huge thanks to all the youth and adult volunteers who came along to support girls in golf today - we couldn’t have done this without you.  See you next time!

On Saturday May 21st we had a first event of the season: The Spring Thaw Texas Scramble.  It has a perfect day for our juniors and their parents to get together and enjoy a perfect morning of golf. Weather was beautiful and we had 28 golfers golf Rundle's  par 3 course.  The event results were as follows: 

1st place went to the person with the most par's:  Logan Baich received a $25 Golf Town Gift card

2nd place went to the person with the most 6's:  Hunter Nault  received a $25 Golf Town Gift card

Closest to pin (#9 hole): RVJG Ball cap went to Taylor Ritchie

Longest putt (#18 hole) : RVJG Ball cap went to Thomas Smid

Draw prizes went to Luke Hargrave, Eoghan MacMahon, and Harrison Wells. The draw prize bag included: golf towel, bag tag and tees - all with RVJG logo.

FB/Instagram photo contest: Winner was Thomas Smid who rec'd a swag bag with RVJG logo'd gear.

Thanks to all those who were able to come out to this event!

SOLD OUT!

RVJG  Level 5 - Junior/Adult Membership (3 Courses) is now sold out

River Valley Junior Golf Club is currently looking for 40 Volunteers  to help with our upcoming Casino nights.

Date: April 17 & 18, 2022

Location: Century Casino, 13101 Fort Road, Edmonton

Various positions and shifts available

Refreshments provided

To sign up, click on the following link: Sign Up Here!

For more information, email us at: rivervalley.juniorgolf@gmail.com

                 

  

RVJGC held its final event of the year, the Parent/Child Scramble, at Rundle Park Golf course on Sept 11. We had 50 golfers play this year. We had a three way tie for second place- positions were determined using the countback method.  The following are the event prize winners of Golf Town gift cards:

1^st place: Cole Erlam (Leigh Ellestad) score 57; $75 gift card

2^nd place: Tim Chizewski ( Mike Chizewski) score 58; $50 gift card

3^rd place: Caleb Lovgren  ( Jim Lovgren) score 58; $30 gift card

‘Most Honest’: Emery Townsend ( Jeremiah Townsend ) ; $30 gift card

Closest to pin (#9): Kenton Kaup; $25 gift card

Longest putt (#18); Caleb Lovgren; $25 gift card

Draw prize winners of $20 gift cards: Keisha Verhage, Evan Gagne, Preston Boettcher

Prize winners who were not able to receive their certificates at the event will have them mailed out to their home address.

Thank you to all those who attended and helped out with this event and all our other events this year.

Please keep connected with us on our social media platforms for program information for next year.

I wish you all a safe, healthy and enjoyable winter and look forward to seeing you next year.

Cheers

Leigh Ellestad, Event Coordinator

We had 11 juniors attend our Club Championship event on August 26 at Victoria GC. It was a beautiful day for golf. There was a tie for second place which was broken using the countback scoring method. The prize winners were:

1^st place: Owen Goertzen (73) -  $75 gift card

2^nd place: Judah Wurtz (80) -  $50 gift card

3^rd place: Adam Goertzen (80) -   $30 gift card

Closest to pin on 7^th hole: Raul II Rojas  - $25 gift card

Thank you to all those who attended. Please mark your calendars for our final event of the year – the parent/child Texas Scramble at Rundle GC on Sept 11.

Leigh