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Course hosts its second junior golf tour

The Western Canada Junior Golf Tour brought hundreds of young golfers and spectators to Point Roberts for two soggy days at the local golf course.

“Any other golf course in the lower mainland would be unplayable, for sure,” said a dripping tournament director Murray Poje on March 19, the second and final day of the tournament. “It’s a great course.” This is the second year the event has been at the Point Roberts Golf and Country Club, which is fast getting a reputation for dry greens in pouring wet weather.

As part of four in the tour’s Alcan Spring Qualifying Series, the Point Roberts event put 94 golfers aged 10 to 22 years old, both girls and boys, through 36 holes with the same set of rules used by the pros. “We run a professional tournament,” said Alec MacDonald, another tournament director. “You could call it the Canadian tour for kids.”

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