Brandon’s Brad Pardy can’t wait to tee it up in Texas.
The 18-year-old recent graduate of Vincent Massey High School will head south next month after accepting a partial scholarship to play golf for the Paris Junior College Dragons of the National Junior College Athletic Association.
“I am really excited,” Pardy said. “It’s going to be a great opportunity and a great experience. Just being able to play year-round is going to be completely different for me … My parents are excited for me and it’s just good to see that all the hard work is going somewhere.”
Pardy, who sports a 3.7 handicap, was directed to Paris Junior College by his golf coach Derek Ingram, a Winnipegger who is a graduate of the program.
“I sent my resume and my swing videos and stuff down there and got a call from the coach (Dave Johnson) saying yeah, there’s an opportunity for me to go down there and I accepted the spot,” said Pardy, who plans to study business at the two-year college that features a study body of 7,000.
Pardy, who recently qualified for the Manitoba amateur golf championship, was the junior men’s medallist (in stroke play) at the 77th annual Tamarack tournament at Clear Lake last year and lost in the junior men’s match play final to Regan Hedley of Dauphin. While he is eligible to compete for the junior Tamarack title again this year from Aug. 20-27, Pardy won’t be taking part since he plans to head south to Texas on Aug. 18.
Pardy, who regularly travels to Winnipeg to work on his game with Ingram, finished fifth in last year’s rural junior golf championship and 19th in the Manitoba Junior and hopes to make the provincial junior team this year.
“I have been working with Derek every weekend for the past three years now, driving to Winnipeg every weekend,” he said. “You’ve got to be committed if you want to make something of it.”
Pardy plans to prove himself at the college level over the next two years and earn a scholarship to an NCAA Division 1 or 2 school, before pursuing a career in golf.
“That’s my goal is to turn golf into a profession and make a career out of it,” Pardy said. “Right now my goal is after university I would like to try to play on some mini-tours in the U.S. and get a start and get some money and see where that takes me, maybe play on the Canadian Tour some day and see where it goes.”
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition July 6, 2011 B1
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SEOUL, July 10 (Reuters) – Torrential rain played spoilsport and allowed just full one round of play at a golf tournament in South Korea, leaving all 153 players winners — of sorts, organisers said on Sunday.
Only three players completed their second rounds at the Charity High-1 Resort Open, leaving officials with no option but to cancel the rest of the million dollar tournament.
“Because of the weather we have encountered over the four days we have made the decision … to cancel the event,” OneAsia Chief Executive Ben Sellenger said in a statement.
“Because it is evident that we are not going to get through 36 holes, the action has been taken after consultation with the sponsor.”
Fifty percent of the $1 million purse will be distributed equally between the golfers, who had spent their time stranded inside the High-1 Country Club, north-east of Seoul.
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MIDWAY — Jeff Evans has been around golf his whole life, growing up at the Cedar Ridge Golf Course as the son of longtime Cedar City professional John Evans.
He’s the youngest of six children, but according to his dad, he’s the hardest worker and that paid off with a victory at the Men’s State Amateur Sunday at Soldier Hollow Gold Course.
“I’ve worked so hard, it’s nice to see it finally pay off today,” the 21-year-old Evans said, minutes after hoisting the large silver State Am trophy.
Evans, who will be a senior at Southern Utah University in the fall, won the 113th annual State Am by defeating 19-year-old Stratton Schulz of Vernal 8 7. It was the most lopsided margin of victory in a State Am final since Doug Bybee won his third title in 1996 with a 10 9 win over Robert Shunn at Hobble Creek.
Schulz was obviously worthy of making the finals, having won each of his four previous matches by comfortable margins, while Evans had to come from behind in three of four matches and gone three extra holes in each of his Saturday matches.
But on this day, Evans was clearly the better golfer.
“He played better than me today. He hit better shots and he made more putts,” said Schulz. “He’s just a better player. There wasn’t a whole lot I could do.”
Even though it might have looked easy, Evans said that wasn’t the case.
“It wasn’t easy at all,” he said. “Even though he wasn’t hitting great shots, I still had to worry about myself and just focus on what I can do.”
Just as he had in his previous three matches, Evans had to come from behind to win. However this time, he came back much earlier, making it less stressful as the match progressed.
“I’ve played a lot of golf the last two days,” he said, referring to his two 21-hole matches the day before. “It wore me out. I’m ready to go home now and sleep.”
Evans took a 2-up lead after the morning 18, overcoming an early 2-up lead by Schulz. A par at the 9th hole brought Evans back to even and he won the next two holes and No. 13 to go 3 up, only to see Schulz win the next two holes.
However Evans won the 17th and 18th holes with birdies to take a 3 up lead at the break. A long birdie putt at 18 gave Evans his fifth birdie in five tries during the week at No. 18 and was a momentum boost going into the lunch break.
“I was 5-under on 18 this week,” Evans said. “That was a big hole for me all week.”
Birdies at 2 and 3 in the afternoon round increased Evans’ lead to 5 up. At the par-4 No. 6, the 24th hole of the match, it looked like Schulz might win his first hole since the 15th when he hit next to the green and Evans found the bunker in front.
Evans ended up bogeying, but after chipping onto the green Schulz needed three putts to get in the hole for a double bogey and lost a hole it looked like he should win.
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