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~37~ WESTERN CANADA Country Club at Castle Pines 18th Hole Canada's westernmost province has a long and storied history in the game of golf that dates back to the opening of the first course in British Columbia at Vancouver's Jericho Beach in 1892. Just a year later, the BC Golf Association, now known as British Columbia Golf, was formed with the mandate to hold a provincial championship. In 1894, BC's first amateur golfing championship was held at the Victoria Golf Club. The winner was awarded a trophy donated by Hewitt Bostock, the lieutenant governor of the province. The trophy, known as the Bostock Cup, is still awarded today and is believed to be the oldest continuously competed for trophy in North America. The first women's amateur championship was held in 1895, and 10 years later the champion was awarded the Flumerfelt Cup, which continues to be raised high overhead by each BC amateur women's champion. This trophy also boasts the title of North America's oldest continuously competed for women's trophy. That proud legacy continues with more than 300 golf courses gracing BC's incomparable terrain. Some, like the venerable Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, have celebrated their centennials while others, like the spectacular Wildstone Golf Course on the edge of the BC Rockies, are just starting to make history of their own. In this remarkable chapter, some of the most beautiful and challenging golf holes in the world—designed by some of the game's finest architects including Jack Nicklaus, Doug Carrick, A.V. Macan, and others—unfold in their colourful splendour in one of the most historic and scenic golf destinations in the world. British Columbia Golf Association British Columbia Golf Association GOLF COLUMBIA BRITISH

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