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Posts about: Matt Hill

RBC Antes Up, Puts Money into Tour Pros, Amateur Events

Interesting news this morning from Royal Bank, which is increasing its investment in golf, including investments in “Team Canada,” the RCGA’s national amateur golf teams, as well as adding support “to the resurgence of Canada’s national amateur golf championships.”
Here’s RBC’s chief brand officer on the annoucement:
“We are proud to support the RCGA’s vision to drive [...]


There Can Only Be One: Nick Taylor Canada’s Best Amateur?

On the same day the Golf Journalists Association of Canada voted Matt Hill in as the top Canadian male amateur, the RCGA named Nick Taylor as the country’s top college male player. So who is right?
I’d say the RCGA got this one correct. Anyway, here’s the details:
For the second year in a row, Nick Taylor [...]


GJAC Votes DeLaet, Hill, Meldrum, and Kirby as Top Canadians in 2009

The Golf Journalists Association of Canada, a group of 60 golf media members of which I’m part, today announced its top Canadian players for 2009. Some interesting results:
George Knudson Award for Best Male Professional of the Year:
Graham DeLaet,
Weyburn, Saskatchewan 
DeLaet split his time in 2009 between the South African Sunshine Tour and the Canadian Tour. He [...]


Baryla and DeLaet Equal RCGA Success?

Vancouver Province writer Kent Gilchrist, last seen interviewing Richard Zokol and bashing the RCGA’s player development program, does an about face given the success of both Vernon’s Chris Baryla, who made the Top 25 on the Nationwide Tour, and Graham DeLaet, who won in South Africa a couple of weeks back
“Could it be that the [...]


Taylor, Hill Are One, Two in the World

Fascinating news out the RCGA today regarding top amateurs Nick Taylor and Matt Hill:
National Amateur Team members Nick Taylor and Matt Hill are currently ranked 1st and 2nd respectively on the Royal and Ancient’s World Amateur Golf Rankings.
 
Nick Taylor, who was sixth on the rankings last week, climbed into the top spot after he fired [...]