2015 season gta am tour prizing and winners!!
RICHMOND HILL, ON (November 09, 2015) -
The GTA AM Tour's 12th Anniversary season is in the books and to all accounts will go down as the best season yet!!! The Tour started twelve years ago, with six events and thirty registered players. Fast forward to 2015, the GTA AM Tour hosted twenty five one and two day tournaments and had close to four hundred competitive and recreational Tour players enjoy the community!!
The Tour would like to extend a VERY special thank you to ALL Tour Players and to the 2015 Sponsors for their wonderful support of, and contribution to, The Tour..!! This AMAZING community would not be where it is without your commitment....!
PER EVENT PRIZING
The GTA AM Tour boasts the largest, guaranteed Prize Pool, regardless of the field size, of any Amateur Tour in Canada. TaylorMade and Mill Street Brewery provide Tour players with the opportunity to win, over $75,000 in per event prizing. Along with prizing going to the top three in each of the four Flights, there is one draw prize of a $50 Mill Street Brew Pub certificate, at each of the 25 tournaments, throughout the summer. Also, at all 25 events,
players fire at two on course challenges. The most exciting of the Tour's on course challenges is the Mazda Hole-in-One Contest, where all players have a chance to win a $2,500 sponsor product shopping spree. The player with the shot,
closest to the pin, takes home a dozen
TaylorMade Project [a] golf balls. The second contest, is a closest-to-the-pin competition, where the winner takes home a dozen TaylorMade golf balls. The Tour also offers per
event, Net Prizing for the top two Net winners. Each winner receives one dozen TaylorMade Project [a] golf balls and one case of Mill Street Beer.
SEASON LONG MYRTLE BEACH ORDER OF MERIT
The Myrtle Beach Order of Merit is a season long competition based on a player's best ten event points total. Each of the top three Flight winners, plus the top two Net Order of Merit Winners receives a seven day, six round, golf trip to Myrtle Beach courtesy of the amazing team at
Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday
. The trip will take place March 27th to April 3rd , 2016. We would also like to invite any other Tour players, and their friends and family members to join us..!
The 2015 Tour Championship results are in, and twelve players listed below will start the 2016 GTA AM Tour with a golf trip to the award winning Barefoot Resort in Myrtle Beach!
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Ryan Taylor 916.7 pts
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Mike Hubbs 860.0 pts
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Bob Chapman 816.3 pts
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Jay White 867.5 pts
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Michael Alderman 825.0 pts
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Robin Hutchins 775.0 pts
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Kevin Allen 615.8 pts
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Robert Perri 791.3 pts
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John Harrington 797.5 pts
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Shavi Kahlon 750.0 pts
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Don Laking 448.8 pts
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Mark Matusiak 622.5 pts
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BMO WORLD ELITE FALL SWING
In Addition to the per event prizing and the season long Myrtle Beach Order Of Merit, BMO World Elite MasterCard has created a unique tournament within a tournament ON TOUR..! The BMO Fall Swing provides players with an opportunity to win BMO Rewards points for finishing in the top three in their respective Flight for the final six events of the season. When all was said and done, $5,300 worth of BMO Rewards Points was distributed to the BMO World Elite MasterCard holders. To add even more excitement, Pacific Links, has added two additional four day/three night trip golf vacations to Las Vegas, to be drawn from the top four BMO World Elite Fall Swing, the two winners heading to Las Vegas are Sandy Zajac and Ryan Taylor
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Ryan Taylor 487.5 pts
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Robin Hutchins 487.5 pts
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Kevin Allen 296.6 pts
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Sandy Zajac 420.0 pts
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Michael Alderman 337.5 pts
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Shavi Kahlon 350.0 pts
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Bob Chapman 260.0 pts
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Robert Perri 237.5 pts
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John Harrington 295.0 pts
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Mike Hubbs 250.0 pts
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Bruno Rukavina 225.0 pts
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Josh Silverman 235.0 pts
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MOST IMPROVED PLAYER
Complementing the season-long Order of Merit competition, is a season-long Most Improved Player Award where the three players, whose game has most improved from their first Tour event to their last, will receive an invitation for an early season round of golf at Coppinwood Golf Club.
Congratulations go to Barry Campbell, on winning the Most Improved Player Award for 2015. Barry began his Tour season, at Brantford Golf & Country Club in B-Flight, with a Handicap Factor of 14.6. In his last Tour event, he played in the A-flight with a Factor of 7.7, giving him an improvement ratio of 1.350. In second place, was Jarrett Hemmes, with an improvement ratio of 1.277 and, placing third, was Ty Kam with an improvement ratio of 1.240.
TAYLORMADE REWARDS PROGRAM
Another way to win on Tour is through the TaylorMade Rewards Program where, once again, Tour players show their support of Tour sponsor TaylorMade Golf by purchasing fantastic equipment and apparel from our title sponsor. For every $50 spent on TaylorMade products, players receive a ballot to win of one of four 2016 rounds of golf at Oviinbyrd Golf Club. Yet again, Tour players have showed tremendous support for TaylorMade Adidas by purchasing $52,608.60 worth of product. This year, the winners of the TaylorMade Rewards Program are: Brain Nash, Kevin Allen, Sean Kaye and Robin Hutchins.
PJ DERMODY DRAW
Sponsor Paul Dermody, President of P.J. Dermody (insurance?) holds a season long contest for two 43" LG flat screen TV's. Once again, players who requested an insurance quote from Paul would be eligible for the draw. This year, the lucky winners of these amazing prizes are Robin Hutchins and Michael Cann.
PLAYER SURVEY
We would like to sincerely thank the 145 players who took the time to complete the 2015 Tour Player Survey! Although it was a long one, it was completed by more players than any previous survey! Players who completed the survey were entered into a draw for two prizes. The winner of the $50 Mill Street Brew Pub certificate is Clayton MacKay and the winner of two dozen TaylorMade Project [a] golf balls is Duane Gomes
Thank you again for a WONDERFUL season and we look forward to hosting you ON TOUR in 2016..!
ABOUT THE GTA AM TOUR:
The GTA AM Tour is owned and operated by Canadian Golf Tours Inc. and is sponsored by: BMO World Elite MasterCard, TaylorMade Golf Canada, Mazda Canada, Mill Street Brewery, Ultra 94, Nature Valley, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday, P.J. Dermody Insurance Brokers, Joshua Kingsmill, ProdigyHeadwear, Cellworks,Sundog Eyewear, Golf Away Tours, Privileged Play, Apexx Global, The Golf Lab, Pixelcarve, Pacific Links, Bright Blue Wave, Choice Hotels, Andrew Mitchell - Investors Group, Dyma, Honsberger Physiotherapy and Biomechanics Clinic, Capture Scratch and Wronski Cann Group. Tournament rules officials are organized through Golf Canada
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