The planning meeting for the 2012 season is being scheduled shortly and participating clubs will be notified once a date is set. The WEB page is also undergoing some upgrades to reflect the growth of the Foothills Junior Interclub. The WEB page will show the team schedules and standings by Division this year. This change will also allow us to have both North and South division events on the same day, which will make schedule development a lot easier.

Forty-eight hearty young golfers participated in our final event today, the Tour Championship at River`s Edge Golf Club. Weather was a definate factor, with enticing balmy morning temperatures to start and a plunging thermometer, driving rain and two-club winds for the final few holes. In the end, they all managed to complete their rounds, before draining a rather large keg of hot chocolate. Many thanks to head-pro Kim Wilkovich and his enthusiastic staff for putting on a first class event on a very well conditioned golf course. Thanks also to Big Chief Jerky and Shell Canada for their support of our interclub.

In the season-long team competition, the North Division was won by the Lynx Ridge Golf Club, while the South Division was won by rookie team Heritage Pointe Golf Club. In the North Division, Banff Springs Golf Club finished in second place, while Bearspaw Golf Club finished third. The Highwood Golf Club made an honourable defense of their 2010 overall title, finishing second this year in the South Division, while the host club, River`s Edge picked up third place.

On the individual side, Linden Bunio won the overall LOW NET with a fine round of 64. Michael Maye of Turner Valley had a competitive best gross score of 75, which earned him second overall net at 65, followed by Amanda Zeglen from Bearspaw with a 66.
Overall LOW GROSS went to Aaron Crawford of Springbank Links, followed by Jordon Lalonde of Heritahe Pointe at 75 and Drew Cavanagh of Carnmoney with a 76. Kirsty MacDonald of Banff Springs shot the best gross score for girls, with a 78.

The final event of the year is next Tuesday`s Tour Championship at River`s Edge Golf Club in Okotoks. Tee times will be from 12 noon to 1 PM on both the front and back nines. We have received feedback that some schools outside of Calgary are actually starting on Aug 29th, including some with morning classes only. If you are in this situation and still want to play in the Tour Championship, we will reserve tee times close to 1PM for you. Please let your pro or co-ordinator know of your need to have a later time, so that they can forward that information to Kim Wilkowich who will be hosting this event at River`s Edge. It promises to be a memorable event, with lots of prizes, close divisional races, a great meal and a great golf course with very different designs from the front to the back nine.
If you need more information please don`t hesitate to call me at 403-225-1127, or contact Kim at River`s Edge.

The River Spirit event was rained out this week. This was the third rain-out this summer as Sirocco and Lynx Ridge were rained out earlier.
After much deliberation, the following South Division events are also being treated as `non-events` with no point accumulations: Highwood, McKenzie Meadows and Turner Valley. The results for these events were lost in our server`s database and no back-up was available either on the server, or in the pro-shops. The organisers apologise for this, and steps have been taken to ensure this does not happen again. Hopefully everyone will agree with this decision and also that the main objective of getting junior golfers started in competitive events was still met.
The standings are now up to date heading into the Tour Championship at Rivers Edge. Since the South Division teams have collected points on less events, there will be no overall champion this year, and both the North and South Division winners will be engraved on the trophy as co-champions.

We are still in the process of gathering the results from the early South Division events. They will be restored to the event database in the next few days, one event per day, due to our database limitations.