Quietly, without much notice, Matt Hill has put a solid year together. The former top amateur, Hill has been toiling on the eGolf Tour in the Carolinas and makes his Canadian Tour debut this week in Edmonton. It was 2009 when Hill was regarded...
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In what continues to be an impressive array of talent for this year’s RBC Canadian Open — now just two weeks away — Golf Canada announced a couple of new names: The field for the 2011 RBC Canadian Open continues to get...
“I got my first letter from a college when I was, um, 14 I think.” That’s the sort of thing that happens in the weird and wonderful world of Eugene Wong, perhaps Canada’s next golf star. On Friday I drove out to...
My latest Sympatico column is up — just as Matt Hill exceeds all other Canadians at the Memorial today. That column can be found on Sympatico’s sports site. Interesting to note that Hill always played Titleist clubs — but will...
As I reported last week, Canadian amateur standout Matt Hill has announced he’ll turn pro today and play in the Memorial this week: Matt Hill, who enjoyed one of the most successful seasons ever by a collegiate golfer last year, announced...
Interesting to hear the news that Matt Hill will make his debut as a professional next week at Muirfield for Jack Nicklaus’ tournament. According to Henry Brunton, coach of Golf Canada’s men’s national team, Hill made the...
James Lepp was going to be Canada’s next superstar when he turned pro in 2006. He hooked up with IMG Sports after winning the NCAA individual men’s title. But his amateur success never translated into professional wins, despite a...
Interesting to see the new “amateur” golf blog (and I mean that it is about amateur golf, not written by an amateur) written by Chris Fry at ScoreGolf talking about how Brights Grove, Ont’s Matt Hill is turning pro at the end...
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...