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Abbotsford’s Robert Bateman golf team wins big at Sandpiper Golf Course tournament

Senior and junior teams win respective competition, regional qualifiers beginning later this month
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The Robert Bateman golf club took home first place at the Sandpiper High School Golf Invitational tournament. (Submitted)

The Robert Bateman Secondary School golf team kept rolling and picked up another win at the Sandpiper High School Golf Invitational tournament, which occurred on Monday (May 1) and Tuesday (May 2) in Harrison Mills.

The senior team of Maxim McKenzie, Owen Crockett, Ryan Burns, Aiden Cook and Emerson Bronsema compiled a two-day score of 583 (seven over par). McKenzie posted the individual low overall gross score.

Bateman also posted wins at the Victoria Police High School golf tournament and the Delta Police High School Golf Tournament, which both took place in April.

The junior team of Max Plummer, Owen Hornsby, Nik Buckle and Lukas Selander Wendt took home the top spot in the junior division at the event. Bateman’s Maya Gidda also had the female low gross score for the event.

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The team is now preparing for the Eastern Fraser Valley qualifiers which start Tuesday (May 9) for the junior team and May 16 for the senior team. Tee-off is 1 p.m. both days at Abbotsford’s Ledgeview Golf Course. The top two teams from those events qualify for the provincials, which occur in Parksville from June 5 to 7. Bateman finished fifth at provincials in 2022.

Another event on the horizon is the second annual Robert Bateman Open, which is a fundraiser for the program. That event is set for June 12 at Ledgeview.



Ben Lypka

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I joined the Abbotsford News in 2015.
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