Okanagan assistants cash cheques from golf tourney<\/p>\n
Published 8:30 pm Friday, June 12, 2026<\/p>\n
A pair of local golfers cracked the top-30 and came home with paycheques from the PGA of BC Play Golf BC Assistants\u2019 Championship June 9 and 10 at The Dunes course in Kamloops.<\/p>\n
Connor Kozak, who works at the Okanagan Golf Course in Kelowna, shot rounds of 76 and 68 to finish at even-par 144, tied for 18th place. Kozak collected $287.50.<\/p>\n
Kyle McMurphy of Predator Ridge Resort ended up tied for 27th in the field of 89 following rounds of 74-72 for a two-over score of 146. McMurphy pocketed $177.50.<\/p>\n
The event was won by Carson Kallis of the Burnaby Mountain Golf Club. He took home the top prize of $5,000 following rounds of 66-67 for an 11-under-par score of 133.<\/p>\n
Kallis was one shot better than first round leader Jordan Irwin of the Saratoga Beach Golf Course near Courtenay. Irwin shot rounds of 65-69, and won $2,700.<\/p>\n
James Swan of Olympic View Golf Club near Victoria was third at seven-under. He collected $1,900.<\/p>\n
Nicklaus Kennedy \u2013 one of the greatest first-name spellings for a golf pro \u2013 from Chase\u2019s Talking Rock Golf Course, finished in a three-way tie for fourth place. He had rounds of 70-68 for a six-under score of 138. He earned a cheque for $1,283.33.<\/p>\n
The PGA of BC\u2019s 2026 golf schedule includes a stop in Vernon.<\/p>\n
The Srixon\/Cleveland Golf PGA of BC Club Professional Championship, presented by Nike Golf and Mobilicab, will be played Sept. 28 and 29 at the Vernon Golf and Country Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okanagan assistants cash cheques from golf tourney Published 8:30 pm Friday, June 12, 2026 A pair of local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,79004,82],"class_list":["post-733598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-okanagan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}