White Rock resident, former BC Lion wins $10K hole in one at alumni tourney<\/p>\n
Published 4:15 pm Thursday, July 23, 2026<\/p>\n
A former BC Lions player and White Rock resident scored big when he shot a hole in one during the Simon Fraser University Football Rick Klassen Memorial Golf Tournament.<\/p>\n
Jamie Buis, an offensive guard with the CFL\u2019s BC Lions from 1983-1989, was golfing in the alumni tournament last Thursday (July 16) in Pitt Meadows when he carded the ultimate prize: a hole in one worth $10,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn hole seven, I hit the ball right straight at the flag \u2014 it\u2019s 170 yards \u2014 and it bounced a few times and rolled in,\u201d Buis said Thursday (July 23).<\/p>\n
The former football player, who was also a firefighter, used his five iron on the par 3 hole and wasn\u2019t sure if it was a hole in one right away, but the witness on hole seven confirmed it, as did his ball, which he found in the cup.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s actually Buis\u2019 second hole in one \u2014 he got his first at Greenacres Golf Course in Richmond years ago, he recalled. But it wasn\u2019t in a tournament and there wasn\u2019t a $10,000 prize. <\/p>\n
Joe Bell was in the foursome playing with Buis at the tournament, which is a memorial for another former BC Lion, Rick Klassen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe four of us in the foursome all played at Simon Fraser,\u201d Bell explained, adding that Buis and the entire foursome were excited about the lucrative hole in one \u2014 especially since Buis is a sharer.<\/p>\n
Buis recalled that he asked one of the tournament\u2019s organizers, Frank Roberto, what kind of prizes were involved in the memorial contest.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe goes, \u2018Oh there\u2019s a couple holes worth $10,000 on them \u2026 par threes,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Well if anybody wins it we\u2019ve got to split it right?\u201d Buis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny, because I got to the next hole and I said, \u2018You know, I changed my mind about sharing it,\u2019 and then they just kind of looked at me \u2026 I said, \u2018Just kidding!\u2019\u201d he shared with a chuckle.<\/p>\n
Bell said it was the first time that the hole-in-one prize has been won in about 40 years of having the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty nice of him (to share),\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Rock resident, former BC Lion wins $10K hole in one at alumni tourney Published 4:15 pm Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-824323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824323","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=824323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}