Game #1 Scramble Thomson & Elliott vs Maxwell & Burke There is no denying this is an intriguing match-up. Power and Poise vs Consistency and Guile. The Commissioner and Double-Double know each other’s game intimately with a variety of skills that should mesh nicely. Maxwell-Smart and Grampy will be annoyingly down the middle all day …

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If you haven’t already noticed, there is a runaway super senior hell bent on golf destruction in the KWGA to start the 2016 season. After a winter dominating the senior circuit in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the symbol simply known as Grampy tore down the field at the Avon Lea Open Saturday for his first …

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“Dad, you can’t win…let alone set a course record.” And so Barry Bannister-Hennigar’s day began with his young son’s early morning decree whilst sharing a bowl of Lucky Charms. A statement so calm yet so callous in its biting assessment of a father’s ability, or perceived lack thereof. Well, young son can eat some consonants …

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Saturday the KWGA paid homage to one of the Valley’s best and most historic entertainment spots, Legends Lounge, a night club that spanned the varied ages that encompass our great league. If those Legends walls could talk, I dare say there would be a stampede to Kentville’s Law Court’s not seen since Hortonville’s nine “Barry Boys” …

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Mark Twain once wrote, “Always do right. This will gratify some people…and astonish the rest.” And so it would be, after a winter of discontent and a spring of uncertainty, KWGA verteran Kevin “Hunchback” Newcombe did just that Saturday morning, astonishing his doubters with a stalwart net 67 en route to his second career victory …

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Fellas… Just wanted to make you aware that another social event has been confirmed for the 2016 season. Wayne Burke has opened his backyard in Windsor following play at the Avon Lea Open at Avon Valley GC on Saturday May 28. All KWGA members are welcome to attend. You do not need to play golf …

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It wasn’t so much what happened at Saturday’s Captain Crazy Invitational, instead, it was the manor in which it occurred. Hantsport’s own Gary “The Biggest” Johnson laid waste to the KWGA field with a depravity the belies his Cheshire smile for his first career KWGA victory. Time and again The Big Dong pounded his driver long and straight into …

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The 2016 KWGA Season has finally arrived after a winter dreaming of tree lined fairways, hazards and hooks…but for some, distant southern skies, winter golf and lunch with strippers was reality. The question is, just who will that favour in the season-opening Flower Cart Classic? Here are the odds for this week’s tournament based on …

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With any league, there must be parameters lest there be chaos. A few things in our league needed to be tightened up and after talking with our membership over the winter, the following was the overwhelming consensus. Note: Remember, these guidelines deal mainly with the $1 NET weekly winner and the Season long Race for …

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Gentlemen… I just wanted to spend a moment to address our handicap system. As with any league, ours is going through some growing pains. The main topic I heard around the water cooler in 2015 was our handicap system. Without going through history, suffice it to say we have such a wide variance in skill level, …

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Fellas… The following is the list of people who will be attending the KWGA season-ending banquet at West Side Charlies on Friday November, 20. TALE OF THE BILLIARD TAPE Derek Thomson- Golf ability trumps billiards skill…but will try hard. Wayne Burke- Been playing games all his life…why stop now? Rod Murray- Billiard ability is in direct correlation with …

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The KWGA Ryder Cup is only in its second year but it quickly has become both a coveted and contentious prize. Both were in evidence this past week in both its preparation and execution. Each stage of the 2015 Ryder Cup was fought tooth and nail, beginning with the Player Selection on Thursday night. The Draft- Thursday Oct. 8 FEDEX Cup …

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NBA legend and Hall of Fame coach of the Houston Rockets Rudy Tomjanovich once uttered the phrase, “Never underestimate the heart of a champion” after his 1994 Rockets had won the NBA Championship. So it was for KWGA legend Wayne “Grampy” Burke Saturday morning at the KWGA’s crowning tournament, the Tour Championship. Trailing bulldog and …

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After 21 weeks of golf excitement, the KWGA season comes down to this. Two men with varying skills sets but one common theme…competitors. Poirier has defied all the odds after a horrific first half of the season and finds himself staring senior royalty dead in the eyeballs. Burke also struggled early in the season with …

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AP- Halifax, NS With just days remaining before his FEDEX Championship match vs Grampy Burke, KWGA stalwart Mr. Wildcat Poirier has been hard at work…but not on his golf game. In a scene reminiscent of Bill Murray’s chase for the elusive gopher, Poirier has been dealing with more than a slice. Instead, he has been forced to devote …

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The KWGA’s money man obviously knows his way around a bank…and knows how to make a splash at more than just the polls. KWGA veteran and Wolfville Wanderer “The Donald” Bryson did both Saturday morning at the Deutsche Bank Championship with an impressive -3 score to take the title by 5 strokes for his first career victory on …

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The name Hennigar in The Annapolis Valley is synonymous with Farm Markets and double scoop ice creams…but one thing it can’t be known for anymore is cherries. The KWGA’s “Marathon Man”, Barry Bannister-Hennigar, busted his 2 year cherry on tour at Saturday’s Barclays Championship with an impressive -3 score (75 gross) en route to his …

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2015 Anticipation for the KWGA’s final regular season event is at a fever pitch as the long and winding road has finally come to a fork. After 19 weeks of grueling fun, the KWGA will decide the league’s Top 8 playoff participants this coming Thursday and Friday in the league’s first ever 2 day event. …

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Under the category “Go Figure!”, KWGA Sweat Hog Brent Locke claimed the 2015 Welcome Back Kotter Klassic in runaway fashion Saturday afternoon with a 6 shot victory at sun-splashed KenWo GC. Voted by his Junior High Class of 1986 as the least likely to get his Grade 10, it was ironic that the man known as Weasie …

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As legendary defense lawyer Johnnie Cochrane once boasted, “If it doesn’t fit…you must acquit.” For most of the 2015 season, that statement rang true of Mr. Wildcat KK Poirier’s golf game, but on Saturday afternoon it only rang true about his championship t-shirt. Mr. Wildcat was able to hold off spirited performances from Where’s Waldo-Murray …

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