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The 2008 BCGA Senior Women’s High Performance Camp is March 1 – 2, 2008 at Olympic View Golf Course.

The BCGA Senior Women's High Performance Camp is held every year and is targeted at athletes who have significant golf ability, and want to enhance their athletic performance.

This will be the first time that the BCGA Senior Women’s High Performance Provincial Camp will be held at Olympic View Golf Club. The BCGA thanks the staff and GolfBC Group for their assistance in hosting the camp.

Olympic View Golf Course is located just 20 minutes from Victoria on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, operated by the GolfBC Group. Olympic View is rated the #20 Best Golf Experience in Canada and USA West, Fairways and Greens Magazine 2006 and previously ranked within the Top 35 Public Golf Courses in Canada and the Top 50 Golf Courses in Canada by the Golf Course Ranking Magazine and Score Golf Magazine.

Olympic View also hosts the award winning GBC Golf Academy. A state-of-the-art practice facility with nine natural grass driving areas with five target greens stretching to 330 yards and three short game areas set to deliver private instruction, golf clinics, golf schools and junior programs.

The GBC Academy was voted the #1 practice facility in BC by Pacific Golf Magazine – Readers Choice Awards 2005. The academy has established itself as B.C.’s most advanced teaching facility.

The BCGA High Performance Camp is sponsored in part by Titliest and Olympic View Golf Course.

List of players attending:

Alison Murdoch, 2007 Canadian Senior Women's, Irish Senior Women's & British Senior Women's Champion    
 
Holly Horwood, 2006 & 2007 BC Senior Champion
 
Jackie Little, 2007 National Mid-Amateur Champion
 
Phyllis Laschuk, 2007 Provincial Senior Team, Past Senior Champion
 
Karen Pultz, 5th BC Seniors/8 th 2007 Nationals 
 
Lynda Palahniuk, 2nd - Runner up 2007 Nationals
 
Vicki Torbet, Past Senior Champion & Provincial Team Member
 

Val Westell, Past Provincial Team Member and former National Junior Champion

 

Karen Kloske, Mid-Amateur Player

High Performance Specialists

SportMedBC – Sports Science Team

Steve Ramsbottom, BHK, PFLC, CSCS

Jennifer Gibson, BASc, RD, IOC Dip. Sport Nutrition

Wendy Epp, BSc P.T., Diploma Sports Physiotherapy

Misty Thomas, SportMedBC, Performance Services

BCGA Technical Golf Team

Lindsay Jackson, CPGA & Provincial Coach

Susan White, BCGA Rules, Competitions & Education

Debbie Pyne, BCGA Player Development

Guest Professionals

John & Lori Randle, GBC Golf Academy