A.V. Macan Podcast

Special thanks to the Members and Staff at Fircrest Golf Club for hosting the 2024 Interclub event with Royal Colwood.  This was the 51st edition of the Fircrest/Royal Colwood Interclub and we look forward to continuing the tradition.   Guests on this episode: 00:55 – 06:30 Steve Bowles - General Manager, Fircrest GC 06:31 – 09:37 Jim Chu - Member, Fircrest GC 09:38 – 14:27 Daniel Shepherd - Head...

On this episode, we hear from Tom Martell (coordinator) about the "Train Wreck" event at Royal Colwood.  The Train Wreck is a 2 man team event, where the team collects points and tries to avoid having a train wreck (which means both players score net bogey or worse).                    Net Bogey = 0 points                    Net Par = 1 point                    Net Birdie = 2 points    ...

Short trip to Portland, Oregon for a friendly match with a few members of Columbia Edgewater, special thanks to Ky Fullerton, Evan Wilson and Erik Bjorvik for setting this up and being gracious hosts. With the help of John Story and Bill Coles we recollected for a few minutes about our couple of days at Columbia Edgewater.  This trip supports another strong recommendation for Royal Colwood members...

Great conversation with 50-year members Mike Adamek and Tom LeQuesne.  These two Royal Colwood members reminisce about the early years of their golf membership and later share some of their experiences of golfing other AV Macan golf courses over the past 40 years.   With Tom and Mike being around for some time they both bring up some wonderful memories at Royal Colwood and how things have evolved...

The Lucifer Golfing Society was created in 1921 by a small group of like-minded men who enjoyed golfing, fine dining and camaraderie.   In September 2024, the modern "Lucifers" travelled to Canada and part of their itinerary included a trip to Royal Colwood to play in a friendly match and to enjoy great food prepared by Chef Sam Benedetto and his staff.  Have a listen and learn a bit mor...

Congratulations to Dale Jackson for being inducted to Royal Colwood's Wall of Honour, builder category. Dale joins me for a conversation about some of his golf experiences and more importantly his accomplishments in the world of golf that has ultimately qualified him for the Wall of Honour. 1.  Rules Official (R&A, USGA, Golf Canada PGA, LPGA) 2001 – present 2.  Club Captain, Royal Colwoo...

Royal Colwood Golf Club proudly hosted the 110th Canadian Women's Amateur Championship , 30 July - 02 August 2024, presented by BDO.   Congratulations to all the competitors, staff, volunteers and members for a successful Championship.   Part 2 – List of Guests: 00:46 – 08:53 Emily Odwin – Competitor, Barbados Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 08:54 – 16:17 Alison Murdoch – Canadia...

Royal Colwood Golf Club proudly hosted the 110th Canadian Women's Amateur Championship , 30 July - 02 August 2024, presented by BDO. Congratulations to all the competitors, staff, volunteers and members for a successful Championship. Part 1 – List of Guests: 00:45 – 08:40 Ann Martyn – Tournament Volunteer Chair Gordy Scutt – Head Professional, Royal Colwood Golf Club  08:41 – 15:55 John Denee...

Columbia Edgewater visits Royal Colwood As Columbia Edgewater Country Club approaches its 100th Anniversary in 2025, Ky Fullerton and his friends John Delaittre and Evan Wilson visit Royal Colwood and graciously take time to join me for a quick podcast episode.  They, along with other Club members, continue to re-build the Columbia Edgewater historical archives relating to A.V. Macan as part of th...

Royal Colwood is proud to host the 110th Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship, presented by BDO.  Elaine Bobolo, Organizing Chair, Ruth McDougall and Barb Rainey join the host Matt Waterman in studio to chat about getting ready for the Championship!   The Championship runs 29 July – 2 August 2024 and the field will include 156 golfers.  Royal Colwood has a long history of hosting championships an...

Hope you enjoy this episode with Gordy Scutt, new Head Professional at Royal Colwood.  We talk about his golf career from the very early days to current day.  Gordy has played all over the world as a Junior representing Canada, throughout his College years as a Washington Husky and later as a professional.  After playing as a pro for nearly 5 years, Gordy moved back to Victoria to begin working in...

For this episode, we took the podcast on the road and compiled 4 days of content with our group of 8. Our trip included: Fircrest Golf Club 1923 Columbia Edgewater Country Club 1925 Inglewood Golf Club 1919 Beach Grove 1927 The first three courses were all designed by A.V. Macan and each had their own taste of what Macan liked to build into his course designs.  Specifically, the use of blind tee s...

Veterans Memorial Lodge is one of five Broadmead Care homes in Greater Victoria.  An attractive, comfortable Home located in the pleasant Broadmead neighbourhood in Victoria, it provides long term care for veterans and seniors on Vancouver Island. On June 6th 2024, the 21st Annual Broadmead Care’s Charity Golf Tournament will take place at the Royal Colwood Golf Club. Joining me to talk about this...

We celebrate Rupee’s 50 years of membership at Royal Colwood.  “Mr. Pallan” is well known in the Westshore area after serving for 35 years in School District 62.  Rupee’s initiation fee 50 years ago was $400 and the monthly dues were $50.  The Pallan family has grown into golf life at Royal Colwood, both Rupee’s sons got involved as Junior’s and now two grandchildren have connections. In his 50 ye...

Kicking off Season 2 of the A.V. Macan Podcast, we're joined by Royal Colwood Member Doug Hastie.  Doug is currently working for Golf Canada as the Director for Western Canada.  Doug learned his golf from none other than George Knudsen at The National Golf Club, he obtained his Class "A" Professional designation in 1993 and has held numerous golf management and teaching roles over h...

In our final episode of 2023, we're joined by Lori Lumley who has just finished her 1 year term as Women's Captain at the Royal Colwood Golf Club. Lori played competitive fastball as a youngster and into her adult years but decided as retirement approached that golf would bring her some new athletic challenges, hence joining Royal Colwood in 2019 became her new aspiration .  Lori has alr...

In episode 13, Royal Colwood Professional Craig Young joins me to chat about his 23+ years at our golf club.  Craig and his wife come from competitive skiing backgrounds but his summer love of golf as a kid carried through to his working life.  Craig’s skiing accomplishments include competing in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary and at an FIS World Cup event in 1990 where he finished on the...

In 2023, Royal Colwood celebrated 100 years of Club Championships and in this episode we are joined by Aaron Butters, Club Championship Committee Chair, to talk about the successes of the event.  All the Divisions had medal play competitions over the main championship weekend, and on the second weekend the Men’s Division had match play games. Later in the episode, Aaron talks about his own start i...

Jack Jenner is the creator and still manages the Don Ross Derby at Royal Colwood.   This event is one of the most enjoyable tournaments on the schedule for the Men’s Division.  It consists of 2– nine hole matches on the Friday and then 3 – nine hole matches on the Saturday; these are played in 2 man teams taking the best ball score.   The Flight winners at the end of the 5 matches (and two wild ca...

Alec Mackie is the Club Captain at Royal Colwood Golf Club, he is in his second year of a 3 year term.  Alec has been a member of the Club since 1984 and is originally from Carnoustie, Scotland. In fact, his first golf was learned at Carnoustie Golf Links as a young boy with hickory shafted clubs.  Alec was present at the 2018 Open Championship as a volunteer.  His sister and niece are both succes...

Dave Mick – Wall Of Honour - Royal Colwood Golf Club Dave joined Royal Colwood as a junior member in 1961 and over his golfing career he climbed the steps of recognition to be forever commemorated on the Wall of Honour at Royal Colwood. Hope you enjoy going through some of Dave’s competitive golf life with him. Wall of Honour Member Canadian Team – World Amateur                            1978    ...

Bruce Brown is our guest on episode 8 of the A.V. Macan Podcast, we chat about the Invasive Species Removal program that he and other volunteers at the Club have been working on for the past few years.   Bruce has been a member at Royal Colwood for the past 17 years and has served as the Men’s Captain.  Being a volunteer at our golf course is only a small part of the volunteering Bruce has done in...

Derek Senft is our guest on episode 7, he's a member of the professional staff at Royal Colwood Golf Club.   Derek has 10 years experience at Colwood and previously learned some of the golf industry at Victoria Golf Club and at Cultus Lake.  Derek is big part of Junior Golf development at Royal Colwood, and he’s often seen leading young girls and boys in their exposure to the golf world.  He...

John Rempel is our guest on episode 6, he's been a member at Royal Colwood Golf Club since 1980.   John served his country for 25 years in the Royal Canadian Air Force.  Once John retired from the military he decided to buy a donut franchise - which eventually became John's Donut House for the next 17 years. John talks about his many years of golfing around Royal Colwood and cool memorie...

In episode #5, Kevin Carrigan comes in to chat about his experiences at Royal Colwood Golf Club (RCGC).  He is a “Wall of Honour” member and is previously a winner of the Men’s Club Championship eight (8) times in a row! Kevin gives credit to Tiger Woods for creating huge interest in golf while he was learning the game as a Junior.  After his high school graduation, Kevin went onto College in the...