Assistants' Championship
The PGA of BC Assistants' Championship is open to all members serving in roles other than Head, Executive or Head Teaching Professional within the Association. Contested each June, the event is a 36-hole, individual stroke-play championship.
The Assistants' Championship is the Association's longest-running competition, debuting in 1948 as the City Assistant Professionals' Tournament. The event was considered a provincial championship by 1951, with 36 holes played in a single day.
The tournament was further elevated in 1967 with the introduction of the Stan Leonard Trophy, the event's first sponsor-furnished prize purse, and play being conducted with two 18-hole rounds over two days. The whereabouts of the original Stan Leonard Trophy is unclear, but the format has remained largely unchanged.
Bryn Parry has won the event a record five times, with his first title coming in 2000 and the most recent in 2017. Gerry Chatelain is the only player to win three consecutive titles, collecting his trio of Assistants' Championships between 1972 and 1974.
(#) Next to champion's name denotes number of titles won
YEAR | CHAMPION | WINNING SCORE | VENUE | RUNNER-UP |
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2024 | Steven Lecuyer (2) | 147 (+3) | Nk'Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course | Lionel Taylor |
2023 | Steven Lecuyer | 135 (-9) | Chilliwack Golf Club | Cory Renfrew |
2022 | Zach Olson** | 136 (-8) | Sandpiper Golf Course | Cory Renfrew |
2021 | Conner Kozak | 134 (-10) | Kamloops Golf & Country Club | Keith Martin & Zach Olson |
2020 | Not contested (COVID-19) | -- | Talking Rock Golf Course | -- |
2019 | Andrew Rasmussen | 139 (-5) | Seymour Golf & Country Club | Kevin Stinson & Cory Renfrew |
2018 | Oliver Tubb (3)** | 137 (-5) | Bear Mountain Resort Community (Mountain Course) | Brad Clapp |
2017 | Bryn Parry (5) | 139 (-5) | Salmon Arm Golf Club | Kevin Stinson & Oliver Tubb |
2016 | Oliver Tubb (2) | 136 (-8) | Kamloops Golf & Country Club | Shingo Akizuki & Darren Griff |
2015 | Andrew Smeeth | 142 (-2) | Kings Links by the Sea | John Shin |
2014 | Oliver Tubb** | 140 (-4) | Rivershore Golf Links | Bryn Parry |
2013 | Greg Machtaler | 134 (-8) | Chilliwack Golf Club | Gordy Scutt |
2012 | Brad Clapp | 127 (-17) | Vernon Golf & Country Club | Bryn Parry |
2011 | Bryn Parry (4) | 139 (-5) | Big Sky Golf Club | Doug Morgan |
2010 | Matthew Palsenbarg (2) | 130 (-12) | Chilliwack Golf Club | Bryn Parry |
2009 | Kevin Maxwell** | 143 (-1) | Swan-E-Set Bay Golf Resort | Matthew Palsenbarg |
2008 | Bryn Parry (3) | 137 (-7) | Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club | Scott Shepherd |
2007 | Matthew Palsenbarg | 141 (-3) | Point Roberts Golf & Country Club | Mike Longridge |
2006 | Bryn Parry (2)** | 137 (-3) | Ledgeview Golf Club | Matthew Palsenbarg & Jarad Boddy |
2005 | Philip Jonas (2) | 135 (-7) | Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club | Bryn Parry |
2004 | Philip Jonas** | 139 (-5) | Richmond Country Club | John Robertson |
2003 | Scott Rodgers | 134 (-8) | Chilliwack Golf Club | John Robertson & Philip Jonas |
2002 | Jeff Buder | 140 (-4) | The Vancouver Golf Club | Edd Boudreau & Marty Scoles |
2001 | Steven MacPherson** | 137 (-3) | Cowichan Golf & Country Club | Dave Bolton & John Randle |
2000 | Bryn Parry | 137 (-7) | Fairview Mountain Golf Club | Dave Bolton, John Randle & Cory Draper |
1999 | Dan Dupuis | 134 (-10) | Arbutus Ridge Golf Club | John Randle |
1998 | John Randle | 137 (-7) | Morgan Creek Golf Course | Brad Kennell |
1997 | Scott Minni (2)** | 138 (-6) | The Dunes at Kamloops | Keith Westover |
1996 | Dean Johnson | 136 (-8) | Gorge Vale Golf & Country Club | Scott Minni |
1995 | Doug Morgan** | 141 (-3) | Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club | Ian Henson |
1994 | Lanny Sawchuk (2) | 137 (-9) | Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Scott Minni |
1993 | Ward Stouffer | 136 (-8) | Royalwood Golf Club | John Aasen |
1992 | Lanny Sawchuk | 138 (-6) | Pitt Meadows Golf Club | Daryl Stubbs |
1991 | Dale Schienbein** | 144 (E) | Seymour Golf & Country Club | Scott Minni & Glenn Butler |
1990 | Ian Harper | 139 (-3) | Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club | Doug Morgan & Ed Beauchemin |
1989 | John Aasen | 145 (+1) | Whistler Golf Club | Don Kerr |
1988 | Scott Minni | 142 (E) | Whistler Golf Club | Dale Schienbein & Murray Poje |
1987 | Don Kerr (2)** | 145 (+1) | Quilchena Golf & Country Club | Craig Rencher, Mark Ludeman & Scott Minni |
1986 | Mark Ludeman | 140 (-4) | Peace Portal Golf Course | Sandy Kurceba |
1985 | Keith Westover** | 142 (-2) | Pitt Meadows Golf Club | Ward Stouffer |
1984 | Mark Forrest | Richmond Country Club | ||
1983 | Don Kerr** | 145 (+3) | Seymour Golf & Country Club | Jason Paukkunen |
1982 | Bob Beauchemin | 147 (+3) | Point Grey Golf & Country Club | Randy Gallop |
1981 | Jim Goddard | 138 (-4) | Chilliwack Golf Club | Rob Watson |
1980 | Ed Tougas (2) | 144 (E) | Beach Grove Golf Club | Dan Wellicome |
1979 | Ed Tougas | 216 (-3) (54-hole event) |
Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Norm Jarvis |
1978 | Muncie Booth | 142 (E) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Ray Stewart |
1977 | Dan Trevisan | The Vancouver Golf Club | ||
1976 | Tom Moryson | Pitt Meadows Golf Club | ||
1975 | Scott Keenlyside** | 149 (+5) | The Vancouver Golf Club | Mike Swinburnson |
1974 | Gerry Chatelain (3) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | ||
1973 | Gerry Chatelain (2) | 146 (+2) | Point Grey Golf & Country Club | Finn Sorenson |
1972 | Gerry Chatelain | 140 (-4) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Don Billsborough |
1971 | Mike Graas | 145 (+1) | Quilchena Golf & Country Club | Mike Parker |
1970 | Doug Reid (3) | 143 (-1) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Bob Moir & Ron Wood |
1969 | Joe Jeroski | 107 (E) (27 holes due to rain) |
The Vancouver Golf Club | Tom Moryson |
1968 | Vaughan Trapp | 138 (-6) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Doug Reid |
1967 | Bill Wakeham** | 143 (-1) | Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Doug Reid |
1966 | Doug Reid (2) | 137 (-7) | The Vancouver Golf Club | Dick Munn & Ray Dodson |
1965 | Doug Reid | 144 (E) | Richmond Country Club | Al Kennedy |
1964 | Bob Cox (3) | 148 (+4) | Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Joe Jeroski & Al Kennedy |
1963 | Bob Cox (2) | 138 (-6) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Bill Carrington |
1962 | Bryan Copp | 141 (-3) | Point Grey Golf & Country Club | Bob Cox |
1961 | Bob Cox | 137 (-7) | The Vancouver Golf Club | Gordon Fairbairn |
1960 | Bill Carrington | 142 (E) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Dave Berg |
1959 | Alvie Thompson | 142 (-2) | The Vancouver Golf Club | Gordon Fairbairn |
1958 | Harold Rice | 142 (-2) | Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Alvie Thompson |
1957 | Lyle Crawford (2)** | 144 (+2) | Marine Drive Golf Club | Alvie Thompson |
1956 | Lyle Crawford | 146 (+2) | The Vancouver Golf Club | Bill Wright |
1955 | Bill Wright** | 157 (+13) | Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club | Vic Smith |
1954 | Laurie Carroll | 146 (+2) | Langara Golf Course | |
1953 | Garnet Lineker | |||
1952 | Dennis Beaupre | 155 (+11) | Capilano Golf & Country Club | Mel White |
1951 | Bill Leask | 151 (+9) | Marine Drive Golf Club | Ron McLeod |
1950 | Doug McAlpine | 152 (+8) | Point Grey Golf & Country Club | Gordy Dods |
1949 | unknown | |||
1948 | Roy Heisler | 155 (+11) | University GC & The Vancouver GC | Malcolm Tapp |