As much of B.C. recovers from an unusually cold and snowy winter, some golf courses in the Interior are being forced to delay the start of their seasons.
Golf in British Columbia — a tourism website dedicated to booking B.C. golf vacations — notes that “almost everybody is behind.”
“According to the owner here, this is the worst winter they’ve seen in the 17 or 18 years we’ve been here,” said Dan Martin, the CPGA head professional at Skaha Meadows Golf Course in Penticton.
“A lot of our passholders who have been in the area for 30 or 40 years, they say this is the worst winter they can remember.”
The Penticton course opened for the 2017 season in late January, but was forced to close for two weeks in February due to snowfall.
“We’ve had four or five false starts this year. So we’d open for two or three days and then it would snow and we’d be closed for a couple days,” said Martin.
Martin is cautiously optimistic that the course will now remain open for the year.
