Little, Murdoch, Berry and Zokol inducted into BC Golf Hall of Fame

 
Jackie Little of Port Alberni,  Alison Murdoch of Victoria, Steve Berry of Victoria and Dick Zokol of Vancouver were inducted yesterday into the B.C. Golf Hall of Fame.

Jackie Little of Port Alberni recently added another title to an already impressive list of championship wins over the past three decades.

A runaway victory in the Canadian Senior Women’s Championship at Osprey Ridge Golf Club in Nova Scotia demonstrated clearly that Jackie is not finished winning!

Jackie won the BC Amateur back in 1992 after finishing second in 1989. She won it again in 1993 and followed that with wins in 2000, ’01 and ’03.

She won the BC Mid Amateur in three successive years – 2006,’07 and again in ’08 and then finished second in 2009. In 2007 she also won the Canadian Mid Amateur.

In 2008, her first year of senior eligibility, she won the BC Senior Women’s Championship, the PNGA Senior Championship and the Canadian Senior Championship as well, and then successfully defended her Canadian Championship in 2009.

Jackie has won the Zone 2 Amateur title 10 times, the Zone 6 title three times and the Zone 6 Seniors title in 2008 and again in 2009.

A BC Women’s Team member for BC 11 times, she has been on the Mid Amateur Team 4 times and the Senior Team twice.

Jackie plays out of The Hollies Golf Course in Port Alberni (which she and husband Pat own) as well as the Alberni Golf Club and the Vernon Golf & Country Club.

Alison Murdoch of Victoria has won just about all there is to win since moving to British Columbia in 1998.

Seven times she has won the BCGA Zone 5 Amateur Championship and 10 times (a perfect record) she has been the Zone 5 Senior Champion.

Alison won the Canadian Senior Championship in 2002, ’04, ’05 and in ’07. Three times she won the Irish Senior Championship (2004, ’05, ’07) and added a British Senior Championship in 2007! She is believed to be the only woman from British Columbia to win on the international stage!

In 2005 Alison won the PNGA Senior and followed that in 2006 by winning the PNGA Mid Amateur, which she also won in 2008. She won the BC Senior in 2005 and again in 2009.

She has been a perennial Team member playing on the BC Women’s Team in 2001, and the BC Senior Team every year since 2000 with the exception of 2008!

She has also been a BCGA Team member in the PNGA Cup matches all four years the competition has existed (2006-2009). Alison plays out of the Victoria Golf Club.

Steve Berry of Victoria racked up a list of championships through out the 70’s.80’s and 90’s that ensured his place at the top of the list of players in the province! Following are some but certainly not all of his highlights.

In 1972 Steve Berry was crowned the BC Junior Champion and finished second in the BCGA Junior Invitational in 1979. He then won the BC Amateur Championship in 1981, and was runner up in 1987 and 1991.

In 1985 and 1986 he won the BCGA Invitational and finished second in 1979. Steve also won the BC Mid Amateur in 1994 and again in 1997.

In 1979 he won the Vancouver City Match Play and then in 1983 he won the prestigious Vancouver City and District Championship.

He won the Vancouver Island Match Play in 1994 and was a finalist in 1996,’99 and again 2004.

He is an 11 time member of the BC Willingdon Cup team, as well as a member of the Simon Bolivar Cup teams representing Canada in 1987 and ’89. In 1994 and again in ’95 he was a member of the BCGA Mid Amateur teams. In 1998 he represented BC in Peru.

Steve has been a member of the BC Senior Team three times, as well as playing on the Hudson Cup Team in 1981 and the PNGA Morse Cup Teams in 1991, ’96 and ’97. Steve is a member of the Glen Meadows Golf and Country Club in Sidney.

Richarld (Dick) Zokol is a two time winner on the PGA Tour, former Canadian Amateur champion and now golf course designer and builder.

Before joining the PGA Tour in 1982, Zokol captained his Brigham Young University golf team to the 1981 NCAA Championship and later that summer he won the Canadian Amateur Championship.

The highlight of his lengthy PGA Tour career came in 1992 when he won the Greater Milwaukee Open. Earlier that year, Zokol also won the Deposit Guaranty Classic, a PGA Tour event that used to be held opposite The Masters.

Zokol also won on the Nationwide Tour, capturing the Samsung Canadian PGA title in 2001. He represented Canada several times in World Cup and Dunhill Cup competitions.

Recently, Zokol opened a golf course near Merritt, Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club, that he co-designed with Rod Whitman.

The Golf Hall of Fame of BC currently has 25 members.

Through a sophisticated points system created to recognize wins, second place finishes and team appearances in a wide list of events throughout North America and abroad, it honours accomplishments of those qualified by their record while BC residents.

The Golf Hall of Fame was created, and is administered, by the BC Golf House Society under the brand of the BC Golf Museum and Hall of Fame

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