2024 Jesters Doubles Calcutta & Golf Tournament

Doubles Calcutta:

  • Paul Stevenson/Farzin Habibpour dove and framed their way to the win over Robert Pacey/Morgan Latremouille 3-1
  • $3,240 was raised for the Jesters/Squash BC Partnership 
  • Big thank you to Morgan whose handicapping was perfect, most matches went to three tight games  
  • All bidders will be contacted separately with payment instructions

Golf Tournament:

  • A fantastic day out at the University Golf Club with all 20 spots filled – big thank you to Ryan for organizing and scheduling
  • Trophies were awarded for low gross, low net and most honest golfer (Ryan Haider, Doug MacDougall, Thomas Brinkman)
  • Prizes for closest to the pin (3) and closest to the centre line were awarded

2022 Jesters Golf Tournament

Thanks to the efforts and planning of Morley Jameson, 16 golfers teed it up at University Golf Course on July 23 on a perfect day for golf (sunny, light breeze).

Best of all, all 16 stayed afterwards for the all important apres-golf and prize giving!

After all the scores were tallied, the winners were:

Low Net – Nancy Thompson (67)

Low Gross – Andrew Lynn (76)

KP Hole #2 – Loree Khan

KP Hole #7 – Nathan Ozog

KP Hole #12 – Winston Cabell

KP Hole #16 – Tim Kehler

Bison Award – Nathan Ozog

2019 BC Jesters Calcutta

The 2019 edition of the BC Jesters summer Doubles Calcutta was held at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club on Friday, June 14, 2019

The teams:

16 participants were purchased with bids as low as $150 and as high as $350. Teams were created and a points handicap system was used to level the playing field.  An incredible number of games ended 15-14 and more amazingly, both semi-finals and the final all ended 2-1 with a 15-14 score in the 3rd and deciding game!  Kudos to Morgan Latremouille for organizing this event – finding the 16 players, finding 2 more to replace last minute withdrawals, establishing the points handicaps and making sure the event starts on time and finishes before midnight is a huge challenge.  Not only was Morgan up to the task, but he somehow managed to win for a 2nd year in a row (no doubt because of his partner, Madeline Sava).  Perhaps we need to re-assess letting Morgan set the handicaps😊!Thanks to all the Jesters who played and also to those who bet on the players.  This year nearly $4000 was raised for Squash BC’s Building the Future Fund with the tax receipt for the owners of the winning team going to the all-female conglomerate, C’s Company! 

The draw

Cathy Brown and Andrew Lynn
Ruth Castellino and Mark Robinson
Karen Levine and Robert Pacey
Brian Covernton and Lynn Broman
Carolyn Russell and Kelly Latremouille
Madeleine Sava and Morgan Latremouille
Justin Todd and Russell Smith
Laura Ramsey and Thomas Brinkman

Karen and Robert lost 15-14 in the decider to Madeleine and Morgan

Golf Tournament Saturday saw beautiful sunshine and 20 keen golfers descend on University Golf Course to test their skills and, if you were in my foursome, have a few beverages!  When the dust settled, Michael Jackson walked away with the big trophy for Net Champion with an amazing 65!  Andrew Lynn managed to defend his title as Low Gross champ with a modest 77 much to the chagrin of the others. 

KP winners were Karen Levine, Ruth Castellino and Morgan Latremouille (is there anything this guy doesn’t win?) and the Long Drive winners were Ruth Castellino and Geraint Khan.  There was a repeat champion for the honour of Most Honest Golfer but he shall remain nameless to maintain his dignity!  Many thanks to those who donated prizes, to Tim Bale for booking the tee times and most importantly, to Ruth Castellino for organizing this event (she did win two prizes so don’t feel too bad for her!).

Après-golf Dinner Perhaps the highlight of the weekend was the dinner at Russell and Gillian Smith’s place.  Close to 60 people wined, dined and socialized in what will be our final hurrah at the Smith’s place.  I don’t think we broke anything this year (Barclay was well-behaved) and it was great to see so many Jesters and their guests.  Thanks to Hugh and Sandra Woolley for the wonderful dinner, John and Debbie Hungerford for the tasty dessert, Doug MacDougall for the wine/beer and Paul Stevenson for the non-alcoholic drinks.   There are no words to describe how generous Russell and Gillian have been to our group, hosting numerous Jesters functions at their house – thank you both so much!

Bonus photos courtesy of Natasha Doucas:

2018 Calcutta

This year’s  annual BC Jesters Doubles Calcutta featured many very close matches yet was completed in record time.

The winning team was Morgan Latremouille and Hugh Woolley.

The event raised $2,900 for the 2020 Fund! The winning bidders were two consortiums (David Goldsmith and Karen Levine; and Greg Desaulniers, Hugh Woolley and John Hungerford).  They will receive tax receipts totaling $2,900.

Players    
Victor Berg, Morgan Latremouille, Mark Heaney, Tim Martin, Brian Covernton, Greg Desaulniers, Robert Pacey, Carolyn Russell, Lynn Broman, Paul Stevenson, Hugh Woolley,  David Goldsmith, Nick James, Caitlin Hungerford, Nicola Martin and Cathy Covernton.

Bidders
Hugh Woolley, Greg Desaulniers, John Hungerford, Paul Stevenson, Tony Goodson, Morgan Latremouille, David Goldsmith, Karen Levine, Carolyn Russell, Ruth Castellino

Also to those who donated prizes:
Caitlin Hungerford, Allan Brown, Morley Jameson, Natasha Doucas, Andrew Lynn, Nina Henriksen, Viktor Berg and Sue Kaffka.