2025 BC Jesters Doubles

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Jesters Doubles Calcutta and Golf Tournament Weekend – July 11th and 12th, 2025

Big THANK YOU to Drew, Robert and Morgan for organizing the Annual Doubles Calcutta, on Friday, July 11th at VanLawn, and to Viktor for keeping us well hydrated!

For the first time ever, a pair with handicaps in the “+” column beat our usual suspects. Congratulations to Hugh Woolley and Glenn Sorenson for prevailing over our 2025 Doubles Tournament champions, Lynn Broman and Morgan Latremouille.

We raised $3,175 which will be directed to the Jesters/Squash BC Post Secondary Institutions (PSI) program, more on that program below.

Almost half the field of 16 players were rookies for this event!

The Annual Golf Tournament was played on Saturday, July 12th at the University Golf Course, big thank you to Ryan Haider for organizing the event, with Graham adding support, especially to the post-game celebration.

Twenty players including many rookies all enjoyed a beautiful summer afternoon. The annual trophies were awarded:

·        Low Gross – Morgan Latremouille

·        Low Net – John Hungerford

·        Most Honest Golfer – Brook Parkin

There were prizes for KP’s and the closest to the centre line of one of the fairways, and the usual draw prizes where everyone’s a winner.

All photos courtesy of Gary Wong

Watch the finals on Youtube.

2024 Jesters Doubles Calcutta & Golf Tournament

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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

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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

Calcutta, Jesters Doubles Tournaments,

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: