As a prospective adopter of a school, you may think you need to be a corporate giant like Golf Town, which has adopted almost 100 schools, or the formidable twosome of Golf Lab founder Liam Mucklow, a well-known champion of junior golf, who along with auto sales magnate Edward Wong has done the same for almost 20.
Or maybe, as a facility or a PGA of Canada professional, you are overawed by Manitoba’s Golf Mentor Academy, the 2017 Future Links, driven by Acura, Facility of the Year. Thanks to the dedication of PGA of Canada professionals Glen Sirkis and Adam Boge, they welcomed more than 2,000 juniors to their facility last year.
Well-deserved kudos to all of them and the other companies and facilities who have supported the Adopt a School program, part of Golf Canada’s comprehensive Golf in Schools initiative over the past decade.
But you, as an individual golfer, a pro, a golf course or a range, can play just as a vital role in reaching out to youngsters in your area to share the joy and lifelong benefits of golf. Your reasons without a doubt will be as individual as your golf swing.
Maybe you’re like Jim Clark who grew up in the small town of Midland, Ont., with a bunch of sports-mad kids, including Bill Hack Jr. They played every sport available to them, but golf was special for many reasons, not the least of which was that Bill’s dad ran the Midland Golf and Country Club.
Bill Jr. passed away from cancer earlier this year. It tore the fabric of the longtime group of friends. Clark wanted to do something to commemorate their pal. Adopt a School was the answer.
“We were together all the time, from kindergarten through high school, and we stayed close after. So when Bill passed, I thought, ‘What would he want? How can we commemorate him? I reached out to the old gang and asked them to contribute a few bucks each. So we all chipped in.”
“Chipping in” provided the funds to adopt the elementary school they all attended. With the support of a local course, there are a bunch of kids who will be introduced to the game this year. Mr. Hack would be proud.
Wong, Senior Managing Partner of Alta Nissan in York Region north of Toronto, took up golf as an adult when he realized how essential it was to his business interests. Taking lessons from Mucklow, he became entranced not only with the game, but with the opportunity offered by Golf Canada to share the game with kids, an opportunity he didn’t have as a youngster.
His passion is evident. “Do you like children? Do you like to see them experience new things? Do you like to see them to excel? Then you must get involved.”
Wong is sincere when he says his company wants nothing back from their investment, which includes the recent opening of a junior development facility at King Valley Golf Club in King City, Ont. “We’re not looking for a financial return on all this. We really want to give something back to the community and to golf. That’s a bit revolutionary from a marketing perspective.”
And a fine example for others.
To put a spin on a famous saying: Don’t ask what the game can do for you. Ask what you can do for the game.
Adopt a School is a component of the national Future Links Golf in Schools, driven by Acura program, an umbrella junior development initiative created by Golf Canada in conjunction with the PGA of Canada and PHE Canada with support from the National Golf Course Owners Association of Canada as a program partner. It provides golf facilities, companies and individuals with the opportunity to “adopt” one or more schools of their choosing to introduce the Golf in Schools program at that school. (Schools can also enroll in the program on their own.)
Since the program’s inception in 2009, adoptions have accounted for almost half of the more than 3,500 registered schools delivering the Golf in Schools curriculum to almost 420,000 students. Last year, 266 new schools were adopted, introducing golf to an average of 120 students per school.
Much responsibility rests with the country’s golf facilities and golfers to make this program succeed.
Why? Because, ideally, each school is linked with a green-grass facility like a course or a range and none of this is feasible without financial support from golfers like you. (Financial assistance is available from Golf Canada to facilities which want to support this through the Get Linked program.
Facilities that have linked to schools have reported significant increases from the business side, such as memberships, lessons and food and beverage, as well as the long-term gratification of enhancing the ongoing vitality of the game. Participating teachers at “adopted” schools laud the program for its emphasis not just on golf but on developing affiliated values such as perseverance, etiquette, character and honesty.
As an added bonus, the Canadian Seniors Golf Association (CSGA) has generously continued their matching program during Adopt a School Week. For the first 30 adoptions, any golf facility, PGA of Canada professional or individual who “adopts” a school into the Golf in Schools program from May 28 to June 1 will see their adoption matched with a school of their choice. This matching grant is possible due to Golf Canada’s partnership with the CSGA.
Donations can also be made in-store at local Golf Town locations across Canada during Adopt a School Week.
So whether your support helps develop the next PGA TOUR or LPGA Tour star or just gets kids in your community interested in the game you love or commemorates a friend, you can take justifiable pride in the fact that you’ve given back to the game.
As Clark says, “It’s not expensive and it’s so easy to do. You don’t have to do it on your own. Get the people you golf with all the time to chip in. You need people who care about the future of the game to fund it, and it’s not expensive in the least, an engaged teacher at the school who doesn’t have to be a golfer necessarily, and a facility to support it.”
The result “will give you goose bumps,” says Wong.
Learn more about Adopt a School Week by clicking here.
The R&A seeks feedback from Canadians
The R&A is currently doing some research to find out about use of the www.randa.org website and what could be done to improve its website in future.
They are asking golfers, from Canada and abroad, to take a few minutes of their time to share their thoughts. It doesn’t matter if you have visited The R&A website in the past or not.
Please bear in mind they are seeking feedback specifically on the www.randa.org website rather than The R&A app, other publications or The Open website.
This survey is being administered by SPORTS MARKETING SURVEYS INC. on behalf of The R&A. Any responses you give will be anonymous and confidential and will only be used in aggregate form for research purposes. No personally identifiable information is collected as part of this survey.
Five Canadians earn status at PGA TOUR Canada Q-School
COURTENAY, B.C. —Amateur Jake Shuman claimed medalist honours at the fifth and final Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada Qualifying Tournament at Crown Isle Resort and Golf Community, shooting a final-round 68 to edge fellow American Brinson Paolini. William Griffin finished third.
Shuman was under-par in each of his four rounds, playing the par-5s in 13-under, birdieing all eight in the final two rounds.
The Duke senior birdied his first hole of the final round before giving one back on the third. The product of Needham, Massachusetts, quickly bounced back, making birdie at the fifth and sixth before making his final bogey of the tournament, on the seventh.
From there on in, Shuman played marvelous golf, sandwiching a birdie on 13 between circles on his scorecard at Nos. 10 and 15, closing the day with three pars for the victory.
“If that’s not the best tournament I’ve ever played, it’s one of the best,” said Shuman, following his round.
Putting heat on Shuman down the stretch was Paolini, another Duke alum. After making nine pars on the front nine, Paolini birdied 10 and then made three in a row from the 15th to the 17th to get within one shot of Shuman.
Paolini had a 20-foot look for birdie on the 18th that narrowly slid by the hole as he settled for the runner-up position.
Griffin pieced together three of the best rounds of the tournament, highlighted by his second-round 65, including an ace that gave him the lead going into the third round.
Griffin battled back Friday from his third-round 73, capping a bogey-free 66 with a 15-foot birdie putt on 18.
Amateur Grant Hirschman, a senior at the University of Oklahoma, finished fourth, and fellow amateur Chandler Blanchet, who tied for fifth alongside Nicholas Pandelena, won a playoff to receive status through the first eight events. Pandelena receives status through the first four events.
Canadian Riley Wheeldon paced the Canadian contingent in the field, closing at 11 under par to finish with a share of seventh place. Growing up in Comox, B.C., Wheeldon has played a number of rounds at Crown Isle, with Friday’s round one of his more important ones. A winner on the Mackenzie Tour in 2013, Wheeldon shot his second 67 of the week to jump 13 spots. Wheeldon will be exempt for the first eight events, subject to the second reshuffle.
Four other Canadians finished between 17th and 40th to earn conditional status for the 2018 campaign:
Canadian golf industry launches “National Golf Day”
Chilliwack Golf Course.
(Chilliwack, B.C.) - May 12, 2017. Future Links, driven by Acura Pacific Championship.
Photo by: Golf Canada
OTTAWA – Today, Canada’s national golf industry associations announced the first annual National Golf Day, May 29, an event aimed at raising awareness to the public and government decision makers on the many positive impacts of the golf industry.
“More Canadians play golf than any other participation sport and our industry is #1 in driving economic impact, employment and charity fundraising,” said Jeff Calderwood, National Allied Golf Associations (NAGA) and We Are Golf Chair. “Combined with golf’s diversity, healthy fitness benefits and environmental stewardship, we really do have such a positive message to communicate.”
National Golf Day provides the opportunity for Canada’s golf industry leaders to discuss these wide-reaching benefits of the sport directly with MPs, Senators and policy advisors at Parliament Hill. A May 28 evening reception will also be held in Centre Block, and NAGA will be hosting a day of interactive golf activities on the front lawn where MPs and visitors will be able to participate. This day of outdoor golf activities will include a focus on junior golf.
“We are really looking forward to our time in Ottawa and expect that government officials from all parties will be impressed to learn about all the ways golf contributes in virtually every riding throughout Canada,” added Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum. “There are so many meaningful benefits that golf delivers in communities from coast to coast and it will be great to share all those insights on National Golf Day.”
Golf courses and all related stakeholders throughout Canada are encouraged to promote the same positive messages. NAGA will provide shareable social content.
NAGA is also announcing a rebranding of its public facing name to We Are Golf. This aligns with the same brand name used by the American golf industry for allied association activities such as National Golf Day. NAGA does carry on as the administrative body but will use the We Are Golf brand for all public communications.
Please watch for additional We Are Golf and National Golf Day communications over the coming weeks as we lead up to the May 29 event itself.
For more information on We Are Golf, visit wearegolf.ca
Grow junior golf and your business
If you’re looking for a poster child for Golf Canada’s “Future Links, driven by Acura” program, Stephanie Sherlock is just about the ideal candidate.
OK, so “child” isn’t appropriate any more as she will attain the ripe old age of 31 next month, but she remains my top nominee for a number of reasons.
Her first recollections of competitive golf include Future Links tournaments in her home province of Ontario and neighbouring Quebec. Those were stepping stones to a stellar junior and amateur career (she was a Team Canada member from 2006 to 2010 and twice was the country’s top-ranked female amateur) that included winning the 2007 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship and a spot on Canada’s 2008 World Amateur Team. After her all-American performance at the University of Denver, she spent three years on the LPGA Tour before deciding the pro life wasn’t for her.
So Sherlock returned to her home town of Barrie, Ont., to work at the course she grew up on. Simoro Golf Links is owned by her parents, Dave and Angela.
“I wasn’t here very long before I looked around and thought, ‘Man, there aren’t very many kids here,’” she recalls. So she picked the brains of some more established club owners and pros who had thriving junior programs to discover their secret.
While a common theme was their dedication to growing the game, there was another factor: the multi-tiered Future Links programming.
The scope and depth of the Future Links concept are impressive, starting with the very young novice golfer and extending right through high-level amateur competitions. Since launching in 1996, more than one million youngsters have participated in the various Future Links programs including Learn to Play, mobile clinics, Future Links Championships, Junior Skills Challenge, Girls Club, and an awesome grassroots initiative called Golf in Schools.
Golf in Schools is offered in more than 3000 elementary and almost 350 high schools across Canada. It provides a basic introduction to golf through the school physical education curriculum and is endorsed by Physical Health and Education Canada. Almost half of the participating schools are the result of a “school adoption,” whereby an individual, golf club or corporation donates to bring the program to the school.
(For more on the comprehensive programming offered by Future Links, click here.)
Integral to the ongoing success of Future Links is a concept called Get Linked which connects schools and green-grass facilities such as golf courses and ranges. In 2017, there were more than 190 Get Linked initiatives conducted by PGA of Canada professionals across the country,
Sherlock shares her knowledge with kids in Grades 1 through 5 at five area schools via the Golf in Schools program. As a result, she says, Simoro has seen an uptick in junior and family participation.
“We’ve got to be dedicated to getting more kids into golf, not just because we care about the future of the game itself, but we have to ensure the future of our business, too. We consider it a long-term investment and it’s awesome just how much support and materials we get from Future Links.”
Her message is echoed from coast to coast.
In Corner Brook, NL, PGA of Canada professional Wayne Allen looks after three junior programs, all within an hour’s drive of his home base at Blomidon Golf and Country Club. Like Sherlock, he introduces Golf in Schools programming to five local schools every winter and has seen a tremendous impact.
“Six years ago, the nine-hole Deer Lake course didn’t have a junior program,” says Allen, who has been involved with Golf in Schools for 10 years and whose club was named the 2014 Future Links Facility of the Year. “So we started one with six kids. The next year, there were 20. That winter, we visited the schools for the first time and the following summer, we had 60 juniors in the program.”
Ten-fold growth in a couple of years. Impressive, to say the least.
The impact extends beyond increasing the participation rate among youngsters. As a result of the exploding junior programs, Blomidon introduced two new membership categories: An intermediate category for older kids and a family category.
The latter became necessary, says Allen, “because the parents would drop off their kids for golf, then go to the patio for lunch, waiting for the kids to finish. Eventually, they’d say to themselves, ‘Why am I just sitting here when I could be playing golf?’
“The growth in membership has been huge thanks to our junior programs.”
For more on Future Links, driven by Acura, contact Adam Hunter (Manager, Grow the Game) by email (ahunter@golfcanada.ca) or through Twitter.
Connor Boucher joins the NSGA
Connor Boucher joins the NSGA:
The Nova Scotia Golf Association is pleased to announce that Connor Boucher has been hired as the NSGA Future Links and Tournament Coordinator for the summer of 2018. Originally from Halifax, NS, Connor is currently enrolled at Athabasca University in Alberta. With plans to continue his studies this fall at Dalhousie University, where he will major in Mathematics and Chemistry and has plans to work in the medical research field, specializing in athlete rehabilitation.
In the past Connor has worked with the Bedford minor hockey league, coaching and refereeing. More recently, he has worked for the junior academy at The Links at Brunello. With over 200 participants each season, Connor helped to deliver some of the best junior programs in the HRM. An avid golfer himself, Connor is excited to work with the NSGA to deliver world class tournaments, and clinics around the province.
Connor begins work on April 23rd, and will be kicking off his summer with a tour of Cape Breton, assisting with Golf in Schools and Mobile Clinics around the area. Please join us in welcoming Connor to the NSGA.
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Weekly Top-10 Rankings powered by CP
MEN’S AMATEUR TOP 10
Charles Corner made the biggest move of the week among the Top 10, climbing 51 places. After finishing with four top-10 results this season, Corner and the University of Texas El Paso are now preparing for the Conference USA Championship.
Myles Creighton made the second-biggest move of the week, picking up 23 spots to move up to No. 7 in the Canadian rankings.
No. 3 ranked Joey Savoie moved up two places after finishing in a tie for fourth at the Terra Cotta Invitational. It was the fourth top 10 result for the Golf Canada National Team member since he joined the squad in 2017. Fellow team member and top ranked Hugo Bernard finished the event in a tie for 12th.
Josh Whalen picked up another 15 spots in the world rankings. The Golf Canada National Squad member has gained 32 places over the course of the last two weeks.
Biggest move: Marc Sweeney of Saskatoon, Sask., jumped 770 spots in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for 23rd at the Roadrunner Classic while playing as an individual.
HOMETOWN
SCHOOL
WR
+ / –
1.
Hugo Bernard
Mont St-Hilaire, QC
Univ. of Montreal
55
-2
2.
Garrett Rank
Elmira, ON
–
99
-3
3.
Joey Savoie
La Prairie, QC
–
135
+2
4.
Josh Whalen
Napanee, ON
Kent State
245
+15
5.
Chris Crisologo
Richmond, B.C.
Simon Fraser Univ.
287
-4
6.
Charles Corner
Cayuga, ON
UTEP
311
+51
7.
Myles Creighton
Digby, NS
Radford
369
+23
8.
Emmett Oh
Calgary, AB
–
469
-92
9.
Lawren Rowe
Victoria, BC
Univ. of Victoria
477
-7
10.
Matt Williams
Calgary, AB
Houston
491
-7
Complete World Amateur Golf Rankings can be found here.
WOMEN’S AMATEUR TOP 10
Factoring into this week’s rankings is Maddie Szeryk’s second straight collegiate title, winning the Dale McNamara Invitational to close out the Texas A & M season. It was the fourth career individual title for the Golf Canada National Team member who also picked up SEC Golfer of the Week honours for the second straight week. At No. 25 in the world rankings, Szeryk is just one place shy of equaling her all-time highest ranking as she leads the Aggies into the SEC Championship.
Brigitte Thibault not only made the biggest move of the week but her 293 spot climb in the world rankings also vaulted her into the Top 10 for the first time in her collegiate career. The Quebec golfer finished in a tie for 14th at the Dale McNamara Invitational. It was the fifth top 20 result of the season for the freshman at Fresno State, who as a 17-year-old qualified for the Canadian Open.
Golf Canada National Development Squad member Celeste Dao climbed nine places in the world rankings after leading Team Canada to top honours at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup Qualifier.
Michelle Ruiz picked up seven places after a runner-up finish at the Lady Panther Invitational. The effort earned the senior at Nova Southeastern the Sunshine State Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week honour.
HOMETOWN
SCHOOL
WR
+ / –
1.
Maddie Szeryk
Allen, TX
Texas A&M
25
+1
2.
Jaclyn Lee
Calgary, AB
Ohio State
83
+2
3.
Naomi Ko
Victoria, BC
NC State
133
-11
4.
Vanessa Ha
Montreal, QC
San Francisco
244
-6
5.
Grace St-Germain
Ottawa
Daytona St.
323
-9
6.
Celeste Dao
Notre-Dame, QC
(Team Canada)
389
+9
7.
Michelle Ruiz
Mississauga, ON
Nova Southeastern
396
+7
8.
Brigitte Thibault
Rosemere, QC
Fresno State
399
+293
9.
Valerie Tanguay
St-Hyacinthe, QC
Oklahoma
413
-7
10.
Jessica Ip
Richmond Hill, ON
Iowa
455
+15
Complete World Amateur Golf Rankings can be found here.
MEN’S TOP 10
Benjamin Silverman made the biggest move among the Top 10, climbing six places in the world rankings and moving past Austin Connelly and into the No. 6 ranking in Canada. The first year PGA Tour regular has earned world ranking points in two of his first nine tournaments this season.
Outside the Top 10, former Golf Canada National Team member Blair Hamilton makes his world ranking debut, climbing 511 spots to take over the No. 21 spot in Canada. Hamilton finished in a tie for sixth at the 87 Abierto OSDE del Centro event on the LatinoAmerica Tour, which was worth 1.20 world ranking points. It marked the first career world ranking points for Hamilton, who recently earned conditional status for the upcoming Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada season.
Other notable results: No. 3 Mackenzie Hughes, No. 4 Nick Taylor, No. 8 David Hearn and No. 9 Corey Conners all missed the cut at RBC Heritage; No. 6 Austin Connelly finished tied for 63rd at European Tour Open de Espana;
HOMETOWN
TOUR
WR
+ / –
1.
Adam Hadwin
Abbotsford, BC
PGA
45
-4
2.
Graham DeLaet
Weyburn, SK
PGA
137
-1
3.
Mackenzie Hughes
Dundas, ON
PGA
198
-9
4.
Nick Taylor
Abbotsford, BC
PGA
216
–
5.
Benjamin Silverman
Thornhill, ON
PGA
258
+6
6.
Austin Connelly
Irving, TX
EUR
260
-8
7.
Adam Svensson
Surrey, BC
WEB
321
+4
8.
David Hearn
Brantford, ON
PGA
397
-8
9.
Corey Conners
Listowel, ON
PGA
473
+1
10.
Roger Sloan
Merritt, BC
WEB
513
-3
Click here for Men’s Official World Golf Rankings.
WOMEN’S TOP 10
Brooke Henderson picked up her sixth career LPGA Tour victory, a four stroke win at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii. The victory saw her pick up 40.81 world ranking points, moving her up to No. 13 in the world. The soon-to-be 21-year-old is now just two wins shy of equaling Sandra Post’s total by a Canadian on Tour.
No. 2 Alena Sharp picked up two places in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for 44th in Hawaii, which saw her pick up 0.04 world ranking points.
No. 3 Maude-Aimee Leblanc finished tied for 50th at the LPGA event in Hawaii, picking up nine spots in the world ranking. The result saw her pick up 0.57 world ranking point.
No .4 Brittany Marchand made the biggest move among the Top 10, picking up 19 spots in the world rankings after finishing in a tie for 50th in Hawaii in her first LPGA Tour start of the season. That saw her pick up 0.81 world ranking points.
Other Notable Results: No. 5 Anne-Catherine Tanguay missed the cut at LPGA Lotte Championship;
Coming off her four-stroke victory at the Lotte Championship, Canada’s Brooke Henderson shares a laugh with the LPGA Tour’s Amy Rogers in the Emoji Challenge.
The Super Bowl of golf research
World Science Congress
If you’re writing off the World Scientific Congress of Golf (WSCG) as a biennial conclave of pointy-headed boffins, don’t be too hasty.
While the “trickle-down theory” may be controversial in economics, it is incontrovertible when it comes to the impact of high-level research on all aspects of the sport as we now know it.
“Much of what we do as golfers, from how we swing to the equipment we use to the training and practice habits we employ and so on, has been born from great research,” says Glenn Cundari.
Cundari, the PGA of Canada’s Technical Director, is the chair of this year’s World Scientific Congress of Golf to be held July 11-13 at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, B.C. He attended his first WSCG in Australia in 2014 and two years later at St Andrews, Scotland, he got approval to bring the prestigious gathering to Canada for the first time.
The first WSGC was held at St Andrews in 1990 with the goal of bringing together “researchers, professionals and interested golfers in the areas of The Golfer, The Golf Course, and Equipment and Technology,” according to the organization’s website www.golfscience.org.
“The research, keynote and invited presentations, workshops and distinguished speakers’ forum are designed to represent innovative and diverse topics in the game of golf… Presenters come from all over the world to share their expertise and provide a platform for discussion to further our knowledge in the game of golf.”
While acknowledging that research into all aspects of golf is widespread, Cundari speaks of the WSCG as the Super Bowl of golf research. The committee reviewing prospective presenters received scores of research abstracts to winnow through. The successful applicants will be announced shortly as will the event’s agenda.
Cundari is optimistic that the result will be a tremendous learning opportunity not just for those involved in golf research but for PGA and LPGA professionals, especially those involved in teaching and coaching. “Much of the emphasis is on teaching and learning so we hope that this Congress will have a wide appeal to the overall golf community.”
For more information or to register, visit the website or contact Cundari at 705-492-2152 or email wscg2018@gmail.com.
Handicapping: Active seasons
For many of us trying to squeeze in the last few rounds of the season, or for those planning on heading south this winter, it’s important to note the “active season” in the region, province or country you’re playing in.
Golf Canada’s Handicap System stipulates every player is responsible for returning all acceptable scores into one’s scoring record from rounds played on courses observing their active season, which is part of the golf season when courses have acceptable playing conditions.
Ultimately, it is the responsibility of authorized provincial golf association to declare active and inactive periods, and it is the responsibility of the area club and golfers to observe these dates for posting purposes.
Each year, provincial associations analyze numerous factors to determine their active seasons. This ensures consistency of when scores would be posted by the majority of golfers to help keep Handicap Factors accurate.
Scores made at any golf course observing an inactive season are not acceptable for handicap purposes. The rationale behind this is that posting scores during inactive seasons (periods of poor course conditions) could artificially increase a player’s Handicap Factor.
Scores made at a golf course in an area observing an active season must be posted for handicap purposes, even if the golf club from which the player receives a Handicap Factor is observing an inactive season. The club’s Handicap Committee must make it possible for a player to post these away scores at the beginning of the active season.
For example, if a player belonging to a golf club in Ontario plays golf in Florida during January, any scores made in Florida are acceptable and must be returned to the player’s Ontario golf club. If the player is also a member of a golf club in Florida, scores must be posted to the player’s Florida club.
In Canada, the active season in each province is as follows:
BC = Mar. 1 – Nov. 15 AB = Mar. 1 – Oct. 31 SK = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 MB = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 ON = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 QC = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 NS = Apr. 15 – Oct. 31 NB = May. 1 – Oct. 31 PE = Apr. 16 – Nov. 14 NL = Apr. 1 – Nov. 30
It’s also important to note that if you are travelling to other countries, you should determine their active seasons to prevent posting unacceptable scores. Your home club needs all acceptable scores from the “off-season” as well to ensure your Handicap Factor is accurate once recalculated at the beginning of the season.
For a detailed list of active and inactive schedule in the United States, click here.
