SANDPIPER OPEN

 

Saturday, April 26^th, 2025                

 

Sandpiper Golf Resort

18-Hole Championship

Open to Amateurs with handicap index 5.1 to 26.0.

 

Tee-Times:

9:30am-2:30pm

 

 

TOURNAMENT DETAILS

The 2025 Johnston Meier Insurance Sandpiper Open is an official event on the 2025 VGT Summer Schedule with points counting towards the season-long SRIXON/CLEVELAND Order of Merit, offering $20,000 in year-end Awards, Cash and Prizing!

 

 

ELIGIBILITY

This event is open to both Male & Female Golfers in the following three divisions:

 

DIVISION ONE: Male & Female Amateurs (5.1 to 10.0 index) 

DIVISION TWO: Male & female amateurs (10.1 to 16.0 index)

DIVISION THREE:  Male & female Amateurs (16.1 to 26.0 index)

 

TEES:

Male Golfers: Approximately 6,000 yards

Female golfers: Will play approximately 10-15% shorter yardage than male golfers

Seniors 70+ years: Will play approx. 10% shorter yardage within their division.

 

ENTRY FEE INCLUDES:

• 18-hole Stroke Play Championship at Sandpiper Golf Resort
• $155 tee-gift (Cutter & Buck Breaker zip hoodie)
• $20 gift card for snack shack or Rowena’s restaurant  

• $40/player in Amateur prizing
  • Gross and Net Amateur Prizing
  • Gross Champion Winner’s flag in each Division
• Earn points for 2025 SRIXON/CLEVELAND Order of Merit
  • $20,000 in Year-end Awards & Prizes!
• Live Leaderboard scoring and Golf Canada Officiating
• Professional Announcing on the first tee
• Reduced guest fee rate for practice round (see practice round info below)

 

FULL FIELD SIZE: 60 players

 

AMATEUR PRIZING: Based on alternating Gross & Net Scores in each division. The top 25% of each division will make it to the prize table.  Players will win virtual gift cards that they can cash in through the VGT store (www.myvgt.com) and use for special orders with some of our brand partners (Srixon, Cleveland, Asics, Galvin Green).  Players have until Oct.31^st, 25 to redeem their GC’s.

 

Our 2025 Partner Brands (to date):

BUSHNELL	SRIXON	TRAVIS MATHEW	NIKE GOLF
MAUI JIM	CLEVELAND GOLF	NEW BALANCE GOLF	QUIKFLIP HOODIES
GALVIN GREEN	2UNDR	PROJEKT LUGGAGE	LEVELWEAR
CUTTER & BUCK	ASICS GOLF SHOES	STORMTECH	BIG MAX BAGS

 

DEADLINE TO REGISTER: Thursday, April 17th at 6PM PST.

 

ENTRY FEES:

 

VGT Member: $175+GST = $183.75

Non-member: $225+GST = $236.25

 

SKINS GAME & HOLE-IN-ONE JACKPOT:

• Optional $20/day NET Skins Games also qualifies you for all available Hole-in-one Jackpots!
• As of Feb.3^rd, there are 2 X $5,000 HOLE-IN-ONE JACKPOTS in play!

 

Players are reminded to review the Policies and Procedures of VGT outlining all cancellation and no-show fees HERE: https://vancouvergolftour.com/legal/

 

 

COURSE DETAILS

 

SANDPIPER RESORT

 

Recent winner of the PGA of BC’s “Hidden Gem” awards, Sandpiper Resort is located 75 minutes East of Vancouver and is open to the public 364 days a year. This par 72 course runs 6,500 yards from the back tees, and is gently sloped, featuring four sets of tees for all playing abilities.  Canadian course designer, Russ Olsen, has done an amazing job of taking advantage of the spectacular water and mountain vistas when designing this masterpiece. Sandpiper Golf Course has played host to several Vancouver Golf Tour events, most notably the Canada Bread BC Match Play & the VGT’s Inaugural 36-Hole Major Series Event the ‘2013 VGT Sandpiper Open’ where 4-time PGA Tour winner Nick Taylor finished runner-up to West Vancouver’s Seann Harlingten.

 

For more information, contact:

 

T: 604-798-9338

Golf Shop: (604)796-1000

 

14282 Morris Valley Road

Harrison Mills, British Columbia

Website: https://sandpiperresort.ca/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sandpiperresort

“X”: @sandpiperGC

 

 

***PLEASE READ BEFORE REGISTERING***

All players must create a VGT Player Profile in Golf Genius to be eligible to play the 2025 VGT Season.

TO CREATE OR UPDATE YOUR PROFILE HERE: CLICK HERE

 

By registering, you agree to adhere to all player policies and procedures outlined on the VGT website as well as the 2025 VGT Code of Conduct:

 

HOW TO REGISTER FOR AN EVENT:

 

MEMBERS:

Members can either register with payment through Golf Genius portal or they can choose to accept the email invite for that event and confirm their payment through Golf Genius.

Once your payment is received, your entry will be confirmed, and your name will show on the confirmed player’s list.  With respect to invitational events, players may be placed on a pending list until we can determine you are confirmed in the field. 

 

NON-MEMBERS:

Non-members may register for VGT events at any time.  Their registration will show as ‘pending’ until we can determine we are not full with Members 2 weeks out.  If the event is not full, non-member entries will be accepted in priority of their registration being received, and their status will move from ‘pending’ to ‘registered’.

 

                                                             

 

                                                                       ORDER OF MERIT

Thanks to our Order of Merit Sponsor CLEVELAND GOLF / SRIXON, and our Major Sponsors MAUI JIM CANADA and GATEKEEPER SYSTEMS, players are playing for $20,000 in Year-End Awards, Cash & Prizes!!

Points from this event will count towards the season-ending SRIXON/CLEVELAND Order of Merit Race.

 

AMATEUR ORDER OF MERIT (OOM)

 

In 2025, Amateur players will continue to earn Order of Merit points within the handicap flight they play within for each event. 

 

However, with a number of members bouncing between handicap divisions the last few years, those players who bounced back and forth between handicap divisions had no chance of winning their division (or even prizing out). 

 

So there will be one small difference in the Order of Merit this year is to determine year-end prizing.  This year, players will continue to earn points at an event within their current handicap division.  But rather than winning Order of Merit prizing based on their finish within their own division, a player’s points will accumulate into an OVERALL ORDER OF MERIT standings.  The player’s BEST 8 results (by points) will determine their Overall Order of Merit points standing versus the entire 2025 VGT Membership. 

 

At the end of the 2025 Vancouver Open, the TOP 30 VGT Members in the OVERALL ORDER OF MERIT for the 2025 season will win some fabulous prizing!!

  

In summary, in 2025, a player will earn points within a tournament in their division, but their points will accumulate into one Overall Amateur Order of Merit Title, no matter if the player bounces from one handicap division to another.

 

ORDER OF MERIT TITLES BY DIVISION

 

We will continue to track OOM points within the four handicap divisions so that we can still  declare a 4 separate Order of Merit Champions within each division. 

 

Handicap Divisions will be broken down as we have in the past:

 

Championship Division: 5.0 index & under. 

Division One: 5.1 to 9.0

Division Two: 9.1 to 14.0

Division Three: 14.1 to 26.0

 

A player that bounces between handicap divisions will earn ALL of their OOM points regardless of which division they played in for an event.  Their points will accumulate for prizing purposes within the “master” Order of Merit standings.  And their points will be allocated to the handicap division that they played most often in the season in order to determine the Order of Merit Champion in each division.

 

For Example:

 

Player A plays in Division 1 a total of 5 events.  Earns 7,000 points total.

Player A plays in Division 2 a total of 3 events.  Earns 4,000 points total

Player A’s total points = 11,000 allocated to Division 1 for Player of the Year purposes

 

PROGRESSIVE HOLE-IN-ONE JACKPOT RULES

1. In order to qualify for the Hole-in-one (H.I.O) JACKPOT offered at a VGT event, a player must be entered into the $20 skins game/hole-in-one pot for that event.  If there is no winner of the hole-in-one at VGT event, the current hole-in-one pot will carry over to the next event until we have a winner of the jackpot.  If by the end of the Winter Tour the jackpot has not been won, the current jackpot will be carried over into the Summer Tour schedule.
2. If the jackpot accumulates to $5,000, it will be cut-off at $5,000 and the first eligible person (see above) to score a hole-in-one on an eligible jackpot hole will receive the $5,000 payout.  A secondary Hole-in-one purse will be started as soon as the original jackpot reaches $5,000.  From the time the original purse reaches $5,000, moneys collected for the H.I.O purse will accumulate in this secondary pot while the first pot remains at $5,000. The secondary pot will continue to grow until the next eligible player scores a hole-in-one on the designated jackpot hole at a VGT event.  The maximum H.I.O purse paid out at any time will be $5,000, and once the pot has reached $5,000, a 3rd and 4th purse (and so on) will be established for future winners.
3. Due to the skill difference of Pros versus the Amateurs in the field, we level the playing field for the JACKPOT two ways:
   1. By allowing the Division 1,2 and 3 amateurs to tee-off a shorter designated tee-box at various times compared to Professionals and Championship Amateurs.
   2. VGT hosts numerous Amateur only events where Amateurs have a chance to win the JACKPOT without Pros in the field.