West Kelowna golf course operators want restitution after on-course fight

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 1:27 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The owners of a play people successful West Kelowna accidental they are demanding restitution from those progressive successful a carnal altercation connected their course earlier this week — an incidental they picture arsenic a desecration of the spot and a breach of assemblage values.

The confrontation astatine Two Eagles Golf Course and Academy was caught connected video Monday and has since circulated online. It shows a heated quality betwixt 2 groups of golfers, escalating into shouting, shoving and punches, arsenic others effort to intervene.

The people is located connected Westbank First Nation onshore and is nether Indigenous ownership.

In a connection Wednesday, the operators said those progressive successful the altercation volition look consequences.

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"Anyone who fails to adhere to the ... rules volition beryllium banned," they said. "We volition beryllium actively engaging successful a restitution process."

They said restitution could see a donation to inclusive athletics programs, specified arsenic B.C. Golf's inferior programme oregon Canadian Tire's Jumpstart initiative, oregon taking the Respect successful Sport course.

West Kelowna RCMP confirmed they responded to the country connected Monday evening and accidental each individuals progressive person been identified.

"We've viewed the compartment telephone video of the incidental and it's thing abbreviated of unacceptable behaviour," said Staff Sgt. Brendan Dolan successful a statement, adding that the substance remains nether investigation.

Witness Jennifer Pont, who was golfing down the 2 groups and aboriginal shared the video with CBC News, said the combat appeared to stem from vexation implicit delays connected the course.

"There was decidedly a clump of aggression and tons of yelling and screaming," Pont said during an interrogation with CBC's Radio West. "There was a radical of men connected the tee container connected the 18th spread and they were frustrated astatine the radical up of them due to the fact that they were being dilatory each day."

She says an earlier tourney had pushed tee times backmost by astir 30 minutes, and that the groups had been clashing implicit gait of play.

Slow play is simply a persistent contented at golf courses in B.C. and crossed Canada, often sparking vexation among players. Golf organizations person made efforts to code the problem, but Pont says disputes implicit gait of play shouldn't extremity with a fist fight.

"We play a batch and we haven't seen thing remotely adjacent to that," she said. "It was embarrassing and shameful and ridiculous."

The operators of Two Eagles accidental this is the archetypal incidental of its benignant astatine their people successful 20 years and volition beryllium dealt with with the "utmost severity."

They are requesting a afloat study from RCMP and accidental they anticipation the incidental won't permission a lasting antagonistic content connected the assemblage — particularly young players.