Most Improved Player

Performance Measured

Complementing the season-long Order of Merit competition is a season-long Most Improved Player Award. The player with the most improved Handicap Factor, as calculated by the formula below, will receive The Most Improved Player Award and will be invited for a round of golf at Coppinwood with Mark Young, the following season.  A player’s season will start from their first Tour event and end at their last Tour event. Players must play at least 5 events to qualify.

The formula for calculating the most improved player has been established by the Golf Canada as equitable in gauging the improvement of players encompassing the entire spectrum of handicaps and is calculated as follows:
Improvement Factor (I/F) = Start of Season Handicap Factor + 12 divided by End of Season Handicap Factor + 12

# Player Events First Last I/F
1 Gord Tellier 5 13.1 6.4 1.364
2 Joseph Ricchio 7 17.6 10.8 1.298
3 Dan Findlay 6 4.0 0.5 1.280
4 Jason Westwood 7 12.4 7.3 1.264
5 Graham McCulloch 7 6.3 2.5 1.262
6 Johnathan Letterio 12 8.2 4.1 1.255
7 Matthew Kasujja 13 18.5 12.4 1.250
8 Simon Soares 21 15.2 11.0 1.183
9 Mario Paradis 9 6.5 3.8 1.171
T10 Adil Mughal 10 10.9 7.6 1.168
T10 Dustin Friedman 11 10.9 7.6 1.168
12 Jeremy Choi 12 11.6 8.2 1.168
13 Brian Coufal 6 8.8 6.0 1.156
14 Andrew Mitchell 25 14.1 10.8 1.145
15 Kevin Saindon 6 7.1 4.8 1.137
16 Rick Wright 6 9.6 7.0 1.137
17 Matt Bremer 7 1.4 +0.2 1.136
18 Ben Mercier 6 5.2 3.2 1.132
19 Neil Brown 6 13.7 10.8 1.127
20 Steve Zimmermann 10 9.3 6.9 1.127
21 Carl Thompson 23 19.3 15.8 1.126
22 Kieran Woodward 12 14.0 11.1 1.126
23 Yuri Siniak 17 19.3 16.0 1.118
24 Georg Leber 17 14.6 11.8 1.118
25 Nick Davero 10 7.6 5.6 1.114
26 Greg Kearns 15 12.6 10.1 1.113
27 Jeff Eschle 5 6.8 4.9 1.112
28 Trent Shapcott 6 7.9 5.9 1.112
29 Eldar Curovic 5 11.9 9.5 1.112
30 Jules Fabbri 10 7.8 5.9 1.106
31 Mitch Bower 8 6.9 5.1 1.105
32 Derek Peters 12 9.3 7.3 1.104
33 Joseph Warren 22 21.0 18.1 1.096
34 Darcy Head 6 12.1 10.0 1.095
35 Jordan Hutchinson 10 9.8 8.0 1.090
36 Kevin Henhoeffer 14 6.2 4.7 1.090
37 Wade McFarlane 6 11.2 9.3 1.089
38 Rick Jones 27 15.0 12.8 1.089
39 Frank O'Brien 22 14.7 12.6 1.085
40 Morgan Rubes 11 2.0 0.9 1.085
41 Phong Le 11 11.1 9.3 1.085
42 Duane Gomes 9 15.1 13.0 1.084
T43 Michael Alderman 17 3.6 2.4 1.083
T43 Mark Zemel 11 20.5 18.0 1.083
45 Rob Shevalier 8 11.6 9.8 1.083
46 Florante Balagasay 13 9.0 7.4 1.082
47 Andrew Susands 15 7.1 5.7 1.079
48 Mark Gibson 5 9.9 8.3 1.079
49 Jimmy Singh 6 7.6 6.2 1.077
50 Ryan Taylor 14 1.1 0.2 1.074
51 Danny MacDonald 11 8.4 7.0 1.074
52 Chris Beaumont 10 11.5 9.9 1.073
53 Tom Easterman 7 11.6 10.0 1.073
54 Mark Leslie 16 14.7 12.9 1.072
55 Michael Vettese 5 7.5 6.2 1.071
56 Michael Corvese 24 6.1 4.9 1.071
57 Mike Mills 9 12.6 11.0 1.070
58 Andrew McBurney 13 17.7 15.8 1.068
59 David MacLachlan 20 13.2 11.7 1.063
60 A.J. Tibayan 8 14.4 12.9 1.060
61 Paul Babiak 5 8.0 6.9 1.058
62 Steve Roberts 24 20.9 19.1 1.058
63 Brad Golden 23 14.1 12.7 1.057
64 John Fitzgerald 9 17.9 16.3 1.057
65 Scott Mackenzie 7 22.3 20.5 1.055
66 Errol Lake 6 9.3 8.2 1.054
67 Christopher Curtis 7 3.7 2.9 1.054
68 John Hoefkens 10 9.7 8.6 1.053
69 Todd Stones 13 7.9 6.9 1.053
70 Michael Cann 20 12.2 11.0 1.052
71 Ronan Quinn 8 6.3 5.4 1.052
72 Josh Hastings 10 8.7 7.7 1.051
73 Brad Beghetto 5 15.0 13.7 1.051
74 Ian Smith 7 12.3 11.2 1.047
75 Sandy Zajac 7 10.5 9.5 1.047
76 Michael Milner 10 18.0 16.7 1.045
77 Bob Read 14 22.7 21.2 1.045
78 Paul Kelly 13 18.4 17.1 1.045
79 Joshua Kingsmill 11 4.8 4.1 1.043
80 Charles Guan 12 12.3 11.3 1.043
81 Adam Angilletta 8 12.5 11.5 1.043
82 Brian Nash 11 20.4 19.1 1.042
83 Tal Fadel 16 17.5 16.4 1.039
84 Jack Leong 13 18.1 17.1 1.034
85 Chad Anderson 11 3.2 2.7 1.034
86 Brian Provencal 6 7.4 6.8 1.032
87 Robin Hutchins 5 8.1 7.5 1.031
88 Ron Kuus 14 23.1 22.1 1.029
89 G.M. Milan 8 16.1 15.3 1.029
90 David Arsenault 24 9.5 8.9 1.029
91 Sergio Manera 5 13.1 12.4 1.029
92 Massimo Giovannetti 12 6.1 5.6 1.028
93 Scott Lundy 18 6.2 5.7 1.028
94 Paolo Zulian 7 10.2 9.6 1.028
95 John Harrington 6 2.9 2.5 1.028
96 Gerry Price 11 15.1 14.4 1.027
97 Axel Panknin 8 26.9 25.9 1.026
98 Mike Hubbs 17 4.3 3.9 1.025
99 Damien Cox 5 12.5 11.9 1.025
100 Murray Heywood 10 8.7 8.2 1.025
101 Ken Peck 5 14.9 14.3 1.023
102 Jack Mitchell 15 6.1 5.7 1.023
103 Christian Anderson 11 16.1 15.5 1.022
104 Ian Murray 6 7.2 6.8 1.021
105 Jim Curren 6 17.0 16.4 1.021
106 Norm Bischof 5 12.9 12.4 1.020
107 Mark O'Neill 5 8.0 7.6 1.020
108 Sean Hoy 5 14.4 13.9 1.019
109 Robin Roopchan 19 6.2 5.9 1.017
110 Peter Labelle 13 7.9 7.6 1.015
111 Krish Nair 16 17.4 17.0 1.014
112 John Waddington 17 11.6 11.3 1.013
113 George Olak 11 20.0 19.6 1.013
114 Eric Doucette 6 13.4 13.1 1.012
115 Dante Carlos 15 15.4 15.1 1.011
116 Paul Ungureanu 8 24.6 24.2 1.011
117 Jack Radford 6 8.9 8.7 1.010
118 Chris Mulchinock 11 9.0 8.8 1.010
119 Tim Seabrook 5 9.5 9.3 1.009
120 George Vasic 10 13.2 13.0 1.008
121 Sandra Stuckless 7 13.4 13.2 1.008
122 Mark Lawrence 7 14.4 14.2 1.008
123 Nhid Lam 15 17.6 17.4 1.007
124 Peter Gatzios 6 18.9 18.7 1.007
125 Kim Stankiewicz 8 8.4 8.3 1.005
126 Jake Naccarato 26 11.0 10.9 1.004
127 Tom Lumsden 5 11.9 11.8 1.004
128 Greg McPhee 6 18.9 18.8 1.003
T129 Mehul Suthar 8 7.8 7.8 1.000
T129 Ranjit Gill 11 10.0 10.0 1.000
T129 Rob Meloche 8 16.5 16.5 1.000
T129 Manny Serrano 7 11.8 11.8 1.000
T129 Vic Wiwchar 27 15.1 15.1 1.000
T129 Eric Penney 17 6.5 6.5 1.000
T129 Jim Warner 5 6.1 6.1 1.000
T129 Dave Ponesse 5 25.9 25.9 1.000
T129 Grant Brown 6 25.9 25.9 1.000
138 Paul Dermody 12 16.4 16.5 0.996
139 Garfield Thompson 7 16.3 16.4 0.996
140 Ted Mader 6 13.7 13.8 0.996
141 Keith Mosley 11 11.2 11.3 0.996
142 Arjun Tuteja 10 7.9 8.0 0.995
143 Anthony Wald 5 5.8 5.9 0.994
144 Dean Sherman 8 2.3 2.4 0.993
145 Rod Skelton 8 14.9 15.1 0.993
146 Eric Velanoff 8 0.9 1.0 0.992
147 Paul Inglis 9 10.2 10.4 0.991
148 Michael Alcott 21 9.1 9.3 0.991
149 Mike Roberts 11 7.7 7.9 0.990
150 John Harris 27 15.5 15.8 0.989
151 Rob Wilkes 10 15.1 15.4 0.989
152 Dennis Halfpenny 5 14.3 14.7 0.985
153 Walter Kraus 9 19.6 20.1 0.984
154 Mark Matusiak 26 12.3 12.7 0.984
155 Chris Corvese 23 4.7 5.0 0.982
156 Zack Kilislian 10 9.9 10.3 0.982
157 Brett Parry 13 14.0 14.5 0.981
158 Mike DiFlorio 17 13.0 13.5 0.980
159 Tom Trei 5 20.6 21.3 0.979
160 Michael Solway 7 11.2 11.7 0.979
161 Larry Withyman 9 11.0 11.5 0.979
162 Bob Pesarchuk 16 6.0 6.4 0.978
163 James Vert 6 14.8 15.4 0.978
164 Andy Schwabe 7 10.0 10.5 0.978
165 Jibson Mamerto 6 9.6 10.1 0.977
166 Bob Fisher 13 13.3 13.9 0.977
167 Vojtech Smida 15 17.2 17.9 0.977
168 Wayne Andrejek 6 12.2 12.8 0.976
169 Drazen Bratic 5 13.8 14.5 0.974
170 Colen Colthurst 9 16.2 17.0 0.972
171 Vernal Hamilton 6 19.0 19.9 0.972
172 Rob Haynes 5 13.9 14.7 0.970
173 Arthur Vanek 11 14.9 15.8 0.968
174 Robert Stodgell 7 8.5 9.2 0.967
175 John Duffy 22 19.6 20.7 0.966
176 Franco Aceto 22 14.3 15.3 0.963
177 Dave Beatty 8 6.4 7.1 0.963
178 Phil Carleton 5 2.5 3.1 0.960
179 Mike Reynolds 16 6.6 7.4 0.959
T180 Peter Cuthbert 16 11.0 12.0 0.958
T180 Tony Crane 5 4.1 4.8 0.958
182 Simon Dearden 20 8.4 9.3 0.958
183 Sean Harvey 23 6.0 6.8 0.957
184 Chris Mack 13 10.4 11.5 0.953
185 Jay Skukowski 7 2.2 2.9 0.953
186 Khalid Nabbie 7 16.0 17.4 0.952
187 Kirk Figueira 20 11.0 12.2 0.950
188 Andrew Rusk 11 11.8 13.1 0.948
189 Richard Coates 5 22.0 23.9 0.947
190 Mark Rodgers 8 2.8 3.7 0.943
191 David Lichacz 8 10.5 11.9 0.941
192 Brian Yoon 6 8.8 10.1 0.941
193 Tony Mills 17 2.1 3.0 0.940
194 Mark Keilhauer 5 14.0 15.7 0.939
195 Derek Kurelo 12 7.8 9.1 0.938
196 Wayne Amirault 7 10.6 12.1 0.938
197 Gerry Beasley 11 12.0 13.6 0.938
198 Alex Milosavljevic 14 7.1 8.4 0.936
199 Terry Vansickle 7 6.2 7.5 0.933
200 Bob Chapman 12 8.9 10.4 0.933
201 Tom Nowak 12 3.2 4.3 0.933
202 Matt Howe 9 11.2 12.9 0.932
203 Sandro Mariani 24 14.5 16.5 0.930
204 Arthur Bekerman 14 15.7 17.8 0.930
205 Martin Gorman 6 8.7 10.3 0.928
206 Kyle Dickson 8 8.1 9.7 0.926
207 Marc Laverdiere 11 6.3 7.8 0.924
208 Jason Baumeister 9 7.5 9.1 0.924
209 Tom Whitaker 5 2.6 3.8 0.924
210 Andrew Newell 19 10.9 12.8 0.923
211 Rob Colaricci 16 11.5 13.5 0.922
212 Dave Field 6 4.2 5.6 0.920
213 John Baty 6 14.9 17.3 0.918
214 Sean David 13 14.3 16.7 0.916
215 Dick Freeborough 17 10.2 12.3 0.914
216 John Farrugia 5 6.9 8.7 0.913
217 Patrick McCulloch 7 19.0 22.0 0.912
218 Rob Serra 6 7.6 9.5 0.912
219 Jason Child 16 9.4 11.5 0.911
220 Adrian Jayne 21 8.9 11.0 0.909
221 Terry Condon 7 4.7 6.4 0.908
222 Tyler Murdoch 7 14.2 16.9 0.907
223 Ryan Hunter 23 8.6 10.8 0.904
224 Shavi Kahlon 7 1.7 3.2 0.901
225 Anne Chun 6 19.0 22.5 0.899
226 Bob Klassen 5 1.1 2.6 0.897
227 Jeff Truman 18 7.8 10.2 0.892
228 Xuechen Yu 5 +1.9 +0.6 0.886
229 Brendan Myles 5 5.0 7.2 0.885
230 Josh Silverman 20 15.3 19.0 0.881
231 Robert Sterling 14 2.1 4.2 0.870
232 Phong Tran 13 15.5 19.9 0.862
233 Harjeet Gill 10 13.7 18.0 0.857
234 Frederik Snel 21 12.7 17.3 0.843
235 Jim Wyatt 9 11.2 15.9 0.832
236 Mark Whyte 11 11.1 16.0 0.825
237 Denis Maurice 16 4.3 7.8 0.823
238 Andrew Branigan 8 9.5 14.5 0.811
239 Jeff Webber 7 6.6 11.2 0.802
240 John Baynham 15 14.9 22.1 0.789