Complementing the season-long Order of Merit competition is a season-long Most Improved Player Award. The player with the most improved Handicap Ratio, 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 Ratio (I/R) = Start of Season Handicap Index + 12 divided by End of Season Handicap Index + 12
# | Player | Events | First | Last | I/F |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Danny MacDonald | 11 | 10.0 | 4.6 | 1.325 |
2 | Matt Bremer | 5 | 1.4 | +1.6 | 1.288 |
3 | Wayne Andrejek | 8 | 11.8 | 6.8 | 1.266 |
4 | Ryan Taylor | 10 | 0.4 | +2.2 | 1.265 |
5 | Dave Field | 14 | 5.6 | 2.2 | 1.239 |
6 | Keivan Campbell | 7 | 19.0 | 13.7 | 1.206 |
7 | Denis Maurice | 16 | 9.2 | 5.6 | 1.205 |
8 | Tyler Longo | 8 | 9.9 | 6.5 | 1.184 |
9 | Raj Maraj | 11 | 16.8 | 12.4 | 1.180 |
10 | Ed Darlington | 13 | 17.4 | 13.0 | 1.176 |
11 | Brad Golden | 11 | 14.5 | 10.6 | 1.173 |
12 | Mike Hubbs | 16 | 9.7 | 6.6 | 1.167 |
13 | Nick Davero | 15 | 6.6 | 4.0 | 1.163 |
14 | Brent Brandham | 8 | 7.8 | 5.1 | 1.158 |
15 | Mano Sridhar | 6 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 1.154 |
16 | Lam Vo | 8 | 18.7 | 14.6 | 1.154 |
17 | David Johnson | 6 | 8.8 | 6.1 | 1.149 |
18 | Peter Labelle | 15 | 6.8 | 4.4 | 1.146 |
19 | Viktor Golub | 13 | 18.4 | 14.6 | 1.143 |
20 | Luigi Cirocco | 6 | 14.7 | 11.5 | 1.136 |
21 | Josh Hastings | 7 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 1.136 |
22 | Jimmy Singh | 12 | 3.2 | 1.4 | 1.134 |
23 | Jordan Bedi | 20 | 12.5 | 9.6 | 1.134 |
24 | Manny Serrano | 6 | 13.8 | 10.8 | 1.132 |
25 | Jim Wyatt | 13 | 15.9 | 12.7 | 1.130 |
26 | Jim Harrison | 10 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 1.127 |
27 | John Baynham | 17 | 15.7 | 12.6 | 1.126 |
28 | Arthur Bekerman | 18 | 13.2 | 10.4 | 1.125 |
29 | Bryan Gardner | 15 | 10.3 | 7.9 | 1.121 |
30 | Sergio Manera | 11 | 16.6 | 13.6 | 1.117 |
31 | Josh Silverman | 20 | 19.5 | 16.2 | 1.117 |
32 | Gabe Gallucci | 8 | 3.4 | 1.8 | 1.116 |
33 | Keith Mosley | 16 | 10.5 | 8.2 | 1.114 |
34 | Phong Tran | 13 | 18.4 | 15.3 | 1.114 |
35 | Keith Jolly | 9 | 10.7 | 8.4 | 1.113 |
36 | Eldar Curovic | 7 | 13.7 | 11.1 | 1.113 |
37 | Robin Roopchan | 12 | 7.0 | 5.1 | 1.111 |
38 | Frank O'Brien | 14 | 13.1 | 10.6 | 1.111 |
39 | Peter Shaw | 6 | 8.4 | 6.4 | 1.109 |
40 | Mark Leslie | 22 | 10.6 | 8.4 | 1.108 |
41 | Alex Milosavljevic | 8 | 8.7 | 6.7 | 1.107 |
42 | Scott Lundy | 14 | 6.8 | 5.0 | 1.106 |
43 | Kyle Sbrocchi | 9 | 12.4 | 10.1 | 1.104 |
44 | Pat Humphries | 10 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.101 |
45 | Michael Alderman | 6 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 1.099 |
46 | Michael Cann | 19 | 13.5 | 11.2 | 1.099 |
47 | Terry Ryan | 5 | 10.3 | 8.3 | 1.099 |
48 | Seve Khatcherian | 11 | 6.0 | 4.4 | 1.098 |
49 | Stephen McClelland | 7 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 1.097 |
50 | Thomas Sebastiano | 10 | 5.4 | 3.9 | 1.094 |
51 | John Harris | 22 | 15.9 | 13.5 | 1.094 |
52 | Anisur Salim | 10 | 15.5 | 13.2 | 1.091 |
53 | Peter Pusitz | 7 | 6.1 | 4.6 | 1.090 |
54 | Matthew MacKay | 13 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1.089 |
55 | Rick Bettencourt | 6 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 1.089 |
56 | Dean Sherman | 25 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 1.084 |
57 | Andrew McBurney | 13 | 13.7 | 11.8 | 1.080 |
58 | Michael Solway | 13 | 12.0 | 10.3 | 1.076 |
59 | Michael Amaro | 14 | 13.5 | 11.7 | 1.076 |
60 | Chris Richardson | 8 | 15.3 | 13.4 | 1.075 |
61 | Gerry Price | 11 | 16.9 | 14.9 | 1.074 |
62 | Jack Leong | 11 | 18.5 | 16.4 | 1.074 |
63 | Magnus Staaf | 10 | 8.4 | 7.0 | 1.074 |
64 | Steve Roberts | 11 | 22.7 | 20.4 | 1.071 |
65 | Marek Drwiega | 15 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 1.070 |
66 | Adam Caprarella | 5 | 17.6 | 15.7 | 1.069 |
67 | David Miller | 9 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 1.068 |
68 | Duane Gomes | 9 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 1.066 |
69 | Matthew Kasujja | 10 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 1.065 |
70 | Sandro Mariani | 17 | 16.6 | 14.9 | 1.063 |
71 | Simon Dearden | 17 | 9.2 | 8.0 | 1.060 |
72 | Mike Esmailzadeh | 10 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 1.055 |
73 | Matt Howe | 7 | 13.9 | 12.6 | 1.053 |
74 | Tom Easterman | 13 | 12.1 | 10.9 | 1.052 |
75 | Paul Dermody | 6 | 20.7 | 19.1 | 1.051 |
76 | Dustin Friedman | 17 | 10.5 | 9.4 | 1.051 |
77 | Scott Jamieson | 5 | 13.0 | 11.8 | 1.050 |
78 | Ben Hawerchuk | 5 | 6.8 | 5.9 | 1.050 |
79 | Jack Kent | 13 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.048 |
80 | Mike Reynolds | 16 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 1.045 |
81 | Brian Nicholls | 5 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 1.045 |
82 | Shawn Thompson | 6 | 11.3 | 10.3 | 1.045 |
83 | Peter Willis | 5 | +0.3 | +0.8 | 1.045 |
84 | Mehul Suthar | 6 | 9.1 | 8.2 | 1.045 |
85 | Rob Colaricci | 10 | 10.8 | 9.9 | 1.041 |
86 | Nathaniel Gray Lamont | 6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.040 |
87 | Nhid Lam | 14 | 19.5 | 18.3 | 1.040 |
88 | Rob Meloche | 8 | 16.9 | 15.8 | 1.040 |
89 | Will Stephen | 6 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 1.040 |
90 | Tom Nowak | 5 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 1.039 |
91 | Jeremy Choi | 20 | 7.1 | 6.4 | 1.038 |
92 | John Fitzgerald | 6 | 15.6 | 14.6 | 1.038 |
93 | Michael Alcott | 21 | 7.5 | 6.8 | 1.037 |
94 | Mike Kavander | 5 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.037 |
95 | Mark Zemel | 14 | 16.8 | 15.8 | 1.036 |
96 | Aluc Mooc | 11 | 14.3 | 13.4 | 1.035 |
97 | Andrew Mitchell | 10 | 11.4 | 10.6 | 1.035 |
98 | Paul Babiak | 5 | 9.6 | 8.9 | 1.033 |
99 | Toru Tagawa | 6 | 10.8 | 10.1 | 1.032 |
100 | Sean David | 12 | 15.4 | 14.6 | 1.030 |
101 | Rick Wright | 13 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 1.030 |
102 | Kent Osborne | 14 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.028 |
103 | Andrew Susands | 11 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 1.028 |
104 | Rob Serra | 10 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 1.027 |
105 | Grant Brown | 9 | 25.9 | 24.9 | 1.027 |
106 | Chris Beaumont | 8 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 1.027 |
107 | Andy Schwabe | 6 | 11.3 | 10.7 | 1.026 |
108 | Kyle Geerkens | 9 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 1.026 |
109 | Mike Vettese | 5 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 1.026 |
110 | Vic Wiwchar | 23 | 16.6 | 15.9 | 1.025 |
111 | Florante Balagasay | 6 | 9.1 | 8.6 | 1.024 |
112 | Richard Coates | 6 | 22.2 | 21.4 | 1.024 |
113 | Johnathan Letterio | 12 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.023 |
114 | Eric Penney | 15 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 1.023 |
115 | Larry Withyman | 7 | 11.2 | 10.7 | 1.022 |
116 | Brian Provencal | 7 | 6.6 | 6.2 | 1.022 |
117 | Rob Southward | 6 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 1.022 |
118 | Kevin Monte de Ramos | 5 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 1.021 |
119 | Preston Hughes | 5 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 1.019 |
120 | Daniel Agozzino | 7 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 1.018 |
121 | Marc Laverdiere | 7 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 1.018 |
122 | Eric Gold | 5 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 1.017 |
123 | Terry Vansickle | 6 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 1.017 |
124 | Bruce Cram | 7 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.015 |
125 | Niall Fagan | 7 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.015 |
126 | Rory Friedman | 11 | 11.2 | 10.9 | 1.013 |
127 | Peter Giacomelli | 9 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 1.013 |
128 | Mike Hart | 6 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 1.012 |
129 | Marcus Decotiis | 6 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 1.011 |
130 | Simon Soares | 15 | 11.6 | 11.4 | 1.009 |
131 | Fred Cousineau | 8 | 12.7 | 12.5 | 1.008 |
132 | Caleb King | 9 | 16.3 | 16.1 | 1.007 |
133 | Vlatko Divic | 6 | 18.3 | 18.1 | 1.007 |
134 | Mike McLaren | 11 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 1.005 |
135 | Ron Braun | 8 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 1.004 |
136 | Zack Kilislian | 6 | 13.6 | 13.5 | 1.004 |
137 | Joe Berney | 7 | 15.6 | 15.5 | 1.004 |
T138 | Mike Smith | 16 | 12.2 | 12.2 | 1.000 |
T138 | Cristian Taylor | 14 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.000 |
T138 | Danny Cellupica | 5 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 1.000 |
T138 | Matt Breedon | 6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.000 |
T138 | Tony Papetti | 19 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 1.000 |
T138 | Tom Lumsden | 7 | 9.2 | 9.2 | 1.000 |
T138 | Frederik Snel | 16 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 1.000 |
T138 | Jeffrey Cooper | 11 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 1.000 |
T138 | David Tollefson | 7 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 1.000 |
T138 | Jordan Hutchinson | 16 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 1.000 |
T138 | Paul Clark | 12 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 1.000 |
T138 | Dave Ponesse | 11 | 25.9 | 25.9 | 1.000 |
T138 | Jack Radford | 8 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 1.000 |
151 | Nigel Fernandes | 5 | 21.2 | 21.3 | 0.997 |
152 | Manny Arayata | 5 | 17.3 | 17.4 | 0.997 |
153 | Mike DiFlorio | 18 | 15.4 | 15.5 | 0.996 |
154 | Vikram Kumar | 7 | 11.4 | 11.5 | 0.996 |
155 | Rick Villa | 12 | 10.4 | 10.5 | 0.996 |
156 | John Lorito | 5 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 0.995 |
157 | Damien Cox | 9 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 0.995 |
158 | Yuri Siniak | 20 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 0.995 |
159 | Chris McConnell | 7 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 0.995 |
160 | Joe Davis | 9 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 0.995 |
161 | Spencer Jackson | 11 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 0.993 |
162 | Emil Kamel | 13 | 11.7 | 11.9 | 0.992 |
163 | Murray Heywood | 6 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 0.990 |
164 | G.M. Milan | 5 | 17.7 | 18.0 | 0.990 |
165 | Steve Saroli | 8 | 7.1 | 7.3 | 0.990 |
166 | Pervaiz Ahmed | 11 | 14.9 | 15.2 | 0.989 |
167 | Joseph Ricchio | 13 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 0.988 |
168 | Raheel Merchant | 5 | 12.6 | 12.9 | 0.988 |
169 | Ian R. Smith | 9 | 12.6 | 13.0 | 0.984 |
170 | Bob Brant | 19 | 18.3 | 18.8 | 0.984 |
171 | Joe Taylor | 10 | 16.8 | 17.3 | 0.983 |
172 | Jason Butcher | 11 | 9.5 | 9.9 | 0.982 |
173 | Kevin Henhoeffer | 6 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 0.981 |
174 | Carl Thompson | 22 | 17.5 | 18.1 | 0.980 |
175 | John Duffy | 21 | 20.8 | 21.5 | 0.979 |
176 | Paul Inglis | 12 | 11.4 | 11.9 | 0.979 |
177 | Nang Chrin | 9 | 11.3 | 11.8 | 0.979 |
178 | Steve Zimmermann | 11 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 0.978 |
T179 | Borna Moeini | 5 | 14.8 | 15.4 | 0.978 |
T179 | Jay Skukowski | 6 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.978 |
181 | Ross Ferreira | 9 | 10.1 | 10.6 | 0.978 |
182 | Scott MacPherson | 8 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 0.978 |
183 | Jim Warner | 6 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 0.974 |
184 | Harrison Huie | 5 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 0.970 |
185 | Sunil Gunness | 5 | 10.1 | 10.8 | 0.969 |
186 | Tal Fadel | 6 | 17.0 | 18.0 | 0.967 |
187 | Neil Brown | 8 | 10.5 | 11.3 | 0.966 |
188 | Theo Peckham | 6 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 0.965 |
189 | Bob Fisher | 9 | 18.3 | 19.4 | 0.965 |
T190 | Kynan Loftus | 5 | 9.5 | 10.3 | 0.964 |
T190 | Martin Gorman | 7 | 9.5 | 10.3 | 0.964 |
192 | Kyle McClure | 7 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 0.964 |
193 | Patrick Marciano | 7 | 9.9 | 10.8 | 0.961 |
194 | Steve Divitkos | 8 | 14.2 | 15.3 | 0.960 |
195 | Steve Rothman | 5 | 22.5 | 24.0 | 0.958 |
196 | David Morrison | 8 | 6.4 | 7.2 | 0.958 |
197 | Brian Nash | 11 | 20.1 | 21.5 | 0.958 |
198 | Dave Hepditch | 5 | 9.6 | 10.6 | 0.956 |
199 | Charley Stephen | 6 | 5.2 | 6.0 | 0.956 |
200 | Tony Crane | 7 | 5.1 | 5.9 | 0.955 |
201 | Steve Knoch | 6 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 0.953 |
202 | Jeff Truman | 18 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 0.952 |
203 | Matt Boyce | 7 | 4.9 | 5.8 | 0.949 |
204 | James McCartin | 7 | 12.0 | 13.3 | 0.949 |
205 | Chris Mack | 10 | 9.8 | 11.0 | 0.948 |
206 | David MacLachlan | 21 | 12.8 | 14.2 | 0.947 |
207 | Mark Shepherd | 14 | 6.4 | 7.5 | 0.944 |
208 | Dave Madill | 7 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 0.942 |
209 | Chris Loftus | 10 | 7.3 | 8.5 | 0.941 |
210 | John Harrington | 10 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 0.941 |
211 | Mike Bondy | 9 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 0.940 |
212 | Mark Whyte | 7 | 13.0 | 14.6 | 0.940 |
213 | James Ambursley | 6 | 22.1 | 24.3 | 0.939 |
214 | Mark Van Alstyne | 8 | 10.7 | 12.2 | 0.938 |
215 | TJ Rule | 7 | +0.1 | 0.7 | 0.937 |
216 | Adam Angilletta | 6 | 14.4 | 16.2 | 0.936 |
217 | Nicholas Marchese | 5 | +4.7 | +4.2 | 0.936 |
218 | Tony Oliverio | 6 | 9.6 | 11.1 | 0.935 |
219 | Vito Carnovale | 8 | 8.9 | 10.4 | 0.933 |
220 | Gerry Beasley | 13 | 15.4 | 17.4 | 0.932 |
221 | Arthur Vanek | 7 | 14.9 | 17.0 | 0.928 |
222 | Cameron Thomson | 10 | 12.9 | 14.9 | 0.926 |
223 | Mark Dubeau | 16 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 0.924 |
224 | Rick Beddia | 8 | 13.1 | 15.2 | 0.923 |
225 | Andrew Rusk | 12 | 9.5 | 11.4 | 0.919 |
226 | Mark Keilhauer | 6 | 18.1 | 20.8 | 0.918 |
227 | George Olak | 11 | 19.0 | 21.8 | 0.917 |
228 | Robert Stodgell | 5 | 7.7 | 9.5 | 0.916 |
229 | Max Cobham | 10 | 6.2 | 7.9 | 0.915 |
230 | Zac Wiltzen | 6 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0.912 |
231 | Michael Conte | 10 | 6.1 | 7.9 | 0.910 |
232 | Adil Mughal | 11 | 10.0 | 12.2 | 0.909 |
233 | Mike Mills | 7 | 7.7 | 9.7 | 0.908 |
234 | Paolo Zulian | 20 | 9.6 | 11.8 | 0.908 |
235 | Todd Matier | 7 | 8.5 | 10.6 | 0.907 |
236 | Mark Matusiak | 24 | 10.0 | 12.3 | 0.905 |
237 | Brian Bonner | 11 | 5.6 | 7.5 | 0.903 |
238 | Phil Bingham | 14 | 14.0 | 16.9 | 0.900 |
239 | Dante Carlos | 18 | 14.5 | 17.5 | 0.898 |
240 | Adrian Jayne | 20 | 10.6 | 13.2 | 0.897 |
241 | Ryan Hunter | 17 | 10.7 | 13.5 | 0.890 |
242 | Kirk Figueira | 9 | 9.6 | 12.3 | 0.889 |
243 | Jesse Sklar | 13 | 14.1 | 17.4 | 0.888 |
244 | Brett Parry | 5 | 13.7 | 17.0 | 0.886 |
245 | Steve Hamelin | 18 | 5.6 | 7.9 | 0.884 |
246 | Jake Naccarato | 21 | 8.0 | 10.9 | 0.873 |
247 | Kim Stankiewicz | 7 | 6.6 | 9.4 | 0.869 |
248 | Bob Chapman | 15 | 8.3 | 11.4 | 0.868 |
249 | Peter Cuthbert | 19 | 8.4 | 11.6 | 0.864 |
250 | Spencer Swartz | 10 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 0.858 |
251 | Dick Freeborough | 17 | 8.8 | 12.3 | 0.856 |
252 | Christian Logue | 10 | +1.9 | +0.2 | 0.856 |
253 | David Hoey | 12 | 13.3 | 17.7 | 0.852 |
254 | Jason Rabinowitz | 10 | +0.4 | 2.0 | 0.829 |
255 | Cody Schmeiser | 16 | 3.1 | 7.2 | 0.786 |