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 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 Cole Jones 25 13.5 5.4 1.466
2 Richard Ross 7 3.1 +0.6 1.325
3 Pat Humphries 10 1.8 +1.4 1.302
4 Kent Simpson 14 15.8 9.8 1.275
5 James Wolanski 5 11.6 6.6 1.269
6 Yussef El Kalza 5 10.5 6.4 1.223
7 Luis Bridgeman 9 18.3 12.8 1.222
8 Sergio Manera 9 17.1 11.9 1.218
9 Sophie Malenfant 5 12.5 8.3 1.207
10 Aidan Timmermans 6 2.7 0.2 1.205
11 Tony Crane 8 5.4 2.5 1.200
12 Dave Madill 8 4.4 1.7 1.197
13 Daniel Stein 5 14.0 10.0 1.182
14 Danny MacDonald 14 8.2 5.1 1.181
15 Nick Ratchford 6 1.8 +0.3 1.179
16 David Tennant 7 16.6 12.3 1.177
17 David Hoey 8 14.4 10.5 1.173
18 Jared Geboers 7 5.8 3.2 1.171
19 Kevin McQuinn 6 4.5 2.1 1.170
20 Jake Naccarato 7 10.3 7.2 1.161
21 Alex Gane 6 24.4 19.4 1.159
22 Corey Feenstra 17 3.4 1.3 1.158
23 Jeremy Spiteri 12 13.8 10.3 1.157
24 Roy Dhori 22 13.4 10.0 1.155
25 Todd Mitchell 8 14.1 10.7 1.150
26 James McCartin 7 10.7 7.8 1.146
27 Jon Tuer 6 13.1 9.9 1.146
28 Rob Serra 6 8.6 6.0 1.144
29 Griffin Butler 5 7.1 4.7 1.144
30 Cody Schmeiser 6 8.8 6.3 1.137
31 Evan Chaffe 6 10.5 7.8 1.136
T32 Darien McFayden 8 3.2 1.4 1.134
T32 Jordan Bedi 21 10.8 8.1 1.134
34 Connor Burinski 6 12.2 9.4 1.131
35 Russ Taylor 10 9.8 7.3 1.130
36 Matt Dasti 5 16.0 12.8 1.129
37 Jeremy Choi 16 5.7 3.7 1.127
38 David Johnson 9 9.5 7.1 1.126
39 Ben Weld 14 12.9 10.2 1.122
40 William Sinclair 13 2.8 1.2 1.121
41 Rod Skelton 6 18.7 15.4 1.120
42 Matt McRae 15 0.2 +1.1 1.119
43 Jacob Ciesielski 12 11.9 9.4 1.117
44 Rob Wilkes 5 12.7 10.2 1.113
45 Chris Miller 7 0.9 +0.4 1.112
46 Mark Van Alstyne 6 13.2 10.7 1.110
47 Ian Ervine 15 17.2 14.4 1.106
48 Jeff Heinbuch 19 9.0 7.0 1.105
49 Xiao Yang (Bryan) Luo 13 +1.4 +2.4 1.104
50 Alan Dickie 28 9.6 7.6 1.102
51 Ethem Aksoy 19 23.2 20.0 1.100
52 Andy Juma 5 17.0 14.4 1.098
53 James Lever 5 16.2 13.7 1.097
54 Tom Feenstra 5 9.8 7.9 1.095
55 Yu Zou 8 6.6 5.0 1.094
56 Todd McKay 6 2.1 0.9 1.093
57 Richard Thomas 6 9.5 7.7 1.091
58 Clint Ward 6 1.2 0.1 1.091
59 Tony Papetti 11 10.9 9.0 1.090
60 Naser Malik 9 11.1 9.2 1.090
61 Travis Boughner 10 7.5 5.9 1.089
62 Stephen Brydson 12 9.1 7.4 1.088
63 Samuel Smoljan 9 3.3 2.1 1.085
64 Joe Davis 7 5.9 4.5 1.085
65 Matt Zanardo 13 7.2 5.7 1.085
66 Corey Eccles 11 +2.8 +3.5 1.082
67 Seve Khatcherian 5 5.3 4.0 1.081
68 Alex Condon 8 4.8 3.6 1.077
69 Matt Interbartolo 6 3.4 2.3 1.077
70 Sunil Gunness 14 12.2 10.5 1.076
71 Ian McKay 8 12.3 10.6 1.075
72 Bryan Devries 9 9.6 8.1 1.075
73 Stefan Nicoara 7 0.0 +0.8 1.071
74 Marc Rowe 5 6.2 5.0 1.071
75 Marco Albini 13 6.7 5.5 1.069
76 Jakob Bjorklund 10 3.9 2.9 1.067
77 Aaron Buonvivere 5 12.4 10.9 1.066
78 Theo Peckham 11 2.8 1.9 1.065
79 Paul Clark 5 9.4 8.1 1.065
80 Bob Champagne 9 9.7 8.4 1.064
81 Duane Fagel 6 3.5 2.6 1.062
82 Bryan Gardner 21 7.0 5.9 1.061
83 Roland Chan 12 10.7 9.4 1.061
84 Joseph Avila 31 12.6 11.2 1.060
85 Gord Valiant 6 14.5 13.0 1.060
86 Mike Hubbs 7 7.6 6.5 1.059
87 Laz Nussis 9 9.4 8.2 1.059
88 Rex Burley 12 16.7 15.1 1.059
89 John Hayes 10 20.3 18.5 1.059
90 Nic Huebel 5 6.1 5.1 1.058
91 Eldar Curovic 6 6.3 5.3 1.058
92 Hamza Haris 8 10.1 8.9 1.057
93 Keith Mosley 6 8.4 7.3 1.057
94 Alex Tanas 8 8.9 7.8 1.056
95 Matthew Park 7 12.9 11.6 1.055
96 Dan Cornelius 11 9.3 8.2 1.054
T97 Jason Burgess 13 2.0 1.3 1.053
T97 Richard Grey 8 16.0 14.6 1.053
99 Dave Strachan 16 8.1 7.1 1.052
100 Andrew Fox 5 10.4 9.3 1.052
101 Michael Smith 5 8.5 7.5 1.051
102 Scot Angus 11 10.9 9.8 1.050
103 Jeevan Bhardwaj 15 3.5 2.8 1.047
T104 Christian Logue 9 +0.8 +1.3 1.047
T104 Grego Wilson 7 +0.8 +1.3 1.047
106 Daryl Lee 15 15.3 14.1 1.046
107 Chris Murchie 5 8.6 7.7 1.046
108 Mike Robarts 17 9.0 8.1 1.045
109 Vojtech Smida 11 6.8 6.0 1.044
110 Mohammad Intisar Ishtiaq 9 3.0 2.4 1.042
111 Steve Rhee 19 13.5 12.5 1.041
112 Phillip Scarpone 10 5.9 5.2 1.041
113 Richard Tempest 5 11.1 10.2 1.041
114 Jack Leong 16 16.5 15.5 1.036
115 Ron Judge 5 8.0 7.3 1.036
116 Vishav Mann 14 5.2 4.6 1.036
117 Kevin Cryan 5 8.5 7.8 1.035
118 Max Cobham 8 9.2 8.5 1.034
119 Mirko Smoljan 11 15.5 14.6 1.034
120 James Cumpstey 5 6.5 5.9 1.034
121 Braden Stephenson 5 7.5 6.9 1.032
122 Andrew Susands 5 5.2 4.7 1.030
123 Kyle Coolen 5 2.0 1.6 1.029
124 David MacLachlan 27 14.3 13.6 1.027
125 Peter Labelle 7 6.9 6.4 1.027
126 Adrian Atienza 7 25.9 24.9 1.027
127 Jeff McAlister 8 15.1 14.4 1.027
128 Mike DiFlorio 20 17.1 16.4 1.025
129 Anand (AP) Puran 8 8.8 8.3 1.025
130 Gavin Graham 6 5.0 4.6 1.024
131 Levor Guenther 8 9.4 8.9 1.024
132 Brett Whittaker 6 5.6 5.2 1.023
133 Robin Hutchins 5 6.6 6.2 1.022
134 Marc Hebb 10 8.0 7.6 1.020
135 Kyle Geerkens 12 8.9 8.5 1.020
136 Preston Hughes 10 9.0 8.6 1.019
137 Charles Murray 7 14.4 13.9 1.019
138 Pete Chan 7 20.3 19.7 1.019
139 Philippe Theroux 8 +1.0 +1.2 1.019
140 Symon Abad 6 11.0 10.6 1.018
141 Sean Ball 12 +0.3 +0.5 1.017
142 Mike Kisil 5 12.4 12.0 1.017
143 David Miller 13 7.4 7.1 1.016
144 Greg Telfer 9 14.2 13.8 1.016
145 Paul Inglis 11 15.7 15.3 1.015
146 Mike Shuper 6 16.2 15.8 1.014
147 Brandon Chrysler 8 9.6 9.3 1.014
148 Jason Kim 6 2.7 2.5 1.014
T149 Sean McDonagh 13 14.0 13.7 1.012
T149 Steve Divitkos 7 14.0 13.7 1.012
151 Terry Condon 9 6.9 6.7 1.011
152 Joe Taylor 13 16.8 16.5 1.011
153 Frederik Snel 16 17.6 17.3 1.010
154 Derek Peters 19 7.9 7.7 1.010
155 Adil Mughal 7 9.2 9.0 1.010
156 Sam Orlando 9 9.5 9.3 1.009
157 Norm LeRoux 7 20.4 20.1 1.009
158 Matteo Ramzan 12 1.2 1.1 1.008
159 Matteo D'Ambrosio 6 2.9 2.8 1.007
160 Jesse Sklar 6 18.5 18.3 1.007
161 Scott Bennett 7 4.0 3.9 1.006
162 Dave Rether 8 4.2 4.1 1.006
163 Thomas Flowers 6 6.6 6.5 1.005
T164 Clive Coombs 7 7.1 7.0 1.005
T164 Shant Khatcherian 7 7.1 7.0 1.005
166 Dave Beatty 8 9.6 9.5 1.005
167 Marek Drwiega 9 10.0 9.9 1.005
T168 Patrice Theroux 7 13.1 13.0 1.004
T168 Raheel Merchant 6 13.1 13.0 1.004
170 Larry Withyman 10 13.3 13.2 1.004
171 Andrew McBurney 6 18.3 18.2 1.003
T172 Dave Ponesse 7 25.9 25.9 1.000
T172 John Duncan 12 25.9 25.9 1.000
T172 Todd Moreau 6 7.3 7.3 1.000
T172 Gerry Price 12 14.1 14.1 1.000
T172 Sean Young 6 6.0 6.0 1.000
T172 Rob Colaricci 15 9.4 9.4 1.000
T172 Rob Meloche 6 14.6 14.6 1.000
179 Scott Babin 6 14.4 14.5 0.996
180 Zael Miransky 6 13.8 13.9 0.996
181 Mark Zemel 13 13.1 13.2 0.996
182 Mike Reynolds 10 7.8 7.9 0.995
183 Eric Stretch 6 7.6 7.7 0.995
184 Landon Sanford 6 5.1 5.2 0.994
185 Doug McNeil 8 4.2 4.3 0.994
186 Pat McGregor 5 2.9 3.0 0.993
T187 Pervaiz Ahmed 9 12.6 12.8 0.992
T187 Ryan Hunter 30 12.6 12.8 0.992
189 Simon Dearden 10 10.6 10.8 0.991
190 Andy Schwabe 5 9.2 9.4 0.991
191 Marshall Waters 11 7.9 8.1 0.990
T192 Paolo Zulian 14 11.3 11.6 0.987
T192 Eric Stickney 6 11.3 11.6 0.987
194 Nick Kerr 10 3.1 3.3 0.987
195 Sean Kenalty 13 16.4 16.8 0.986
196 Bruce Cram 5 1.7 1.9 0.986
197 Jason McMaster 6 7.7 8.0 0.985
198 Claudio Monopoli 5 20.6 21.1 0.985
199 Dale Mortensen 5 12.6 13.0 0.984
200 Michael Conte 15 5.1 5.4 0.983
201 Mark Matusiak 11 10.1 10.5 0.982
202 Jake Renshaw 5 9.4 9.8 0.982
203 Steve Hamelin 8 3.9 4.2 0.981
204 Trust Chen Pow 7 2.4 2.7 0.980
205 Mark Dubeau 21 6.4 6.8 0.979
206 Lee Panchuk 7 6.1 6.5 0.978
207 Cody Sobala 7 1.5 1.8 0.978
208 Matthew Davis 14 10.2 10.7 0.978
209 Jonathon Semlitch 14 4.4 4.8 0.976
210 Peter Willis 14 +0.4 +0.1 0.975
211 Krish Nair 16 18.8 19.6 0.975
212 John Whitson 6 14.7 15.4 0.974
213 Jim Cleave 8 17.5 18.3 0.974
214 Albert Castillo 5 20.7 21.6 0.973
215 Yuri Siniak 15 9.7 10.3 0.973
216 Greg McPhee 5 19.2 20.1 0.972
217 Nhid Lam 25 15.7 16.5 0.972
218 Preston Moss 5 4.9 5.4 0.971
219 Ryan Taylor 9 +2.1 +1.8 0.971
220 Jeff Truman 18 6.7 7.3 0.969
221 David Ding 6 12.8 13.6 0.969
222 Jason Lawrence 9 15.3 16.2 0.968
223 Ryan Mallat 8 5.8 6.4 0.967
224 Mike Hart 6 5.6 6.2 0.967
225 Adrian Tollstam 5 7.2 7.9 0.965
226 Dorian Rodrigues 5 6.5 7.2 0.964
227 Mikkel Vlietstra 6 14.0 15.0 0.963
228 Gerry Beasley 7 21.2 22.5 0.962
229 Arthur Cole 8 10.9 11.8 0.962
230 Michael Grant 10 13.2 14.2 0.962
231 Brian Nash 12 23.0 24.4 0.962
232 Vikram Kumar 5 9.6 10.5 0.960
233 Michael Cann 22 11.4 12.4 0.959
234 Sean Harvey 12 6.0 6.8 0.957
235 Michael Pare 8 7.0 7.9 0.955
236 Chris Tait 13 11.2 12.3 0.955
T237 Sandesh Khanal 6 4.6 5.4 0.954
T237 Shavi Kahlon 7 4.6 5.4 0.954
239 Paul Babiak 11 6.4 7.3 0.953
240 Stephen Massel 6 4.3 5.1 0.953
241 Doug Eccles 6 2.0 2.7 0.952
242 Rick Wright 6 9.4 10.5 0.951
243 Bob Chapman 12 6.8 7.8 0.949
244 Kris Verri 5 8.6 9.7 0.949
245 Neil Bishop 6 11.2 12.5 0.947
246 Scott Murphy 9 7.3 8.4 0.946
247 Paul Dermody 18 15.7 17.3 0.945
248 Adrian Jayne 21 9.9 11.2 0.944
249 Brian Nicholls 6 9.8 11.1 0.944
250 Manny Arayata 17 20.6 22.6 0.942
251 Wayne Wong 7 15.7 17.4 0.942
252 Ian R. Smith 12 12.4 13.9 0.942
253 Danielle Sawyer 7 4.2 5.2 0.942
254 Bob Fisher 15 17.0 18.8 0.942
255 Anisur Salim 5 10.2 11.6 0.941
256 Spencer Miller 5 5.4 6.5 0.941
257 John Harrington 5 3.7 4.7 0.940
258 Aaron Tiley 7 17.2 19.1 0.939
259 Todd Stones 7 9.3 10.7 0.938
T260 Duane Gomes 5 12.0 13.6 0.938
T260 Matt Chin 7 1.5 2.4 0.938
262 Christian Heydorn 5 4.0 5.1 0.936
263 Jeffrey Cooper 17 13.6 15.4 0.934
264 Matt Marcoccia 5 14.8 16.7 0.934
265 Al Norman 20 17.2 19.3 0.933
266 John Farrugia 6 9.9 11.5 0.932
267 Ross Ferreira 11 12.0 13.9 0.927
268 Scott Lundy 9 4.3 5.6 0.926
269 Peter Shaw 12 5.3 6.7 0.925
270 Kyle Montpetit 6 8.8 10.5 0.924
271 Frank O'Brien 8 9.8 11.6 0.924
272 Steve Roberts 11 21.3 24.1 0.922
273 Carl Thompson 10 16.1 18.5 0.921
274 Todd Matier 14 9.4 11.3 0.918
275 Patrick Marciano 9 6.9 8.6 0.917
276 Erik Dalla Riva 5 2.4 3.7 0.917
277 John Harris 20 18.2 21.1 0.912
278 Phil Bingham 31 13.4 15.9 0.910
279 Ralf Wieser 14 15.1 17.8 0.909
280 Jeff Miller 5 18.1 21.2 0.907
281 Jaden Noble 6 0.5 1.8 0.906
282 Matt St Denis 9 11.5 14.0 0.904
283 John Semlitch 23 13.6 16.4 0.901
284 Jordan Horowitz 6 5.0 6.9 0.899
285 Dante Carlos 15 16.9 20.2 0.898
286 Jason Rabinowitz 6 +0.8 0.5 0.896
287 Phong Tran 31 14.6 17.7 0.896
288 Michael Alcott 10 7.7 10.0 0.895
289 Peter Giacomelli 6 3.8 5.7 0.893
290 Sam Fess 11 7.8 10.3 0.888
291 Jim Wyatt 16 11.1 14.3 0.878
292 Mike Mills 13 3.8 6.0 0.878
293 Kavith Ranchagoda 5 +1.4 0.2 0.869
294 Mike Last 10 7.7 10.8 0.864
295 Kim Stankiewicz 13 7.2 10.4 0.857
296 Matt Senos 6 7.0 10.2 0.856
297 Chris Jones 6 0.5 2.9 0.839
298 Tyler McVey 6 13.2 18.4 0.829
299 Netra Rai 13 5.1 8.8 0.822
300 Dick Freeborough 23 10.8 15.8 0.820
301 Sean Kaye 6 2.7 6.1 0.812