Rob Arnold Bucholz
(born August 16, 1961) is a Canadian
curler.
Bucholz has been a competitive curler in the Edmonton area since the 1980s. He skipped his own team until joining forces with
Mark Johnson in 2004. That rink lost to
Kevin Martin in the 2006
Alberta championship, the closest Bucholz has been from making it to
the Brier
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Bucholz has played in many
World Curling Tour
The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and mixed doubles curlers in the world.
History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from Jo ...
events. He won the
Twin Anchors Invitational in 2002.
Bucholz retired from competitive curling in 2008. However, he returned in 2011 to play with his sons, Landon and Bryce (and third Evan Asmussen) at the
2011 The Shoot-Out. They were without a skip, so Bucholz stepped in at the last minute, and led the team to the final where they lost to
Randy Ferbey
Randy S. Ferbey (born May 30, 1959) is a Canadian retired curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion. He currently coaches the Rachel Homan women's team.
Born in Edmonton, Albert ...
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References
External links
''Edmonton Journal: Bucholz bails out his sons, leads rink to a berth in final of The Shoot-Out''*
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1961 births
Living people
Curlers from Edmonton
Canadian male curlers