Vancouver, B.C. – The highest junior golfers from throughout North America will compete at Marine Drive Golf Membership in Vancouver B.C. from July 21-25 within the 69th enjoying of the Canadian Junior Ladies Championship introduced by BDO.
Crew Canada NextGen member, Eileen Park of Pink Deer, Alta., is available in because the defending champion, having received final yr’s championship by seven photographs over Luna Lu of Burnaby, B.C. After a gap spherical 74, the 15-year-old Albertan carded rounds of 74, 71, 69 and 67 for a complete rating of 3-under 281, enroute to the nationwide title.
Together with Park competing at Marine Drive are Crew Canada members, Shauna Liu (Maple, Ont.), Luna Lu (Burnaby, B.C.), Lindsay McGrath (Oakville, Ont.), Carlee Meilleur (Lansdowne, Ont.), Swetha Sathish (Oakville, Ont.) and Alissa Xu (Richmond Hill, Ont.).
In whole, 147 of Canada’s high golfers from the World Novice Golf Rankings (WAGR) are included within the 152 – participant area together with 5 worldwide opponents.
“Marine Drive Golf Membership has a confirmed historical past of internet hosting world class Novice Championships. Given their extremely robust junior program, the membership is an ideal host for the 2024 Canadian Junior Ladies Championship, introduced by BDO,” mentioned Golf Canada Event Director Sam Brown. “I’m excited to see the lasting impression that internet hosting such a extremely regarded Junior Championship could have not solely at Marine Drive, however within the Better Vancouver space as an entire. The competitors in junior golf right here on the West Coast is palpable and it is going to be a fantastic alternative for gamers from throughout Canada and america to indicate their very own power in what’s shaping as much as be a tremendous week.”
Previous to the beginning of the event, a observe spherical might be held on Sunday, July 21, with championship rounds starting on Monday, July 22. Following the primary two rounds of play, the sector might be reduce to the low 70 gamers and ties with the highest ten juvenile and ties included within the ultimate two rounds.
Positioned within the metropolis of Vancouver, the Marine Drive Golf Membership is understood for its compelling view of the Fraser River and brilliantly lined fairways, with strategically laid out bunkers. Appropriate for gamers of all golf ranges, the course has been respectively rewarded for its aggressive ambiance which is indicative of the excessive caliber of play.
“Marine Drive Golf Membership have had an extended historical past of internet hosting Golf Canada occasions. It’s an honour as soon as once more to host a nationwide occasion that might be a stepping stone for the ladies as they achieve event expertise,” mentioned Director of Marine Drive Golf Membership Padraic O’Rourke. “Our members and employees all the time look ahead to internet hosting these nice championships. Getting the chance to look at the very best ladies within the nation might be a spotlight to in our 2024 calendar. Marine Drive Golf Membership will attempt to go away a memorable impression of what a first-class expertise seems to be and looks like.”
The Championship was first contested in 1955 and operated by the previous Canadian Girls Affiliation (CLGA) till the amalgamation of CLGA and Royal Canadian Golf Affiliation (now Golf Canada) in 2005.
The Canadian Junior Ladies Championship has an extended record of distinguished previous champions which have etched their identify on the Brokenshire Trophy. Previous champions embody, Canadian Golf Corridor of Famers Sandra Submit (1964-66), Betty Stanhope (1956), Judy Darling (1957), Gail Harvey Moore (1958-1960) and Gayle Borthwick (1961). As well as, LPGA Tour gamers, Alena Sharp (1999), Brooke Henderson (2012) and Maddie Szeryk (2013). Stollery Household Crew Canada Girls’s Head Coach Salimah Mussani (1996) can be a previous Canadian Junior Champion.
An inter-provincial crew competitors will happen over the primary two rounds. Every day, the bottom two of three people 18-hole scores will rely in the direction of the crew whole. The bottom mixture rating over rounds one and two determines the inter-provincial crew champions, who will declare the Mary Pyke Trophy.
Final yr, Crew Ontario, consisting of Shauna Liu (Maple, Ont.), Aryn Matthews (Little Britain, Ont.) and Joline Truong (Mississauga, Ont.) have been victorious in defending their crew title. Ontario might be trying to make it three straight crew titles in Vancouver.
The 2024 Canadian Junior Ladies champion will obtain an exemption into the 2024 Canadian Girls’s Novice Championship and 2025 U.S. Ladies Junior Championship, if eligible. As well as, the winner will obtain $1,200 CAD. Golf Canada acknowledges the monetary assets required to play in a nationwide championship. Accordingly, Golf Canada is happy to supply needs-based monetary help grants to assist cut back the price of competing in each the Canadian Junior Ladies Championship and Canadian Junior Boys introduced by BDO once more this yr. Initiated in 2022, the Canadian Junior Monetary Help Program helps junior golfers and their households with need-based monetary support to assist offset bills related to touring and competing in nationwide golf championships and NextGen championships. This system is funded by Golf Canada in partnership with the Canadian Seniors’ Golf Affiliation and the Gary Cowan Heritage Fund.
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GOLF CANADA AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Golf Canada yearly conducts greater than 30 golf competitions and qualifiers nation-wide – together with 9 Nationwide Novice Championships – which play host to greater than 3,000 home and worldwide athletes from all corners of the world. In partnership with our host golf equipment, hundreds of volunteers, provincial golf associations and our proud sponsors, Golf Canada is devoted to supporting participant growth by means of world-class competitors since our inception in 1895. Officiated by licensed Canadian Guidelines of Golf officers, Golf Canada’s newbie competitions are absolutely compliant with golf’s worldwide governing our bodies and embody marquee occasions such because the Canadian Males’s and Girls’s Novice Championships in addition to the Canadian Junior Ladies and Junior Boys Championships. Golf Canada’s newbie championships are proudly supported by BDO Canada, Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis (CPKC), Titleist, FootJoy, Sport Canada, and Levelwear. For extra data and scheduling go to www.golfcanada.ca/competitions-calendar/.
