4 previous champions are within the subject that can compete for the nationwide championship
Courtenay, B.C. – The 2024 Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Beginner Championship, offered by BDO is ready for July 11-13 at Crown Isle Resort and Golf Neighborhood (Crown Isle) in Courtenay, B.C.
The sphere of 65 golfers will function 4 previous champions set to compete over 54-holes, starting with follow rounds on Wednesday, July 10 adopted by three rounds of event play.
Among the many earlier winners set to compete in Courtenay are 2022 champion Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C., 2010 champion Marie-Thérèse Torti of Candiac, Que., Canadian Golf Corridor of Famer and 2008 champion Mary Ann Hayward of St. Thomas, Ont. and six-time champion Christina Spence Proteau of Port Alberni, B.C. (2009, 2011-14, 2021). Defending champion and three-time winner, Judith Kyrinis of Thornhill, Ont. is not going to be within the subject as she can be competing in The R&A Ladies’s Senior Beginner, July 9 -12 on the Saunton Golf Membership in North Devon, England.
Final yr’s championship marked the primary time that the ladies’s mid-amateur division was held as a stand-alone competitors. Kyrinis received each the mid-amateur and mid-master divisions, ending the event at 6-over, ten photographs away from Daybreak Woodard of Greer, S.C. in each divisions. Stouffer completed in a tie for third with three different opponents.
Within the inter-provincial staff championship, Group Quebec, consisting of Natacha Brossard and Suzanne Ricard of Montreal, Que. together with Marie-Thérèse Torti, edged out the then defending champions, Group British Columbia by three photographs.
“We have now an important subject with a mixture of previous nationwide champions, American opponents, and a few very skilled and expert gamers able to tackle Crown Isle this week,” mentioned Golf Canada Match Director Daniel Suppa. “The employees and volunteers at Crown Isle have been distinctive to work with within the lead as much as the event. We’re all wanting ahead to a really aggressive event at a fantastic golf course.”
Crown Isle is a residential golf group positioned within the coronary heart of Comox Valley in Courtenay. The championship course was designed by Graham Cooke & Associates and opened in 1992. The course presents a memorable check for golfers that includes 12 lakes, lush fairways and views of the Beaufort Mountain vary and Comox glacier. The greens staff at Crown Isle crops over 10,000 annuals annually and has efficiently diminished water utilization whereas nonetheless with the ability to keep the course and surrounding areas to pristine circumstances.
“Our Golf Operations Group and our excellent volunteer committee have been working arduous to get every little thing prepared for the Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Beginner Championships this week. We’re so excited to host this nice occasion, and to work carefully with the Golf Canada staff to execute an exceptional championship,” mentioned Jamie Moran, Director of Golf, Crown Isle Resort and Golf Neighborhood. “Crown Isle will function an important check of golf for all of the gamers, and we all know they’ll all take pleasure in our stunning course and amenities. We are able to’t await the gamers and employees to expertise every little thing Crown Isle has to supply, and we want all of the gamers properly this week.”
As well as, the championship can even function two further competitions working concurrently at Crown Isle. The Ladies’s Mid-Grasp Championship (gamers aged 40-and-over as of July 11, 2024) can be contested over three championship rounds and the Ladies’s Mid-Beginner Inter-Provincial Group Championship will happen over the primary 36-holes of the event. Six provinces can be represented with three-player groups competing for the Margaret Todd Trophy.
Feminine golfers (aged 25-and-over as of July 11, 2024), with a handicap index of 12.0 or much less are eligible to compete within the Ladies’s Mid-Beginner Championship. The person winner of the Ladies’s Mid-Beginner Championship will obtain an exemption into the 2024 U.S. Ladies’s Mid-Beginner, going down from September 7-12 at Brae Burn Nation Membership in West Newton, Mass. As well as, the champion will obtain an exemption into the 2025 Canadian Ladies’s Beginner Championship.
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