Inter-Provincial Crew Championship to happen concurrently over the primary two rounds of 54-hole competitors
NANAIMO, B.C. – A confirmed discipline heads to Nanaimo Golf Membership in Nanaimo, B.C. August 26-28 to contend for the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship, introduced by BDO, in addition to the concurrent Inter-Provincial Crew Championship.
Two-time Senior winner Judith Kyrinis of Thornhill, Ont. headlines the sphere in Nanaimo and can look to perform the brace of successful each the Canadian Girls’s Mid-Am Championship and Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship in the identical season for a second time in her profession. Kyrinis final pulled off the double in 2019 and has since been joined by Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C. who claimed each titles in 2022.
Stouffer is the second of six previous champions teeing off at this week’s occasion and can look so as to add a 3rd title to her resume on the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship. The 55-year-old enters the match with momentum, having received her sixth-consecutive British Columbia Girls’s Senior title in June in addition to the Irish Senior Girls’s Newbie Championship a month later.
4-time champion Mary Ann Hayward of St. Thomas, Ont. will be a part of Stouffer and Kyrinis within the discipline alongside two-time champion Sue Wooster of Phoenix, Australia, 2014 champion Hélène Chartrand of Salaberry de Valleyfield, Que. and two-time champion Jackie Little of Procter, B.C.
“We’re thrilled to welcome a powerful discipline with a number of previous champions to compete for our Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship title this week at Nanaimo Golf Membership,” mentioned Golf Canada Event Director, Madeline MacMillan. “We’d prefer to sincerely thank the course employees and volunteers for his or her heat hospitality within the buildup to this nationwide championship and we are able to’t wait to get motion began this week.”
The Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship includes a pair of aggressive divisions, the Senior division and the Tremendous Senior division that run concurrently all through the competitors’s 54 holes. Feminine with a handicap index of 16.4 or much less are eligible to compete within the 2026 Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship
An Inter-Provincial Crew competitors is held all through the occasion’s first 36 holes as gamers accumulate scores for his or her province over the course of their opening two rounds. Every day, the 2 lowest scores of the three gamers representing every province will rely in the direction of the staff’s whole rating, with Crew British Columbia main that cost in 2024 to assert their second Katherine Helleur Trophy within the final three years. The province will look so as to add one other title this week after they tee off in entrance of a house crowd at Nanaimo Golf Membership.
“Nanaimo Golf Membership is proud and honored to host Canada’s high senior girls golfers, households, and followers for the Canadian Senior Girls’s Championship, August 25–28, 2025, bringing national-level competitors to Vancouver Island,” mentioned Nanaimo Golf Membership Basic Supervisor, Charles Stephen.
Opening in 1962 with 14 of their 18 holes prepared for motion, Nanaimo Golf Membership has since grow to be one of many best programs on Vancouver Island by way of its championship-caliber check and year-round accessibility. Designed by revered course architect A.V Macan, Nanaimo Golf Membership options superior placing greens and distinctive course conditioning that continues to face as a real reflection of the imaginative and prescient set out by the well-known Pacific Northwest designer from the early 1950’s.
“This premier occasion brings collectively elite rivals from throughout North America, showcasing each distinctive expertise and the camaraderie that defines the game. Spectators will benefit from the alternative to observe world-class golf up shut whereas experiencing the membership’s famend hospitality and scenic magnificence,” added Stephen.
The course has undergone a number of main renovations over time, to take care of the excellence that Nanaimo Golf Membership is thought for and as of 2025, includes a coated driving vary, two placing greens and a 12-year-old clubhouse that provides a picturesque view of the Strait of Georgia.
Performed since 1971, the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship has featured lots of the nation’s high senior golfers. Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame members Marlene Streit, Gayle Borthwick, Marilyn O’Connor and Margaret Todd all personal senior championship titles.
The occasion’s historic previous is paired with a notable listing of exemptions awarded to the winner of the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship, together with a spot within the discipline on the 2025 U.S. Senior Girls’s Newbie Championship set for September 13-18 on the Cascades Course at Omni Homestead Resort. Moreover, a spot within the 2026 U.S. Senior Girls’s Open, 2026 Canadian Girls’s Newbie Championship, 2026 Canadian Girls’s Mid-Newbie Championship and 2026 Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship will likely be claimed by the winner. This week’s champion may also earn a 10-year exemption into the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship and might compete within the competitors if eligible.
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