Girls’s groups will compete October 1-4 and Males’s groups from October 8-11 in Singapore
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Golf Canada introduced Friday the roster that can characterize Canada on the 2025 World Novice Workforce Championships, happening on the Tanah Merah Nation Membership (Tampines Course) in Singapore.
The thirty first enjoying of the Girls’s competitors for the Espirito Santo Trophy will run October 1-4, whereas the thirty fourth version of Males’s competitors for the Eisenhower Trophy will comply with from October 8-11.
Representing Canada on the ladies’s crew shall be Lauren Kim of Surrey, B.C., Vanessa Borovilos of Etobicoke, Ont. and Michelle Xing of Richmond Hill, Ont. The ladies’s crew shall be led by coach Jeff MacDonald of Chester, N.S.
“We’re very proud to call our girls’s and males’s groups that can characterize Canada on the 2025 World Novice Workforce Championships this fall in Singapore,” stated Emily Phoenix, Director, Excessive Efficiency, Golf Canada. “Each groups are comprised with an excellent mixture of expertise on the nationwide and worldwide stage and we’re very assured each rosters will compete and characterize Canada proudly.”
Kim is presently ranked No. 17 on the World Novice Golf Rating (WAGR) and shall be making her third look for Canada on the World Novice Workforce Championships. Kim is heading into her junior season on the College of Texas following a memorable sophomore 12 months. Kim captured her second collegiate title on the Betsy Rawls Invitational in March and earned eight high 10 finishes final season. Kim additionally competed within the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice (ANWA) for a second consecutive 12 months, ending T14 to tie the all time Canadian end on the prestigious championship. Borovilos (No. 44 WAGR) not too long ago set the file for the bottom spherical of stroke play within the 125-year historical past of the U.S. Girls’s Novice Golf Championship earlier this month at Bandon Dunes in Bandon, Ore. Borovilos additionally certified and competed within the U.S. Girls’s Open in Might. Borovilos is heading into her sophomore 12 months at Texas A&M College. Final 12 months, she earned her first collegiate title at The Chevron Collegiate together with three further runner-up finishes and was named to the SEC All-Freshman Workforce. Xing (No. 147 WAGR) not too long ago gained the 111th enjoying of the Canadian Girls’s Novice Championship, introduced by BDO. The 17-year-old was the one participant beneath par for the match and gained the Duchess of Connaught Gold Cup by 4 pictures. All three gamers not too long ago competed within the 2025 CPKC Girls’s Open in Mississauga, Ont.
Workforce Canada on the boys’s aspect shall be represented by Ashton McCulloch of Kingston, Ont., Isaiah Ibit or Orleans, Ont. and Justin Matthews of Little Britain, Ont. The lads’s crew shall be led by coach Benoit Lemieux of Montreal, Que.
McCulloch, the 2023 Canadian Males’s Novice champion is presently the bottom ranked Canadian male on WAGR at No. 38. McCulloch is in his closing 12 months at Michigan State College and competed in his second consecutive RBC Canadian Open in June. McCulloch appeared in three tournaments earlier than lacking the rest of his 2025 season with Michigan State attributable to harm. McCulloch loved a profitable 2024 season with Michigan State, incomes a victory on the Johnnie-O at Sea Island and 5 high 5 finishes in addition to ending the 12 months with the perfect scoring common in program historical past. He shall be making his second consecutive look for Canada on the World Novice Workforce Championship. Ibit is coming into his second 12 months at Kent State College. Final season, Ibit was named the MAC Freshman of the 12 months and earned a T3 end on the Hal Williams Collegiate. Ibit (No. 402 WAGR) was runner-up final month on the Canadian Males’s Novice Championship after dropping in a playoff. The 2024 Canadian Junior Boys champion shall be making his debut on the World Novice Workforce Championship. Matthews may even be making his debut in October. Matthews (No. 237 WAGR) is coming into his senior 12 months on the College of North Carolina at Charlotte and was named a 2024-25 Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar. Final season, Matthews earned a pair of collegiate high 5 finishes together with a runner-up on the Gators Invitational.
The World Novice Workforce Championships are a biennial worldwide beginner golf match that’s carried out by the Worldwide Golf Federation. Each occasions encompass 72 holes of stroke play with groups of three gamers. Every spherical, the 2 lowest scores will comprise the crew rating for that spherical.
In 2023, the Republic of Korea gained the Espirito Santo Trophy for the fifth time. Canada has earned 4 silver medals in match historical past in 1966, 1978, 2004 and 2014. The 2014 was represented by 14-time LPGA Tour match winner, Brooke Henderson, Brittany Marchand and Augusta James.
The US shall be defending the Eisenhower Trophy, after successful the title for the sixteenth time in 2023 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Canada gained the 1986 gold medal and was represented by Mark Brewer, Brent Franklin, Jack Kay Jr., Warren Sye and was captained by Doug Brewer. Canada has additionally earned 5 further silver medals (2014, 2006, 1978, 1964, 1962) and one bronze in 1968.
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