Shelly Stouffer leads each the Mid-Newbie and Mid-Grasp divisions following play on Friday
Courtenay, B.C. – The Margaret Todd Trophy received’t need to journey far, because the host province, Crew British Columbia have claimed the crew championship beating out Crew Alberta on the 2024 Canadian Girls’s Mid-Newbie on the Crown Isle Resort and Golf Group (Crown Isle) in Courtenay, B.C.
Crew British Columbia completed with a mixed rating of 8-over, to beat Alberta by ten photographs within the 36-hole occasion. The host province was represented by Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C., Jamie Oleksiew of Vancouver, B.C. and Aram Choi of Surrey, B.C.
On Friday, Stouffer led the cost firing a 4-under 68, whereas Oleksiew recorded a 7-over 79 to have their scores rely towards the crew complete. The 2 lowest scores from the three crew members are recorded in the direction of the crew’s mixed rating for the day.
“It’s good to complete on high, it doesn’t really feel good to return in second and we got here in second each on the Mid-Am and the Senior final yr, so I’m fairly completely satisfied to get again to successful and with a distinct crew. It’s at all times enjoyable to win the gold for positive,” stated Stouffer on her crew’s win on Friday.
Together with firing the low spherical of the day, Stouffer has discovered herself again in acquainted territory as she now sits atop the leaderboard in each the Mid-Newbie and Mid-Grasp divisions. Stouffer is at the moment at 1-under for the event and holds a three-shot lead on spherical one chief Catherine Matranga of Fort Price, Texas, heading into the ultimate spherical at Crown Isle.
Stouffer credited her sturdy spherical to hitting 16 greens coupled with sturdy placing on Friday.
“My placing and distance management was actually good, so I didn’t actually have loads of tense pars. I made one key sand save on quantity six and needed to make a 12-footer there and that stored me going as a result of I had simply birdied 5 and was good to not have a birdie then a bogey proper after, so it was superior to make that putt,” added Stouffer.
Stouffer famous that one of many two holes that she three-putted on Thursday occurred to be the sixth after discovering a bunker. She went on to double bogey the opening within the opening spherical however made up for it with par on Friday. The again 9 is the place Stouffer actually took cost, birding three of her ultimate 4 holes to report a 68.
“I simply stored hitting greens and two-putting and getting near birdies and I believed I’m going to make one right here or there. I made an extended one on 15 after which a couple of 15-footer on 16 after which I made a 30-footer on 18, so I rolled in some lengthy ones on the finish,” stated Stouffer.
Stouffer admitted that she didn’t do any scoreboard watching on Friday, and that the course felt a bit shorter throughout her spherical though some pin placements made for some trickier shot making. That is acquainted territory for Stouffer, who received the Mid-Newbie, Mid-Grasp and Inter-Provincial Crew Championship in 2022, she is going to depend on that have heading into tomorrow’s ultimate spherical.
“All of the experiences you undergo undoubtedly assist to organize for any event. The extra event expertise you have got the higher and likewise with the ability to know win is a particular plus.
“So, I’ll simply do the identical factor as I’ve the previous two days. Simply maintaining within the current and simply be calm and hit fairways and greens that’s all I’m going to attempt to do and make some putts like I did in the present day,” she added following her spherical on Friday.
As well as, Stouffer additionally holds a five-shot lead within the Mid-Grasp division over Taya Battistella of Bellingham, Wash. Battistella additionally sits alone in third within the Mid- Newbie division.
The event started with a subject of 64 golfers (aged 25-and-over as of July 11, 2024), with a handicap index of 12.0. The person winner of the Girls’s Mid-Newbie Championship will obtain an exemption into the 2024 U.S. Girls’s Mid-Newbie, 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 Girls’s Newbie Championship.
For leaderboard following Friday’s second spherical on the 2024 Canadian Girls’s Mid-Newbie Championship, click on right here.
