Stouffer completes clear sweep profitable Mid-Beginner, Mid-Grasp and Inter-Provincial Staff titles at Crown Isle Resort and Golf Neighborhood
Courtenay, B.C. – It was fairly the battle throughout Saturday’s last spherical between Shelly Stouffer and Catherine Matranga, however in the long run, Stouffer pulled forward to win the 2024 Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Beginner, offered by BDO on the Crown Isle Resort and Golf Neighborhood (Crown Isle) in Courtenay, B.C.
Stouffer and Matranga had been tied at 2-over heading to the seventeenth at Crown Isle, and that’s the place Stouffer grabbed the lead with a birdie to maneuver forward of Matranga, who pared. On 18, Stouffer secured the victory in convincing trend with one other birdie to complete the match at even par, two pictures away from Matranga of Fort Price, Texas.
“Yeah, it’s wonderful, actually joyful about it,” mentioned Stouffer with a smile. “I used to be simply holding observe of it, considering she’ll make that after which she did and now it’s a two-shot sport and I needed to make some lengthy putts too, some lengthy par saves that I made which was good. I simply undergo my routine and do the identical factor and also you lean in your routine and hope that will get you thru it and was in a position to make a birdie-birdie end,” mentioned Stouffer following her spherical on Saturday.
“17 is a double fairway the place you’ll be able to go proper or left and within the center is a bunker and group of timber so I’m attempting to go proper and I hit a horrible tee shot that went left and went over the bunker and bounced into the green leaving me 85 yards to the opening, I hit that shot pin excessive to 12 toes and left of the opening and made birdie,” mentioned Stouffer.
On 18, Stouffer hit her drive proper down the center of the green, leaving herself 93 yards to the pin. She put her second shot to inside 5 toes of the opening to shut with a birdie and the nationwide championship.
This marks the second Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Beginner title for Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C. who was triumphant in 2022 in Manitoba, previous to the Ladies’s Mid-Beginner changing into a standalone occasion final yr.
Stouffer completed with rounds of 75-68-73-216 and likewise claimed the Mid-Grasp title by 9 pictures over Taya Battistella of Bellingham, Wash. She was additionally a part of Staff British Columbia, who earned the Margaret Todd Trophy as Inter-Provincial Staff champions on Friday. Staff British Columbia completed with a mixed rating of 8-over, to beat Alberta by ten pictures. Along with Stouffer, the host province was represented by Jamie Oleksiew of Vancouver, B.C. and Aram Choi of Surrey, B.C.
Stouffer loved the week at Crown Isle, “it was superior, the course was nice and earlier than this yr I hadn’t performed it in most likely 25 years however I knew the match was right here so I got here up and performed 5 instances beforehand, so I acquired to see the golf course a variety of instances which was nice.”
Together with her victory, Stouffer has earned exemptions into the 2024 U.S. Ladies’s Mid-Beginner, happening from September 7-12 at Brae Burn Nation Membership in West Newton, Mass., in addition to an exemption into the 2025 Canadian Ladies’s Beginner Championship.
Along with profitable all three trophies at Crown Isle, Stouffer has additionally gained the B.C. Ladies’s Mid-Grasp Championship and the B.C. Ladies’s Senior Championship this season. Saturday was additional particular as her son, Brett caddied the ultimate 9 holes for her. Following the trophy presentation, Stouffer mirrored on her season thus far.
“It’s going properly up to now,” she mentioned with amusing. “I’m liking the way in which the path goes. My son is taking part in golf too and it’s been exhausting to prepare as a result of he was over at Ledgeview this week taking part in within the B.C. Beginner in order that’s why he was right here for the final 9 holes and completed caddying for me. It’s been a very good journey up to now and I’m simply going to attempt to maintain going.”
For the ultimate standings from the 2024 Canadian Ladies’s Mid-Beginner Championship, click on right here.
