Manotick, Ont. – David Lang carded a 5-under 65 to steer after the opening spherical on the 2024 Canadian Males’s Mid-Novice Championship, offered by BDO, held on the Carleton Golf and Yacht Membership in Manotick, Ont.
Lang of Toronto, Ont. made a complete of six birdies throughout spherical one; the lone blemish for Lang was a bogey on the par-4 fifteenth gap. He holds a one stroke lead over Tyson Ehnes of Winnipeg, Man. who sits second after taking pictures a 4-under 66 on Tuesday.
“It was an amazing day right now. I’ve been taking part in fairly nicely coming into this week, so I simply actually needed to stay to my sport plan and every thing went very nicely,” mentioned Lang. “I had an amazing group and we had loads of enjoyable on the market so we had been simply type of maintaining issues gentle and wasn’t actually attempting to consider something apart from the shot at hand.”
With having received the 2022 Nicola Wealth Ontario Males’s Mid-Novice Championship, Lang is trying to etch his identify on the Presidents Cup for the primary time.
“I had a little bit of a sport plan coming into right now as I performed yesterday and it was my first time seeing the golf course and I simply actually needed to make it possible for I do typically hit it fairly straight and simply needed to choose my spots proper the place I do hit driver and get aggressive and that’s what I attempted to do right now and it ended up figuring out nicely, so I’m going to try to proceed that for the subsequent three days,” mentioned Lang.
With sunny circumstances and the course being in spectacular form Lang shares, “the greens had been operating superior right now and I imply it’s clearly gotten loads of water not too long ago, so the greens had been fast and I might see the traces nicely so it helped me make six birdies right now. I’m going to try to keep on with the identical sport plan I had going into right now and attempt to do the identical factor going into the subsequent three days and see what occurs on the finish of the week.”
Ehnes carded a complete of seven birdies, with three bogeys throughout his spherical to carry second place following the opening spherical.
Gary Pike of Victoria, B.C., sits third within the Mid-Novice division and leads the Mid-Grasp division by one-stroke. The Mid-Grasp is a separate division for gamers 40 and older. Pike shot a 2-under 68 carding 4 birdies in the course of the opening spherical. Brooks Lancaster of Kaleden, B.C., is at present in second place behind Pike following a 1-under 69.
Crew Manitoba owns a four-shot benefit within the Inter-Provincial Crew Championship over Crew British Columbia and Crew Alberta. Lyle Mackenzie’s 1-under and Drew Jones even par rounds contributed to the entire workforce rating of 1-under after spherical one.
“My sport plan going into right now was to hit fairways and greens because it’s a really tight golf course and I believe there’s a premium for sacrifice so it’s alright to sacrifice distance off of the tee and simply be sure you are on in a great place on each gap and it appeared to work out for me,” mentioned Manitoba Crew Captain Lyle Mackenzie. “I believe tomorrow I want to see just a few extra putts go in, I bought off to a slower begin right now as I bogeyed holes one and two which wasn’t nice as I hit poor drives on each of these holes and didn’t recuperate so I see what occurs whenever you miss the green and I believe going into tomorrow’s spherical, I do all the identical issues however make sure that I hit the green on holes one and two and get rolling early. It’s a protracted event and you may’t win it on the primary or second day so my aim is to exit tomorrow and do the identical issues I did right now and hopefully make just a few extra putts and be proper there heading into spherical three.”
Crew British Columbia and Crew Alberta are tied for second place with a complete rating of 3-over. The workforce part will conclude following tomorrow’s second spherical with the winner being awarded the Bruce Forbes Trophy.
Along with the Canadian Males’s Mid-Novice title, the 2024 champion will obtain direct exemptions into the 2024 U.S. Males’s Mid-Novice Championship and the 2025 Canadian Males’s Novice and Mid-Novice Championships.
For the leaderboard following the opening spherical of the 2024 Canadian Males’s Mid-Novice Championship, offered by BDO, please click on right here.
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