Trinity, Texas – Crew Canada gained the bronze medal within the mixed women and men’s workforce competitors together with one other bronze within the ladies’s workforce competitors at The Spirit Worldwide Novice Golf Championship (The Spirit) at Whispering Pines Golf Membership in Trinity, Texas on Saturday.
Crew Canada was represented by Vanessa Borovilos of Etobicoke, Ont., Lauren Kim of Surrey, B.C., Ashton McCulloch of Kingston, Ont., Justin Matthews of Little Britain, Ont. and coached by Stollery Household Girls’s Head Coach, Salimah Mussani of Vancouver, B.C.
(L to R): Vanessa Borovilos, Justin Matthews, Lauren Kim, Salimah Mussani (Coach), Ashton McCulloch
Within the mixed workforce championship, Canada completed T4 at 36-under (196 ladies’s and 200 males’s) with Denmark. England gained the mixed competitors firing a 44-under to take the gold medal. The Republic of Korea (Korea) and Spain completed tied for second at 39-under. As a result of ties, Korea and Spain shared the silver medal, whereas Canada and Denmark shared bronze.
Borovilos and Kim mixed to shoot 20-under (66-63-67-196) to earn the bronze medal within the ladies’s workforce competitors. Denmark completed at 23-under to win with Spain taking the silver medal at 21-under. On Friday, Canada was led by Borovilos carding six birdies and an eagle. Kim was equally as robust in Thursday’s opening spherical with 5 birdies.
Within the ladies’s particular person competitors, Carla Bernat Escuder of Spain completed first with 21 factors, 2024 World Junior Ladies workforce and particular person champion, Soomin Oh of Korea completed second with 20 factors and Marie Madsen of Denmark completed third with 17 factors. Borovilos completed T5 with 14 factors and Kim completed T11 with 12 factors.
McCulloch and Matthews mixed to shoot 16-under (66-66-68-200) to complete tenth within the males’s workforce competitors. Mexico and England completed tied for first at 28-under with Australia ending third at 25-under.
Individually, Josiah Gilbert of Australia gained the lads’s gold medal ending with 21 factors. Omar Morales of Mexico completed second with 19 factors and Gerardo Gomez (Mexico) and Dominic Clemons (England) completed tied for third with 18 factors. Each McCulloch and Matthews completed T18 with 11 factors.
The eleventh enjoying of The Spirit was contested over 54-holes of stroke-play competitors that introduced collectively 20 nations. Along with the mixed workforce element, opponents battled in particular person championships in addition to males’s and girls’s workforce competitions. Within the particular person competitors, gamers have been awarded factors based mostly solely on birdies and eagles throughout their spherical with one level for a birdie and two for an eagle.
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