Ding recorded rounds of 71-66-71 to assert the GolfBC Group BC Girls’s Open
Whistler, B.C. – Clara Ding of White Rock, B.C. acquired the She Performs Golf Championship Collection off to an exciting begin on Saturday, profitable the GolfBC Group BC Girls’s Open with a birdie on the ultimate gap to edge out a duo of Crew Canada novice skills.
The trio of Crew Canada athletes together with Katie Cranston of Oakville, Ont., Clairey Lin of Langley, B.C. and Ding all held the lead at totally different levels of the again 9 throughout the remaining spherical on the Nicklaus North Course in Whistler, B.C.
Ding – who opened Saturday with a one-stroke lead over Lin after enjoying the ultimate ten holes of her second spherical Friday at five-under par – misplaced floor early on Sunday after making bogey at holes three and 5 to drop to five-under par.
Lin took benefit of the uncommon slip-up from the 36-hole chief, sinking birdies at Nos. three, 4 and 5 to tug right into a tie with Ding atop the leaderboard. In the meantime, Cranston – who began her spherical earlier within the afternoon, made the flip at three-under par and positioned herself nicely within the hunt of the match’s high spot to amplify the stress on the duo forward.
The 2 Crew Canada NextGen athletes continued to commerce locations main as much as the ultimate gap as Cranston cemented her place because the clubhouse chief at seven-under par and carding the bottom spherical of the afternoon.
After dropping a shot on the par-four fifteenth, Lin bounced again with a birdie on 18 to tie Cranston on the high at seven-under par, although her birdie can be unsuccessful in forcing a playoff as Ding – additionally tied atop the leaderboard at seven-under par – rolled in a birdie putt of her personal on the ultimate gap to grab again the lead she opened with and declare the title.
The thrilling victory punches Ding’s ticket into this 12 months’s CPKC Girls’s Open set to happen at Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership in Mississauga, Ont. from August 20-24. The runner up finishes from Lin and Cranston nabs the duo 2,100 factors every within the season-long standings.
Gamers who compete within the circuit accumulate factors from their finishes which are put in the direction of a season-long standings. The highest finisher on the season-long level standings, who doesn’t have already got an exemption by means of profitable a She Performs Golf Championship Collection occasion, additionally receives an exemption to the 2025 CPKC Girls’s Open.
For the ultimate standings, leaderboards and purse distribution from the GolfBC Group BC Girls’s Open, please click on right here.
With stops across the nation, the She Performs Golf Championship Collection supplies an enhanced nationwide qualifying path for gamers to punch their ticket into the CPKC Girls’s Open. Anchored In three areas by a $60,000 CAD purse, every championship subject options 60 skilled and elite amateurs vying for an exemption into Canadia’s Nationwide Girls’s Open.
The sequence efficiently debuted as a part of the Glencoe Invitational in 2023. Subsequent cease for the She Performs Golf Championship Collection would be the Peloton Glencoe Invitational in Calgary, Alta. at The Glencoe Golf and Nation Membership from June 12-14. The ultimate match would be the PGA Girls’s Championship of Canada, happening at Burlington Golf and Nation Membership in Burlington, Ont. from July 7-10.
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