24 professionals be part of the beforehand introduced 28 newbie golfers to finish the Crew Canada roster for the 2025 season
Rising Skilled Gamers of the Yr Award, offered by Andrew Cook dinner introduced
OAKVILLE, ON – Golf Canada is happy to announce the names of 24 skilled athletes that will likely be a part of the 2025 males’s and girls’s Crew Canada squads.
The Crew Canada program helps a bunch of skilled newbie golfers on the trail in the direction of skilled golf together with a bunch of younger skilled golfers who’re constructing their careers as touring professionals. Athletes are chosen primarily based on outcomes from the earlier calendar 12 months. The skilled gamers will be part of the seven ladies and two males beforehand chosen to Crew Canada as amateurs along with the Crew Canada – NextGen members that had been introduced final fall.
With gamers selecting to show skilled at totally different factors within the season, an athlete’s involvement within the Crew Canada program together with monetary help continues throughout their transition from newbie to skilled golf.
“We’re proud to announce our full roster {of professional} and newbie gamers for the upcoming season and sit up for supporting their improvement and journeys to the LPGA and PGA TOUR,” mentioned Emily Phoenix, Director of Excessive Efficiency, Golf Canada. “The continued success of Canadian golf wouldn’t be doable with out our beneficiant donors and company companions who share our ardour for supporting our nation’s creating expertise.”
The ladies’s skilled crew options eight returning gamers together with: Brigitte Thibault, Brooke Rivers, Ellie Szeryk, Leah John, Maddie Szeryk, Monet Chun, Savannah Grewal and Yeji Kwon. Additionally becoming a member of the professional group this season is Anna Huang who introduced her choice to show professional final month. Huang will stay on the Crew Canada – NextGen squad this season.
4 crew members gained final season, two of which earlier than they turned skilled. John gained 3 times in her senior 12 months on the College of Nevada. Chun was the co-medalist within the Massive Ten Championship and added one extra win to shut her collegiate profession on the College of Michigan. Ellie Szeryk gained her first skilled occasion, claiming the GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open as a part of the She Performs Golf Championship Collection which additionally earned her an exemption into the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open, the place she made the lower. Kwon was additionally victorious, profitable the Genesis of Conway Central Arkansas Open as a part of the ANNIKA Ladies’s All Professional Tour. Thibault, Rivers, John, Maddie Szeryk, and Chun will all be competing on the Epson Tour this season whereas Grewal re-earned her LPGA Tour card for 2025.
The lads’s skilled crew options 15 returning gamers for the upcoming season together with: AJ Ewart, Brady McKinlay, Brendan MacDougall, Chris Crisologo, Étienne Papineau, Jared du Toit, Joey Savoie, Johnny Travale, Matthew Anderson, Myles Creighton, Noah Steele, Piercen Hunt, Stuart Macdonald, Sudarshan Yellamaraju and Thomas Giroux.
Final season, Anderson gained the ECP Brazil Open, Macdonald gained the Diners Membership Peru Open and Ewart gained the Elk Ridge Saskatchewan Open, all on PGA TOUR Americas. Ewart added one other win on the Sandpiper Open as a part of the Vancouver Golf Tour. The 2025 season bought off to a robust begin for Yellamaraju, who gained The Bahamas Nice Abaco Traditional on the Korn Ferry Tour. Yellamaraju together with Papineau, Anderson, Creighton and Macdonald will likely be competing on the Korn Ferry Tour this season. Ewart, Macdougall, Crisologo, Savoie, Steele and Giroux all have standing on PGA TOUR Americas for 2025.
Crew Canada – Ladies
(Along with the seven gamers chosen through the newbie choice course of within the fall)
Crew Canada – Males
(Along with the 2 gamers chosen through the newbie choice course of within the fall)
As beforehand introduced, the teaching workers for the lads’s and girls’s Crew Canada squads will return in full for the 2025 season. Crew Canada – Ladies will likely be led by Stollery Household Ladies’s Head Coach Salimah Mussani (Vancouver, B.C.) and Affiliate Coach Jennifer Greggain (Deep Bay, B.C.). The Ladies’s Crew is supported by Psychological Efficiency Coach Judy Goss (Toronto, Ont.) in addition to Energy and Conditioning Coach Andrea Kosa (Calgary, Alta.).
Crew Canada – Males will likely be led by Head Coach Derek Ingram (Winnipeg, Man.) and Assistant Coaches Louis Melanson (Moncton, N.B.) and Benoit Lemieux (Montréal, Que.), together with Psychological Efficiency Coach Dr. Adrienne Leslie-Toogood (Winnipeg, Man.) and Energy and Conditioning Coach Greg Redman (Kelowna, B.C.).
For full Crew Canada bios and extra info, please click on right here.
For the Crew Canada – NextGen and Crew Canada newbie squad announcement, please click on right here.
Golf Canada’s participant improvement program supplies individualized coaching and competitors help to athletes on their journey to the LPGA and PGA TOUR. Nationwide crew coaches work with athletes and their private help groups to develop annual coaching plans and establish areas the place influence may be made to assist athletes enhance in all areas of their recreation. Athletes are additionally supported by a complete sport science crew that features psychological efficiency, bodily conditioning, and psychological well being helps. The gamers are introduced collectively repeatedly for coaching camps the place they obtain help from nationwide crew coaches and sport science workers, and practice with their friends. Crew Canada members additionally obtain entry to coaching hubs in Phoenix, Ariz. and the lately opened facility at Cabot Citrus Farms in Brooksville, Fla. the place they will practice and dwell through the winter months.
Crew Canada is proudly supported by RBC, Canadian Pacific Kansas Metropolis (CPKC), Titleist, FootJoy, Hilton, Puma, Foresight, Golf Canada Basis and Sport Canada.
EMERGING PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS OF THE YEAR AWARD
The Golf Canada Basis can be proud to announce Savannah Grewal and Matthew Anderson because the recipients of the Rising Skilled Gamers of the Yr Award, offered by Andrew Cook dinner for the 2024 season. In 2020, Andrew Cook dinner, a proud trustee of the Golf Canada Basis, and previous president of Golf Canada, established a $20,000 annual fund to acknowledge a prime male and prime feminine rising Canadian skilled golfer. Previous recipients embody present PGA TOUR member Taylor Pendrith, Korn Ferry Tour members Wil Bateman and Stuart Macdonald, and LPGA Tour members Maude-Aimee Leblanc and Maddie Szeryk.
“We’re happy to call Savannah and Matthew because the Rising Skilled Gamers of the Yr,” mentioned Martin Barnard, CEO of the Golf Canada Basis. “We’re extremely grateful to Andrew Cook dinner for his continued help of the Crew Canada program and this annual award. It makes an enormous distinction to assist our gamers on their journey to the very best ranges {of professional} golf.”
Grewal, who has now gained the award in back-to-back years, competed in 21 occasions on the LPGA Tour in 2024, making 10 cuts and incomes a T4 end on the Blue Bay LPGA in March. Grewal retained her LPGA Tour card for 2025 after ending within the prime 100 within the Race to CME Globe standings.
Anderson loved a profitable season on PGA TOUR Americas, incomes six top-10 finishes together with one win together with a runner-up and two third place finishes, whereas making 14 cuts in 16 occasions. Anderson was the highest Canadian on PGA TOUR Americas and completed third on the season-long factors race to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for 2025.
