Calgary, Alta. – Golf Canada and the Golf Canada Basis are proud to formally announce the creation of the Jocelyne Bourassa Legacy Fund, honouring the legacy of Canadian Golf Corridor of Famer and trailblazer Jocelyne Bourassa. In a becoming tribute to the inaugural winner of the CPKC Girls’s Open.
The Jocelyne Bourassa Legacy Fund was created with two clear aims: First, to extend the variety of ladies within the high-performance teaching career by offering full tuition grants to profitable candidates of the yr lengthy Girls in Teaching Program led by Golf Canada and the PGA of Canada. Secondly, to offer training grants for girls athletes who’re a part of Golf Canada’s Crew Canada Program.
“The Bourassa Legacy Training Grant can be crucial in supporting our greatest ladies amateurs by permitting them to concentrate on their pursuit of the LPGA Tour whereas realizing they are going to be supported after they select to proceed their training sooner or later,” stated Emily Phoenix, Director of Excessive Efficiency, Golf Canada. “Moreover, the help for the Girls in Teaching Program will enhance alternatives for girls in high-performance teaching and impression the following era of Canadian golfers.”
The fund is a part of Golf Canada’s high-performance strategic plan to assist 30 Canadians attain the LPGA and PGA TOUR by 2032. The fashionable path to the LPGA Tour usually requires one of the best amateurs to show skilled earlier than graduating from faculty – solely 20 per cent of the present high 50 ladies on the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings graduated from college. The creation of the academic grants will help excessive efficiency gamers as they face the troublesome choice of when to show skilled.
Crew Canada member, Brooke Rivers of Brampton, Ont. would be the first eligible recipient of the Bourassa Legacy Training Grant. Rivers not too long ago turned skilled following one-year of collegiate golf at Wake Forest College. In her freshman yr, Rivers notched two High 15 finishes and reached her greatest rating of no. 141 on the World Novice Golf Rankings. In her skilled debut, Rivers completed as runner-up on the GolfBC Group BC Girls’s Open as a part of the She Performs Golf Championship sequence, incomes an exemption within the 2024 CPKC Girls’s Open. As a Bourassa Legacy Training Grant recipient, Rivers can be supported to complete her training sooner or later.
The monetary goal of the Bourassa Fund is to lift $1 million. One yr after a gentle launch the Fund is closing in on 50 per cent of its fundraising purpose. Jocelyne Bourassa Legacy Fund committee members embody Joelle Efford (Chair, Jocelyne Bourassa Legacy Fund and Sr. Director Improvement, Golf Canada Basis), Diane Dunlop-Hebert (Golf Canada Previous President and Honorary Life Governor), Chris Greatrex (former LPGA and PGA of Canada skilled), Debbie Savoy-Morel (Skilled Emeritus and Ambassador, Membership de Golf Le Mirage), Mary-Lee Cobick (Sr. Vice President, LPGA Basis and Professionals), Libby Skinner (trusted colleague of Jocelyne) and Liz Hoffman (Golf Canada Previous President, Honorary Life Governor and Golf Canada Basis Board member).
Jocelyne Bourassa gained the primary LPGA Tour Canadian occasion in 1973 formally often known as La Canadienne, now the CPKC Girls’s Open. Bourassa served as the manager director of the du Maurier Traditional, one of many LPGA’s 4 main championships. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1972 and was inducted into the Quebec Golf Corridor of Fame in 1995, Golf Canada’s Corridor of Fame in 1996 and into Canada’s Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 2015. Bourassa handed away on August 3, 2021, on the age of 74.
For extra data on the Jocelyne Bourassa Legacy Fund, please contact Joelle Efford at jefford@golfcanada.ca. To make a donation to the Jocelyne Bourassa Legacy Fund, please click on right here.
