Workforce Alberta leads the Inter-Provincial Workforce Championship by 4 photographs over Workforce Ontario
Victoria, B.C. – Cloudy and overcast climate situations made for an excellent begin at Royal Colwood Golf Membership because the opening spherical of the one hundred and tenth Canadian Ladies’s Newbie introduced by BDO formally started on Tuesday. The leaderboard fluctuated all through the day, however Australia’s Momo Sugiyama shot a 6-under 66, positioning herself because the chief by one shot after the opening spherical.
Sugiyama of Gold Coast, Australia, carded a complete of seven birdies. After a gap 9 of 1-under 35, she birdied holes 10, 12, and 14 earlier than back-to-back on 16 and 17 to come back dwelling in 5-under 31 as she paces the sphere into spherical two.
“It feels nice. I performed stable at the moment and made a number of putts, I’m pleased with that and clearly this can be a huge match and I performed it final yr and loved it so it’s an enormous honour to be the chief,” mentioned Sugiyama. “I’m going to attempt to do the identical factor for spherical two as there may be a variety of golf left and hold hitting fairways and making as many putts as I can.”
Caitlin Peirce from Adelaide, Australia carded a complete of seven birdies firing a 5-under 67 to take a seat in second place, just one stroke again of Sugiyama after the opening spherical.
“I used to be hitting it fairly shut so I had a variety of quick birdie putts however these greens are fairly slick so in case you are within the unsuitable spot, it may be fairly difficult,” mentioned Peirce. “Hopefully I play tomorrow like I did at the moment, hold holing some putts, hit it good and see the way it goes.”
Casey Weidenfeld (Pembroke Pines Fla.) and Ashley Kozlowski (Littleton, Colo.) are each heading into the second spherical tied for third place following rounds of 4-under 68.
Six Canadians ended their spherical contained in the top-10. Workforce Canada NextGen member, Anna Huang of Vancouver sits in a tie for fifth with Ashleen Kaur of Cypress, Texas, three photographs again of the lead following rounds of 3-under 69. Reigning Canadian Junior Ladies champion and Workforce Canada NextGen member Shauna Liu (Maple, Ont.) is presently in a six-way tie for seventh after taking pictures 2-under 70. Workforce Canada member and defending champion Lauren Kim of Surrey, B.C. is a kind of tied with Liu after carding 5 birdies, to additionally sit at 2-under 70. Workforce Canada NextGen member Swetha Sathish of Oakville, Ont. can be amongst these tied for with Liu and Kim at 2-under.
Workforce Alberta, consisting of Eileen Park of Pink Deer, Alta., Jenna Bruggeman of Edmonton, and Grace Bell of Calgary lead the Inter-Provincial group competitors at even par. Workforce Ontario, seeking to defend their nationwide title presently sit 4 strokes again of Alberta at 4-over.
The 2024 champion of the Canadian Ladies’s Newbie Championship will earn direct exemption into the 2024 U.S. Ladies’s Newbie Championship and the 2025 CPKC Ladies’s Open at Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership.
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