Skilled ladies’s championship sequence and regional participation festivals mark the rebirth of an enhanced Canadian Ladies’s Golf Tour and nationwide qualifying path into CPKC Ladies’s Open.
Championship sequence and participation festivals are set for Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto in 2024 with a name for company help additional enlargement in 2025 and past.
Golf Canada is happy to announce that She Performs Golf will increase to a few markets in 2024. She Performs Golf was efficiently piloted throughout Calgary as a part of the Glencoe Invitational in 2023 and new occasions may also be performed in Higher Vancouver and Higher Toronto this summer season.
She Performs Golf is a citywide celebration of girls’s golf anchored in every host market by a $60,000 CAD skilled golf championship contested over 54-holes for a subject of 60 professionals and elite amateurs. These enhanced championships – the Peloton Glencoe Invitational, GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open, and ORORO PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada – shall be newly linked collectively in a She Performs Golf Championship Collection that marks the rebirth of an expert ladies’s golf tour in Canada.
For 2024, the highest two finishers in every occasion from the She Performs Golf Championship Collection will qualify for the CPKC Ladies’s Open on the LPGA Tour, set for Earl Gray Golf Membership in Calgary from July 23-28, 2024.
Gamers will earn factors for his or her finishes within the She Performs Golf Championship Collection in the direction of a series-long standings. The winner of the purpose standings following the ORORO PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada may also earn qualification into the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open, if not in any other case certified, and shall be supported by Golf Canada’s Q faculty bursary program in the event that they enter LPGA Q faculty within the fall.
Complementing the She Performs Golf Championships Collection are concurrently held She Performs Golf Festivals, which characteristic inclusive programming for girls and women who’re leisure golfers or exploring the game for the primary time. She Performs Golf Participation Competition occasions will happen at golf programs throughout the host metropolis throughout the identical week as She Performs Golf Championship Collection tournaments.
“More and more, monetary help for girls’s sports activities in Canada is changing into extra tangible. She Performs Golf will strengthen ladies’s golf in Canada in the identical method that PWHL showcases elite ladies’s hockey expertise and Challenge 8 seeks to remodel ladies’s soccer,” mentioned Laura Wilson, Golf Canada’s Director of Inclusion Packages and Secure Sport. “We’re longing for company companions and different organizations to speculate and align their manufacturers with She Performs Golf to help additional enlargement. The She Performs Golf Championship Collection will present extra taking part in alternatives for Canada’s greatest feminine athletes, filling a void for girls’s skilled occasions in Canada, whereas She Performs Golf Festivals will join ladies and women to golf in a secure, welcoming, and non-intimidating setting.”
The 2024 She Performs Golf Championship Collection will start in Calgary, Alberta with the Peloton Glencoe Invitational from June 12-15 on the Forest Course at Glencoe Golf and Nation Membership. She Performs Golf Competition occasions for girls and women shall be held concurrently throughout the town of Calgary at areas similar to McCall Lake Golf Course, Blue Satan Golf Membership and Golfuture YYC. Moreover, Glencoe will host U.S. Ladies’s Beginner Qualifying following the occasion on Monday, June 17.
The second cease within the 2024 She Performs Golf Championship Collection would be the GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open, June 19-22 at Pitt Meadows Golf Membership in Pitt Meadows, B.C. She Performs Golf Competition occasions will happen at choose programs all through the decrease mainland. As well as, U.S. Junior Women Qualifying will happen June 19 at Riverway Golf Course in Burnaby, on the date of the official observe spherical for the GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open. Juniors entered within the U.S. Junior Qualifier and the GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open might play their observe spherical on an alternate date.
The third and closing occasion of the 2024 She Performs Golf Championship Collection would be the ORORO PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada, July 2-5 at a venue to be introduced within the Higher Toronto Space. PGA of Canada members and touring professionals together with Canada’s prime amateurs and juniors will compete for a nationwide championship. She Performs Golf Participation Competition occasions shall be held at varied golf amenities all through the Higher Toronto Space.
Open to professionals and amateurs from Canada and overseas, all three occasions within the She Performs Golf Championship Collection are performed over 54 holes with a minimize after 36 holes. Every championship will see gamers compete for a $60,000 purse, WAGR factors, and two qualifying spots into the 2024 CPKC Ladies’s Open.
Golf Canada can be creating turnkey sources to allow all 1600+ member amenities to run their very own She Performs Golf Competition occasions. The sources will assist native course operators entice new members and guarantee a enjoyable and constructive first golf expertise for girls and women. The sources will draw inspiration from profitable current ladies’s packages from varied components of Canada, together with Golf Ontario’s Ladies’s Strive Golf program and Golf and Tacos in Western Canada.
Looking forward to 2025 and past, Golf Canada and its companions will work to additional increase the footprint of She Performs Golf to determine a nationwide sequence {of professional} championships and accompanying participation festivals. Canadian corporations and organizations curious about additional strengthening ladies’s golf throughout Canada – from grass roots participation all the best way as much as entry-level skilled golf – are invited to become involved with She Performs Golf.
Extra details about championship entry and competition schedule for every She Performs Golf occasion shall be obtainable within the coming weeks.
