Stouffer helped lead Workforce British Columbia to a second-consecutive Inter-Provincial Workforce Championship on Wednesday; Mary-Ann Hayward claims second Tremendous Senior Championship
NANAIMO, B.C. – Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C. put the ending touches on her third profession win on the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship, offered by BDO, on Thursday, taking pictures 2-over par in her last spherical to safe victory at Nanaimo Golf Membership in Nanaimo, B.C.
Stouffer jumped out to a two-stroke lead within the Senior Championship on Tuesday and by no means regarded again, main wire-to-wire and wrapping up her newest title with a mixed rating of 72-67-74-213. Stouffer’s profitable rating of 213 is her finest efficiency on the nationwide championship, buoyed by a 5-under 67 on Wednesday that now stands because the course report at Nanaimo Golf Membership.
“It’s superior to win the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship,” stated Stouffer, “It’s been a pair years since I’ve been out of it however I’m comfortable to be again within the winners circle,” she added, profitable the event in entrance of household, pals and crucially, her mother for the primary time.
“It’s that rather more particular to me, having extra individuals round to form of take all of it in with me.”
Thursday’s win on the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship, offered by BDO, secures Stouffer a spot in subsequent 12 months’s U.S. Senior Girls’s Open, Canadian Girls’s Beginner Championship and Canadian Girls’s Mid-Beginner Championship. She may also get the possibility to defend her title on the 2026 Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship as properly.
“I performed right here fairly a bit this 12 months in preparation for this event as a result of I actually wished to win and get it accomplished and it was superior to get it accomplished at this time,” added Stouffer. “That is the primary time it’s been actually near house, so it was form of like a house recreation which was superior.”
A day faraway from main Workforce British Columbia to a comeback win over Workforce Ontario within the Inter-Provincial Workforce Championship, Stouffer opened her last spherical on Thursday with back-to-back pars to remain properly in entrance of her closest chaser, Mary-Ann Hayward of St. Thomas, Ont., and preserve her six-stroke lead. Bogeys on the third and fourth holes for Stouffer trimmed her benefit over the sphere to 4 strokes, although the dip in efficiency would solely be a brief one for the 55-year-old after getting a shot again on the par-4 fifth to remain within the driver’s seat.
Stouffer added birdies later in her spherical on Nos. 13 and 14, stringing collectively the same response to her dropped pictures earlier within the spherical after bogeying the twelfth gap and reducing her result in three strokes. The recent stretch proved important in sustaining Stouffer’s place atop the Senior Championship on Thursday after the B.C. native performed her last 4 holes at 2-over par after carding a double bogey on the sixteenth gap.
Within the Canadian Girls’s Tremendous Senior Championship, Hayward didn’t lose any steam within the quest for her second profession Tremendous Senior title, carding a bogey-free 71 in her last spherical to energy her approach to an eight-stroke victory.
The Canadian Golf Corridor of Famer opened her spherical Thursday with 11 consecutive pars earlier than knocking in her first birdie on the twelfth gap, ending her day with six extra pars to seize a gradual end to the week.
Along with Stouffer and Hayward’s triumphs, Nanaimo Golf Membership welcomed two hole-in-ones on Thursday to carry an thrilling near the 2025 Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship. Gisselle Willimus of Edmonton, Alta. was the primary to perform the feat, holing out her tee shot on the 120-yard par-3 fourth to finish her week on an thrilling notice.
Marie-Thérèse Torti of Candiac, Que. was the second participant to ship her tee shot straight into the fourth gap, doing so a bit of after Willimus within the afternoon so as to add an additional layer of pleasure to her high ten end. Torti is a Quebec Golf Corridor of Famer and claimed the Canadian Girls’s Mid-Beginner Championship in 2010.
On Wednesday, Workforce British Columbia edged out Workforce Ontario by one stroke to repeat as champions within the Inter-Provincial Workforce Championship. The competitors runs concurrently by means of the primary 36 holes of the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship, offered by BDO, and was claimed by Workforce British Columbia with a mixed rating of 10-over par.
The champions had been represented by Kyoka Takahashi of Vancouver, B.C., June Zhang of Coquitlam, B.C. and Stouffer, the latter main the staff in each rounds to assist mount a profitable come-from-behind win.
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