As Ellie Szeryk lined up her closing putt to seal the win on the B.C. Girls’s Open, she spied longtime good friend Brooke Rivers lurking across the inexperienced with a bottle of water.
Positive sufficient, when Szeryk made the putt, the chase was on with Rivers making an attempt to douse her with water.
“I ran so far as I might, however she nonetheless bought me fairly good,” Szeryk stated with fun. “Nevertheless it was enjoyable. In golf you normally try this to your actually good associates once they win.
“So it was actually candy that she did that. It’s like an unstated honour.”
Szeryk beat Rivers by 4 strokes at Pitt Meadows Golf Membership on Sunday of their skilled debuts. Each golfers additionally earned berths on the CPKC Girls’s Open, July 25-28 at Calgary’s Earl Gray Golf Membership.
“It was simply very nice to have the ability to have adopted via on one thing that I had been fascinated about,” stated Szeryk. “It’s not at all times simple to golf. It’s simply three rounds and you don’t have any thought what the course is like and the way it’s going to play.”
Incomes their manner into the nationwide ladies’s championship, relatively than counting on a sponsor’s exemption, was a aid to each gamers.
“I knew that there’d be a superb alternative for that,” stated Szeryk, from London, Ont. “It’s been on my thoughts the final couple of months, like since I signed up.
“I knew I wanted to verify I had my sport proper so I might make the most of it as a result of I knew that they weren’t going to be plenty of sponsored exemptions for this Canadian Open.”
Rivers agreed.
“It does really feel actually good to earn the exemption spot by myself via good play,” stated Rivers, from Brampton, Ont. “It additionally feels a bit of extra rewarding whereas being there since you really feel such as you had achieved the whole lot with the intention to put your self there.”
Rivers added with fun: “It’s a bit of bit simpler when reserving journey that you just don’t must do it the week earlier than.”
Each Szeryk and Rivers turned professional after the conclusion of the NCAA golf season. They’re each spending time with household and practising earlier than the ORORO PGA Girls’s Championship of Canada tees off at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ont., on July 2.
“I’m actually excited to show professional, and it’s one thing that I’ve wished to do my complete life,” stated Rivers, who performed one season at Wake Forest College. “It’s one thing I’ve been working towards my complete life.
“I simply felt that I used to be ready the place I used to be prepared to show professional and I used to be prepared to start out competing.”
Golf Canada introduced the early commitments to the fiftieth taking part in of the Girls’s Open on Monday, with eight of the present top-10 and 83 of the top-100 gamers on the Race to the CME Globe Standings entered within the nationwide ladies’s championship.
The 156-player discipline might be competing at Earl Gray Golf Membership for the primary time in event historical past. It is going to be the seventh time that Alberta hosts the Girls’s Open and first time since 2016.
LPGA TOUR — Hamilton’s Alena Sharp is within the Dow Championship three days after making Canada’s Olympic golf workforce for a 3rd time. Maddie Szeryk, Ellie’s older sister, simply missed out on beating Sharp to the Olympics by 1.41 factors within the ladies’s world golf rankings. Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., No. 14 on this planet, can be within the discipline on the Midland Nation Membership in Midland, Mich. They are going to be joined by Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., and newbie Vanessa Borovilos of Toronto.
EPSON TOUR — Brigitte Thibault of Rosemere, Que., is the top-ranked Canadian taking part in within the Dream First Financial institution Charity Traditional. She’s a hundred and twentieth on the second-tier Epson Tour’s factors record. She’ll be joined at Buffalo Dunes Golf Course in Backyard Metropolis, Kan., by Vancouver’s Leah John (a hundred and sixtieth), in addition to Selena Costabile of Thornhill, Ont., and Kate Johnston of Ayr, Ont., who’re unranked.
PGA TOUR — Taylor Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont., is the highest ranked Canadian at No. 30 on the FedEx Cup standings. He might be within the discipline on the Rocket Mortgage Traditional at Detroit Golf Membership, the place he completed tied for second in 2022. Adam Svensson (76th) of Surrey, B.C., Ben Silverman (113th) of Thornhill, Ont., and Roger Sloan (194th) of Merritt, B.C., are additionally within the discipline.
KORN FERRY TOUR — Myles Creighton of Digby, N.S., is No. 23 on the Tour’s factors record heading into the Memorial Well being Championship. Edmonton’s Wil Bateman (thirty third), Etienne Papineau (fiftieth) of St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que., Sudarshan Yellamaraju (a hundredth) of Mississauga, Ont., and Jared du Toit (118th) of Kimberley, B.C., are additionally within the discipline at Panther Creek Nation Membership in Springfield, In poor health.
CHAMPIONS TOUR — Calgary’s Stephen Ames leads the Canadian contingent into the U.S. Senior Open Championship. He’s No. 1 on the Charles Schwab Cup cash record with two victories thus far this 12 months. Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., is twenty fifth on the record and likewise within the discipline at Newport Nation Membership in Newport, R.I. David Morland IV of Aurora, Ont., can be taking part in the occasion.
AMERICAS TOUR — Matthew Anderson of Mississauga, Ont., stays the atop the factors record of the third-tier Americas Tour heading into this week’s ATB Traditional. He’s one among 18 Canadians taking part in Northern Bear Golf Membership in Strathcona County, Alta.
