Calen Sanderson fired an 8-under 64 to land the person championship; Alexis Rouleau locks up 2026 Crew Canada – NextGen spot with win at Crew Canada Choice Camp.
MACTIER, Ont. – The College of Notre Dame Combating Irish put the ending touches on their wire-to-wire victory on the Males’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational on Tuesday, collectively capturing 10-under par to as soon as once more depart Öviinbyrd Golf Membership with a collection of {hardware} for a second consecutive 12 months.
Represented by Calen Sanderson of Newton, Pa., Pavel Tsar of Palm Seaside Gardens, Fla., Nate Stevens of Northfield, Minn., Rocco Salvitti of Canonsburg, Pa. and Jacob Modleski of Noblesville, Ind. the Combating Irish didn’t take their foot off the gasoline all week lengthy to say the championship by 10 strokes at 35-under.
“I feel the key to an amazing workforce is depth and we acquired ten guys on our workforce proper now which are simply phenomenal gamers,” praised Notre Dame’s Head Coach and Director of Golf, John Handrigan. “They performed wonderful this week, and 35-under par is fairly spectacular,” he added.
The defending champions opened the second taking part in of the Males’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational on Sunday with a 12-under displaying to take a slender three-stroke lead over the College of Michigan Wolverines into Monday’s second spherical. Led by Stevens’ 5-under 67 in spherical one, the momentum for the defending champions shortly shifted to the red-hot play of Sanderson, with their senior occurring to blitz the ultimate 36 holes with a team-high 15 birdies to safe each himself and his program a person and workforce championship respectively.
Sanderson led the Combating Irish with rounds of 65 and 64 within the second and third spherical respectively. He wrapped up his week with scores of 68- 65- 64- 197 to edge out Lucas Politano of Brandon, Vt. at 19-under and lock up a spot within the 2026 RBC Canadian Open by his particular person win.
“Anytime you may have a person win, and a workforce win is nice,” stated Sanderson following his spherical. “It’s superior to return again and defend as workforce champions at this occasion…Particularly with our coach being from proper on this space so it means loads to win it for him,” he added. Handrigan hails from Bracebridge, Ont., situated about half-hour east of Öviinbyrd Golf Membership and was emotional whereas placing into perspective what Tuesday’s victory meant for his senior, Sanderson.
“It virtually brings me to tears. I’m so pleased with him. He’s labored so onerous for 4 years and he hasn’t seen outcomes, however he stored grinding and stored working day by day and simply by no means gave up,” stated Handrigan. “He’s earned this, it’s simply been a ton of onerous work so it’s very rewarding for him to see one thing like this come and clearly the RBC Canadian Open exemption is wonderful,” he added. “Calen earned this one.”
Politano – who began his remaining spherical on the par-5 fourth – briefly held the outright lead on Tuesday, pouring in three-consecutive birdies on Nos. 16, 17 and 18 to get to 17-under and maintain a one-shot benefit over Sanderson who was 4 holes behind. A birdie on the first vaulted the Rutgers product into the clubhouse lead, however the rating in the end turned a footnote to his 9-under 63 after Sanderson birdied the seventeenth to reclaim the highest spot on the leaderboard and clinch his particular person honours.
Sanderson rolled in eight birdie putts to cap off a bogey-free 64, capitalizing on each par-5 aside from the final, the place he two-putted for par to seal the deal on his first win of 2025. On Monday, Sanderson recognized his potential to benefit from the scoreable par-5s because the main trigger to him hovering up the leaderboard and nabbing the outright lead after 36 holes. On Tuesday, he credited his potential to combat till the very finish of his spherical because the recipe for securing each him and his workforce a championship.
“I simply wished to compete onerous till the final putt dropped and I used to be telling myself no matter you assume you want, you in all probability want about two or three [shots] extra and that was very true as we speak,” stated Sanderson. “I’m pleased with the best way I deal with that and stayed current all through the entire day.
“I performed actually strong golf all day. Gave myself a ton of birdie probabilities and don’t assume I missed a inexperienced all day. Each birdie was nice momentum and stored constructing all through the day,” he added.
Isaiah Ibit of Orleans, Ont. led the Canadian contingent, ending seven-strokes off the tempo and in third place to open his sophomore season at Kent State College on a excessive. Tuesday’s consequence clinches Ibit a spot in subsequent 12 months’s Canadian Males’s Novice Championship, introduced by BDO, with the Crew Canada – NextGen member being joined by Sanderson, Politano, Modleski, John Logan of Wilmington, N.C., Alex Creamean of Winnetka, In poor health., R.J Arone of Las Vegas, Nev., Dean Muratore of Dix Hills, N.Y. and Grey Mitchum of Greenville, N.C. who all completed within the high 5 to safe their spot in Canada’s oldest newbie event.
Moreover, Alexis Rouleau of Montreal, Que. additionally secured a significant spot for his 2026 season on Tuesday, edging out Jager Ache of Woodbridge, Ont. by a single stroke on the Crew Canada Choice Camp to win the event and lock up a assured spot on Crew Canada – NextGen for subsequent season. The occasion was held concurrently with this week’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational and introduced collectively 27 junior abilities from throughout the nation to compete for a profitable place on Crew Canada’s roster. To view the ultimate leaderboard from the Crew Canada Choice Camp, please click on right here.
The second taking part in of the Canadian Collegiate Invitational was carried out by Golf Canada and co-hosted by Kent State College and Penn State College who’re each led by Canadian head coaches, Jon Mills (Kent State) and Mark Leon (Penn State). The event featured 10 NCAA Division I males’s golf groups with outstanding Canadian ties together with the College of British Columbia (UBC) Thunderbirds. UBC certified after successful the 2025 Canadian College/School Championship, introduced by BDO, earlier this summer season at Rivershore Golf Hyperlinks in Kamloops, B.C.
Each the Males’s Canadian Collegiate Invitational and Crew Canada Choice Camp have been contested over 54 holes and featured a shotgun begin all through Tuesday’s remaining spherical. The workforce part of the Canadian Collegiate Invitational featured 5 members per workforce with the highest 4 scores for the day counting to the general workforce rating.
To view the complete leaderboard of the 2025 Canadian Collegiate Invitational, please click on right here.
