TACOMA, Wash. – Workforce Canada members Lauren Kim, Clara Ding and Austin Krahn have been named 2025 Gamers of the Yr by the Pacific Northwest Golf Affiliation (PNGA).
Kim of Surrey, B.C. was named Girls’s Participant of the Yr, incomes the honour for a 3rd consecutive yr. Kim is at the moment ranked No. 20 on the World Newbie Golf Rating (WAGR) and loved a powerful 2025 season, highlighted by competing within the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie for a second straight yr in addition to the CPKC Girls’s Open. Kim, a junior on the College of Texas, earned her second collegiate win on the Betsy Rawls Invitational in March and added a pair of third place finishes in addition to a prime 5. Kim additionally represented Canada on the World Newbie Workforce Championship in Singapore in October.
Ding of White Rock, B.C. was named Junior Women’ Participant of the Yr. Ding received twice in 2025, taking the GolfBC Group BC Girls’s Open and the Girls’s Orlando Worldwide Championship. Her win in B.C. got here as a part of the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence, incomes her an exemption into her first look on the CPKC Girls’s Open. In her debut on the World Junior Women Golf Championship, Ding helped lead Workforce Canada 2 to its finest lead to event historical past, ending sixth place and was runner-up within the particular person competitors by one stroke.
Krahn of Christina Lake, B.C. was named Junior Boys’ Participant of the Yr. Krahn adopted up a powerful 2024 season, with 5 titles in 2025 together with the British Columbia Junior Championship and the British Columbia Newbie title. As well as, Krahn led his province to its second straight gold medal on the 2025 Canada Summer time Video games and likewise received particular person gold in Newfoundland and Labrador. Krahn earned two extra wins this yr together with the MJT Odlum Brown Basic and the MJT Nationwide Championship.
Together with the Workforce Canada athletes a well-known title in Canadian ladies’s golf was awarded the Senior Girls’s Participant of the Yr. Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C. has now earned the honour three of the previous 4 years. In August, Stouffer received her third Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship and added wins on the PNGA Senior Girls’s Newbie, Irish Senior Girls’s Newbie and BC Senior Girls’s Newbie. She was additionally a semi-finalist within the U.S. Senior Girls’s Newbie and certified for the U.S. Senior Girls’s Open and U.S. Girls’s Newbie.
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