Katie Cranston additionally punches her ticket to CPKC Ladies’s Open by She Performs Golf Order of Benefit.
BURLINGTON, Ont. – Buoyed by a an eight-under 63 in her second spherical, Workforce Canada’s Tillie Claggett of Calgary, Alta. completed at 13-under to coast to a seven-stroke victory on the Burlington Golf and Nation Membership in Burlington, Ont. on Thursday to say the thirty eighth PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada and the ultimate occasion on the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence
It was solely a matter of time earlier than Claggett – a junior at Vanderbilt College in Nashville, Tenn. – secured her first victory of the 2025 season after competing for the highest spot on the leaderboard quite a few occasions during the last 4 weeks. Claggett entered this week’s championship with a runner-up end on the Texas Ladies’s Beginner Championship in June in addition to a semi-final look at The Ladies’s Beginner Championship in Nairn, Scotland that noticed her go 4UP on her opponent by 14 holes of match play golf.
Her play within the second spherical of the PGA Ladies’s Championship of Canada on Wednesday helped Claggett break by on residence soil and ebook her spot in subsequent month’s CPKC Ladies’s Open – awarded to every winner within the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence.
Claggett stitched collectively 5 birdies and consecutive eagles on Wednesday to maneuver forward of her Workforce Canada teammate and first-round chief Vanessa Borovilos of Etobicoke, Ont. and manufacture a six-stroke lead for herself atop the leaderboard. Beginning her second spherical one again, Claggett made her transfer early, taking part in the primary seven holes at four-under par and setting the desk for her most dominant stretch of the event that featured back-to-back eagles Nos. 11 and 12.
The Albertan did not take her foot off the fuel on Thursday, ending her closing spherical with a two-under 69 that included birdies on holes three, 10 and 16 to safe her maiden win of the season.
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In the meantime, as Claggett put the ending touches on her closing spherical, fellow Workforce Canada members, Nicole Gal of Oakville, Ont. and Katie Cranston of Oakville Ont. battled for the ultimate out there spot within the CPKC Ladies’s Open – awarded to the best participant on the Order of Benefit following the conclusion of all three occasions on the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence.
Cranston entered the event main Gal on the Order of Benefit after ending T2 and T9 within the first two occasions on the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence. Cranston fell behind Gal who opened her closing spherical with birdies on the fifth and eighth holes to get to two-under par. Her ascension continued on the scorable par-5 eleventh gap, rolling in one other birdie putt to maneuver right into a tie for fifth.
Shifting to the again 9 on Thursday, Cranston was capable of regain momentum following the flip with birdies on Nos. 11, 12 and 14 to get inside a shot of Gal and keep her place atop the standings. Gal completed the event T5 at 2-under, whereas Cranston completed T9 at 1-under to earn the ultimate exemption from the Championship Sequence following one other high 10 end.
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With stops across the nation, the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence gives an enhanced nationwide qualifying path for gamers to punch their ticket into the CPKC Ladies’s Open. Anchored In three areas by a $60,000 CAD purse, every championship discipline options 60 skilled and elite amateurs vying for an exemption into Canadia’s Nationwide ladies’s Open.
Workforce Canada NextGen members, Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont. and Clara Ding of White Rock, B.C. earned their exemptions into the CPKC Ladies’s Open by the She Performs Golf Championship Sequence, profitable the Peloton Glencoe Invitational and GolfBC Group BC Ladies’s Open respectively.
Joined by Claggett and Cranston, the 4 members of the Workforce Canada program might be a part of a world-class discipline set to compete at Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership in Mississauga, Ont. for the 51st taking part in of the CPKC Ladies’s Open August 20-24.
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