Thailand’s Panuphol leads in Singapore
SINGAPORE – Panuphol Pittayarat of Thailand made nine birdies in a blemish-free round of 9-under 63 to take the first-round lead at The Championship at Laguna National on Thursday.
Panuphol, ranked just 451st in the world, was a stroke ahead of a group of four golfers in second – Scott Jamieson, David Lipsky, Kim Byung-jun and local favorite Quincy Quek.
The tournament, a co-sanctioned European and Asian tour event formerly called the Ballantine’s Championship, was moved from South Korea to Singapore just three weeks ago after it lost its title sponsor and the promoter failed to reach an agreement with a suitable golf venue.
Defending champion Brett Rumford of Australia was in joint-64th place after a 70, level with France’s Alexander Levy, who won his maiden European Tour title Sunday at the China Open.
The 21-year-old Panuphol earned his best European Tour result late last year when he finished tied for 18th at the Hong Kong Open. But he’s missed his last three cuts on the Asian Tour.
“I didn’t see it coming but it did come,” he said of his 63 on Thursday. “I’m feeling good about my game right now. I was just trying to hit straight out there. I managed to hole a lot of putts and a lot of them were unexpected.”
Jamieson, who won his first European Tour title last year at the Nelson Mandela Championship in South Africa, also had nine birdies in his round, including a difficult chip shot from the bunker on the par-3 No. 17, his eighth hole. He had one bogey on the par-4 16th.
“I’ve been hitting the ball well the last couple of weeks, so it was nice to get a round where it all came together,” he said. “There was just the one mistake with the three-putt on 16, but it was pretty far away and pace putting is always difficult in Asia with the grain. It’s not what someone from Scotland is used to.”
Panuphol’s countryman, Arnond Vongvanij, was in a share of the lead at 9 under until taking a double bogey on No. 8, his 17th hole, to fall back to a share of sixth place on 65.
Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello, who has three top-10 finishes this year, was another shot back in a group at 6 under.
Canada’s Richard T. Lee shot a 1-under 71 and was tied for 81st when play was suspended due to darkness at 7:30pm local time.
Laguna National hosted the Singapore Masters from 2002-07 and the Singapore Open from 2009-12.
A harsh winter has left it’s mark
In Southern Ontario the grass is now green and although temperatures are struggling to stay consistently warmer, one would think the ridiculously harsh winter just past should now be a distant memory. Instead many golf clubs are facing damage to greens and fairways caused by ice, frigid temperatures and devastating wind chill. This has caused conditions known as winter injury, winter kill and desiccation.
The conditions have forced many clubs to open later than usual and some have or will open with temporary greens. A few facilities across Southern Ontario will not open for another four to six weeks, as they must replace the surfaces of all of their greens with new sod or seed. Club superintendents have been working endless hours to develop a plan to repair the damage and then begin its execution. They have sought out expert advice and shared it among themselves.
Cooperation from Mother Nature is very much needed to expedite some grass growth and help these clubs get back in business. We also recognize that along with this challenge some clubs have and are facing some serious flooding conditions as the snow pack melted and the ice jams formed in rivers.
I was recently chatting with some clubs about their course conditions and it was interesting to hear them say how grateful they are to have only five or six temporary greens knowing that other clubs faced a far greater challenge refurbishing all of their greens.
In addition to weather cooperating golfers need to be patient as their clubs work their way through this difficult start to the season and the unexpected expense it has caused.
I hope clubs will work together to get through this and that the more fortunate will reach out to clubs that are not fully open and let them know if they have some tee times available they could be filled by players waiting for their clubs to recover. As the neighbourly thing to do, this can be a win-win for our clubs and golfers if we all join forces and work together.

Christine Dengel is a PGA of Canada golf professional with more than 30 years of experience in multiple facets of the golf industry, and a lifelong passion for and commitment to the game of golf.
Prior to joining Golf Canada, she was a Territory Sales Manager for Callaway Golf Canada for 18 years. During her time with Callaway, Dengel managed the GTA and Southwestern Ontario territory from 1992-2005 and has managed the Southern Ontario territory since 2006.
Donald Trump buys Turnberry in Scotland
NEW YORK – Donald Trump expanded his golf empire with his biggest acquisition yet – Turnberry.
Trump announced Tuesday that he has agreed to buy the picturesque links course and resort on the west coast of Scotland, which has hosted the British Open four times. The most recent was in 2009, when Stewart Cink won a playoff over 59-year-old Tom Watson. The most famous was in 1977, the “Duel in the Sun” that featured Watson defeating Jack Nicklaus.
“It is an honor and privilege to own one of golf’s greatest and most exciting properties,” Trump said.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Independent in London reported that Trump paid Dubai-based Leisurecorp just over $63 million – 37.5 million pounds.
Turnberry is the 17th golf property owned by Trump, including 12 in the United States. That includes Trump National Doral, which was renovated for this year’s World Golf Championship in south Florida.
There appears to be no plans to touch Turnberry, used as an airfield during World War II, and now considered among the finest links in Scotland with magnificent views of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Arran and the Ailsa Craig, a rounded rock formation in the Irish Sea from which curling stones are made.
“I’m not going to touch a thing unless the Royal & Ancient ask for it or approve it,” Trump told golf.com. “I have the greatest respect for the R&A and for (chief executive) Peter Dawson. I won’t do anything to the golf course at all without their full stamp of approval.”
Trump said he would invest “many millions of dollars” into the hotel and said it would be the most luxurious in all of Europe when he was finished.
He raves about all of his golf courses, believing them to be among the best in the world and worthy of major championships. With Turnberry, he is certain to get one. The R&A has not announced future sites beyond 2016 up the Ayrshire coast at Royal Troon, though Turnberry has become a popular venue. It is the youngest of the British Open sites – 1977 was its first British Open – and the roads were improved for it to end a 15-year hiatus with a return in 2009.
All of Trump’s other courses have his name in the title. He told golf.com that Trump Turnberry “has a nice ring to it,” but that would be decided fairly soon. That might not matter to the history of golf’s oldest trophy – the claret jug.
“Turnberry has been called other things before with previous owners,” Dawson told The Independent. “But it’s engraved as Turnberry on the jug, and I’d imagine will remain so.”
Notah Begay recovering from heart attack
ORLANDO, Fla. – Notah Begay suffered a heart attack last week in Dallas and is expected to make a full recovery, Golf Channel said Tuesday.
Begay, a 41-year-old analyst for Golf Channel and NBC Sports, was taken Thursday to Methodist Hospital in Dallas where a stent was inserted to unblock his right coronary artery. Begay, a Navajo from New Mexico, has a history of heart disease in the family.
Golf Channel said Begay will be off the air indefinitely while he recovers.
Begay, who won the last of his four PGA Tour titles in 2000, said he was grateful to Dr. Mark Jenkins and the speedy care he received in Dallas.
“I anticipate a full recovery and feel lucky to be at home resting with my family,” Begay said in a statement. “I appreciate the outpouring of well wishes I’ve received from family, friends and fans, and I will be back covering golf once I’m fully recovered.”
Begay is in his second full year as a TV analyst.
Begay was part of the Stanford team that won the NCAA title in 1994. A year later, he and Tiger Woods were the first minorities named to the Walker Cup team. Begay won twice on the PGA Tour in 1999 and 2000, but he was hampered by back injuries later in his career.
Poulter makes light of his two-stroke penalty
During the second round of Volvo China Open, Ian Poulter incurred a two-stroke penalty for dropping a ball incorrectly under Rule 24-2 after taking relief from a cart path.
He originally hit his ball into some dense foliage on the par-13th and proceeded under Rule 28c, dropping within two-club lengths of where his ball lay. After that drop, his ball came to rest on the cart path and Poulter decided to take relief for that situation as well. However, he dropped the ball two club-lengths from his nearest point of relief and played that ball, which resulted in the two-stroke penalty.
If a player elects to take relief from an immovable obstruction, the player must lift the ball and drop it, without penalty, within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief.
Had Poulter realized his error before playing his shot after taking relief from the cart path, he would have been able to correct his error under Rule 20-6.
After the round, Poulter said “We make mistakes, I guess, and that was a fun one. Guess I need to get the rules book back out and start chewing it.”
The silver lining is that Poulter still made the cut after incurring this penalty and provided some humour for his for 1.6 million Twitter followers.
I’m such a ¥#%$¥+€ helmet, the most simple Rule that I had been given the day before, Drop in second club length. Errr wrong 2 shot penalty.
— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) April 25, 2014
I didn’t think it would be difficult to drop a golf ball, but today I managed to make a complete $€$%^#¥= arse of it. Basic Rules. #Nobhead
— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) April 25, 2014
The funniest cartoon picture of me taking an illegal drop today wins a signed Ryder cup photo & @ijpdesign goodies. follow & use @ijpdesign
— Ian Poulter (@IanJamesPoulter) April 25, 2014
Golf Digest has a great article showing cartoons submitted on Twitter. You can check them out here.
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Gordon on Golf: Have faith in the game
Gordon on Golf: Have faith in the game
The headline on the press release reads: “Golf boom in jeopardy?”
“The continued growth and health of golf in Canada depends on getting more young people into the game,” states the first paragraph of the release, “but a lack of focus in the golf industry threatens its future, the first Canadian Golf Summit was told Thursday.”
The date? Dec. 8, 1989.
Twenty-five years ago, as managing editor of SCOREGolf magazine, I organized and chaired the first and, to date, only Canadian Golf Summit. That event, open to the public, brought together the heads of all the national golf associations and other involved parties not only to explain their roles in the context of the game, but to participate in panel discussions on topics such as The Next Generation of Canadian Golfers, Development of Facilities and Funding, Teaching and Coaching, and Research. It was a stellar cast featuring people who, both as individuals and as representatives of the game in Canada, had a vested interest in its future.
I was motivated to dig out my files on that Summit recently in the wake of alarmist announcements from the media and the “industry” about the perceived imminent demise of golf. I didn’t quite dislocate my shoulder patting myself on the back for my foresight and vision way back in 1989, but I think I might have strained something.
Then I read The Kingdom of Golf in America by Richard Moss and The Future of Golf in America by Geoff Shackelford.
The former is a guide to the historic ebb and flow of the game in the U.S. by an academic who is an avid golfer. The latter is a compilation of essays by one of today’s most insightful and opinionated writers. Both tell us loud and clear that people who care about the game have shepherded it through tough times—not just for a mere 25 years, but for centuries.
Distilling the essence of both books and other related research was a humbling experience, although I had been given the head’s up just after I joined SCOREGolf back in 1985. Tom McBroom, for years now one of Canada’s most notable architects, took a couple of hours to explain the facts of golf life to this rookie. At that time we were, he pointed out, in the midst of the third golf boom of the 20th Century. The first occurred during the 1920s, often called golf’s Golden Age, and the next in the affluent 1960s. Despite the undeniable fact that both those waves had crested and troughed, it seemed that just about everyone believed this latest one would last forever. Not bloody likely.
Golf, like the people who play it, is a living, breathing thing. Like us, its existence is typified by cycles. We are in a down cycle now and for how long is anyone’s guess. But that uncertainty is unacceptable in these fast-food times when immediate gratification is not just expected, but demanded.
Fear-mongering and nay-saying are fashionable. After hearing such dire comments emanating from the PGA Show in Orlando in January, my 27-year-old son called me. He and his fiancée play two or three times a week on an executive course with their friends. “Wanted to let you know we are giving up golf, Dad,” he said. “We just heard it isn’t fun or cool anymore.” (He was kidding, of course, having inherited his father’s dubious sense of humour.)
My son, like many kids, played golf when he was young, then migrated away from it when university and then getting a job became priorities. Now he is back in the fold and, I hope, will stay. He got into the game because my wife and I played and we played because my wife’s parents gave us each a half-set of clubs. Off we would go, the four of us, to the local nine-holer where the scores were secondary to the experience.
In his book, Moss makes a great deal of the value of “community” to the vitality of the game. When I read those passages, I smiled, remembering those nine-hole rounds with my in-laws and, later, when I played with my son and his grandfather. Who won? Don’t recall. Don’t care. In the final analysis, we all did.
That is golf. It will always be golf, despite these recent dire predictions which, history teaches us, are just updated regurgitations of what has been said during golf’s many past and, it must be emphasized again, temporary declines.
“We have seen the enemy and he is us,” a comic-strip character said a long time ago. We, all of us, are to blame for some of the blemishes on today’s game—slow play, courses that are too difficult and too expensive—but these are not life-threatening. They can be remedied with care and attention. They do not demand radical surgery.
If you love the game, you will take personal responsibility for it. Protect it. Adopt common-sense initiatives like Tee It Forward and While We’re Young. Support CN Future Links, Golf in Schools and the Golf Canada Foundation. Create the sense of community Moss speaks of by inviting a kid or your spouse or a friend to play with you.
And have faith in the game and its future. That faith will eventually be justified—yet again.

About John Gordon
It’s been said that John Gordon has “done it all” in Canadian golf since he first got involved in 1985 as managing editor of SCOREGolf.
Based on his resume, it’s a statement that’s hard to dispute. He left SCOREGolf to become Golf Canada’s director of communications and member services and was the founding editor of Golf Canada magazine.
In 1994, he turned to golf writing fulltime, authoring eight books, penning a regular column for the Toronto Sun and then the National Post, and writing innumerable articles for golf consumer and trade publications. He was the on-air and online golf analyst for Rogers Sportsnet for eight years before joining ClubLink, one of the world’s largest multi-course owners and operators, to build their communications department, re-launch their magazine and build out their websites.
In 2014, John returned to golf writing fulltime and will contribute regularly to golfcanada.ca. You can follow him on Twitter at @gordongolf.
The harsh hand of winter
Owen Russell knew he had a problem when the smell hit him.
Russell, the superintendent at Markland Woods in Etobicoke, Ont. for the past eight years, ventured out on his course in February, worried about the impact of ice and cold on his club’s greens. Like many superintendents concerned about how the coldest winter in the last three decades would affect his course, Russell drilled through the ice to see what was happening with the grass underneath.
“I knew from the smell that we had a problem,” he says. “It smelled bad, sort of like rotten eggs.”
What Russell smelled was dead Poa annua grass, the most common grass found on older golf courses throughout North America. The grass is known to struggle if under ice for extended periods of time. In the case of many Ontario courses, ice encased golf course greens for more than three months, twice what most Poa grasses can withstand.
By the time Markland Woods’ greens were clear, Russell recognized the extent of the damage brought by the extreme cold. On most greens at least 50% of the grass was damaged or dead, and that amount rose to more than 70% on other greens.
“There was nothing we could do,” says Russell. “If we cleared them the temperatures were so cold we may have created more problems. It was a mess.”
What Markland Woods experienced is now being felt across Ontario courses where Poa is the covering for their greens. The damage to golf courses is widespread not only in Ontario, but across the northern U.S. as well. In Ontario some of the best-known golf courses—from host courses of the RBC Canadian Open like St. George’s to Hamilton Golf and Country Club through to modest public courses like Guelph’s Victoria Park East—have been hit by extensive damage. The cold, it turns out, doesn’t discriminate based on the cost of the green fee—it killed Poa greens regardless.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in the 25 years I’ve been in the business,” says Rhod Trainor, the superintendent at Hamilton where he’s prepared the golf course for three PGA Tour events. “It is like something out of a textbook. It is just a freak thing.”
The problems facing golf courses with Poa greens have different names, but the result is the same. Hit hard by a the coldest winter in years, Poa grasses were damaged by crown hydration, whereby grass takes in water and is hit by a sudden freeze; winter desiccation, which is essentially dehydration due to constant exposure to exposed, higher areas; depleted oxygen by anoxia; low temperatures; and ice. In some instances, superintendents say they were hit by all four problems, something that has never occurred before.
“It was a double-edged sword all winter,” says Rob Ackermann, superintendent at Weston Golf and Country Club in Toronto. “If you chose to do something to deal with the build-up on the greens you were exposing them to extreme cold and could kill them. If you chose to do nothing it could kill them.”
Ackermann used Ackermann used a combination of permeable and impermeable tarps on many of his greens to protect them from water and ice damage. But this year the tarps weren’t enough, and water managed to find its way to the grass anyway, leaving the club with seven temporary greens.
“The tarps help, but they couldn’t keep the water out,” he says, “and this could happen again next year. It is the worst devastation on golf courses that I’ve seen in my life.”
Now Ontario superintendents face decisions on how to deal with the difficult hand Mother Nature has dealt them. Do they reseed the greens with a strain of bent grass that will be more resilient to Ontario’s harsh winters, or do they try to grow Poa and reestablish it in the hope they don’t face a recurrence of the stunning cold?
“There’s one fix for this and that’s to grow bent grass,” says USGA agronomist Adam Moeller, who has been consulting with Ontario courses about the damage. “It is really your most reliable insurance policy, but it comes with a cost.”
Keith Bartlett, superintendent at St. George’s, has problems with Poa damage on most of the club’s greens, though he hopes to have most of the greens open by mid-June. Bartlett, who has worked as a superintendent for 22 years, says bent grass is the only true solution to the possibility of winter damage in Ontario. He adds that bent grasses take less water, fewer fertilizers, and create a better playing surface.
“To me this problem we’re facing is a wake-up call to the industry,” he says. “We’re just kidding ourselves if we think this won’t happen again.”
Trainor has been promoting a move to bent grass at Hamilton, which hosted the 2012 RBC Canadian Open, for some time. He was starting to feel optimistic about the chances of making the change when the club hired a new golf architect, Martin Ebert, and was hopeful the club might move that way when he put the historic course to bed in December. A late rain later that month, followed by intense cold, left him worried about what would happen in the spring.
“You know the Poa gets close [to dying] every year,” he says, noting most of his club’s 27 greens are damaged. “But this winter wasn’t typical.”
Ian McQueen knew he had an issue when he took a sample from one of his greens in February. The superintendent at Islington Golf and Country Club in Toronto, a course designed by the legendary Stanley Thompson, McQueen struggled to even get a sample from the frozen ground. As is typical for superintendents, he brought the sample indoors and attempted to restart the grass . . . only his sample wouldn’t grow. All that remained was for McQueen to wait two more months for the snow and ice to clear and find the extent of the damage. He found between 60 and 95% of the grass on Islington’s greens dead.
McQueen is suggesting having Islington not only plant bent grass, but completely rebuild the club’s greens with new strains of bent grass that keep Poa from taking hold. It is an ambitious project, but one that will limit future spring damage, he says.
“If you have a 90-year-old house, it isn’t easy to simply renovate the kitchen,” he says. “You have to get to the heart of the problem.”
Like McQueen, David DeCorso has tough decisions to make. DeCorso is the superintendent at Victoria Park East, a 40-year old public course in Guelph. The course, like many of its age, has Poa greens, many of which have varying levels of damage from the ice and cold. Victoria Park East is owned by the DeCorso family, as is a newer course, Victoria Park Valley. The new course, with its bent grass greens, had no issues from the winter, but on the east course DeCorso has opened the season with three greens closed, and nine with tarps covering large sections as he attempts to grow grass. Closing the course to reseed with bent grass or sod the damaged greens isn’t financially viable, he explains, especially in a market where the long winter has already cut into paid rounds.
“This isn’t like the old days when the business had money for capital projects,” says DeCorso, who has been a superintendent for 22 years. “There’s not a lot of money to go around and we can’t afford the long-term solution of closing the course to solve the problem.”
DeCorso says many golfers have shrugged off this year’s problem as typical of Ontario courses during a long winter. But the situation is much more severe than other years, he points out, and he wonders if golfers will feel so charitable if public courses don’t recover by June.
“They are going to get impatient,” he says. “And they’ll make their point known by not spending their money at certain courses.”
At Markland Woods, Russell is preparing his course for incoming sod. The superintendent and the club have elected to make a drastic move and sod all of the club’s greens with bent grass that wasn’t used in another golf course construction project. There’s not enough bent grass sod to go around for other clubs to follow suit, but Russell is convinced it will resolve Markland’s issues with winter and Poa grasses for the foreseeable future.
“It has been like putting a puzzle together and every time you think you have it right a bully comes and wrecks it,” Russell says. “If we are going to spend money every year to fix this, we should do it once and spend it on bent grass. It is the only solution.”

Veteran golf journalist Robert Thompson is Senior Writer at SCOREGolf magazine, edits the PGA of Canada’s publications and is the golf analyst for Global News.
Lydia Ko holds off Lewis to win Swinging Skirts
DALY CITY, Calif. – Poised and unflappable, Lydia Ko birdied the final hole for her third LPGA Tour victory and first as a professional, holding off Stacy Lewis and Jenny Shin on Sunday in the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic.
It went down to the final shots, and the teen made a 6-foot birdie putt moments before Lewis knocked in a 4-footer of her own to finish one stroke back.
“The 18th hole I knew how loud the claps were and that I needed to get close and give myself a birdie chance,” Ko said.
After beginning the day a stroke behind Lewis, Ko birdied three of her final four holes on the front nine on the way to a 3-under 69 and 12-under 276 total at Lake Merced.
Ko earned $270,000, celebrating on the 18th green three days after celebrating her 17th birthday at the first tee box with the gallery singing “Happy Birthday.”
Ko will move up two spots to No. 2 in the next world ranking.
She won the Canadian Women’s Open as an amateur the last two years and took the Swinging Skirts World Ladies Masters in December in Thailand in her second start as a professional. She has six victories in pro events, also winning in Australia and New Zealand.
Lewis will head to her home state of Texas next week looking to build on a disappointing near miss in which she struggled all day with her short game.
“I knew she wasn’t going away. Lydia played great,” Lewis said. “Every time I hit a shot in there, she answered.”
Shin, still looking for her first tour win after her best finish this year, finished at 10-under 278 with a 68 over the 6,507-yard course.
Playing together for the fourth straight day, neither Ko nor Lewis hit any dazzling shots early. Ko’s second of three bogeys came on the 417-yard, par-4 seventh in which her tee shot hit a tree and dropped in the rough. Lewis’ 10-foot birdie putt on No. 9 lipped out.
Ko pulled into a first-place tie at 10 under as they made the turn on a picture-perfect spring day.
“The front nine, I did everything I wanted to do, the putts just didn’t go in,” Lewis said. “I expected her to do exactly what she did today. … She hit every shot she needed to make from 13 on in.”
The third-ranked Lewis had her sixth runner-up finish since winning the Women’s British Open in August.
Michelle Wie, who won last week in her home state of Hawaii, tied for ninth at 2 under. Second-ranked Suzann Pettersen shot a 70 finish at 3 over in her first event since last month after missing three tournaments with a back injury. Top-ranked Inbee Park tied for fourth at 6 under.
There were two holes-in-one Sunday: Jimin Kang on the 164-yard third and Dewi Claire Schreefel with a 7-iron on the par-3 157-yard 12th hole that earned her a $100,000 prize from China Trust Bank.
Canada’s Alena Sharp finished at 12-over 300 and tied for 68th.
The weather held for the final day after both fog and rain delays earlier in the tournament.
This event was the LPGA’s first in the Bay Area since the 2010 CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge at Blackhawk in Danville.
Marissa Steen wins Symetra Tour playoff
SARASOTA, Fla. – Marissa Steen won the Guardian Retirement Championship on Sunday for her first Symetra Tour title, beating China’s Yueer Cindy Feng with a short birdie putt on the fifth hole of a playoff.
The 24-year-old Steen birdied the final two holes of regulation at Sara Bay for a 3-under 69 to finish at 3-under 213 and got into the playoff when Feng closed with a par for a 73.
They matched pars on the par-5 18th on the first four playoff holes before Steen finally won.
“To get the job done and seal the deal, it is really surreal right now,” Steen said. “I looked at my caddie when I was done and said, `Oh, my gosh, I won.’ … It was a great week from start to finish. This is my third playoff, so it feels good to finally get the job done.”
Steen lost a seven-hole playoff to Cydney Clanton last year in the Four Winds Invitational.
“I kept telling myself that if you put yourself in contention, good things are going to happen and it finally did today,” said Steen, a former University of Memphis player from West Chester, Ohio.
Steen began the round four strokes behind the 18-year-old Feng, the winner of the Florida’s Natural Charity Classic in March at Lake Wales.
Steen earned $15,000 to jump from fifth to second on the money list with $30,977. Feng made $9,367 to push her tour-leading total to $35,351. The top 10 at the end of the season will earn 2015 LPGA Tour cards.
Megan McChrysal had a 71 to finish a stroke back. Rachel Rohanna, Kris Tamulis and Therese Koelbaek followed at 1 under. Rohanna shot 71, Tamulis 72 and Koelbaek 63.
Canadian Results:
T13. Sara-Maude Juneau (+3) 76-72-71–219
T13. Maude-Aimee LeBlanc (+3) 76-71-72–219
T31. Jessica Shepley (+7) 71-78-74–223
T41. Samantha Richdale (+9) 75-74-76–225
T51. Ashley Sholer (+11) 74-77-76–227
T57. Jessica Wallace (+12) 79-71-78–228
MC. Angela Buzminski
MC. Nicole Vandermade
MC. Christine Wong
MC. Erica Rivard
MC. Lisa Meldrum