Recapping Golf Canada’s 2013 championship season
After another busy year, Golf Canada’s amateur championship season came to an end last month at the Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship. In all, 25 competitions were conducted from the beginning of May to mid-September.
Golf Canada’s Amateur championship department conducts eight National Championships. Our Canadian Amateur Championships continue to attract more top international competitors and offer exemptions into the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship as well as the RBC Canadian Open and Canadian Women’s Open. With the commitment of our national partners in RBC Wealth Management, Titleist and Footjoy, we have been able to hold best in class events. The Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship retained its reputation on the world stage remaining an ‘A’ ranked event on the World Amateur Golf Rankings, the highest distinction behind the four elite ranked championships.
In case you missed any events, here’s the low down on who took home Golf Canada hardware in 2013. Our reigning champions are:
Canadian University/College Championship – Club de golf Val des Lacs in Ste-Sophie, QC
Men’s Team Champions: Université Laval Rouge et Or
Women’s Team Champions: Université de Montréal
Low Men’s Medalist: Ugo Coussard of Université Laval Rouge et Or
Low Women’s Medalist: Sabrina Sapone of Université de Montréal
Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship – Club de golf Beloeil in Beloeil, QC
Amateur Champion: Brooke Henderson of Smith Falls, ON
Mid-Amateur Champion: Christina Proteau of Port Alberni, BC
Mid-Master Champion: Helene Chartrand of Pincourt, QC
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: British Columbia
Royale Cup Canadian Junior Girls Championship – Cherry Downs Golf & Country Club in Pickering, ON
Junior Champion: Maddie Szeryk of Allen, Texas
Juvenile Champion: Brooke Henderson of Smith Falls, ON
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: Alberta
Canadian Junior Boys Championship – Timberwolf Golf Club in Garson, ON
Junior Champion: Kevin Kwon of Maple Ridge, BC
Juvenile Champion: Andrew Harrison of Camrose, AB
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: Alberta
Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship – Royal Colwood Golf & Country Club in Victoria, BC
Amateur Champion: Eli Cole of Beverly Hills, California
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: British Columbia
Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Senior Championship held at Spallumcheen Golf & Country Club in Vernon, BC
Senior Champion: Mary Ann Hayward of Aurora, ON
Super-Senior Champion: Alison Murdoch of Victoria, BC
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: Québec
Canadian Men’s Senior Championship – The Briars Golf Club in Sutton West, ON
Senior Champion: David Schultz of Calgary, AB
Super-Senior Champion: Robert Fugere of Gatineau, QC
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: Alberta
Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship – Blackhawk Golf Club in Spruce Grove, AB
Mid-Amateur Champion: Kevin Carrigan of Victoria, BC
Mid-Master Champion: David Bartman of Los Angeles, California
Inter-Provincial Team Champions: Ontario
The CN Future Links series featured six regional events across the country. Each championship offered an opportunity for the top six boys to earn an exemption into the 2013 Canadian Junior Boys Championship and the girls champion to earn an exemption into the 2013 Royale Cup Canadian Junior Girls Championship. The 2013 Champions:
Pacific Championship – Crown Isle Resort in Courtenay, BC
Boys Champion: Kevin Kwon of Maple Ridge, BC
Girls Champion: Brooke Henderson of Smith Falls, ON
Ontario Championship – Listowel Golf Club in Listowel, ON
Boys Champion: Carter Simon of Sutton, ON
Girls Champion: Maddie Szeryk of Allen, Texas
Prairie Championship – Elmwood Golf & Country Club in Swift Current, SK
Boys Champion: Zach Anderson of Nanaimo, BC
Girls Champion: Jaclyn Lee of Calgary, AB
Quebec Championship – Club de golf Milby in Sherbrooke, QC
Boys Champion: Etienne Papineau of Champlain St. Lawrence, QC
Girls Champion: Annie Lacombe of Laval, QC
Western Championship – Wolf Creek Golf Resort in Ponoka, AB
Boys Champion: Brett Pasula of Red Deer, AB
Girls Champion: Sabrine Garrison of Calgary, AB
Atlantic Championship – Antigonish Golf & Country Club in Antigonish, NS
Boys Champion: Ryan Nowe of Bridgewater, NS
Girls Champion: Krysta Schaus of Fredericton, NB
The Canada Games were hosted in Sherbrooke, Québec with the golf portion held at Club de golf Milby. Thirty-six junior boys and thirty junior girls represented their provinces in an individual and team competition. British Columbia proved to be a dominating force as they were crowned the champion in the boy’s individual, girl’s individual, boy’s team, and girl’s team competition. The 2013 Champions:
Boy’s Individual
1st Place: Kevin Kwon of British Columbia
2nd Place: Étienne Papineau of Québec
3rd Place: Matt Williams of Alberta
Girl’s Individual
1st Place: Taylor Kim of British Columbia
2nd Place: Valérie Tanguay of Québec
3rd Place: Sabrine Garrison of Alberta
Boy’s Team
1st Place: British Columbia
2nd Place: Ontario
3rd Place: Québec
Girl’s Team
1st Place: British Columbia
2nd Place: Québec
3rd Place: Alberta
In its eighth season, the Canadian Women’s Tour continues to be one of the world’s premier development tours for women attracting rising professionals and elite amateurs, both Canadian and internationals. Samantha Richdale was awarded as the Jocelyne Bourassa player of the year after winning the Tour’s Order of Merit and topping the money list. Richdale then went on to win the low Canadian honours at the CN Canadian Women’s Open. The 2013 Champions:
CN Canadian Women’s Tour held – Beach Grove Golf Club in Tsawwassen, BC
Samantha Richdale of Kelowna, BC
CN Canadian Women’s Tour – Club de golf Cowansville in Cowansville, QC
Jennifer Kirby of Paris, ON
CN Canadian Women’s Tour held – Ambassador Golf Club in Windsor, ON
Emily Childs of Alameda, California
New to the Championship schedule in 2013 was the PGA Tour Canada TOUR Championship of Canada presented by Freedom 55 Financial. This event was conducted by Golf Canada in partnership with the PGA Tour Canada. Held at Sunningdale Golf & Country Club in London, Ontario, the 2013 champion was Université Laval alum, Max Gilbert. Five exemptions to the Web.com Tour were handed out at the conclusion of the championship. Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, ON, Riley Wheeldon of Comox, BC, Mark Hubbard of San Jose, CA, Hugo Leon of Chile, and Wil Collins of Albuquerque, NM earned their ticket to the Web.com Tour as the top five finishers on the PGA Tour Canada’s Order of Merit.
Of course, Golf Canada also conducted our National Open Golf Championships. The champions were:
RBC Canadian Open – Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, ON
Brandt Snedeker of Nashville, Tennessee
CN Canadian Women’s Open – Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton, AB
Lydia Ko of Seoul, South Korea
Team Canada’s Development Squad hits the ground running
Training Camp
Last week, Team Canada’s newly announced Development Squad took to the facilities at the University of Houston for their first official training camp of the new season. All 10 players were in attendance to begin the rigorous training routine and sports science assessments that come along with the first training camp of a new season.
To give some insight into what a typical day is like at a Development Squad camp, see the agenda below:
7:00am – Team breakfast
7:30am – Flight Scope technology
8:30am – Physiotherapy
9:00am – Strength & Conditioning assessment
9:30am – Strength & Conditioning coaching
10:00am – Sports Psychology
11:00am – Class: Sports Nutrition
12:00pm – Lunch
1:00pm – Alternate through morning activities
4:00pm – 9 holes of golf with coaches
6:30pm – Dinner
8:00pm – Class: Shot by Shot
Get to know Sabrine Garrison
Hometown: Calgary
Age: 17
Q: What are some of your nicknames?
A: “Gare Bear”
Q: Who or what got you into golf?
A: My dad introduced me to the game of golf. I swung my first golf club at the age of 4!
Q: What is your best golfing moment? (i.e. Tournament finishes, first eagle, hole in one etc..)
A: Winning the CN Future Links Western with a final round of 69.
Q: What is your worst golfing moment, and the lesson you learned from it?
A: Shooting 11 over par on the front nine of my very first AJGA. I was so nervous and couldn’t find my swing. On the back nine I stopped caring about the score and finished that nine only one over. This experience taught me to forget about the score until the end of the round.
Q: When you aren’t working on your golf game, you are likely:
A: Hanging out with my friends, doing homework and taking hot yoga classes.
Q: Who is in your dream foursome?
A: Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Annika Sorenstam
Q: What is something most people don’t know about you?
A: I have completed my grade 6 Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Exam.
Q: What course would you most like to play that you haven’t already?
A: Augusta National
Q: What is the best thing about your hometown?
A: Being so close to the Rocky Mountains. (Skiing, scenery, lots to do).
Q: Favourite type of shot to hit?
A: Anything straight, but I do enjoy hitting a nice solid drive.
Q: What is the most surprising thing in your golf bag?
A: My varied assortment of allergy medication.
Q: If you could have a walk-up song on the first tee box, what would it be?
A: “Send me on My Way” – Rusted Roots
College signing tracker
See the latest official National Letter of Intent signings by our Team Canada athletes below:
Valérie Tanguay – University of Oklahoma
Carter Simon – NC State
Sabrine Garrison – University of Minnesota
Q-School Alumni Updates
Web.com Tour – final stage
Justin Shin
Maple Ridge, B.C.
Alumnus (2013)
Eugene Wong
North Vancouver, B.C.
Alumnus (2011, 2010, 2009, 2007)
Albin Choi
Toronto, Ont.
Alumnus (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009)
Cam Burke
New Hamburg, Ont.
Alumnus (2010)
Nick Taylor
Abbotsford, B.C.
Alumnus (2010, 2009, 2008, 2006)
Riley Wheeldon
Courtenay, B.C.
Alumnus (2008)
LPGA Tour – final stage
Jennifer Kirby
Paris, Ont.
Alumnus (2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
Nicole Vandermade
Brantford, Ont.
Alumnus (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
Sara-Maude Juneau
Fossambault, Qué.
Alumnus (2010, 2008)
Maude-Aimée LeBlanc
Sherbrooke, Qué.
Alumnus (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
Canada finishes sixth at Aaron Baddeley International Junior Championship
After a week of sunshine, rain finally fell during the final round of the Aaron Baddeley International Junior Championship in Qingyuan, China. With course conditions worsening throughout the day, Zach Murray of Australia hung on to win the boys division with a 280 (-8) total. Guan Ru-qing from China claimed the girls division also shooting 280 (-8) and for the fourth straight year Australia (1450) took home the team title.
Canadian Junior Golf Association’s (CJGA) Team Canada (1535) made a final round charge to move into the fifth place but could not overcome their slow start from earlier in the week and ended the tournament in six place. Steven Lee of Kelowna, BC and Trevor Yu of Vancouver finished the tournament as top Canadians tied in 16th place.
Lee started his day rolling in two birdies on holes 7 and 8 to finish the front nine with 34 (-2). All was well for Lee until hole 14 where he failed to get up and down to save par. Things continued to unravel for Lee on 15 with a double bogey. With bogeys on holes 17 and 18 Lee finish the day shooting 75 (+3). Teammate Trevor Yu quickly got off to a good start with birdies on holes 1 and 3. Another birdie on 16 had Yu was under par for the day at -2 but it was not to be. With an errant approach shot on 18, Yu could not recover and finished the round shooting 72 (E).
In the Girls division, Sophie Liu of Surrey, BC continued to support her team by posting an eight over 80. Starting off the back nine, Liu struggled out of the gate with a bogey and triple bogey on holes 11 and 12. Quickly settling down Liu birded hole 13 and pared out for a 39 (+3). With the rain getting heaver Liu ended her day with 3 bogeys and a double bogey for a score of 41 (+5) and a total of 80 (+8).
CJGA’s Team Canada now returns home gaining valuable international experience.
“The team represented Canada and themselves in a first-class manner,” said CJGA Team Manager, John Lawrence. “Moving forward, the experience gained here in China will be a great benefit to our players. Sixth place isn’t what we had in mind when we first arrived, but I am very proud of the effort our players displayed on and off the course.”
Ontario Golf Hall of Fame to welcome four new members in 2014
The Golf Association of Ontario (GAO) has announced four new members will be inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame in a ceremony taking place May 7, 2014 at Wooden Sticks Golf Club.
Earl Fritz, John Henrick, Bob Weeks and Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe will become the 65th, 66th, 67th and 68th members of the Hall.
The Ontario Golf Hall of Fame is dedicated to the recognition of extraordinary contributions and accomplishments in the game of golf in Ontario. Founded in the year 2000 by the Ontario Golf Association and the Ontario Ladies’ Golf Association, the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame is housed at Wooden Sticks Golf Club in Uxbridge.
2014 Ontario Golf Hall of Fame Inductees
Earl Fritz
Earl Fritz has been a driving force in the development of the game of golf across Canada as the Executive Director of the Canadian Junior Golf Association (CJGA), an organization that he founded in 1993.
Fritz’s passion for sport development was born out of his career as a competitive hockey player, where he gained an in-depth understanding of the intricacies of amateur sport in Canada. As he reached the twilight of his hockey career, his passion shifted to golf, where he was able to identify gaps in the junior golf development process and saw the need for a competitive tour for aspiring young players.
Working from his basement, Fritz was determined to create a development program that focused on all aspects of the sport including camps, clinics, and competitive events for all ages that would allow young golfers to build fundamental skills and learn how to compete at the high performance level. Not long after launching the CJGA in Ontario in 1993, Fritz had many of his junior tour players representing Canada in international events.
While working full time as a teacher, Fritz donated countless hours to growing the association and within five years the CJGA was offering its programs across the country. He also built mentoring programs for his players that included several PGA Tour professionals including Stephen Ames and Ian Leggatt. Today, the CJGA is a major contributor to the game of golf across the country, hosting more than 80 provincial, national and international events every year, and it is the largest feeder system into Golf Canada’s development programs. CJGA programs have impacted thousands of golfers from coast to coast, with many going on to receive golf scholarships and compete on professional tours. Fritz’s perseverance and dedication to junior golf development has made the CJGA an internationally recognized organization that is a pillar of junior golf development in Canada.
John Henrick
John Henrick has had a career in golf than spans more than 60 years as a professional, mentor, administrator and outstanding tournament player with victories over seven different decades.
Henrick earned his first title in 1948 at the Montreal Athletic Association Pro Am when he was supposed to caddy, but ended up entering and then winning the tournament when another player pulled out. In 1950, working as an assistant professional, Henrick won the Quebec and Canadian Assistants championship, and qualified into the Canadian Open. In 1952 he won the B&A Bursary Championship, earning all-expense paid sojourn to play on the PGA Tour for one year, a feat he would repeat again in 1956. In both 1956 and 1957, Henrick won the Rivermeade Trophy as the low Canadian at the Canadian Open, and in 1958 he played on the Carling Cup team that defeated the team from the United States.
While serving as a club pro and General Manager at several clubs in Quebec and Ontario including Gatineau Golf Club, Highland Country Club, Willows Golf Club and Brampton Golf Club, Henrick mentored many young golfers and professionals. He also captured the 1967 Quebec Open before going on to win three straight Ontario PGA Senior Championships from 1980 to 1982. In 2008, at age 80, he won another Ontario PGA Senior title, making him one of only a handful of golfers to win over seven different decades.
Bob Weeks
Bob Weeks has been one of the most well-known faces in Canadian golf for more than 25 years through his involvement and leadership with SCOREGolf Magazine and SCOREGolf TV on TSN.
A prominent golf journalist, Weeks brings a Canadian perspective to his extensive coverage of golf events worldwide. After joining SCOREGolf as Associate Editor 1987, Weeks assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief in 1993 where he turned the magazine into the successful enterprise that now reaches millions of golf enthusiasts each week. By the end of the 1990’s, the company branched out to include a website, television show, radio show, and a female specific property, Links for Women, becoming the largest and most successful golf media company in Canadian history.
From a reporting perspective, Weeks has authored more than 5,000 print articles ranging from profiles of junior golfers to coverage of major men’s and women’s golf championships. Weeks also writes a highly popular blog on SCOREGolf.com, and has written for GOLF Magazine, Golf Digest, Golfweek, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s as well as countless other publications throughout the world. He has covered every Canadian Open consecutively since 1988 and over 40 men’s major championships, and has penned a number of best-selling books including “The World’s Greatest Golf Courses” in 1998.
Weeks was one of the first in Canadian sports to use the internet as a reporting tool, and through his guidance the SCOREGolf empire now spans across all mediums from print to broadcast to social media and mobile technology. Weeks has spent a generation promoting all facets of the game of golf to audiences at home and abroad, and his outstanding contributions continue to impact the lives of golfers from coast to coast.
Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe
Born in 1883 in North Berwick, Scotland, World Golf Hall of Fame member Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe was known as golf’s “first international female star.”
After picking up her first golf club at just 18 months old, her first notable victory came at the 1905 Scottish Ladies Championship. After winning two more Scottish Ladies’ titles, she won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 1909 at Merion before returning to the UK to win the British Women’s Amateur at Royal Birkdale, making her the first woman to win both the U.S. and British Women’s Amateur titles in the same year.
In 1910, she moved to Canada, where she captured three straight Canadian Ladies’ Amateur Championships between 1910 and 1912, while also repeating as the U.S. champion in 1910 and the British champion in 1911. In 1912, she married and moved to the United States permanently, and her 1920 loss to Alexa Stirling Fraser in the 1920 U.S. Women’s Amateur appeared to be her last attempt at a national title. However, in 1924 with a redeveloped swing, she captured her final U.S. Amateur title at age 41, becoming the oldest winner of the championship and also earning the record for the longest gap between wins (15 years).
In 1926, Campbell set out to surpass the record for fewest putts in 18 holes (21), which she broke at Augusta Country Club with 19 putts. Campbell died in 1946 at the age of 61, and was posthumously inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1991.
Carrigan and Wiebe fall short at Argentine Amateur
Canadians Kevin Carrigan of Victoria, B.C., and Bobby Wiebe of Headingley, Man., failed to make it past the second round of match play at the Argentine Amateur in Buenos Aires at the Martindale Country Club on the weekend.
Carrigan started out strong on Wednesday, capturing the second seed overall heading into Friday’s match play rounds. The 27-year-old earned the designation by carding an 8-under 136 (69-67) to finish one back of Filippo Campigli of Italy.
Carrigan went on to defeat 63rd seed Martin Flores by one hole in the first round of match play. He was later knocked off by Alfonso Otoya 6 and 5.
Wiebe was given the 35th seed after making the cut with a 6-over 150 (80-70). He came up short in the first match play round, losing to Andre Wink of Brazil, 4 and 3.
The eventual champion was 15-year-old Argentinian Marcos Montenegro of Buenos Aires. The youngster defeated Jacopo Vecchi Fossa of Italy 4 and 3 after 36 holes of play.
For stroke play scores, click here.
For a match play tree, click here.
R&A and USGA announce changes to “Decisions on the Rules of Golf”
As the National Sport Organization and governing body of golf in Canada, Golf Canada, in conjunction with the R&A and the United States Golf Association, announce the new revisions to the 2012-2013 edition of the “Decisions on the Rules of Golf”.
The recent changes will come into effect January 1, 2014.
Golf Canada is proud to be the sole association sitting with R&A Rules Limited and the USGA on the Joint Rules Committee, which carries out the quadrennial review of the Rules of Golf, and revises the “Decisions on the Rules of Golf” every two years. Golf’s governing bodies are committed to ensure the rules are constantly evolving and relevant to today’s game.
The “2014-2015 Decisions on the Rules of Golf” contains more than 1,200 entries addressing specific situations under the Rules of Golf. A total of 87 changes have been made to the 2012-2013 Decisions book: three (3) new Decisions, 59 revised Decisions, one (1) re-numbered Decision and 24 Decisions withdrawn.
Notable changes to the 2014-2015 Decisions on the Rules of Golf include:
- New Decision 14-3/18 confirms that players can access reports on weather conditions on a smartphone during a round without breaching the Rules. Importantly, this new Decision also clarifies that players are permitted to access information on the threat of an impending storm in order to protect their own safety.
- New Decision 18/4 provides that, where enhanced technological evidence (e.g. HDTV, digital recording or online visual media, etc.) shows that a ball has left its position and come to rest in another location, the ball will not be deemed to have moved if that movement was not reasonably discernible to the naked eye at the time. The R&A and the USGA have issued a Joint Statement Regarding the Use of Video and Visual Evidence to further explain the governing bodies’ position on the use of this technology.
- Revised Decision 25-2/0.5 helps to clarify when a golf ball is considered to be embedded in the ground through the use of illustrations.
- Revised Decision 27-2a/1.5 allows a player to go forward up to approximately 50 yards without forfeiting his or her right to go back and play a provisional ball.
The full text of the revisions to “Decisions on the Rules of Golf” can be found at www.RandA.org and www.usga.org.
Printed copies of the “2014-2015 Decisions on the Rules of Golf” are available on Golf Canada’s e-store for pre-order and will be shipped January 1st, 2014. Pre-order here.
Chamberlain wins PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada
Adam Chamberlain faced a three-shot deficit entering the final round of the Titleist & FootJoy PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada, but by the time he holed his final putt on No. 18 for par, the 31-year-old head professional from Gowan Brae Golf Club had secured the title, besting Danny King by two-shots.
The Bathurst, N.B., native’s three day total of 9-under-par 207 (69-68-70) was two better than two-time champion and perennial PGA Club Professional Championship of Canada favourite Danny King of The Performance Academy at Magna.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to come down here for the last four years and I’ve realized that I’m able to compete with these guys, but if you would have told me I’d be holding the trophy right now at the start of the week, I’d say you were probably lying to me,” Chamberlain admitted after the round. “It’s been an awesome week with my two great playing competitors the first two days and playing with Danny and Marc (Hurtubise) today was just fantastic.”
When the final group teed off Wednesday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on the PGA Golf Club’s Ryder Course, Chambly Golf Club’s Marc Hurtubise led at 10-under, three-shots better Chamberlain and four strokes over King. However, by the ninth tee, Chamberlain had climbed to 10 under, pulling even with the 50-year-old from Chambly, Que.
Chamberlain says he really didn’t get into the mindset of playing heads up against Hurtubise for the final 10 holes.
“I really wasn’t thinking it was heads up. I didn’t really know what was going on around us, or if anyone was going really low,” Chamberlain says. “I was just trying to take it one hole at a time and I made a couple par saves and had some chances to make some birdies coming in that didn’t quite drop, so I just kept grinding it out.”
As it played out, it would come down to Chamberlain leading by two over King on the last (after Hurtubise made double-bogey on the 17th) hole of the championship.
“On No. 18 I thought I hit a good drive, but it just caught the bunker on the right,” Chamberlain recalls. “I couldn’t get to the green from where I was because there was a huge lip on the bunker, so I just wedged it out short of the green. I had 54-yards left with a little downhill lie that would help it skid and I hit it to eight or 10 feet.”
“I had a straight-in putt–I couldn’t figure out if it went left or right, though. But as my dad always said, if you can’t figure it out, just hit in the middle and there it went.”
King, who celebrated his 46th birthday Tuesday, finished alone in second for the second-straight year at 7-under-par 209. Dave Levesque (Club de Golf La Prairie) and Matt Peavoy (Tamarac Golf & Country Club) finished T3 at 6-under-par 210. 2012 PGA Championship of Canada winner Eric Laporte (Club de Golf Montcalm) and Hurtubise rounded out the top-five at 5-under-par 211. In total, 23 of the 71 players who made the cut finished the 54-hole national championship at even-par or better.
Team Ontario (King, Peavoy, Dan Greenwood and Brian Hutton) captured the Inter-Zone portion of the championship after Tuesday’s second round, besting Team Quebec by eight shots.
With his win, Chamberlain earned $12,000 and jumped to No. 33 on the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC.
For the complete leaderboard, click here.
Reggie Millage named head coach of Team Ontario
Peterborough native Reggie Millage has been named Head Provincial Coach for The Golf Association of Ontario (GAO).
In his new position, Millage will lead the delivery of the GAO’s high performance programs including Team Ontario, the regional team development programs and coach development programs.
“I am very humbled and excited by this opportunity to coach some of Ontario’s finest athletes,” said Millage. “I look forward to working and learning with the other great coaches in the province as we help Ontario’s junior golfers shine on the international stage.”
Millage is one of Canada’s top high performance coaches, drawing on his extensive experience and success as a competitive golfer. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, Millage starred on the NCAA Div. 1 golf team for four years and was also a member of Golf Canada’s national team from 1998-2000.
After turning professional, Millage played on various tours from 2000-2004 before shifting his focus to coaching while continuing to play competitively. A Class “A” PGA of Canada professional, Millage is currently ranked 14th on the PGA of Canada Players rankings.
Millage has worked alongside some of Canada’s most accomplished coaches and has several years of experience working with juniors while teaching at The Glen Abbey Academy and Henry Brunton Golf. He is a familiar face to Team Ontario athletes, serving as a member of Team Ontario’s coaching staff for numerous events over the past two years while coaching at Team Ontario’s winter training facility, The Golf Lab.
“Following an extensive search, the GAO is thrilled to welcome to Reggie to the team,” said Mike Kelly, GAO Managing Director of Sport. “We have no doubt he will have an immediate impact on the Team Ontario program.”
Millage will also manage the implementation of the Provincial High Performance Strategic Plan, the High Performance Integrated Support Team (IST), as well as player identification, scouting programs and recruiting systems.
“It is an honour to join the staff at the Golf Association of Ontario,” said Millage. “I fondly remember the days competing in GAO events and the great road trips and friends I made as a member of Team Ontario.”
The terrific staff and tireless volunteers are constantly working to grow the game and I can’t wait to work with them.”
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Anne-Catherine Tanguay finishes fifth at Alamo Invitational
Anne-Catherine Tanguay of Québec City had great success at the Alamo Invitational from Oct. 27 – 29 at the Briggs Ranch Golf Course in San Antonia, Tex., finishing in a tie for a fifth.
Tanguay, a senior at Oklahoma University, fired three consecutive rounds in the red (69-72-71) to finish with a four-under 212. In total, the 22-year-old tallied 12 birdies and eight bogies. She was seven strokes off the medalist, Lindsay Gahm, an LSU student from Louisville, Ky.
Collectively, Tanguay’s efforts helped lift the Oklahoma Sooners to a first place team finish with a final score of 24-under. The Sooners carded a remarkable 12-under on the third and final day, giving them an eight stroke cushion over runner-up LSU.
Tanguay is off to another strong start in her collegiate career. She was named to last year’s All-Big 12 Conference Team and looks for a repeat performance this season.
For full tournament results, click here.