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Father-Son Duo Triumphs at Ontario Men’s Better Ball Championship

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Cam and Charlie Burke were crowned the Champions at Oakdale Golf & Country Club, capturing the Ontario Men’s Better Ball Championship.

Coming in hot off this year’s Ontario and Canadian Men’s Mid-Am championship wins, Cam and his father Charlie emerged victorious after defeating Connor Rochon and Owen Allen (Weston Golf & Country Club) in an intense six-hole playoff. Both teams had a better-ball score of 6-under-par 66.

Ty Wadsworth and Brad Wadsworth (Bellmere Winds Golf Resort) tied for third place with Gordon Gibson and Brett Geiser of Cedar Brae Golf Club with a score of 5-under-par for a total of 67.

56 teams (112 players) participated in the one-day event. Established in 1959, the Ontario Men’s Better Ball Championship has a long history at Oakdale Golf & Country Club.

For all final results, CLICK HERE.

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Champions Crowned at Ontario Senior Men’s Better Ball Championship

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The top two ranked senior men’s amateur golfers in the province triumphed Thursday at Brampton Golf Club, capturing the Ontario Senior Men’s Better Ball Championship.

The duo of Dave Bunker (Cherry Hill Club) and Rob Cowan (Westmount Golf and Country Club) emerged victorious after defeating Dan Keogh (Toronto Golf Club) and Nigel Hollidge (Taboo Resort) in a one-hole playoff. Both teams carded a better-ball score of 5-under-par 66 on the day.

Last year’s champions, Bruno Ardito (Brampton Golf Club) and Gary Parker (Brampton Golf Club), secured third place.

A total of 55 teams (110 players) participated in the one-day event. Established in 1982, the Ontario Senior Men’s Better Ball Championship is open to players aged 55 and older as of the tournament date.

This victory marks the second provincial championship win this year for Bunker, following his triumph in the Ontario Senior Men’s Championship earlier this summer. He also claimed the Senior Porter Cup this season. Cowan recently finished in the top 15 at the Canadian Senior Men’s Championship and top 10 at the Ontario Senior Men’s Championship.

For all final results, CLICK HERE.

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Head-to-Head Playoff Thrills at the 2024 Ontario Provincial Super Camp & Junior Tour Championship

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The 2024 Ontario Provincial Super Camp & Junior Tour Championship concluded in a head-to-head playoff at Black Bear Ridge.

Boys’ Division

The rain was coming down as Rylan Hall of Team Ontario and Whistle Bear Golf Club played off against Team Canada’s Luke Smith of The Thornhill Club on hole 18.

After making the winning putt, Luke Smith was crowned the champion, scoring 69 for a total of 213. Hall finished the round with a score of 70.

Close behind in third place was Jager Pain who was two-under-par with scores of 73, 74, and 67 for a total of 214.

Girls’ Division

Team Ontario had two players winning Gold and Silver. Angela Cai of Heron Point Golf Links was the champion of the girl’s division after a strong performance with scores of 74, 71, 72 for a total of 217. Nobelle Park of Rattle Snake Point took home silver with scores of 74, 75, 73 for a total of 222.

Finishing in third place was Kayla Black of Markland Wood Golf Club. Black had scores of 74, 73, and 76 for a total of 223, only one point behind Park.

For all final results, CLICK HERE.

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Brampton Golf Club to Host 2024 Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship

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The Brampton Golf Club will host this year’s Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship on September 26th. The one-day event will feature 56 two-man teams competing for the championship title in a better-ball format.

First held in 1982, the Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship is open to players aged 55 and older as of the tournament date.

QUOTE

“The Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship is a great way to close out the Senior Men’s championship season here in Ontario. This year’s field includes multiple past champions and many of the top-ranked senior players in the province, all eager to reclaim their spot at the top. We’re in for another exciting championship.”
— Connor Doyle, Tournament Director

TEAMS TO WATCH

Dave Bunker and Rob Cowan: The No. 1 and No. 2-ranked senior men in this season’s BioSteel Amateur Order of Merit Rankings, with Bunker also being the winner of the 2024 Ontario Senior Men’s Championship.

Bruno Ardito and Gary Parker: Defending champions from the 2023 Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship.

Chris Lee and Cam Hreljac: Winners of the 2022 Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship.

David Wilson and Eamonn McConnell: Champions of the 2021 Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship.

Mark Bennett and Jim Briggs: The 2018 Ontario Senior Men’s Better-Ball Championship winners.

Notable nice playersDan Keogh and Nigel Hollidge.

FAST FACTS

Venue: Brampton Golf Club
Date: September 26
Field: 56 two-man teams
Format: 18-hole, better-ball
Leaderboard: HERE
Fun Fact: Past champions include Ontario Golf Hall of Fame members Nick Weslock and Stu Hamilton.

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The Fifth Annual Ontario Super Camp and Tour Championship Set to Begin at Black Bear Ridge

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The fifth annual Ontario Super Camp and Tour Championship kicks off this weekend in Belleville at Black Bear Ridge Golf Course and Resort.

More than 60 junior golfers, each earning their invitation based on the Junior Golf Pathway Rankings, will compete for top honors and the prestigious Dave Mills Trophy. The four-day event includes the 54-hole Tour Championship and a one-day Super Camp combine, taking place from September 22 to 25.

You can find the full schedule of events HERE.

QUOTE

“The Super Camp and Junior Tour Championship is an exciting time of the year for junior golf. There’s a lot at stake this week! The top 30 boys and girls in the province face off, showcasing what they’ve been working on all year. We’re extremely excited to see the best of the best compete for the title.”
— Mason Cowan, Championship Director.

PLAYERS TO WATCH

BOYS:

GIRLS:

FAST FACTS

FUN FACT

First awarded in 2021, the Dave Mills Trophy is named in honour of Dave Mills, a past Golf Ontario Executive Director and a passionate advocate for junior golf. Mills presented the first-ever Tour Championship trophy in 2020. The soapstone trophy was carved by Canada’s foremost Ojibway sculptor, Kris Nahrgang, who met with Mills before his passing.

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World Junior Girls Golf Championship coming to Credit Valley G&CC

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Golf Canada has set an impressive stretch goal of having 30 professional golfers at the highest levels of the sport by 2032.

The World Junior Girls Golf Championship is a huge part of that target.

Credit Valley Golf and Country Club will host the international tournament from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5, with 24 teams representing 23 nations — Canada gets two squads — competing. Lindsay McGrath, a 17-year-old golfer from Oakville, Ont., said she’s excited to be representing Canada and continue to develop her game.

“I’m really grateful to be here,” said McGrath on Monday after a news conference in Credit Valley’s clubhouse in Mississauga, Ont. “It’s just such an awesome feeling being here and representing our country, wearing all the logos and being on Team Canada.

“I’ve always wanted to play in this tournament, so it’s really special to me.”

McGrath will be joined by Nobelle Park of Oakville, Ont., and Eileen Park of Red Deer, Alta., on Team Canada 2. All three earned their places through a qualifying tournament last month.

“I love my teammates so much,” said McGrath. “I know Nobelle and Eileen very well. I’m just so excited to be with them. We have such a great relationship.”

Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont., Calgary’s Aphrodite Deng and Clairey Lin make up Team Canada 1. Liu earned her exemption following her win at the 2024 Canadian Junior Girls Championship while Deng earned her exemption as being the low eligible Canadian on the world amateur golf ranking as of Aug. 7.

Deng was No. 175 at the time, she has since improved to No. 171 and is Canada’s lowest-ranked player.

“I think it’s a really great opportunity,” said Liu. “We don’t really get that many opportunities to play with people from across the world, so it’s really great to meet new people and play with them.

“It’s great to see maybe how they play and take parts from their game that we might also implement our own games.”

Golf Canada founded the World Junior Girls Golf Championship in 2014 to fill a void in women’s international competition and help grow its own homegrown talent. The hosts won for the first time last year when Vancouver’s Anna Huang, Toronto’s Vanessa Borovilos and Vancouver’s Vanessa Zhang won team gold and Huang earned individual silver.

Medallists who have gone on to win on the LPGA Tour include Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., who was fourth in the individual competition at the inaugural tournament. She was on Canada’s bronze-medal team in 2014 with Selena Costabile of Thornhill, Ont., and Calgary’s Jaclyn Lee.

Other notable competitors who went on to become LPGA Tour winners include Angel Yin and Megan Khang of the United States, as well as Yuka Saso of the Philippines, Sweden’s Linn Grant and Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand.

“It’s not if, it’s when they’re going to be on the LPGA Tour,” said Garrett Ball, Golf Canada’s chief operating officer, of how Canada’s golfers in the World Junior Girls Championship can be part of the organization’s goal to have 30 pros in the LPGA and PGA Tours by 2032.

“Events like this, like the She Plays Golf festival that we launched two years ago, and then the CPKC Women’s Open exemptions that we utilize to bring in our national team athletes and get the experience has been important in that pathway.”

The individual winner of the World Junior Girls Golf Championship will earn a berth in next year’s CPKC Women’s Open at nearby Mississaugua Golf and Country Club.

Both clubs, as well as former RBC Canadian Open host site Glen Abbey Golf Club, were devastated by heavy rains through June and July as the Greater Toronto Area had its wettest summer in recorded history.

Jason Hanna, the chief operating officer of Credit Valley Golf and Country Club, said that he has seen the Credit River flood so badly that it affected the course’s playability a handful of times over his nearly two decades with the club.

Staff and members alike came together to clean up the course after the flooding was over, with hundreds of people coming together to make the club playable again.

“You had to show up, bring your own rake, bring your own shovel, bring your own gloves, and then we’d take them down to the golf course, assign them to areas where they would work, and then we would do a big barbecue down at the halfway house,” said Hanna. “We got guys, like, 80 years old, putting in eight-hour days down there, working away.”

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Trophies Captured at the Ontario Women’s & Senior Women’s Four-Ball Championship

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The 2024 Ontario Women’s & Senior Women’s Four-Ball Championship at the Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto saw interesting finishes all around.

The women’s division was won by Team Ontario’s very own Angela Cai + Emily McKee (Heron Point Golf Links, St. George’s Golf and Country Club). The pair finished the round with 5-under-par for a total of 67.

In the senior women’s division, Ivy Steinberg + Sandy Byckowski (Granite Golf Club, Brampton Golf Club Ltd) were victorious with a 72-even-par, just two strokes ahead of Helen Williams + Meredith Stanford (Station Creek Golf Club, The Thornhill Club).

Helen Williams + Meredith Stanford (Station Creek Golf Club, The Thornhill Club) won the senior Net division with a total net score of 67.

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Women’s & Senior Women’s Four-Ball Heads to the Historic Ladies’ GC of Toronto

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The prestigious Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto will host the Ontario Women’s & Senior Women’s Four-Ball Championship on Monday, celebrating its 100-year anniversary in 2024. The event features 44 two-player teams divided into women’s and senior women’s divisions competing in a four-ball format.

Founded in 1924 by the legendary Ada Mackenzie, an Ontario Golf Hall of Fame member, the Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto was designed with the assistance of Stanley Thompson on the rolling terrain between Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue in Thornhill.

The one-day championship begins at 1 p.m. on Monday.

QUOTE

We’re excited to be hosting the Ontario Women’s Four-Ball and inaugural Ontario Senior Women’s Four-Ball Championship at The Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto during their 100th anniversary. This championship annually hosts some of the top female amateur golfers in the province, and we look forward to having them compete at this amazing facility.”
– Connor Doyle, Tournament Director

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Alexandra Taylor of The Cherry Hill Club, 2024 Ontario Women’s Mid-Amateur champion.

Ivy Steinberg, two-time Ontario Senior Women’s Amateur champion (2008, 2009).

Angela Cai, current Team Ontario member, and Emily McKee, Team Ontario alumna.

Lynn Lean, this year’s Senior Women’s Champion of Champions winner.

Avery Nordman, 2024 Ontario Juvenile U17 Girls’ Amateur winner.

Carolyn McCullough, the No. 5-ranked player from the 2024 Senior Women’s Order of Merit.

FAST FACTS

Championship Venue: Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto

Championship Date: September 16

Field: 44 two-player teams

Format: 18-hole, four-ball. Two divisions: Women’s and Senior Women’s

Leaderboard Link: View the leaderboard

Fun Fact: The Ladies’ Golf Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2024.

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Ontario Public Amateur Presented by Baka Mobile Sees Two New Winners Crowned

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The final round of the 55th Ontario Public Amateur Championship presented by Baka Mobile from Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club saw interesting finishes all around.

The men’s Gross and ‘A’ Flight divisions were won by none other than Tangle Creek’s very own Josh Taylor, who had two very impressive rounds of play, shooting 2-under-par-70 yesterday and 4-under-par-68 today.

Taylor finished nine strokes ahead of runner-up, Brett Wira of London and 11 ahead of Toronto’s Paul Sobottka in both ‘A’ Flight and total Gross play. Overall, Taylor shot 138-6-under-par in both competitions while Wira shot 147 and Sobottka 149.

Jenna Power of Hornby Glen Golf Course captured both the women’s Gross and Net titles, shooting 87-par in Net play in the final round to finish two strokes ahead of runner-up, Loren Gabel of Cambridge.

Power shot 85-97 for a two-day total of 182 in gross play and 75-87 for 162 in net competition. Meanwhile, Gabel shot 92-86 for 178 in Net and 95-89 for 184 overall.

In the ‘B’ Flight division, Glencoe’s Jamie Howe took the reigns on the back of an impressive final round, where he shot 68-4-under-par in B Flight Net to finish six strokes ahead of Mike Vieira of Whitby. In Gross play, Howe shot 79 in the final round and both he and Vieira shot a two-day total of 159 in the overall competition.

The ‘C’ Flight division was decided in a playoff, where Joseph Smith of Alliston knocked off Whitby’s Steve Stone. Stone shot 72-even-par in C Flight Net play in the final round, which allowed him to rally from five strokes behind to allow a playoff. In the end, Smith, who shot 75-par in Net competition in the second round, prevailed after a nine-hole grind.

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Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club Hosting Ontario Public Amateur Presented by Baka Mobile

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The 2024 Ontario Public Amateur Championship presented by Baka Mobile heads to Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club August 29 – 30.

The event will see 109 public golfers, the most in Ontario Public Amateur Championship history, compete in four sperate flighted divisions.

The men will play in three flighted divisions—the ‘A’ flight division will compete in Gross competition, while flights ‘B’ and ‘C’ play in net competition with the option for ‘B’ flight golfers to compete in the overall championship. The women will compete in their own division, with both gross and net competitions.

Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club is no stranger to hosting Golf Ontario championships, having previously hosted events such as the 2019 Ontario Junior Boys Championship and last year’s Ontario Men’s & Senior Men’s Match Play Championship.

First played in 1958, the Ontario Public Amateur Championship has provided great opportunities for public players of either the Golf Ontario Public Player Program and of semi-private golf courses to compete in a competitive tournament with gross and net flights. This allows high-handicap players to compete with players in their handicap grouping.

Past champions include Ontario Golf Hall of Famer Dave Bunker (2009, 2010), Robert Mclean (2021), Arnold Johnson (2011, 2015), Peter Willis (2014), Gail Pimm (2015) and Nobelle Park (2022).

Both rounds will see morning tee-offs between 8-9:30 a.m. and afternoon times between 12:30-2 p.m., each on first and 10th tees.

CLICK HERE for all first-round pairings and start times.

PLAYERS

Notable players include:

Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club’s own, Bradley Greenside, who won the 2023 Ontario Men’s Champion of Champions.

Defending men’s Ontario Public Amateur champion, Paul Sobottka.

Michael Naus, who won the 2022 Ontario Men’s Public Amateur Championship.

QUOTES

Rob Watson, Tournament Director: “The Ontario Public Amateur Championship has served as a great opportunity for public players across the province to play in a competitive field. With about 110 players making up the field, as well as a course that brings plenty of hole-by-hole challenges in Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club, competition at this year’s event promises to be fierce.”

Richard Edmonds, General Manager – Tangle Creek Golf & Country Club: “It’s an honor and pleasure to be able to host such a prestigious event at our club. Our team has worked tirelessly to ensure that the experience this week will be world class. The course is in immaculate shape and will test all golfers’ abilities. I would like to thank Golf Ontario and all the Volunteers that have dedicated their time to organizing this event.”

FAST FACTS

Championship Venue: Tangle Creek Golf & Club

Championship Dates: August 29 – 30

Field: 107 players (‘A’ Flight: 42,  ‘B’ Flight: 36,  ‘C’ Flight: 27  Women’s Overall: 2)

Format: 36-hole, stroke play

Leaderboard Link: 24′ Ontario Public Amateur Championship Event :: Tournament Results (golfgenius.com)

Fun Fact: Mill Run Golf Club in Uxbridge has hosted the Ontario Public Amateur Championship nine times, a tournament record.

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