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June 6th, 2009

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       Two players, born 31 years apart, share the opening-round lead at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship in Lethbridge. Nineteen-year-old Graham Baillargeron of Mississauga, Ontario and 50-year-old Garth Collings of Winnipeg each shot four-under 67’s. Collings’ effort sparked Manitoba into the lead in the Willingdon Cup inter-provincial team competition. Saskatchewan is 18 strokes off their pace going into today’s final round of team play. David Stewart of Prince Albert carded a 78.

       Elsewhere, match play in nine flights starts today at Waskesiu in the Junior Men’s Lobstick. Jesse Gibson and Chris Schneider tied for medallist honours with 72. Meanwhile, the 11 entries in the Junior Women’s division will play a second round of medal play today. Breanna White leads after an opening round 80. Plus, 16-year-old Travis Jenkins of Prince Albert was part of the eight-member Canadian team that finished second in the recent International Junior Golf Team Invitational in Mexico. The four-round event featured best ball and alternate shot team matches, plus singles matches. Canada finished second, one point ahead of the U-S with Mexico third.

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Senior Golf Play

June 6th, 2009

Todd Fanning seems to be soaking up every minute of a return to the Canadian Amateur for the first time in 16 years.

The 40-year-old, who won the Manitoba Amateur in 1984, 1990 and 1991, turned pro in 1993 and slaved away on the Canadian Tour and, in his last year of 2002, the Nationwide Tour with little gain.

So he got a real job, national sales manager for the golf and turf division with National Leasing, and eventually applied for his amateur reinstatement.

“Three kids, not on the PGA Tour and a hell of a lot of travel,” smiled the member of Manitoba’s Willingdon Cup team and third-place finisher in the recent provincial championship. “To be honest, though, I didn’t see my game really improving the last two years out there so the timing was right.

“And I was 35 already.”

Fanning opened with a wind-blown round of 78 on Monday and fired back with a two-under 69 on Tuesday as he continues to shed considerable competitive rust.

“I’ve played one tournament in five years and that was the provincial championship,” he said of a tie for third at four-under. “So it’s great to be here . . . it’s a beautiful spot.”

Fanning is almost a fossil in this field of young guns and if he didn’t feel like one before, he does now.

“I was playing with a young guy from B.C. and when he told me he was from the Capilano club, I told him I played the World Amateur there in ’92,” said Fanning. “He turned to his dad and said, ‘that’s the year I was born!’

“But the caliber of play from the younger players, and when I say younger I mean the under 20s, is amazing. It’s great to see the young guys playing so well and what the RCGA is doing with its amateur programs.”

Fanning doesn’t know if he’ll be back for another Canadian Amateur or not. He says he’s not going to go at the game seriously.

“I’ll play the provincial amateur and if I make the team, I’ll play this one.”

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Defending Canadian amateur champ has brutal opening day at windy Paradise Canyo

June 6th, 2009

The reigning Canadian Amateur champion signed a card of three-over-par 74 and, in his mind, it was full of mistakes.

“The wind was tough today,” acknowledged the 20-year-old whiz from Abbotsford, B.C., “but I threw away a few shots . . . made a bunch of stupid little bogeys from the middle of the fairway. I probably could have been four or five shots lower if I’d played a little smarter and hit some shots that didn’t get me shortsided.”

Taylor could have used every one of those “throwaways” as he found himself trailing fellow and first year Canadian team member Graham Baillargeon of Mississauga, Ont., and 2003 Canadian Mid-Am champion Garth Collings of Winnipeg by seven shots.

The 19-year-old Baillargeon, who won the Canadian Junior Men’s title last year, and the 50-year-old Collings each fashioned five-under 67s on the afternoon shift when the wind dropped noticeably.

Their closest pursuers are Lindsay Renolds of Christina Lake, B.C. and Texan Trent Leon, who both shot 69s on the wicked morning shift when the wind blew steadily around 50 km/h before dropping off noticeably later in the afternoon. Six other players, including Edmonton’s Darren Hupfer and 17-year-old world junior champion Eugene Wong of North Vancouver, are at 70.

Collings’ heroics, a bogey-free round with birdies at the four par 5s, helped Manitoba take a one-shot lead over British Columbia in the Willingdon Cup inter-provincial match. Alberta, which has won the last three Willingdon Cups, is five shots off the pace in third place.

Alberta Amateur champion Scott Stiles of Calgary Bearspaw led Alberta with a 72, one shot less than recently-crowned Pacific Coast Amateur champion Jordan Irwin of Redwood Meadows needed after he started off with a triple bogey.

Taylor, who played in the U.S. Open and was one of only two Canadians to make the cut at the recent Canadian Open, won last year’s national title under the match play format when he took out Calgary’s Michael Knight on the 38th hole.

This year’s tournament has returned to 72 holes of stroke play and Taylor was ready for just about anything but the wind.

“It’s been awhile since I played in a wind that strong . . . 10, 11, 12 were pretty much ridiculous,” he said. “You couldn’t ground your club on the greens because the ball is shaking and moving. You’re standing over your ball watching it shake . . . you don’t want to rush your putt but you almost had to and that’s hard because you’re not really focused on what you’re doing.”

The trio of holes pointed out by Taylor, who is tied for 39th, are at the top of the 6,840-yard course and wide open to the wind. The 124-yard, par 3 12th played into the teeth of the breeze with the morning players hitting anything from 6-irons to 4-irons instead of a nice wedge

And if they did hit the ball on the green, there was a good chance it’d start rolling after it’d stopped.

“Those three greens were borderline unplayable,” submitted 36-year-old Craig Doell of Victoria, who is playing in his 17th national jig. “The balls were moving on the green on their own so you really had to be careful.

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Don Jackson wins Manitoba Senior Golf Championship

June 6th, 2009

Don Jackson wins Manitoba Senior Golf Championship

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Don Jackson of Portage won the Manitoba Seniors Golf Championship this week at Carman Golf Club. He shot rounds of 71, 73 and 74 for a 3 round total of 5 over par 218. Three players tied for second including our own Bill North, Grant Foster and Dennis Burns. Bill shot a final round 71 to pass a bunch of players to get a position on the 4 man Manitoba team. Bill will be travelling with the team to Sault St Marie for the Canadian Seniors Championship in September. Good luck Bill and play well.

The course was in great shape all week and all the participants enjoyed the course and the hospitality they received while they were here.

Kevin Giesbrecht is in Trinidad this week representing Canada in the Steven Ames Cup. It will be a great trip for Kevin and we hope he has a great time. Here is a link to the tournament there:
http://www.trinidadandtobagogolfassociation.com/www.amescup.com/amescup2008.htm

After he gets back from there, he will be on his way to Paris, Texas to begin his college golf career at Paris Junior College.

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Youngest to ever win men’s Golfing Amateur Tournament

May 31st, 2009

Nikashantess Penashue was feeling the pressure as he set out for his final day on the green at Terra Nova Golf Course. He was 16 competing against 20 and 30 year-olds and he says that part was tough.

He said he wasn’t nervous during the first two days of the tournament because he didn’t really think there was much of a chance he’d win, but on the last day he knew he was in the running.

He made his way around the course shooting what he called medium but not perfect shots.

“I was hitting down the middle but everybody seemed to be hitting into the woods,” he said.

Nearing the last few holes of the course someone told him he had the lead by four points. It was then that he said he knew he had it.

“I started to get excited, especially coming into the last hole because there were a lot of people there watching.”

With his cousin Atshapi caddying for him, Nikashantess finished the game to become the youngest person to ever win the men’s amateur provincial championship- a tournament aimed at men 40 and under. Normally Nikashantess would be competing in junior, which is for under 18’s, and he’s played in junior tournaments before.

Surprisingly, this year he didn’t make the junior team and it was his second year trying for the amateur championship.

“I didn’t expect to win,” he said.

“My goal was to place in the top 10.”

Nikashantess is not the only member of his family to excel at golf. His mom was on her way to compete for the ladies national golf championship in Winnipeg when he called her to tell her he’d won.

“Mom was in the Toronto airport crying over the phone,” he said.

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Nikashantess has been playing golf since he was ten years old. He said his stepfather got both he and his mother interested in the game. He’s used to playing the greens in HV-GB and he said the competition in St. John’s is much tougher.

At Bally Haly golf course in St. John’s, Nikashantess played 8-hour days of golf, preparing for the tournament. He’d only played the Terra Nova course four times before the match. He said the most challenging part wasn’t the course but the fact that he was playing against men, and really good golfers at that.

“I don’t think they expected me to win it,” he said.

When he did win he said the men were all very nice and supportive and everyone congratulated him.

The next stop for Nikashantess is the North American Indigenous Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he’ll also be competing for a golf title. Then it’s off to the National amateur championships in Alberta where he’ll be representing Newfoundland and Labrador before he makes his way back to Sheshatshiu at the end of August.

Nikashantess said he doubts he’ll play golf professionally but he said he’d like to see how far he could take it.

 

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