PORTLAND, Ore. – Four Canadian players won two matches each Tuesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the 56th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship at Waverley Country Club. Hosting its seventh USGA championship, Waverley is set up at 5,836 yards and a par of 72.

Jackie Little joins Judith Kyrinis, Mary Ann Hayward and Terrill Samuel to comprise half of the remaining field, which began with nine Canadians.

“We’re pretty proud Canadians. We play some really good golf up there, as you can see,” said Kyrinis, 53, the 2014 Senior Women’s Amateur runner-up. “PGA, LPGA, we’re all really coming on strong. It’s great to see everybody do well here. We all hang out pretty often when we’re here, and we keep in touch with each other through social media.”

The way the bracket played out, none of the Canadian players will face each other in Wednesday’s quarterfinals.

“We couldn’t have planned it much better,” said Little, 59, before the Canadian quartet left to go to dinner together at a local Italian restaurant.

Marlene Stewart Streit is the most recent Canadian to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, doing so in 2003. Gayle Borthwick is the only other Canadian to win the championship, winning in 1996 and 1998. Hayward, the 2005

U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion, is the most recent USGA champion from Canada.

The U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, open to female amateurs age 50 and older with a Handicap Index® not exceeding 18.4, consists of 36 holes of stroke play, with the low 64 players advancing to match play. The championship, scheduled to conclude with an 18-hole final on Thursday, is one of 13 national championships conducted annually by the USGA, 10 of which are strictly for amateurs.

Kyrinis was one of two players to defeat two USGA champions on Tuesday. She first eliminated 2009 Women’s Mid-Amateur runner-up Martha Leach, 5 and 4, in the Round of 32, then won four of the final five holes to defeat 2009 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur champion Sherry Herman, 2 up.

“It was a really tight, back-and-forth match,” said Kyrinis of her win against Herman. “I played so well against Martha, and it’s really hard to play like that back to back, but I held my own. I’ve been driving the ball really well and putting it well. If you can do those two things on this course, you’ll be in good stead.”

Hayward, 57, needed 20 holes to defeat fellow Canadian Marie-Therese Torti in the Round of 32, then cruised to a 7-and-6 win in the Round of 16 against Sherry Smith. Little led 2010 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur champion Mina Hardin 3 up with four holes remaining, then held on to seal the match on No. 17 after Hardin won Nos. 15 and 16.

The winning Canadians then flocked to the 18th hole to watch the final match on the course, as Samuel sealed her victory with a conceded birdie against 2004 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur champion Carolyn Creekmore.

All quarterfinalists are exempt into the 2018 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur at Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club in Vero Beach, Fla. The quarterfinals begin at 8 a.m. PDT Wednesday with McGill facing Kyrinis. The semifinals are scheduled to begin at 12:45 p.m.

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Glenn Babcock captures the 2017 brian macleod memorial open championship

Glenn Babcock, who is originally from Nova Scotia but now resides in Ontario, captured the 2017 Brian MacLeod Memorial Nova Scotia Open Championship at the Mountain Golf Club on August 21-22. Babcock finished the two-day championship with a total of 75 points in the Net Stableford format. Babcock who was guided by his father Barry .

Finishing in second place was Bruno Boucher from Quebec who was two points behind Babcock. The third place spot went to Robert Gentil-Perret from Saskatchwan.

The Cape Breton Open is now underway at the Bell Bay Golf Club

OTTAWA – Brooke Henderson said that it would take a miracle for her to get into contention at the CP Women’s Open after barely making the cut. She got that miracle on Saturday.

Henderson fired a course record 8-under 63 at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club to rocket up the leaderboard into a temporary tie for second at 7-under par before several players passed her. Still, finishing the day tied for sixth, three shots behind co-leaders Mo Martin and Nicole Broch Larsen, was a big improvement after needing a birdie on her final hole Friday to even play in the third round.

“Having the cut out of the way kind of gave me a little bit of a scare yesterday, being so close and almost not even playing the weekend,” said Henderson. “So I knew I had to get going.”

She added with a laugh: “Today is moving day, so I moved, that’s for sure.”

Brittany Marchand of Orangeville, Ont., was the only other Canadian left in the field after Friday night’s cuts. She shot a 1-over 72 to finish the day at 1-under par tied for 45th.

“It does a lot for my confidence no matter how the weekend goes,” said Marchand, who was a sponsor exemption that usually plays on the Symetra Tour. “Maybe today a few mistakes here and there. But overall I’m happy I’m playing the weekend. To know that I can play out here gives me confidence when I go back to Symetra.”

Henderson, who is from nearby Smiths Falls, Ont., and an honorary member at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, doesn’t normally keep score when she’s playing the course for fun. The history books are telling though: the previous course record was a 64 set by Yani Tseng in 2008 before the course was redesigned in 2013. The men’s record was a 65 set by golfing legend Jack Nicklaus in 1960 as an amateur at the America’s Cup.

It looked like Henderson was going to earn her only bogey of the day on the 381-yard, par 4 No. 16.

Her approach shot shanked a little, falling on the green 70 feet from the hole. A long putt settled about 20 feet away from the pin, making par seem unlikely. But Henderson steadied herself and drained the shot, her knees buckling slightly from relief as the hundreds of fans trailing her from hole to hole burst into applause.

“I was really disappointed with that second shot. I kind of mentally got in my way there, and then that two-putt, when I went up to it, I was hoping for a two-putt and I was able to get it,” said Henderson. “Just kind of fell in the side door there, and then it led to two more birdies on 17 and 18.

Marchand was also frustrated on No. 16, bogeying before recovering on the next hole with a birdie.

“I three-putted on 16, and that was just frustration because I was mad that I missed my birdie putt again. Then I go and three-putt from ten feet. Just little things like that, I think those are the frustration parts a few times. But then I’m glad I bounced back with a birdie and little things.

The crowds following Henderson around the course have been the talk of the tournament. Although the 19-year-old Henderson admitted on Friday that she felt a lot of pressure as the star of the show, she was more relaxed and happy on Saturday and enjoying the support of the fans.

“Coming up 18 I kind of just took a peek around and I didn’t see any green grass outside of the ropes,” said Henderson. “Everybody was everywhere. So it’s such an incredible feeling. Being so close to home makes this week so much more special.”

.@BrookeHenderson puts on a show today as she shoots a course record of 63 during her 3rd round! Watch highlights:#CPWO pic.twitter.com/DQUeY9vGIe

— LPGA (@LPGA) August 26, 2017

Canada’s Lorie Kane of Charlottetown, P.E.I., shares some expert tips to help you with hitting low trajectory shots to avoid high winds.

Watch her perform in person this summer at the Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club from Aug. 21-27 – tickets are available here.

When you see players wearing yellow ribbons at this week’s CP Women’s Open at the Ottawa Golf and Hunt Club, think “DCJ.”

Those are the initials of Dawn Coe-Jones, one of Canada’s most outstanding golfers who died of bone cancer last November at the age of 56. The ribbons are to honour her memory and to remind us all of the toll this terrible disease takes.

Born in Lake Cowichan, B.C., Coe-Jones won the B.C. Junior Championship in 1978 and 1978 and then the B.C. Amateur in 1982. In 1983, she defended her provincial amateur title and capped off the season by winning the Canadian Amateur Championship. After being named an NCAA All-American at Lamar University in Texas, Coe-Jones headed to the LPGA Tour where she won three times, including the 1995 Tournament of Champions.

Despite smaller purses during her heyday, Coe-Jones remains the top Canadian money-winner at the CP Women’s Open. She finished, either solo or tied, as the top Canadian 13 times. Her best finish was third in 1993. Her golfing genes live on in her son, Jimmy, who played in the Canadian Amateur earlier this month.

Last October, the inaugural Dawn Coe-Jones Golf Classic was held in Florida to raise funds for sarcoma research. “Dawn touched so many people,” recalled fellow B.C. native Gail Graham, a fellow Lamar alumna who played with Coe-Jones on the LPGA Tour. “She was always the one who worried about others.”

That month, the Legends Tour (the official senior tour of the LPGA) honoured her with the Colleen Walker Spirit Award, given to the player who best exemplifies Walker’s spirit, courage and love of the game. The award is named for Walker, a former LPGA Tour player who died of cancer in 2012.

Coe-Jones’s legacy is also being carried on by the current generation of outstanding Canadians, many of whom are participating in this week’s championship.

The homegrown contingent is led by 19-year-old Brooke Henderson, already a four-time winner in only her second full season on the LPGA Tour, including the 2016 KPMG PGA Championship. Henderson, who was born in nearby Smiths Falls, Ont., now calls the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club her home club, so she has local knowledge on her side as well as talent.

Also vying to be the first Canadian to win our national women’s Open since Jocelyne Bourassa in 1973 will be Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Ont. Sharp, who represented Canada in the 2016 Olympics, is coming off a top-five finish at last year’s CP Women’s Open.

Charlottetown’s Lorie Kane, like her longtime friend and competitor Coe-Jones, is an honoured member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. She will be teeing it up this week in her record-setting 27th CP Women’s Open start.

Other Canadian pros in the field include Jennifer Ha of Calgary, Augusta James of Bath, Ont., Maude-Aimee LeBlanc of Sherbrooke, Que., Brittany Marchand of Orangeville, Ont., Samantha Richdale of Kelowna, B.C., and Anne-Catherine Tanguay of Quebec City. Team Canada Amateur Squad members Naomi Ko of Victoria, B.C., Jaclyn Lee of Calgary, Grace St. Germain of Ottawa and Maddie Szeryk of London, Ont., are also competing this week.

No doubt all of them have derived inspiration from the successes, both professional and personal, of Dawn Coe-Jones.

So when you notice those yellow ribbons this week, take a moment to remember DCJ and her legacy not only to golf, but to cancer research.

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The final day of the 2017 Atlantic Golf Championship would provide a new challenge as mild rain, cool temperatures and changing winds would provide an additional test to the 52 competitors, over and above the par 72, Cornish & Robinson designed, Covered Bridge Golf & Country Club in Hartland, NB.

Originally contested in 2014, 2017 marks the fourth installment of the Atlantic Golf Championships where teams from New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador compete for both the “Atlantic Cup”, and individual exemptions over eight (8) separate division and four age categories, into the 2018 Canadian Championships.

Michel Landry – Team NB

In the Amateur Men’s division it was New Brunswick’s Michel Landry of the Fredericton Golf Club overcoming a two stroke deficit to PEI’s Jeff Hughes, of the Belvedere Golf & Country Club, to claim NB’s 2^nd amateur men’s title, and first since The Riverside Country Club’s Edward Reevey did so in the inaugural event at the Bell Bay Golf Club, in Bedeck, NS, in 2014.  Despite making bogey on the par four 2^nd, Landry would still cut the deficit to one as Hughes would double the tricky 384 yard par four.  A par at the third combined with a Hughes bogey would get Landry back to even for a short time.  Hughes would birdie the 4^th to go one up again but Landry would rattle off three consecutive birdies at the 5^th, 6^th and 7^th , that combined with Hughes’ double at seven would push the two time NB Men’s Amateur Champion four clear through 43 holes.  A double bogey at the 8^th would see Landry make the turn in an even par (E), 36, and two shots up on Hughes who would card a four over par (+4), 40, on the outward nine.

With Hughes needing to come and get him, Landry would settle in posting nine consecutive pars on the back nine to win the division by three shots over Hughes, whose two bogeys and a birdie at #18, would see him close the day with a five over par (+5), 77, and a three day total of 226.

Moving into third position with a final round 72 of his own was NB’s Peter Wedge (82, 73, 72, +10, 227) of the Rockwood Park Golf Course.  Wedge would use birdies at the 5^th, 6^th, 7^th and 18^th to offset bogeys at #3, #4, #10 and #12 to climb to within one shot of Hughes for 2^nd in the division.

Cristal Fitzpatrick – Team NS

Nova Scotia’s Cristal Fitzpatrick (79, 75, 79, +17, 233), of the Eaglequest Grandview Golf & Country Club would join fellow divisional champions to go wire to wire claiming the Ladies Amateur division.  With a ten shot lead entering Saturday’s final round, Fitzpatrick would cruise home posting a birdie, 11 pars, four bogeys and two others on the day to card a final round seven over par (+7), 79 on the day.  Maintaining her grip on second in the division was Team NB’s Jescynda Hotham.  Hotham (84, 80, 78, +6, 242), of the Country Meadows Golf Club, would fire her round of the tournament carding four bogeys and one other to close the event with a six over par (+6), 78, and make up one shot on Fitzpatrick.  Rounding out the top three was Team NB’s Maureen O’Donnell of the Fredericton Golf Club (84, 81, 92, +20, 257).

The battle of the day may have been for the Men’s Mid-Master title, as New Brunswick’s Stuart Musgrave, PEI’s Tim Yorke and Team NB’s Chris Bunting all started the day within two shots of each other.  While he started the day with a one shot advantage over Yorke, and a two shot lead over Bunting, Musgrave would struggle on his opening nine holes carding a five over par (+5), 41, that consisted of three bogeys and a double at the par three 7^th.Yorke would bogey the par five 1^st, the par three 4^th  and the par three 7^th before making birdie at the 9^th to post a two over par (+2), 38, to move two clear of Musgrave, but the big mover of the day was Bunting.  Birdies at the 1^st, 4^th and 8^th would wipe out his lone bogey on the front, at the par four 2^nd, to see him card a two under par (-2), 34, on the front and jump into the lead three up on Yorke and five clear of Musgrave.

While Yorke and Musgrave would both right the ship on the back nine, posting one under par (-1), 35’s, for final round 73’s and 76s respectively the division was now Bunting’s to lose.  A birdie at the 11^th would extend his lead to four shots over Yorke, bogeys at the 12^th and 15^th would bring him back to the pack.  Bunting would fall no further as he would par the difficult par four 16^th, the par three 17^th and the challenging par five 18^th to tie the low round of the event and post a one under par (-1), 71, on the day, a three day total of 219 and a one shot victory over Yorke.

Melissa Castle – Team PEI

The Mid-Master Ladies division was claimed by Charlottetown`s Melissa Castle (83, 85, 88, +40, 256) of the Belvedere Golf & Country Club.  Castle would card one birdie, 11 bogeys and two others on her way to a closing round 16 over par (+16), 88.  Finishing just three shots off the lead was New Brunswick’s Mary Walton-Rossignol (90, 82, 87, +43, 259).  The Fredericton Golf Club member would post 11 bogeys and two others as she would close her event with a 15 over par (+15), 87, for a three day total of 259, three shots off of Castle’s mark.  In third position was Team NB’s Shelley Thomas (90, 89, 83, +46, 262) of the Country Meadows Golf Club.  Thomas’ final round 83, was good enough to slide by club mate Erin Musgrave (90, 88, 87, +49, 265) and into solo third in the division.

Mike Hosford (Team NB) with Jeffrey Hutt (Golf Canada)

The Senior Men`s division would see Team NB`s Mike Hosford (78, 77, 76, +15, 231) go wire to wire as the Royal Oaks Golf Club member would fire a closing round four over par (+4), 76, to edge out his New Brunswick teammate Gary Melanson (82, 77, 73, +16, 232).  Hosford would fire an even par (E), 36, on his opening nine holes thanks to birdies at the 4^th and 6^th that offset bogeys at the 7^th and 8^th, but two bogeys on #12 and #13 and a double bogey at the par four 16^th would see him close his day with a four over par (+4), 40, on the inward nine opening the door for Melanson.  Melanson who started the day tied for fourth, four shots back of Hosford, would start on the back nine and post an even par (E), 36, on his opening nine holes to match Hosford.  While Hosford struggled on his inward nine, Melanson would be steady bogeying the par three 4^th and birdieing the par five 6^th to draw even with Hosford atop the division.  However a Hosford par at the 18^th combined with a Melanson bogey at the ninth would see Melanson fall one shot off the pace, despite an excellent one over par (+1), 73, on the final day.  Tied for third position were PEI’s Malcolm Reid (78, 79, 79, +20, 236) and Newfoundland & Labrador’s Colin Budgell (85, 74, 77, +20, 236).

Mel Bernard – Team PEI

It was PEI’s Mel Bernard (79, 78, 72, +13, 229) of the Andersons Creek Golf Club who used a near perfect round to surpass New Brunswick’s Jean LeBlanc (77, 76, 78, +15, 231) of the Fox Creek Golf Club in the Super-Senior Men’s division.  Bernard would double bogey the par three 4^th before birdieing the par four 5^th to make the turn in a one over par (+1), 37, and draw within one of LeBlanc through 45 holes.  Eight consecutive pars on the back nine, punctuated with a birdie on Covered Bridge`s par five finishing hole would see Bernard shoot a final round even par (E), 72, compared to LeBlanc`s final round six over par (+6), 78, to take a two shot victory in the division.  In third position is Don Boland (80, 79, 77, +20, 236) of Newfoundland & Labrador and the Bally Haly Golf & Country Club.

Paula Napke-Flanagan – Team NB

New Brunswick’s Paula Napke-Flanagan (79, 77, 79, +19, 235) would go wire to wire to win the Senior Women’s division.  Starting the day with a five shot lead over PEI’s Sherry White, Napke-Flanagan would double her lead on the front nine thanks to a three over par (+3), 39, compared to White’s eight over par (+8), 44 on the outward nine.  Despite bogeying her first three holes, Napke-Flanagan would settle in to record six consecutive pars to close out her front side.  Four more bogeys on the back nine, at #11, #13, #16 and #17, would see Napke-Flanagan cruise into the clubhouse with a respectable seven over par (+7), 79, and a ten shot victory over Stanhope, PEI’s Chrissie MacLaughlan (81, 83, 83, +29, 245) who’s consistent play throughout the week would earn her solo second.  Jumping into third position, with the categories round of the day, was NB’s Pam Cossey (85, 83, 78, +30, 246), of the Rockwood Park Golf Course.  Cossey’s final round six over par (+6), 78, would jump her into third position, four shots clear of Stratford PEI’s Sherry White (Belvedere Golf & Country Club) and the Country Meadows Golf Club’s Sandy Comeau who finished tied for fourth.

Penny Dickeson (Team NB) with Jeffrey Hutt (Golf Canada)

The Fredericton Golf Club’s Penny Dickeson (95, 87, 84, +50, 266), would claim the ladies Super-Senior division by 15 shots over Lorrain MacDonald (99, 92, 90, +65, 281) of Kensington, PEI and the Red Sands Golf Club.  Dickeson would steadily improve her play throughout the week, improving by eight shots from round one to round two and by another three shots from round two to three, to claim the division win.

In the race for the Atlantic Cup, New Brunswick’s victories in all six divisions would see Team NB earn the full 24 points and supplant two time defending Atlantic Cup Champions Team PEI (17 points) to bring home the Atlantic Cup for the first time.  In third position was Team NS with 9 points while Team NL rounded out the contest by claiming the final 2 points available.

L to R: Jeffrey Hutt of Golf Canada presents Tom Hendershot, President of Golf NB, with the Atlantic Cup

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