Thompson gets first PGA Tour win at the Honda.. Live links to Golf This Week

As I do every week here are all this week's events, with live scoring links and every Canadian's score.


PGA TOUR - HONDA CLASSIC
PGA National Resort and Spa, The Champion (7,110 yards, par 70).
$6 million. Winner’s share: $1.08 million.

CANADIANS  Stephen Ames MC 73 69, Graham DeLaet T9 65 68 73 72, Brad Fritsch T74 68 72 77 77  E, David Hearn MC 69 73, Mike Weir MC 71 70


Round 4

pgatour.com    Michael Thompson, 27, had a one-shot lead as he stood in the 18th fairway, some 240 yards from the flag with trouble in the way in the shape of a large lake. The motto from his golf team at Alabama was to "finish strong," and Thompson did just that.
Instead of laying up, he drilled a 5-wood into the bunker left of the green, setting up a simple sand shot and a birdie he didn't even need. He closed with a 1-under 69, one of only five rounds under par on a punishing day at PGA National to finally become a PGA TOUR winner

With the win he gets into his first World Golf Championship next week at the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Trump Doral, and qualifies for two more WGCs this year at the Bridgestone Invitational and at the HSBC Champions. He's in the PGA Championship, gets to start next year in Hawaii and earned a two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR

He finished dead last in the field last week and had a grand total of 1 Fed Ex point before this win.

DeLaet continues his fine play T9 65 68 73 72 and won another $156,000 Brad Fritsch made the cut T65 E 68 72 but shot 77 77 on the weekend to finish last worth $11,460.

Tiger was never a factor T37 70 70 70 74..


Live scoring click  http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html





LPGA TOUR - HSBC WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS
Sentosa Golf Club, The Serapong Course (6,606 yards, par 72).
Singapore.
$1.4 million. Winner’s share: $210,000.


Round 4 

lpgatour.com 2012 Player of the Year Stacy Lewis (@Stacy_Lewis) held on tight for her first victory of the 2013 season, making par on the 18th hole to capture a one-shot victory over Na Yeon Choi (@nychoi87) at the HSBC Women's Champions. Lewis watched a three-shot lead shrink over her final few ones to just one as she headed to the 18th hole at Sentosa Golf Club's The Serapong Course after bogeys on 15 and 17. But the player known for her grit and determination while battling scoliosis during her youth showed no signs of letting her nerves get the best of her on the final hole


Live scoring click  http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx?




EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR - TSHWANE OPEN
The Els Club at Copperleaf Golf & Country Estate (7,791 yards, par 72).
$1.96 million. Winner’s share: $311,070.


Round 4

Dawie Van Der Walt claimed the biggest victory of his career as the South African held off compatriots Darren Fichardt and Louis De Jager to win the Tshwane Open.

The 30 year old, whose only previous victories as a professional came on satellite tours in America, finished with a five under par 67 to finish with a 21 under par total; two ahead of recent Africa Open winner Fichardt..

Live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2013017/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y





WEB.COM TOUR - COLOMBIA CHAMPIONSHIP
Bogota Country Club (7,237 yards, par 71).
$700,000. Winner’s share: $126,000.

CANADIANS: Adam Hadwin MC 74 69, Richard Scott MC 74,68 Roger Sloan T15 -7 68,68 69 72


Round 4

California rookie Patrick Cantlay fired a 5-under 66 Sunday and pulled away from fellow third-round co-leader Jim Renner to win the Colombia Championship at Country Club de Bogota by four strokes

Cantlay finished with a tournament-record total of 18-under, bettering the old mark set by Steven Pate in 2010 by seven strokes. In addition to earning his first professional title at the tender of age of 20 years 11 months and 15 days, Cantlay also becomes the second-youngest winner in Web.com Tour history



Live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/webcom/leaderboard.html





ASIAN TOUR - OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP INTERNATIONAL FINAL QUALIFYING
Amata Spring Country Club (Bangkok)

CANADIANS  Lindsay Renolds +1 73, Rtd...

Round 2 Final

Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Hideki Matsuyama, Daisuke Maruyama and Wu Ashun earned dream debuts at the Open Championship in July after making the grade at the International Final Qualifying – Asia .

Thai rising star Kiradech topped the two-day qualifying with a flawless nine-under-par 63 while Japanese amateur Matsuyama, a two-time Asia Pacific Amateur Championship winner, finished four shots back following a 69 at the Amata Spring Country Club.

Another Japanese Maruyama and China’s Wu closed with a 65 and 68 respectively for tied third to clinch the final tickets to the Open Championship. Overnight leader Siddikur agonisingly missed out on the top-four spots after sending his tee shot into the water on the par three 17 for a double bogey.

Kiradech, nicknamed ‘Asia’s John Daly’ for his grip-it and rip-it style of play, turned in an impressive 30 and added three further birdies to join countrymen Thaworn Wiratchant and Thongchai Jaidee at Muirfield from July 18 to 21

 

Live scoring click   http://www.asiantour.com/result.aspx?rnd_caption=Round 2 Results&rnd_event=20121213666331791958





NGA TOUR - SPRING HILL CLASSIC
Spring Hill Country Club (6,825 yards, par 71)
$200,000

CANADIANS Stuart Anderson T62 +3 77 68,   Marc-Etienne Bussieres T3 -6 71 66 71 70,    Max Gilbert T66 +9 75 69, 72 77  Mathieu Gingras MC   Will Mitchell T31 +3 74 71 70 71,    Louis-Alexandre Pitre MC   Ben Silverman T25 +1 70 71,71 69    Sebastian Szirmak MC,   Riley Wheeldon T17 -2 67 74 74 67

Round 4

Justin Lower of Canal Fulton, Ohio, carded a 2-under 69 in the final round of the $200,000 event and edged fellow David Toms Award winner Brad Schneider by a single stroke to claim his first NGA Pro Series win.




Live scoring click  http://www.ngatour.com/leaderboard/pro2013005/





GATEWAY PRO TOUR - EVENT NO. 5
Vista Verde (7,219 yds - Par 72)

CANADIANS   Kent Eger T14 -7 67 70 72, Tyler Frank MC, Craig Gibson MC, Wes Heffernan T26 -3 71 69 73, Beon Yeong Lee MC,  Keith Martin MC, Dallas Mengel MC, Thomas Petts MC, Daniel Pow MC, Cory Renfrew T7 -10 68 69 69, Darren Wallace MC, James Marshall T7 -10 70 67 69 Adam Cornelson T22 -4 73 60 70 Scott Stiles T26 -3 67 75 71
Mike Mezei T39 +2 68 71 79

Event over..

Live scoring  click  http://gatewaytour.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/gway13/event/gway136/contest/1/leaderboard.htm





SUNCOAST LADIES SERIES
Timacuan Golf Club (6,387 yards, par 72)

CANADIANS Chelsia Petersen (a) 71 72 143 -1 T4  Natalie Gleadall 71 74 145 T7 +4  Ellen O'Brien 84 82 +22 T34

Live scoring click  http://www.suncoastseries.com/2013%20TOUR/0.Tournaments/0.6TIMACUAN/RESULTS.pdf




Bryan Angus  (notes pgatour.com lpgatour.com europeantour.com )

Kuchar stops Mahan run, wins WGC Match Play

Matt Kuchar finally put Hunter Mahan in a hole and then answered every challenge Sunday to win the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship

Mahan had gone 169 holes over 11 matches without trailing in this wild tournament until Kuchar won the fourth hole of their championship match with a par, and Mahan never caught up. Kuchar took advantage of a series of miscues to build a 4-up lead at the turn, and then held off a noble challenge by the defending champion.

There was never a dull moment on the back nine. Only two holes were halved, and those were with birdies.

But for all the great shots, the match ended when Mahan went from a tough lie in the bunker to a bush in the desert, and it took him four shots to reach the 17th green. Kuchar wound up winning, 2 and 1, when Mahan removed the stocking cap he used to fight the cold desert air and conceded Kuchar a short birdie putt

Semi-final results: Matt Kuchar bt Jason Day 4-up; Hunter Mahan bt Ian Poulter 4-up

Third / Fourth place match: Jason Day bt Ian Poulter 1-up

Final: Matt Kuchar bt Hunter Mahan 2&1.



Live scoring bracket click here http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/accenture-match-play-championship/leaderboard.html





Bryan Angus (edit) notes from europeantour.com, pgatour.com..

L.A native Merrick wins playoff at Riviera.. final scoring, all Canucks...this week in golf

PGA TOUR - NORTHERN TRUST OPEN
 Riviera Country Club (7,349 yards, par 71).
$6.6 million. Winner’s share: $1,188,000.

CANADIANS : Stephen Ames WD, Graham DeLaet T26 -2 72,68   David Hearn MC 74,75   Mike Weir MC 75 72


Round 2 wrap

pgatour.com  John Merrick, who lives an hour away from Riviera and went to school at UCLA is 30 and had never won on tour before. Yesterday he hit the perfect shot under the trees on the 18th to escape with par, and he followed with another flawless shot to a skinny section of the 10th green on the second playoff hole to 18 feet. He made another par, and won when Charlie Beljan missed a 5-foot par putt.
It was the second straight year the Northern Trust Open was decided in a playoff on the 10th, a diabolical par 4 at 315 yards that requires skill and strategy, a hole where players are happy to walk off with par. Beljan made bogey twice on the 10th, once in a regulation and then when the tournament was on the line

Merrick had a 69 and finished at 11-under 273.

Fredrik Jacobson missed a 4-foot par putt on the 18th hole that would have put the Swede in a playoff. He wound up with a 69 and tied for third with Charl Schwartzel (70) and Bill Haas (73), who also had chances to win at different stages in their rounds.

The final round contained far more drama than anyone imagined at the start of the day, when Bill Haas (73) had a three-shot lead. Six players were separated by one shot going into the final hour at Riviera, and it easily could have been a repeat of that six-man playoff in 2001 in the cold rain

No one was more disgusted than Schwartzel, the former Masters champion. One shot out of the lead, he missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th, and then three-putted the 17th, missing a 6-footer for birdie. He closed with a 70 and tied for third, his seventh straight finish in the top five around the world.

Graham DeLaet had a solid week T21 72 68 69 72 -3




Live scoring click  http://www.pgatour.com/content/pgatour/leaderboard.html







LPGA TOUR/ALPG/LET - WOMEN’S AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Royal Canberra Golf Club (6,679 yards, par 73).
$1.2 million. Winner’s share: $181,500.


CANADIANS: Maude-Aimee Leblanc DQ, Sara-Maude Juneau MC 74 76, Stephanie Sherlock T55 74 7175 69  -3, Lorie Kane MC 74 72, Rebecca Lee-Bentham T18 66 74 76 69 -7


Round 4 wrap

lpgatour.com   Jiyai Shin (@sjy1470) outdueled amateur Lydia Ko (@lko424) and held off a surging Yani Tseng (@YaniTseng) to capture her 11^th LPGA Tour victory at the ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open

Shin carded three birdies and two bogeys for a 1-under 72 to finish 18-under for the 2-stroke victory over Yani Tseng

From the looks of the first three holes, it may have appeared that Lydia Ko was giving into the big stage pressure when the third round co-leader double bogeyed and bogeyed the first two holes, making a four shot turnaround after Shin birdied the par 5 No. 1.

But the fifteen-year old posted back-to-back birdies on Nos. 4 and 5 while Shin bogeyed the par 4 5^th to close the gap to one. Ko bogeyed No. 10 to drop two shots back but a two shot swing came on No. 12 when she sank an 18-foot birdie putt to tie things up when Shin found trouble in the greenside bunker for a bogey.

But Shin pulled away after back-to-back birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 while Ko had bogeys on both the 14^th and 17^th. Shin was impressed with Ko’s fight throughout the round and assured the young superstar that she’ll have plenty of chances down the road.

Rebecca Lee Bentham had a solid week T18 66 74 76 69 -7 .





Live scoring   http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx?__utma=105709790.1321923386.1360853659.1360853659.1360853659.1&__utmb=105709790.0.10.1360853659&__utmc=105709790&__utmx







CHAMPIONS TOUR - ACE GROUP CLASSIC
The TwinEagles Club, Talon Course (7,193 yards, par 72).
$1.6 million. Winner’s share: $240,000.

CANADIANS: Jim Rutledge T20 -3 71 73 69
 

Round 3 wrap

Bernhard Langer two-putted for par from 50 feet on the 18th to finish at 12-under 204, surviving three bogeys and a double bogey to finish one stroke ahead of Jay Don Blake at TwinEagles' Talon Course.

The winner in 2011 and the runner-up last year, Langer earned his 17th victory on the tour. It's the seventh year the 55-year-old has won at least one tournament on the Champions Tour

Tom Pernice Jr. tied for third with John Cook, who birdied Nos. 16 and 18 for a 68 that left him at 9-under 207. David Frost and Rocco Mediate, a Calusa Pines Golf Club member, tied for fifth at 8-under.


Live scoring  http://www.pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/ace-group-classic/field.html





EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR - AFRICA OPEN
East London Golf Club (6,632 yards, par 72).
$1.34 million. Winner’s share: $212,170.



Round 4 wrap

Darren Fichardt overcame some late jitters to seal a fourth European Tour title at the Africa Open and ensure the trophy remained in South African hands for another year.

The 37 year old began the final round tied at the top of the leaderboard with compatriot Jaco Van Zyl, and there was initially no separating the pair until Fichardt pulled four shots clear around the turn.

Three bogeys in four holes left the door open for Van Zyl, but he was unable to take full advantage and Fichardt’s one under par 71 and 16 under total gave him a two shot victory over Van Zyl and France’s Grégory Bourdy.

It represented a fourth straight victory for the home nation, after Charl Schwartzel (2010) and fellow Major Champion Louis Oosthuizen (2011 and 2012) won the first three stagings.





Live scoring click  http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2013013/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y







PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA - QUALIFYING SCHOOL, NO. 2
Sun N Lake Golf Club - Deer Run

CANADIANS: David Markle T63 77 70 76 76 +11, Jace Walker T75 73 75 78 75 +13, Matt Johnston T19 71 69 77 71 (E thru 12) +1, Peter Campbell MC 76 74 , Adam Cornelson T21 76 73 72 69 +2, Derek Gillespie T25 74 74 75 69 +3, Billy Houle MC 78 78 +12, Tai Gyu Kang  80 80 72 78 +22


Round 4 wrap 

126 players were competing for 20 full-time Tour cards in 2013 and American Jhared Hack came out on top at -12. Canadian Matt Johnston made the top 20 T19 E  71 69 77 71, but heartbreak for Adam Cornelson who missed by a shot T21 76 73 72 69 +2


live scoring   http://www.pgatourla.com/leaderboard/m2013002/









eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR - PALMETTO HALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Palmetto Hall Plantation, Robert Cupp Course (7,079 yards, par 72) and Arthur Hills Course (6,918 yards, par 72

CANADIANS: Cam Burke T16 E 72 68,74 74 Greg Doherty T51 +6 73 73,73 75 Robbie Greenwell T34 E 69 75,74 74 Matt Hill T69 +15 74 70 80 79,      Mackenzie Hughes MC +2 74, Christopher Magi (a) MC +8 80, Ryan Terdik MCT150



Round 4 wrap

Matt Hendrix of Greenville, SC entered the final round of the eGolf Tour’s Palmetto Hall Championship with the hopes of earning his first tour title, prior to venturing to South America to open up the 2013 Web.com Tour season.

Through 10 holes in Sunday’s final round, the former amateur star had an eight-shot lead and a stranglehold on the event’s $18,000 first-place prize. The rest was a mere formality, as Hendrix polished off a closing 1-under 71 to post 15-under 273 and lock up his first professional win.



Live scoring click   http://tarheel.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/tarheel13/event/tarheel131/contest/1/leaderboard.htm







GATEWAY PRO TOUR
Anthem Golf and Country Club, Ironwood, AZ (7,247 yards, par 72)

CANADIANS   Dallas Mengel MC , Ryan Desharnais MC , Quinn Carbol MC , Jordan Krantz T32 +3 69 73 77, Thomas Hay MC,  Craig Gibson MC,  Glen Lengyel MC, Keith Martin T32 +3 75 68 76, Steven Shantz MC, Richard Boychuk MC, James Love T13 -6 71 65 74, Beon Yeong Lee T25 E 71 73 72, Tyler LeBouthillier T38 +9 68 75 82, Brennan Rumancik MC, Jeff Graham MC, Aaron Crawford MC, Wes Heffernan MC, Kent Eger T3 -8 71 71 66, Tyler Mancini MC, Eric Hawerchuk MC
  

Live scoring click    http://gatewaytour.bluegolf.com/bluegolf/gway13/event/gway133/contest/1/leaderboard.htm








CACTUS TOUR
COURSE: Foothills Golf Club (6,377 yards, par 72)
CANADIANS: Alena Sharp, Jessica Wallace

Live scores click http://www.thecactustour.com/teetimes.html








SUNCOAST LADIES TOUR
LPGA International Legends Course (6,448 yards, par 72)
CANADIANS: Danielle Mills T4 +2 73 72 73, Natalie Gleadall T19 +8 76 70 78, Chelcia Petersen, Ellen O'Brien


Live scores click    http://www.suncoastseries.com/2013%20TOUR/0.Tournaments/0.5LPGA_LEGENDS/RESULTS.pdf



Bryan Angus

15 year old Lydia Ko wins, Mediate wins, Snedeker wins.....live links, follow the Canucks this week in golf

We are all over the world this week as usual and I have all the links and Canadian scores from Pebble Beach to New Zealand for you here.


PGA TOUR - PEBBLE BEACH NATIONAL PRO-AM
 Pebble Beach Golf Links (6,816 yards, par 72), Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Shore Course (6,838 yards, par 70) and Spyglass Hill Golf Club (6,953 yards, par 72).
$6.5 million. Winner's share: $1.17 million.

CANADIANS   Brad Fritsch T40 69,73.71,69 -4    Mike Weir T50 -2 75,65 71,73


Round 4 wrap

(pgatour.com)   Brandt Snedeker was the best all week at Pebble Beach, finishing at 19-under 267 to break by one shot the tournament record. Mickelson (2007) and Mark O'Meara (1997) each had a 20-under 268 when Poppy Hills was still in the rotation

A tap-in par on the 18th gave him a two-shot win over Chris Kirk, who stayed in the hunt all day without ever putting too much pressure on Snedeker

In the past few months he won that big win at the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola to claim the $10 million prize as the FedExCup champion. He played in his first Ryder Cupand in his past nine tournaments, he has six finishes in the top three, including back-to-back weeks as the runner-up to Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.



Live scoring click  http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboard.html



EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR - JOBURG OPEN
Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club, East Course (7,592 yards, par 72) and West Course (7,237 yards, par 71).
$1.75 million. Winner's share: $277,550.

CANADIANS: Michael Gligic MC T172 +4 72,75 Alan McLean MC T123 E 74,69


Round 4 wrap

 (europeantour.com) . Richard Sterne cruised to his first European Tour title in more than four years, winning the Joburg Open by seven shots

Sterne shot a bogey-free 64 to finish with a tournament record total of 27 under at the Royal Johannesburg & Kensington golf course and win by the largest margin in tournament history.

Fellow overnight leader Trevor Fisher Jr. faltered on the final day, allowing Sterne to finish well clear of Charl Schwartzel (66) in second. Fisher eagled the first but sank to a 1-over 73 that dropped him to joint sixth, despite sitting five shots clear of the field with Sterne at the start of the final round


live scoring click http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2013/tournamentid=2013011/leaderboard/index.html




CHAMPIONS TOUR - ALLIANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
The Old Course at Broken Sound (6,807 yards, par 71). Boca Raton
$1.8 million. Winner's share: $270,000.

CANADIANS Jim Rutledge, T47 E 76,67,73

Round 3 wrap

pgatour.com...Rocco Mediate’s final-round 71 was good enough for a win in his debut on the Champions Tour.

Mediate started on Sunday with a three-stroke lead but found himself tied with Tom Pernice, Jr. after 14 holes with Bernhard Langer only one stroke back. The tournament swung in Mediate’s favor at the par-4 17^th when Pernice could not get up and down from a greenside bunker, missing an eight-foot par putt. Langer meanwhile, three-putted from 35 feet for bogey.

Now with a one-stroke lead, Mediate avoided tree trouble in the 18^th fairway and after his second shot ran just through the back of the green on the par-5, he pitched to within two-feet of the hole and tapped in for victory.





Live scoring click  http://www.pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/allianz-championship/field.html




LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR/ALPG - NEW ZEALAND WOMEN'S OPEN
Clearwater Golf Club, Christchurch, New Zealand (5,694 yards, par 72)
$271,838
CANADIANS Lorie Kane MC T93 +8 78,74 Sara-Maude Juneau MC T57 +4 77.71


Round 3 wrap

(let.com)   Amid a drama-filled final half hour, 15-year-old Lydia Ko has created history to win the ISPS Handa NZ Women’s Open in Christchurch.

Ko made a clutch three foot putt on the final hole to become the first Kiwi to win the New Zealand Women’s Open and the youngest player to ever win a Ladies European Tour event.

Ko is aged 15 years, eight months and 17 days.

As the nerves left, tears of joy streamed down Ko’s face as she came to terms with her third professional win from only 12 events.

“I didn’t cry at the Canadian Open so I don’t know why I cried here,” Ko explained afterwards with her trademark giggle.

“I guess it meant more. It is our national open so to win means a lot. I am not the person who shows expression of feeling but I guess the tears showed it.”.



Live scoring link  http://www.letscoring.com/leaderboard/63188





PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA - QUALIFYING SCHOOL
Country Club La Planicie, Peru (6,700 yards, par-72)
Mike Mezei T43 72 73 73 4 +4, Andrew Parr T18 72 70 73 71 -2


Round 4 wrap

(pgatour.com)Guatemala’s José Toledo led a group of twenty competitors who earned full exempt status to play the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica’s 2013 season on Friday. These twenty players claimed their cards at the Qualifying Tournament held at Lima’s Country Club La Planicie over the past four days.

Canada's Andrew Parr is amongst them after shooting 71 to end up T18 at -2. Mike Mezei T43 after a 74 left him at +4

The opening round leader after a low-of-the-week 65 on Tuesday, Toledo opened his way back to the top by carding a birdie at the 72^nd hole for a final round of 69. A total of 10-under par 278 allowed him to finish one-stroke ahead of Argentina’s Franco Romero, 67, Luciano Dodda, 72, and Mexico’s Oscar Serna, 74. The Mexican had taken a six-shot lead halfway through the qualifier, but slowed down over the final two days

PGA TOUR Latinoamérica will have a second and final qualifier next week in Sebring, Florida with twenty full exemptions set to be awarded as well. This following event will feature a field of 130 players from 25 countries, starting on Tuesday at the Sun N’ Lake Country Club’s Deer Run golf course.

Live scoring click  http://www.pgatourla.com/leaderboard/m2013001/



ALL-AMERICAN PRO GOLF TOUR - EVENT NO. 12
Sundance Golf Club, Buckeye, AZ

CANADIAN CONTENT: Kent Eger T8 66 71 71 -8 , Thomas Hay T12 67 73 70 -6, Darren Wallace MC, Eric Hawerchuk MC, Dallas Mengel MC   Cory Renfrew T8 69 72 67 -8

Live scoring click  http://www.all-americantour.com/leagues/golf_leaderboard.cfm?clientid=4367&leagueid=19045&seasonnum=2012




SUNCOAST LADIES SERIES
Orange Tree Country Club, Orlando, FL

CANADIANS Stephanie Sherlock 3rd 73 75 72 +4, Natalie Gleadall T11 78 69 92 +13,  Nicole Vandermade T30 87 73 77 +25, Ellen O'Brien T40 83 93 80 +40, Brogan McKinnon (am) T30 87 73 77 +25

Paula Creamer was the guest of honour and she won this satellite event by 11 shots at -11.

http://www.suncoastseries.com/2013%20TOUR/0.Tournaments/0.4ORANGETREE/RESULTS.pdf




BryanA

CN to step down as Canadian Women's Open sponsor.

Tough news today released from Golf Canada as the title sponsor for the Canadian Women's Open, CN is stepping down after 8 years as the title sponsor, and will concentrate it's resources into grassroots golf.

The search for a replacement is on as of today, but title sponsors, especially those a solid as CN has been are hard to come by, especially in Canada where the government has long since put the kibosh on the booze and ciggies company's getting involved.

Before CN came along and in fact RBC on the men's side I did many a Fairway's show with Tournament Director Bill Paul when the cancellation of our National Men's Championship was a very real possibility.

As recently as 2005, Pengrowth CEO Jim Kinnear, tried to broker a deal where several companies joined him in banding together, non as the title sponsor, to share the $6-8 million dollar cost of hosting a PGA Tour event and while that tag is closer to $4-6 million for the women it is as always a matter of  what bang do we get for our buck, especially as the world is still crawling out from the worst recession in the modern era.

The EPL is now awash with billionaire owners from Russia, India and the Middle East. But the EPL is on TV around the world on a daily basis, not once a year. Big companies like Emirates and AOL are heavily involved, but they can't buy the type of publicity a Manchester United can deliver.

Let's hope with a vastly improved property on offer after 8 years with CN another big company will step up to the plate, but for sure the news today is not good.


Here is an edited version of the Golf Canada press release..

CN and Golf Canada announced today that CN will be modifying its sponsorship position in Canadian golf beyond 2013. As part the transition, CN will step away as title sponsor of the Canadian Women’s Open and Canadian Women’s Tour after the 2013 season.

CN and Golf Canada also announced that CN will continue its title sponsorship of CN Future Links – Canada’s national junior golf program – and expand that program as part of the railway’s transitioned support of Canadian youth and grassroots golf.

“I can’t say enough what a debt of gratitude golf enthusiasts should be feeling for the support that CN has provided to Canadian golf,” said Golf Canada's CEO Scott Simmons. “Since 2006, their support has elevated the status of the Canadian Women’s Open as one of the premiere events on the LPGA Tour while also creating a world-class women’s developmental golf tour here in Canada."

The culmination of the 2013 event will round out eight years of CN’s sponsorship of Canada’s National Women’s Open, through which CN also has raised millions of dollars for children’s hospitals across Canada through the CN Miracle Match Program.

The 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open will take place August 19-25, 2013 at The Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton. CN will soon be announcing the beneficiary of the 2013 CN Miracle Match.


BryanAngus