Canmore Golf Club ::

Canmore Golf Club

Date:	07/30/2007
Course:	Camrose GC
Location:	Camrose
Pro:	Bill Penny
Phone:	(780) 672-2691
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Website:	http://www.camrose.com/leisure/golf

Every parent loves all their children equally, but sometimes maybe one of them is just a little more 'equal' than the others. Every Tour stop is a great experience for the junior golfers who come out to compete, but the Canmore Junior Open just somehow separates themselves a little from most of the other Tour events.

Let's face it! The scenery is incredible to start with, offering the hosts some natural advantages in that regard, but Director of Golf Darren Cooke and Head Professional Rick Eichele put on a terrific event every year for the kids. Rick recruits many of his club's senior members to help with registration, on-course ball spotting to help the players, and to assist with post-round scoring. Combine that with a nutritious meal of lasagna, Caesar salad and fresh fruit, plentiful prizes, and you have one of the "must play" events on the Tour that sells out every year.

Chase Teron of Red Deer made the most of the ideal scoring conditions today, firing a fine 3-under par 68, equalling the low round on the Tour this year. Chris Cooke of Canmore and Mac Keats of Bearspaw were a distant 4 shots back in 2nd place with matching 72s. Defending Champion Timmie House, also of Canmore, tied for 4th at 73 with 14-year old rising star Zak Griffiths of River Bend in Red Deer.

Cooke and Keats qualified for the Tour Championship today, along with Travis Miller of Willow Park, whose 77 was best in the flight for boys born in 1993 and later who had not previously qualified for Wolf Creek. Wild Card qualifiers today were Kyle McLachlan of Inglewood (75) and Levi McDermott of Forestburg (75).

We had a season-high number of 13 junior girls on hand today, featuring some of the top finishers from the recent Alberta Golf Junior Girls Championship. Jennifer Ha of the Glencoe cruised in with a steady round of 75, 3 strokes better than Jennifer MacKinnon of Willow Park. The top 5 finishers today had all previously earned their way to Wolf Creek, opening up two spots today for Elizabeth Pettie of the Glencoe (86) and Mandy Wong (91) of Country Hills.

The Tour moves into southeast Calgary tomorrow with the McKenzie Meadows Junior Open. Many of the competitors in Canmore today were planning on making it a "Doubleheader" at McKenzie Meadows in the morning. The Tour swings into Red Deer on Thursday at River Bend. McKenzie Meadows entries closed this afternoon at 4 p.m., but spots remain open for River Bend's tournament.

Q= Qualified for season-ending Tour Championship at Wolf Creek on August 27.

WC = Wild Card qualifier for Tour Championship.

PQ = Player had previously qualified for Tour Championship.

Overall Top Ten:

	NAME	HOME CLUB	SCORE
1	Chase TERON	Red Deer GCC	68
T2	Chris COOKE	Canmore	72
T2	Mac KEATS	Bearspaw	72
T4	Timmie HOUSE	Canmore	73
T4	Zak GRIFFITHS	River Bend	73
6	Kyle WILSON	Canal at Delacour	74
T7	Scott MacDONALD	Cochrane	75
T7	Kyle McLACHLAN	Inglewood	75
T7	Levi McDERMOTT	Forestburg	75
T10	Sean SINCLAIR	Cochrane	76
T10	Dylan DALGAS		76
T10	Aaron CHO	Strathmore	76

JUNIOR BOYS BORN 1988, 1989 AND 1990

	NAME	HOME CLUB	SCORE
1	Chase TERON	Red Deer GCC	68 PQ
2	Chris COOKE	Canmore	72 Q
3	Timmie HOUSE	Canmore	73 PQ
T4	Scott MacDONALD	Cochrane	75 WC
T4	Levi McDERMOTT	Forestburg	75 WC
T4	Kyle McLACHLAN	Inglewood	75 WC

JUNIOR BOYS BORN 1991 AND 1992

	NAME	HOME CLUB	SCORE
1	Mac KEATS	Inglewood	72 Q
2	Kyle WILSON	Canal at Delacour	74 PQ
3	Michael BRADY	Banff Springs	78
T4	Joel HISLOP		79
T4	Jamie CARTWRIGHT	Canmore	79
T4	Anthony STIRLING	Willow Park	79

JUNIOR BOYS BORN 1993 AND LATER

	NAME	HOME CLUB	SCORE
1	Zak GRIFFITHS	River Bend	73 PQ
T2	Alex CARTWRIGHT	Canmore	77 PQ
T2	Travis MILLER	Willow Park	77 Q
4	Jack WOOD	Banff Springs	81
5	Derek RUCKI	Lakeside Greens	82
T6	Barrett BELLAND	Glendale	83
T6	Brett HOGAN	Willow Park	83

JUNIOR GIRLS

	NAME	HOME CLUB	SCORE
1	Jennifer HA	Glencoe	75 PQ
2	Jennifer MacKINNON	Willow Park	78 PQ
T3	Evann PARKER	Pinebrook	81 PQ
T3	Lauren DIEDERICHS	Earl Grey	81 PQ
5	Christie LIN	Country Hills	82 PQ
6	Elizabeth PETTIE	Glencoe	86 Q
7	Mandy WONG	Country Hills	91 WC