British Columbia Girls Sweep, Boys Win Gold & Silver In Golf In Wood Buffalo

Team BC Made Quite A Haul In Wood Buffalo - Image Courtesy Matt Palsenbarg

by Alfie Lau

British Columbia came within one bronze medal of sweeping all the medals in the golf competition at the Western Canada Summer Games in Wood Buffalo, AB.

One day after both the boys and girls won the gold in the team competition, it was BC golfers winning the day again. Surrey’s Hannah Lee and Coquitlam’s AJ Ewart won gold medals, while Vancouver’s Tiffany Kong and Mill Bay’s Tristan Mandur won silver medals and Richmond’s Alisha Lau won a bronze medal.

In the girls competition, Lee followed up her Canadian Juvenile title with a three-round score of 212, five strokes better than Kong’s 217 and 12 better than her best friend Lau’s score of 224.

Nanaimo’s Shirin Anjarwalla was the fourth member of the BC squad who played and her score of 239 was good enough for sixth place.

On the boys side, Ewart’s 217 score was six better than Mandur’s 223 score. Alberta’s Chandler McDowell broke the BC sweep with a score of 226, which was good enough for the bronze medal.

BC’s Khan Lee finished T5 with a score of 230 while teammate Keenan Flemming was ninth with a score of 233. Team BC head coach Matt Palsenbarg and team manager Christine Wong were very pleased with the team’s performance, but there isn’t much time to celebrate, as many of these players have competitions this week.

Seven of the eight players were scheduled to play the BC Juveniles at Spallumcheen this week while Kong is playing the Monday qualifier at Pitt Meadows to try to get one of four spots into the CP Canadian Women’s Open. (Tiffany Kong would go on to qualify for the CP Women's Open - ed.)

And Christine Wong is scheduled to play in the CP Canadian Women’s Monday Pro-Am featuring a Vancouver Canuck alumni and a prominent Canadian women golfer in each group.

In the team competition completed the day before, reigning Canadian Juvenile Girls champion Hannah Lee threw down a 67 during Round 2 and that helped the BC team to another girls’ team title. The BC girls won by a whopping 58 strokes, as their 435 total was well ahead of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, who finished T2 at 493 strokes.

The BC boys also won the team title, as their score of 446 was 9 better than Alberta and 22 strokes better than third-place Manitoba.