Live Scoring & Round-by-Round Wrap-Ups From 2017 BC Golf Women's Senior, Super-Senior & Net-Stableford Championship
The 2017 British Columbia Golf Women's Senior, Super-Senior & Net-Stableford Championship is underway at the beautiful Sunshine Coast Golf & Country Club.
The competiton is open to all female golfers age 50 and older as of the first day of the National Senior Women's Championship (August 22, 2017).
Senior and Super-Senior: 54-hole gross stroke play competition. Players will be competing in all events in which they are age-eligible.
Net-Stableford: 54-hole Net-Stableford (Players may elect to play off a shorter set of tees, however, will not be in the primary championships).
Zone Team Gross - 2 person teams selected by each zone in advance of the competition. Scoring is based on players combined 2 day scores on day one and day two. Note players in this zone competition must be competing in the primary competition.
Best-Ball Team Net – players may submit the names of their teams at registration (prior to the beginning of play on day 1). Players may be in any of the primary or secondary (Stableford) championships. Net scores will be adjusted relative to the course rating. Scoring will be based on better-ball net score on each of the 54-holes of play.
For live scoring please CLICK HERE
For a round-by-round wrap-ups please see below.
Clubmates Feenan, Pultz Lead The Way After First Round Of B.C. Senior Women’s Championship
By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf
It was a good day for a pair of Peace Portal golfers during Tuesday’s opening round of the B.C. Senior Women’s Championship at Sunshine Coast Golf & Country Club.
Mary Feenan grabbed the lead with a four-over 76 on Sunshine Coast’s 5,744-yard layout and has a one-shot lead on clubmate Karen Pultz. The two Surrey residents are both members of Peace Portal Golf Club and had similar scorecards Tuesday.
Neither had anything worse than a bogey and each had one birdie on the day. Feenan made her birdie on the par 4 16th hole, while Pultz birdied the par 3 12th hole at Sunshine Coast.
Connie Dykstra of Gorge Vale in Victoria sits alone in third after shooting a seven-over 79. Surrey’s Elaine Blatchford of Surrey Golf Club and five-time Senior Women’s champion Jackie Little of Procter and Balfour Golf Club are tied for fourth after both opened the 54-hole event with an 80.
Little’s score was hurt by one triple-bogey on the front nine and a double on the back side. Vancouver’s Holly Horwood, the Shaughnessy member who won last year’s Senior and Super-Senior titles at Kelowna Golf & Country Club, opened with an 84 and sits tied for 15th place after one round. Pultz leads the Super-Senior category for players 60 and over by three shots over Blatchford.
The tournament also includes a Stableford competition that is being contested over three flights based on handicaps.
Feenan leads the A flight with 39 points. Dykstra, also with 39 points, leads the B flight. Valerie Dingwall of Crown Isle in Courtenay tops the C flight with 37 points.
For live scoring please CLICK HERE
Five-time Winner Jackie Little Grabs Share Of Lead At B.C. Senior Women’s Championship After Round Two
By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf
There’s a familiar name back atop the leaderboard at the B.C. Senior Women’s Championship at Sunshine Coast Golf & Country Club.
Five-time Senior Women’s champion Jackie Little fired a six-over 78 in Wednesday’s second round and shares the lead with Karen Pultz heading into Thursday’s final round. Both players sit at 14-over par.
Little, the Hall of Famer who recently moved to the Kootenay community of Procter and now plays out of Balfour Golf Club, had a pair of birdies in her second round.
Pultz, a Surrey resident who plays out of Peace Portal Golf Club, shot a second-round 81 that also included two birdies. Little and Pultz will play in the final group Thursday with Surrey’s Mary Feenan of Peace Portal
Feenan and Tracey Evans of West Vancouver, who plays out of Seymour Golf & Country Club, are tied for third place at 17-over. Evans and Alison Murdoch of Victoria both shot 77 Wednesday, the low rounds of the day.
Murdoch is tied for fifth place at 19-over, five shots out of the lead, with defending champion Holly Horwood of Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver. Horwood shot 79 on Wednesday.
Pultz leads the Super-Senior category for players 60 and over by five shots over Murdoch and Horwood.
The tournament also includes a Stableford competition that is being contested over three flights based on handicaps.
Feenan and Evans are tied for the lead in the A flight with 69 points. Nanaimo’s Georgina Hermans of Cottonwood Golf Club leads the B flight with 68 points. Ladysmith’s Darleen Michell of Mount Breton Golf Course tops the C flight with 71 points.
The leaders tee off Thursday at 11 a.m. Spectators are welcome.
For live scoring please CLICK HERE
The 2017 BC Women's Senior and Super-Senior Champion Karen Pulz Poses With Trophy - Image Credit Bob Cotter/ British Columbia Golf
By Brad Ziemer, British Columbia Golf
It's not like she needed a reminder, but Karen Pultz got one the night before the final round of the B.C. Senior Women’s Championship at Sunshine Coast Golf & Country Club.
At Wednesday night’s tournament banquet, Pultz was looking at the long list of past Senior Women’s champions when her good friend and a past champion of the event, Phyllis Laschuk, gave her some words of encouragement.
“Phyllis said it's time you put your name on this,” Pultz recalled Thursday. “I'm 60 years old and I was probably known as one of the best players never to have won the B.C. Senior. And now I am a little bit in shock to say the least because I've done it!”
Pultz, a Surrey resident and longtime member of Peace Portal Golf Club, got that elusive B.C. Senior Women’s title when she defeated defending champion Holly Horwood of Vancouver on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff on a Sunshine Coast course that played exceedingly difficult.
Pultz rode something of an emotional roller-coaster en route to the win. After beginning the day tied for the lead with five-time champion Jackie Little, Pultz found herself three down to Little at the turn.
But when Little stumbled on the back nine, Pultz grabbed a two-shot lead late in her round. However, a double-bogey on 18 dropped her into a tie with Horwood, who came from well back when she matched the day’s best score with a six-over 78.
Pultz won it on the first playoff hole when she got it up and down for par and Horwood three-putted for bogey. Both players finished the 54-hole event at 25-over par. That was 13 strokes higher than Horwood’s winning score last year at Kelowna Golf & Country Club.
Pultz said Sunshine Coast presented as stiff a test as she has encountered in her competitive career. “It was demanding off the tee, on top of that it is a second-shot golf course, and when you do get to the green you have to negotiate the slopes and where the ocean is and the influences that has,” Pultz said.
“Patience was a virtue. I have never experienced the challenges of tees and into the greens and onto the greens. Usually you will get one of those three, but every single hole was demanding in every aspect of it. So when I took a couple of bogeys I was like, you know what, other people are going to get them, too. Keep your head down and golf your ball.”
Pultz not only won the Senior Women’s title, she also captured the Super-Senior Championship for golfers 60 and over. Pultz credited a new book called Be A Player, by Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott, with helping her earn the biggest win of her career. “I got it as soon as I could and I have been practising some of the mental suggestions in that and it really helped me a lot this week,” she said.
Pultz was quick to credit Horwood for what she called an outstanding round of golf on Thursday. Horwood, who plays out of Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club, began the day five shots behind Pultz and Little.
“Anything under the 8-0 mark at this golf course is an accomplishment without a doubt,” Pultz said.
Little, one of British Columbia’s most decorated amateur golfers, closed with an 84. A 44 on the back nine proved to be her undoing. She finished alone in third place, one shot behind Pultz and Horwood. Those three players will represent British Columbia at the Canadian Senior Women’s Championship, which goes Aug. 22-24 at Humber Valley Resort in Little Rapids, Nfld.
The B.C. Senior Women’s Championship also included a Stableford competition that was contested over three flights based on handicaps. Lake Cowichan’s Karen Kloske of March Meadows Golf Course won the A flight with 97 points. Nanaimo’s Georgina Hermans of Cottonwood Golf Club won the B flight with 102 points. Ladysmith’s Darleen Michell of Mount Breton Golf Course topped the C flight with 108 points.
Hermans and Michell combined to win the two-woman best-ball competition with a score of 22-under. That was nine shots better than the second-place team of Horwood and Tracey Evans of West Vancouver.
Zone 5 (Southern Vancouver Island, including Pender and Saltspring Islands) won the 36-hole zone competition by one shot over Zone 4 (Delta, Greater Vancouver, Squamish, Sunshine Coast).
For final scoring CLICK HERE