PGA of CANADA - OTTAWA ZONE CHAMPIONSHIP

KANATA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB SUNDAY - MONDAY, AUGUST 12-13, 2018

SPONSORED BY TAYLORMADE CANADA & ADIDAS CANADA

FLAGSTICK.COM PLAYERS TOUR PGA of CANADA - OTTAWA ZONE CHAMPIONS

Adidas Canada Representative Jimmy Venturi & TaylorMade Representative Shawn Perno with Zone Champion Lee Curry

Zone Championship Senior Division Champion Dave Kalil with Jimmy Venturi & Shawn Perno

Day 1 Wraps Up at the PGA of Canada –

Ottawa Zone Championship

Kanata Golf & Country Club (Photo: Scott MacLeod)

(Kanata, Ontario) – Round 1 of the PGA of Canada – Ottawa Zone Championship on the Flagstick.com Players Tour is in the books and it appears that the golf course was the winner today.

Nobody broke par on the Kanata Golf Course that was in excellent condition on a near perfect day with only a slight breeze moving the sponsors’ TaylorMade and Adidas flags stationed at the first tee.

Ottawa Zone Golf Professionals were quick to praise the golf course conditioning and most blamed their scores on their own swings not being up to par.

The senior professionals were first off today and after their scores were posted we had a tie for first place at 4 over par 74 between Prescott’s Thom Miller and Sand Point’s Steve Hall.

Defending Zone Champion Lee Curry from the Camelot Golf & Country Club posted a two over par round of 72 that was tied by Dan McNeely from Smiths Falls.

Round 2 of the Zone Championship begins at 9:33 on Monday morning at the Kanata Golf & Country Club which is celebrating 50 years of operation in 2018.

The final group will go off the tee at 11:40 and spectators are welcome.

If you would like to watch local golf professionals at play or if your Club’s golf professional is playing, drop by and them your support.

Curry Repeats as PGA of Canada – Ottawa

Zone Champion; Kalil Wins Senior Title

(Kanata, Ontario) – Another beautiful day at the Kanata Golf & Country Club has come to and end after champions had been declared in the PGA of Canada – Ottawa Zone Championship on the Flagstick.comPlayers Tour. The championship was sponsored by TaylorMade Canada and Adidas Canada and on-hand representing their companies were Shawn Perno and Jimmy Venturi, respectfully. For the second year in a row and for the third time in five years, Lee Curry from the Camelot Golf & Country Club is the PGA of Canada – Ottawa Zone Champion. On day 1 of the championship, Lee posted a two-over-par score of 72 and then came back with a three under par score of 67 for a total of 139. Lee was the only player in the championship to break par over the two days. When asked about his win Lee replied, “I kept the ball in play. To be honest with you I set my goal over the two days to try and beat par. I just kept playing my match against par and I didn’t care what anybody else was doing. I just tried to play my match with par and on the last hole I had a putt to beat par and I won the match. I also won the Summer Open last year at Kanata. It’s a challenging course and there are no freebies. You have to step up on every hole and make a shot. Kanata is definitely a course that keeps your attention for the entire round. I wanted to win this championship and I’ve been thinking about it all year. I played a couple of nines with my daughter Sam and she told me I was going to win. So, I’m happy I won it for her.”

For his win, Lee was also awarded an early exemption into the 2019 PGA Championship of Canada presented by TaylorMade Canada and Adidas Canada.

Tied with Lee after the first round, Smiths Falls Dan McNeely posted a three over par score of 73 to finish in second place with a total score of 145. Cornwall’s Tristan Holder (75/72) and Hylands Matt Peterson (74/73) tied for third place with total scores of 147. Graham Gunn (77/71) from The White Sands Golf & Practice Center finished alone in 5th place with his two-day score of 148. The three low scores of the two-day competition were posted today with a 67 for Lee Curry, even par 70 for Jon Stevenson and 71 for Graham Gunn.

Kalil Captures Senior Title

In the Senior Division, two extra holes were required to declare a winner after Dave Kalil (78/75) from the Ottawa Hunt & Golf Club and PGA of Canada’s Paulin Vaillancourt (75/78) finished the two days with identical scores of 153. Mr Kalil was declared the winner on the second hole of the sudden-win playoff. PGA of Canada – Ottawa Zone President Colin Orr from the Ottawa Athletic Center (78/77/155) finished alone in third place while Sand Point’s Steve Hall and Prescott’s Thom Miller finished in a tie for 4th place with identical scores of 74/83/157.

Dave Kalil

Players were quick to thank Kanata Golf Club Members for the use of their course and also the pro shop and food & beverage staff for their assistance over the two days. A special thank you for the course conditioning was directed at greens superintendent Jamie Knorr and his staff. Thanks were also directed at PGA of Canada – Ottawa Zone Executive Director Carol Ann Baxter for her work year round and especially for the Zone Championship. Congratulations to all participants in the PGA of Canada – Ottawa Zone Championship on the Flagstick.com Players Tour.

THE TWO PRECEDING ARTICLES ARE COMPLIMENTS OF FLAGSTICK.COM

FLAGSTICK.COM PLAYERS TOUR PGA of CANADA OTTAWA ZONE CHAMPIONSHIP PARTICIPANTS

ZONE CHAMPIONSHIP SENIOR PARTICIPANTS

Dan Patry, Thom Miller, Paulin Vaillancourt & Abe Buckle

Terry Kolar, Jean Pilon & Steve Hall

John Watson, John Doolan & Scott MacDonald

Colin Orr, Dave Kalil & Greg White

ZONE CHAMPIONSHIP PARTICIPANTS

Jason May, Ryan Condon & JC Beecroft

Jason Brum, Marc Rouse & Matt Goulet

Dale Pedersen, Dany Lacombe & Tristan Holder

Brett Claggett-Woods, Dave McDonald & Shawn Banfield

Darren Kelso & Derek MacDonald

Joe Diflorio, Gregg Foley & Marc-Andre Piette

Chris Learmonth, Matt Peterson & Colin Pitchers

Bill Keating, Terry Cowan & Gord Percy

Andy Rajhathy, Adam Miller & Scott Johnson

Jon Stephenson, Lee Curry & Scott Mikkelsen

Michel Dagenais, Dan McNeely & Graham Gunn

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