Calgary’s Scraba shares golf victory with dad on Father’s Day
Written by Wes Gilbertson
Calgary’s Sydney Scraba had some extra motivation for Sunday’s final round of the Future Links Prairie Championship.
One of her biggest fans — her dad, Dwayne —was following and cheering her on.
It was, of course, Father’s Day.
And what better gift for her proud pops than a triumph and trophy presentation at the three-day regional showdown in Manitoba?
“It means a lot to me. And especially with my dad there on Father’s Day, it means even more,” said Scraba, who is part of the Class of 2018 at Ernest Manning and headed south in August to join the women’s golf squad at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. “I wanted to do it for him, for all that he’s done for me.”
Scraba, a junior member at Canyon Meadows, finished three laps of Portage Golf Club in 13-over 229, surging to a four-shot victory.
The difference was Saturday’s spin of 1-under 71, the only sub-par round among the girls at one of six Future Links events on the summer calendar. Scraba sandwiched that superb score with a pair of 79s.
The 17-year-old hit her driver especially well over the first two days, putting herself in position to attack pins. Although she wasn’t as solid off the tee Sunday, she scrambled with a sharp short game and continued to sink key putts.
Dwayne must have enjoyed every minute of it.
“When I came off the 18th green, he was smiling,” Scraba said post-round. “He’s quite proud of my success today.”
On the boys’ side, Calgary’s Jakob Chicoyne (Glencoe) tied for second at 1-over 211, three shots off the pace. Chicoyne sizzled to a 4-under 66 in his final round.
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Next on tee? The SVR Alberta Open is slated for Tuesday-Thursday at River Spirit. Dustin Risdon (National Golf Academy) isn’t in the field to defend his title, but fellow teaching pros Riley Fleming and Wes Heffernan have history with the hardware and should be considered among the frontrunners at the three-round provincial slugfest … Fleming, now an instructor at National Golf Academy after several seasons on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada, has been a force on the PGA of Alberta’s tournament circuit. The 24-year-old topped the leaderboard at a two-day shootout at Lynx Ridge, sizzling to a score of 10-under 132 en route to his third victory in just five starts this season … Fresh off a record-setting season with the NCAA’s Ohio State Buckeyes, Jaclyn Lee (Glencoe) finished T-35 — tops among Canadians — as an amateur at the LPGA Meijer Classic in Michigan. Among the highlights of her week, the 21-year-old was grouped with Taiwan’s Yani Tseng — a five-time major champion and former world No. 1 — in Saturday’s third round. Lee will represent Golf Canada’s national amateur team this summer and then return for her senior campaign at Ohio State, where she set a school record in 2017-18 with an overall scoring average of 71.14 … With a three-round tally of 1-over 217, Quebec’s Etienne Papineau finished four shots clear of the competition at the Glencoe Invitational. In addition to a one-on-a-kind carved trophy, the 21-year-old earns an exemption to the Mackenzie Tour’s ATB Financial Classic at Country Hills and a berth in the final qualifier for the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open … Fan favourite Rocco Mediate — best-known for his playoff duel against Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open — has officially booked his ticket to compete at the Shaw Charity Classic later this summer at Canyon Meadows. Mediate, now 55, was the inaugural tournament champion in Calgary.
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