AIRDRIE– The 2018 Alberta Senior Ladies Championship is set to begin Monday with fifty-three players competing for the provincial senior crown. The 54-hole stroke play tournament field is made up of competitors who are over the age of 50 as of the first day of the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship.
“Woodside is a terrific host for this year’s championship,” said Stephen Wigington, Alberta Golf’s Manager of Competitions and this week’s Tournament Director. “The course has a mission to ‘instigate the creation of insanely outrageous stories’ and we are confident that a memorable story will unfold during the 2018 edition of this championship.”
Wigington goes on to add that “the contingent of competitors is once again one of the strongest senior ladies fields in the country. We are looking forward to a display of great golf next week in Airdrie!”
KEY INFO
Dates: July 23-25
Course: Woodside Golf Course
Yards/Par: 5,490 yards/71
Field: 53
2017 Champion: Kim Carrington (@CarringtonKim)
2017 Super Senior Champion: Alison Murdoch
Format: 54 holes of stroke play
Social: #absrladies
LOOKING BACK
Kim Carrington completed her comeback from an injury after shining in the final round of the 2017 Alberta Senior Ladies’ Championship. With the pressure on, Carrington got better and better as the day went on. She became a two-time champion, surpassed a four-stroke deficient, with a clutch tournament low round of 73.
Carrington wasn’t the only one taking home a second trophy that week. Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member, Alison Murdoch, claimed back to back Alberta Super Senior (65+) titles.
2017 #ABSrLadies Champions 🏆🏆🏆 Low Overall Net = Barbara Flaman. Senior = #⃣1⃣ Kim Carrington. Super Senior (65+) = Alison Murdoch. @EPGCC pic.twitter.com/vJkbBQi5Aq
— Alberta Golf (@Alberta_Golf) August 3, 2017
HISTORY
The Alberta Senior Ladies Championship was first contested in 1964.
2010–Alison Murdoch
2011–Diane Williams
2012–Alison Murdoch
2013–Jackie Little
2014–Jackie Little
2015–Kim Carrington
2016–Lynn Kuehn
2017–Kim Carrington
NOTABLES
- Kim Carrington – Two-time Senior Ladies Champion (2015 and 2017)
- Alison Murdoch – Two-time Senior Ladies Champion (2010 and 2012)
- Jackie Little – Three-time Senior Ladies Champion (2009, 2013 and 2014)
- Barbara Flaman – 2018 Alberta Ladies Mid Master Champion
FAST FACTS
- There are three contests up for grabs this week. The Senior Championship for those aged 50 & over, the Super Senior for those aged 65 & over and an overall low net contest.
- A total of eight out of province competitors are teeing it up in the Alberta Senior, including a six member contingent from British Columbia.
- The top three competitors at weeks end will make up Team Alberta at the Canadian Women’s Mid-Amateur & Senior Championship at Lookout Point Country Club in Fonthill, Ontario – August 28-30th.
ABOUT THE COURSE
Woodside Golf Course opened for play in 1989, bringing the dream of it’s founder Otto Steiner to life. From the moment Otto saw this superb spread of land, he was determined to make his dream a reality. Enlisting renowned Canadian golf course architect William G. Robinson, together they thoughtfully shaped Woodside Golf Course through the rolling Alberta parkland and developed a quiet master-planned residential community around it.
More information on the Woodside Golf Course can be found here.
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