Taylor Shoots 5-under to Lead 98th Canadian Amateur
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:42:33
Taylor, 23, fired a 5-under 65 to take the lead at the 98th Canadian Amateur Championship, conducted by the Royal Canadian Golf Association and hosted by Fraser Edmundston Golf Club in Edmundston, NB. His game plan, he says, is playing one shot at a time.
"I step on the tee and try to hit the fairway. I step on the fairway and try to hit the green. I step on the green and try to make the putt. I try to keep my game as simple as possible," said Taylor.
Taylor's shot-by-shot strategy worked for him today, and it worked for him last week. Fresh off a win at the Barrett East Coast Amateur Championship in St. Andrews, NB, Taylor also won the Prince Edward Island Amateur last month.
This is Taylor's last chance at a Canadian amateur title. He recently graduated from Louisiana State University, and intends to turn pro next week.
One stroke behind Taylor, tied in second place with Lee Curry of Kemptville, ON, is Ron Harvey Jr. of Picadilly, NB. Although his missed making the provincial team by a single stroke, Harvey holds New Brunswick's top spot after round one of the 98th Canadian Amateur Championship.
Harvey, who carded five birdies, an eagle, and three bogeys to finish four under par, nearly finished tied with the leader; however a missed putt for birdie on the 18th hole held him back.
"I hit the ball to eight feet on my approach shot. I misread the putt and it stopped two inches to the left of the hole. I made par," said Harvey.
The same hole that gave more than half of the field problems - 83 bogeyed the hole, 29 made par, and only two players made birdie - gave Harvey trouble too.
Hole No. 3, normally a par-5, is playing as a par-4 at the 98th Canadian Amateur Championship. At close to 500 yards, players are calling it the most challenging hole of the course. It's a dogleg right, and the fairway is bordered with long rough and woods on both sides. If that isn't enough, the fairway slopes left and the green is guarded by a bunker on either side. Harvey was able to keep his ball out of the bunkers and trees on the left.
"I hit a bad drive into the rough on the right. I thought my second shot was good; it landed on the green, but rolled right past the hole and came to rest in the rough that borders the green. I chipped on, missed the putt, and made bogey," said Harvey.
Taylor was one of the few who made par on the difficult hole. Craig Doell of Victoria, BC, wasn't so lucky. Doell, who sits in fourth with a 67, says his ball followed the sloping fairway and landed in the rough to the left.
"I had a terrible lie in the rough off the tee, and I couldn't get at the ball. Needless to say, I bogeyed the hole. Otherwise, I was hitting close shots all day," said Doell, who has played in ten Canadian Amateur Championships since 1989.
Team Qu�bec is primed to claim its first Willingdon Cup provincial team championship in five years. The province holds a fragile 2-stroke lead over second-place Alberta after the first round of the 75th Wellingdon Cup Provincial Team Championship. British Columbia is in third. Qu�bec won its last Willingdon Cup in 1997; the province defeated British Columbia by a single stroke.
First Round Results are as follows:
Craig Taylor, Hunter River, PE 35-30--65
Ronald Harvey, Jr., Picadilly, NB 33-33--66
Lee Curry, Kemptville, ON 32-34--66
Craig Doell, Victoria, BC 36-31--67
Brodie Flanders, Fawcett Hill, NB 34-33--67
Shawn LaFontaine, Cobourg, ON 35-33--68
Michael Mezei, Lethbridge, AB 33-35--68
Pier-Andr� Roy, Qu�bec, QC 35-33--68
Matthew Ion Young, Burlington, ON 34-35--69
Andrew Lovas, White Rock, BC 36-33--69
Frank Van Dornick, Camrose, AB 34-35--69
Chuck Crawford, Richmond Hill, ON 35-35--70
Doug Roxburgh, Vancouver, BC 36-34--70
Brian Benedictson, Courtenay, BC 34-36--70
Dillard Pruitt, Greenville, SC 37-33--70
Dane Thorogood, Calgary, AB 34-36--70
J.C. Deacon, Unionville, ON 36-34--70
Matthew Bliss, Burlington, ON 34-36--70
Dan Soley, Red Deer, AB 35-35--70
Dustin Pewarchuk, Victoria, BC 34-37--71
Dan Partland, Bolton, ON 36-35--71
Matt Matheson, Dartmouth, NS 38-33--71
Richard Swift, Randwido, AUSTRALIA 36-35--71
Pierre H. Fortin, Gatineau, QC 34-37--71
Steve Brodie, London, ON 33-38--71
Mitch Gillis, Williams Lake, BC 36-35--71
Daniel Swanson, Surrey, BC 34-37--71
Kevin Blue, Don Mills, ON 36-35--71
Dale Vallely, Lethbridge, AB 36-35--71
James Lepp, Abbotsford, BC 36-35--71
Lindsay Bernakevitch, Regina, SK 34-37--71
Greg Breen, Hampton, NB 36-35--71
Ryan Vallely, Lethbridge, AB 38-33--71
Anthony Warren, Charlottetown, PE 35-37--72
Barrett Jarosch, Edmonton, AB 34-38--72
Tom Henderson, Lombardy, ON 36-36--72
St�phane Pellerin, Trois-Rivieres, QC 34-38--72
Ryan Swelin, Sundre, AB 37-35--72
Jeffery Gunn, Nepean, ON 37-35--72
Ron Pearson, Kitchener, ON 36-36--72
Peter Tomasulo, Long Beach, CA 37-35--72
Bill Seagris, Red Rock, ON 36-36--72
Christopher Kucera, Pictou, NS 36-36--72
Louis Seguin, Buckingham, QC 38-34--72
Jason Hill, St. John`s, NF 37-35--72
Michael Mercier, Rochester, NY 37-35--72
Billy Noon, Maple Ridge, BC 38-34--72
Andrew Parr, London, ON 37-35--72
Graham Cooke, Hudson, QC 39-33--72
Nicholas Wheeler, Ingersoll, ON 37-35--72
Marc Cousineau, Laval, QC 37-36--73
Peter Riddell, Pointe-Claire, QC 38-35--73
Brad Pemberton, Port Hope, ON 37-36--73
Brad Kirton, Winnipeg, MB 38-35--73
Michel Curadeau, Deauville, QC 38-35--73
Dave Bunker, Woodbridge, ON 38-35--73
Stephen Fritsch, Manotick, ON 37-36--73
Blayne Streeper, Ft Nelson, BC 36-37--73
Graham Bell, Sarnia, ON 38-35--73
Matthew Palsenbarg, Surrey, BC 38-35--73
Francis Tanguay, Ste-Therese, QC 38-35--73
Jaron Flynn, St. John`s, NF 38-35--73
Lee French, London, ON 35-38--73
Michel Landry, Tracadie, NB 36-37--73
Jeff Crowe, Kingston, ON 36-37--73
Leon Carter, River Bourgeois, NS 38-35--73
Ryan Yip, Calgary, AB 34-39--73
Brian DeBiasio, Nelson, BC 35-38--73
Jason Monteleone, Kelowna, BC 40-34--74
Scott McNeil, Calgary, AB 41-33--74
Robert Cowan, Waterloo, ON 39-35--74
Dale Goehring, Calgary, AB 39-35--74
Jamie Scott, Brandon, MB 36-38--74
Eric Couture, Boisbriand, QC 36-38--74
John Simpson, Oshawa, ON 38-36--74
Darren White, Munster, ON 36-38--74
Eric Levesque, Rimouski, QC 35-39--74
Rick Hallberg, Weyburn, SK 40-34--74
Christian Komsa, Lakeshore, ON 39-35--74
Lindsey Winch, Edmonton, AB 38-36--74
Garth Collings, Winnipeg, MB 38-36--74
Nick Kenney, Etobicoke, ON 37-37--74
Scott Loewen, Winnipeg, MB 39-35--74
Charlie Woo, Markham, ON 39-35--74
Derek MacKinnon, Digby County, NS 38-36--74
Andrew Ross, Dundas, ON 36-38--74
Peter Campbell, Baddeck, NS 35-39--74
Steve Hansen, Perth-Andover, NB 38-36--74
Steven Davies, Beaconsfield, QC 37-37--74
Rob Collins, Yarmouth, NS 38-36--74
Michael Gregory, Bolton, ON 38-37--75
Terry O`Brien, Barrie, ON 39-36--75
Darren Ritchie, Quispamsis, NB 38-37--75
Michael Mannion, Gibsons, BC 38-37--75
James Currie, London, ON 37-38--75
David MacFarlane, St. Basile, NB 39-36--75
Thomas Skinner, Red Deer, AB 39-36--75
Robbie Greenwell, Georgetown, ON 41-34--75
Luke Scrymgeour, Calgary, AB 38-37--75
Kurt Kowaluk, Lively, ON 39-36--75
Peter Keilty, Dover, NH 37-38--75
Marc-Andr� Roy, Boisbriand, QC 38-37--75
Kris Wasylowich, Hudson Bay, SK 39-36--75
Courtney Hutzul, Edmonton, AB 37-38--75
Aaron Kenny, Belleville, ON 38-37--75
David Lea, Waterloo, ON 41-34--75
Cameron Loveless, Victoria, BC 40-36--76
Gilles Nadeau, Longueuil, QC 39-37--76
W. David Schultz, Calgary, AB 38-38--76
Pierre-Etienne Langevin, Quebec City, QC 39-37--76
Jim Kenesky, Hamilton, ON 40-36--76
David Schultz, St. Joseph, MI 39-37--76
Philippe Auger-Giroux, Cap-Rouge, QC 37-39--76
Greg Jones, Moncton, NB 37-39--76
Michael Keast, Winnipeg, MB 37-39--76
Sean Donnelly, Brampton, ON 40-36--76
Lucas Bristow, Calgary, AB 37-40--77
Matt Kerr, North Vancouver, BC 36-41--77
Breandan Finch, London, ON 38-39--77
Jared Ladobruk, Manitoba, MB 39-38--77
Christian Lizotte, Riviere-Du-Loup, QC 41-36--77
Jim Born, Lethbridge, AB 41-36--77
Billy Houle, Joliette, QC 43-34--77
Peter Malo, Beaconsfield, QC 40-37--77
Tim Hasenack, Barrie, ON 39-38--77
Tim Donovan, Markham, ON 40-37--77
James Love, Calgary, AB 39-38--77
Lee Fairbairn, Nipawin, SK 36-41--77
Cameron Porter, 100 Mile House, BC 40-37--77
Justin Sherriff, London, ON 40-37--77
Peter More, Winnipeg, MB 39-38--77
Marc Cayouette, Saint-Quentin, NB 36-42--78
Mark Vanderbeek, Kitchener, ON 42-36--78
Tom Schupp, Oakville, ON 39-39--78
David Wodar, Burlington, ON 40-38--78
Jirka Danek, Orleans, ON 38-40--78
Bruce Wellman, Edmundston, NB 39-39--78
Robbie K. Younker, Stratford, PE 40-38--78
Shane Grinton, Stanhope, PE 39-39--78
Kent Eger, Vernon, BC 38-40--78
Alan Stewart, Grande Prairie, AB 41-37--78
Don Gowan, Victoria, BC 39-39--78
Kent Glugosh, Brampton, ON 41-38--79
Liam Mulhall, Winnipeg, MB 40-39--79
Barry Caland, Thunder Bay, ON 40-39--79
Paul Rose, St. John`s, NF 38-41--79
Greg McAuley, Cloverdale, BC 38-41--79
Daniel Brown, Creston, BC 40-39--79
Graeme Carlson, Grand Forks, BC 39-40--79
Nick Watson, Fredericton, NB 39-40--79
Jai Hawker, Calgary, AB 38-41--79
Mark Leon, Brampton, ON 42-37--79
Kreg MacPhee, Penhold, AB 41-39--80
Robert Allan, Dartmouth, NS 42-38--80
Tim Yorke, Kensington, PE 41-39--80
Charles Taylor, St. Lambert, QC 41-39--80
Simon Camirand, Victoriaville, QC 41-40--81
Kevin Bryce, Mississauga, ON 39-42--81
Eddie Bearns, Paradise, NF 41-40--81
Serge Bastien, Rimouski, QC 44-37--81
Tom Geoghegan, Vancouver, BC 42-40--82
Andrew Hall, Charlottetown, PE 42-40--82
David Love, Mississauga, ON 44-39--83
Craig Revell, Kingston, ON 40-44--84
Team Results:
1- Quebec Cooke, Graham 72
Curry, Lee 66
Davies, Steven 74
Roy, Pier-Andr� 68
206
2- Alberta Mezei, Michael 68
Vallely, Ryan 71 71 Van Dornick, Frank 69
Yip, Ryan 73
208
3- B.C. Eger, Kent 78
Lepp, James 71
Lovas, Andrew 69
Swanson, Daniel 71
211
3- New Brunswick Breen, Greg 71
Flanders, Brodie 67
Landry, Michel 73
Watson, Nick 79
211
5- Saskatchewan Bernakevitch, Lindsay 71
Fairbairn, Lee 77
Hallberg, Rick 74
Wasylowich, Kris 75
220
6- Nova Scotia Campbell, Peter 74
Carter, Leon 73
Collins, Rob 74
MacKinnon, Derek 74
221
6- P.E.I. Grinton, Shane 78
Hall, Andrew 82
Taylor, Craig 65
Younker, Robbie K. 78
221
8- Ontario Crowe, Jeff 73
Donnelly, Sean 76
Revell, Craig 84
Woo, Charlie 74
223
9- Manitoba Collings, Garth 74
Keast, Michael 76
Loewen, Scott 74
More, Peter 77
224
9- Newfoundland Bearns, Eddie 81
Flynn, Jaron 73
Hill, Jason 72
Rose, Paul 79
224
The championship consists of both stroke and match play. Championship play will be conducted Tuesday, August 13 - Sunday, August 18, with 18 holes of stroke play for the first two rounds. The field will then be reduced to 64 players after 36 holes. A competitor's position in the match draw will be determined by his qualifying score after 36 holes. The first round of match play will take place Thursday, August 15, with the second and third rounds scheduled for Friday, August 16. The quarter-final and semifinal matches will be held Saturday, August 17, and the 36-hole championship final on Sunday, August 18.
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