Kew comes out on top in Jr. Tour
It was a see-saw battle all season but in the end Skylar Kew outlasted Megan Miron to win the girls championship in the Hamilton-Halton Junior Golf Tour.
The two teens traded wins on the seven-event tour, but with her victory in the final event this past week at Heron Point Golf Links, Kew secured her third straight overall Tour title.
It capped a solid week for Kew, 14, who also had a second-place finish at the Ontario Summer Games golf championship in London.
John Orlebar had a spectacular rookie season on the Tour winning the bantam division and six of the seven events. Only Avery Mahoney’s win in the seventh stop prevented Orlebar from a perfect tour season, which no one has ever done.
The 14-year-old, who plays out of The Tarandowah Golfers Club, was also named the Tour’s Rookie of the Year.
The junior division featured seven different individual event winners — Sam Coons, Malcolm Glumpak, Jamie Zucker, Luca Carestia, Michael Guyatt, Tyler Cunningham and Patrick Mahoney, who won the final stop and the overall junior division title.
The latter Mahoney, who will head to McMaster University this fall and hopes to play for the school team there, also finished third in the Ontario Summer Games last weekend.
Along with Cunningham, Guyatt, Carestia, Orlebar, Kew and Miron, the two Mahoneys will represent the HamiltonHalton Tour at the Humber Cup Ontario Junior Tour Team Championship Aug. 27-29 at the Ambassador GC in Windsor.
In addition to the second and third finishes by the HamiltonHalton Tour individuals at the Ontario Summer Games the Tour won silver in the girls team competition and bronze in the boys team competition.
Whole-in-One: Many golf courses throughout the province held their club championships over the long weekend. Here are the results from some clubs that sent them in to the Spec:
Colin Grieve fired rounds of 76, 79 and 71 to win the club championship at Glendale. Flight winners included: B-James McLaren, C-John Celani, D-Gary Sicard and E-Ken Wal.
A three-round total of 229 won the Dundas Valley club championship for Greg Adoranti. Flight winners included: A-Rick Michal, B-Doug Smith, C-Bill Hutchings and D-Mike Sutton.
Walter Wiebe captured the club championship at King’s Forest with flight winners being: B-John Holota, C-Kyle Westhaver and D-Bob Hoffman.
For the fifth year in a row and the seventh time in nine years, Lars Melander is the men’s club champion at Hidden Lake. He shot a two-over-par 144 in the rain-shortened event, while Lise Campeau won the women’s club championship with an 87. Hidden Lake’s other winners were: Stuart Smith (senior men), Bill McCartney (senior men net) and Kathryn Giannoccaro (women’s net).
Aces in the area include two at Willow Valley, Brian Jones on the 116-yard eighth hole with a wedge and Paul Greenlee on the 110-yard 17th hole with a pitching wedge.