Terra Nova set to host Royal Lepage Provincial Junior Championships
Golf Newfoundland Labrador (Golf NL), in partnership with Royal Lepage and with the support of Pepsi, Wedgwood Insurance and Old Dutch, is hosting the 2018 Provincial Junior /Juvenile/bantam Boys and Girls Provincial Championships on the Twin Rivers Course at Terra Nova Resort & Golf Community at Port Blandford July 1-4
The competition schedule includes a practice round on Sunday, with player registration 4-6 p.m., followed by a payers meeting in the clubhouse.
The tournament will include three days of stroke play competition. Divisional competition will be held during the first two days, with awards for net prizes in each division presented at the players dinner on Tuesday, July 3.
The championship presentations and announcement of teams to represent the province at Atlantic and national championships will be at the clubhouse on Wednesday afternoon, July 4.
As part of the practice round, competitors will compete in the annual “Old Dutch Skills Challenge.”
The skills competition will include closest-to-the-pin, longest drive and a hole-inone events. Again this year, the skills competition will be sponsored by Old Dutch, with prizes to be awarded to the top male and female in each competition at the players dinner.
The top three male and females will be eligible to represent the province at the Future Links Atlantic Championships driven by Acura at Terra Nova July 16-19. They will also be eligible to represent the province at the Canadian junior national championships.
This year, the national boys championships is at Medicine Hat Golf & Country Club in Medicine Hat, Alta., July 30Aug. 2, while the national girls championship will be at Beach Grove Golf Club in Tsawwassen, B.C., July 31-Aug. 3
For more information on this competition and other programs of Golf NL. visit www.golfnl.ca, e-mail golf@sportnl.ca or call 709-631-3102.