A few of the greatest younger golfers in Canada have their likelihood to compete on a nationwide stage this week, with Regina taking part in host.
The 2026 Canadian Junior Boys Championship is underway at Wascana Nation Membership, bringing collectively the nation’s high U19 golfers for a workweek of competitors.
It marks the primary nationwide match in Saskatchewan since 2018 at a historic course that has a protracted historical past of internet hosting championship golf. Wascana beforehand hosted the 2018 CP Ladies’s Open, the place Canadian star Brooke Henderson captured the title.
“To deliver a nationwide match to Saskatchewan and clearly the town of Regina, it’s a nice alternative to showcase the nice golf programs and clearly hospitality we’ve, so anytime we are able to placed on a nationwide showcase, we’re going to attempt to do this at each alternative,” mentioned Golf Saskatchewan director Brian Lee.
Bringing a championship of this degree to Regina additionally gives a possibility for native gamers to know the course without having to journey far.
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“It’s nice to have these larger occasions in our house province. Like final yr we have been in New Brunswick, that’s a reasonably far trek, but it surely’s good when these huge occasions come. You recognize, I’m two and a half hours away as a substitute of a four-hour flight,” mentioned Saskatchewan golfer Aricin Franklin.
Doing properly or successful this match isn’t nearly bragging rights. It opens doorways, as director of the Canadian Junior Boys Championship Rogan Doyle tells us.
“The winner this week will obtain an exemption into the 2027 U.S. Junior Newbie, which is the USGA’s model of this match,” Doyle mentioned.
“As properly, they’ll get into the 122nd Canadian Males’s Newbie Championship after which the winner from that will get into the Canadian Open, so this will actually propel somebody into subsequent yr and probably the longer term.”
5 Saskatchewan golfers additionally made it by way of the 36-hole minimize, retaining some native illustration within the area heading into the ultimate spherical on Friday. Together with Franklin are Saskatoon’s Ryan Mosher and Oliver Matyczuk, Pilot Butte’s Austin Nesbitt, and Swift Present’s Matty Schmiess.
“The previous two years I’ve performed we’ve had two guys make the minimize,” mentioned Franklin. “Nonetheless, many went and that is positively essentially the most we’ve had in a pair years and it’s good to see particularly in our house province.”
The Canadian Junior Boys Championship concludes Friday, with the fourth and remaining spherical at Wascana Nation Membership teeing off at 8 a.m. with awards to observe at 3 p.m.
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