Addison Kartusch capped off a successful week at the 2022 Canadian Junior Girls Championship carding a final round 77 to finish alone in 30th place. Kartusch played her last 54-holes at just 6-over par to earn the top 30th finish in the event.

The 15-year old, a member of the Team Manitoba junior development program, completed an impressive two weeks of championship golf winning the 2022 Manitoba Junior Championship by an impressive 13 shots, contributing to a 5th place team finish in the interprovincial portion of the national event and earning a top 30 finish at the top junior girl’s event in the country.

Clara Peake of Binscarth, Manitoba, posted a final round score of 80 to finish in a tie for 58th place. Jeri Lafleche of the Clear Lake Golf Club shot 79 to finish in a tie for 60th. Both Peake and Lafleche are also members of the Team Manitoba program.

Yeji Kwon, a member of Team Canada’s National Junior Squad, fired a two-under par 70 in Friday’s final round to win the 2022 Canadian Junior Girls Championship, presented by BDO.

For the final leaderboard, please click here.

A celebration of the life of Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame inductee Mrs. Peggy Colonello, will be held on Monday, August 8, 2022 from 6 to 8pm at the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame at 145 Pacific Avenue. Guests wishing to attend the come and go celebration, are asked to RSVP with the Golf Manitoba office by contact Amy Coggan at amy@golfmb.ca.

Peggy Colonello made a huge impact on women’s golf in Manitoba and Canada as an administrator.  Her volunteerism spanned decades and started in 1974 where she served as president of the Manitoba Ladies’ Golf Association until 1976. Peggy continued her administrative work in golf serving a two-year term as president of the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Association from 1982-83. During her time on the national executive, Peggy attended World and Commonwealth championships in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, Britain and Switzerland, including the various Canadian events in which she participated. Peggy, for her contributions to the sport, was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and was an inaugural inductee into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame on September 29, 2003.

The Colonello name was well known in golf and not only for Peggy’s contributions. Her husband Alex Colonello first moved to Winnipeg in 1941. In 1973, Alex purchased and become president of the Bay Bronze company and eventually acquired the golf accessory line from Bayco Industries to form Bayco Golf Inc. Bayco golf ball washers can still be found on the tee boxes of golf courses all over the world. Alex Colonello passed away in 2013 at the age of 93.

In 2018 and at the age of 94, Peggy Colonello established the Alex & Peggy Colonello Foundation with a mandate to support junior golf in the province of Manitoba. The Foundation established an unprecedented endowment of $3 million dollars that supports the development of new generations of golfers through grassroots golf initiatives and high-performance programming. Since 2019, the Foundation has supported junior golf programs including the Golf in Schools initiative, provincial junior team development and the University of Manitoba Bisons golf program. The annual induction ceremony for the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame is also sponsored by the Foundation.

Peggy Colonello passed away on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at the age of 97. To read Mrs. Colonello’s obituary, please click here.

Addison Kartusch of the St. Charles Country Club continued to move in the right direction at the 2022 Canadian Junior Girls Championship. Kartusch posted an even par score of 72 to move up 12 places on the leaderboard into a tie for 26th place. Clara Peake of Binscarth, Manitoba, also moved up 6 places into a tie for 52 with her third consecutive score in the 70s shooting a 4-over par score of 76. Jeri Lafleche of Clear Lake Golf Club shot 77 to move up 5 places into a tie for 58.

Yeji Kwon of Port Coquitlam, B.C., leads the field at 9-under par for the event that was helped today with a 7-under par round of 65.

The 72-hole event concludes tomorrow.

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A look at the Oakview Golf & Country Club with President Delwyn Doerksen.

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Ottawa, Ont. – After a two-year absence from interprovincial team competition at Golf Canada national events, Team Manitoba finished 5th at the 2022 Canadian Junior Girls Championship. The team of Addison Kartusch (73), Cala Korman (78) and Crystal Zamzow (93) shot a team score of +7, a 13 shot improvement from round one, to finish 3 shots clear of 6th place Saskatchewan. Team Ontario rallied for 2-under par team score to move ahead of first round leader Team B.C. to take the interprovincial team title by a slim margin of just 5 shots.

In the individual stroke play competition portion of the event, Addison Kartusch’s round of 1-over par 73 helped propel the 2022 Manitoba Junior Girls Champion 25 spots up the leaderboard and into a tie for 38th place to comfortably make the cut. Other Manitobans also making the cut were Clara Peake (79) of Binscarth, Manitoba at T58 and Jeri Lafleche (75) of Clear Lake Golf Club at T63. Madelin Boyd, Amy Seung Hyun Lee, Erin Lee, Lucy Lin, and Myranda Quinton all fired rounds of two-under par 70 to pace the 136-player field. 

Manitoba/Northwest Ontario Players in the field:

Cala Korman (78) – MC
Reese Keating (94) – MC
Cystal Zamzow (93) – MC
Payton Oakden (88) – MC

For the complete second round leaderboard, please click here.

OTTAWA, Ont. – Addison Kartusch (St. Charles Country Club), Cala Korman (Golf Manitoba Public Player) and Crystal Zamzow (Swan River Golf & Country Club) sit in 6th place after the first round of the 36-hole interprovincial team competition at the Canadian Junior Girls Championship being played at the Marshes Golf Club in Ottawa, Ontario. Kartusch (80), Korman (84) and Zamzow (88) combined for a team total of +20 with Team B.C. shooting a team score of even par.

Clara Peake of Binscarth, Manitoba, was the low Manitoban carding a +5 round of 77 to sit in a tie for 39th. Madelin Boyd, Amy Seung Hyun Lee, Erin Lee, Lucy Lin and Myranda Quinton are tied first place after all opening with a 2-under par round of 70.

Manitoba/Northwest Ontario player scores:

Clara Peake – 77
Addison Kartusch – 80
Jeri Lafleche – 82
Cala Korman – 84
Reese Keating – 85
Crystal Zamzow – 88
Payton Oakden – 97

For the individual stroke play and interprovincial team leaderboard, click here.

Braxton Kuntz of Breezy Bend Country Club earned his second consecutive Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Championship Saturday night.

Kuntz shot a 4 over 75 in his final round to finish at 209, good for a two stroke victory over Marco Trstenjak of the host Elmhurst Golf & Country Club.

Along with his pair of Amateur victories, Kuntz is the first player in Golf Manitoba history to win back to back Junior Boys Championships. During those 4 combined events, he finished at -30 under par.

Trstenjak carded an even par 71 in his final round to finish at 211.

For the complete Manitoba Blue Cross leaderboard, click here.

In claiming the Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Championship, Kuntz receives a sponsors exemption to complete in the CentrePort Canada Railpark Manitoba Open August 18-21 at Southwood Golf & Country Club

Braxton Kuntz of Breezy Bend Country Club carded his second consecutive 4 under par 67 and has a 6 stroke lead on Marco Trstenjak of the host Elmhurst Golf & Country Club entering Saturday’s final round of the Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Championship.

Trstenjak shot a 3 under par 68 Friday.

Justin McDonald, also of Breezy Bend, who sits third on the leaderboard, tied Kuntz’s low round of the day at 67.

For the complete Manitoba Blue Cross leaderboard, click here.

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Golf Manitoba Public Players Club member Cala Korman shot an 84 on Friday in her final round of the Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship presented by BDO Wednesday in Kitchener, Ontario.

Her tournament total 326 placed her 70th on the leaderboard.

Korman is a member of Team Manitoba’s Development Program.

For the complete Canadian Women’s Amateur leaderboard, click here.

Defending Champion Braxton Kuntz, of Breezy Bend Country Club, opened with back to back birdies on his scorecard at Elmhurst Golf & Country Club and went on to shoot a 4 under par 67 in the Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Championship.

Kuntz shot a 3 under 32 on the front nine and followed it up with a 1 under par 35 on the back.

Two strokes back on the Manitoba Blue Cross leaderboard is Nathan Wazney, of the host course, who went 36-33 for a 2 under par 69.

Breezy Bend’s Eric Johnson was the only other player to break par at 1 under 70.

For the complete Manitoba Blue Cross leaderboard, click here.

For Friday’s second round tee times, click here.