(L-R) Christian Flick, Jayla Kucy. (Alberta Golf)

By rdnewsNOW Staff

Great Finish To Season

Alberta Junior Tour wraps up at Wolf Creek Golf Resort

Aug 31, 2021 | 12:50 PM

Ponoka, AB – Wolf Creek Golf Resort near Ponoka was once again the site of the annual McLennan Ross Alberta Junior Tour presented by Crowe MacKay.

The season-ending tour championship featured 125 of Alberta’s best juniors from across the province as they descended on Ryan Vold’s beautifully groomed and eminently challenging layout.

Officials with Alberta Golf say the pre-tournament favorite in the junior girls’ division had to be Jayla Kucy from Camrose, the three-time defending tour champion who four-peated with a 4-over par 74.

But Kucy needed every one of her four birdies, as Brynne Davies of Earl Grey was hot on her heels with a 75. Paired together in one of the feature groups, Davies and Kucy more or less went about their business on the course, as Kucy admitted, “I didn’t even know where I stood with Brynne” during the round. “I was just playing golf.”

Kalee Seto of the Royal Mayfair, who captured the Alberta Golf U17 Championship last week at rain-soaked Alberta Springs Golf Resort west of Red Deer, completed the podium with an 80.

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The junior boys’ division, however, didn’t have that one overwhelming pre-tournament favorite, as any of a dozen or more junior boys would not have been classified as an upset had any of them won.

14-year-old Christian Flick of Carnmoney GCC in Calgary, doesn’t yet have the resume of some of his contemporaries on the junior golf scene in the province, but backed up a confidence-building 68 in his practice round on Sunday with another 2-under par 68 on Monday when the guns had real bullets, per say. Six birdies, one double, a couple of bogies and his first major junior win.

One player who was on the favorites list was another 14-year-old Calgarian, Tyler Kidd of Priddis Greens GCC. Kidd, who won the Alberta Golf U15 Championship last week at Alberta Springs, had one of the best rounds on the Tour this summer, an 8-birdie 69 at the very difficult Trestle Creek Golf Resort early in July.

Kidd’s 1-under par 69 fell one shot short of forcing a sudden-death playoff. Josiah Tong of Heritage Pointe finished solo third with a 1-over 71.

The event brings down the curtain on the 27th season of the McLennan Ross Alberta Junior Tour.

Full scores in all divisions here