Twelve-year-old Lucy Lin among CP Women’s Open qualifiers

OTTAWA – Twelve-year-old Lucy Lin of Vancouver earned considered one of 4 spots into this week’s 2022 CP Ladies’s Open with a gradual spherical of golf in Monday’s last qualifier on the Marshes Golf Membership.

Lin, the youngest participant to ever qualify for the celebrated Canadian event, shot a 2-over-par 74, two pictures behind prime qualifiers Michelle Liu of Vancouver and Gianna Clemente of Estero, Fla. Vanessa Zhang of Vancouver was one shot again.

The ultimate qualifier consisted of twenty-two golfers taking part in one spherical with the 4 finest scores advancing to Thursday’s event. Play was suspended a number of instances Monday as a consequence of afternoon inclement climate.

Defending champion Jin Younger Ko and Canadian star Brooke Henderson headline the sphere for the CP Ladies’s Open.

The 13-time LPGA Tour winner Ko leads a stellar area that features 82 of the top-100 gamers on the CME Globe standings, together with 18 of the top-20. The sphere can even embody 18 Canadians.

CP ambassador Lorie Kane of Charlottetown, P.E.I. might be in Ottawa competing in her file thirtieth and last profession look as a participant on the CP Ladies’s Open.

A member of the Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame and Canada Sports activities Corridor of Fame, Kane made her debut at Canada’s Nationwide Ladies’s Open Championship in 1991 and has performed in every of the 29 tournaments since.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 22, 2022.

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