CP Women’s Open: Lorie Kane bids farewell

OTTAWA –

Lorie Kane patted her coronary heart to thank the lots of of followers cheering for her as she walked up the 18th fairway at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Membership.

Behind Kane, her niece Charlotte Jenkins — who served as her caddie — waved the group on to get the chants even louder. When Kane reached the sting of the inexperienced she took a bow to rapturous applause.

The loving tribute was a becoming farewell for one of the crucial profitable and influential golfers in Canadian historical past.

Kane, who turns 58 this December, had already introduced that this yr’s CP Girls’s Open could be her final. Because it was clear she would miss Friday’s lower, followers, officers and volunteers got here out to observe her final spherical ever on the nationwide ladies’s golf championship.

“It’s extremely humbling,” mentioned Kane concerning the ovation. “I like to entertain, however when it is directed completely at you, it is actually ΓǪ it is uncomfortable.”

That intuition to entertain lasted proper by way of her closing two holes.

On the hockey-themed No. 17, Kane pulled on a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey, carrying a mischievous grin as chants of “Lorie! Lorie!” was boos and calls of “Go Sens!” and “Anyone however the Leafs!” She stopped to fist bump just one fan at that gap, pointing at his Maple Leafs windbreaker earlier than tossing him a memento.

“I simply performed golf to place smiles on individuals’s faces,” mentioned Kane. “I do know the Leafs jersey did not go over fairly in addition to I’d have hoped, nevertheless it was enjoyable.”

After the rousing ovation on her strategy on the 18th gap Kane missed her first putt. As the group groaned she made an exaggerated shrug to laughs earlier than tapping in her closing shot, ending 28 over.

Kane thanked Hamilton’s Alena Sharp and Australia’s Sarah Jane Smith, her taking part in companions on Friday and Saturday, as she grinded out her closing two rounds on the CP Girls’s Open.

Sharp shot a 1-over 72 to complete the day tied for 57th at 3-under par when play was referred to as as a consequence of darkness. She mentioned it was an honour to play alongside Kane, who had been such a optimistic affect on her profession.

“I grew up watching her after which taking part in along with her out right here on the LPGA Tour, it is nice. She’s a legend,” mentioned Sharp. “It is cool to be a part of (Kane’s closing rounds).

“With all of her successes I feel it gave everyone inspiration to play effectively. You may win on the LPGA Tour.”

Kane, from Charlottetown, gained on the LPGA Tour 4 instances. She gained the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as The Canadian Press’s feminine athlete of the yr in 2000. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2006 and has been inducted into the Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame and Canada’s Sports activities Corridor of Fame.

Maddie Szeryk (68) of London, Ont., was the low Canadian after two rounds. She had her second consecutive bogey-free day to take a seat in a tie for thirteenth at 7 underneath.

“I simply performed actually stable. I hit a bunch of greens and putted it OK,” mentioned Szeryk, who had back-to-back bogey-free rounds for the primary time in her profession.

Brooke Henderson, from close by Smiths Falls, Ont., shot a 3-under 68 to take a seat at 5 underneath in a tie for thirty second. Beginner Lauren Zaretsky (71) of Thornhill, Ont., additionally made the lower, tied with Sharp at 3 underneath.

Toronto’s Rebecca Lee-Bentham was by way of 15 holes and sat at 4 underneath when the horn sounded. She is going to resume her second spherical early Saturday morning, trying to keep under the two underneath cutline.

A number of Canadians missed the lower on Friday. Selena Costabile, additionally from Thornhill, Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., Valerie Tanguay of St-Hyacinthe, Que., Brigitte Thibault of Rosemere, Que., and Megan Osland of Kelowna, B.C., is not going to play within the third or fourth rounds.

Amateurs Vanessa Zhang, Michelle Liu and 12-year-old Lucy Lin, all from Vancouver, is not going to play the weekend rounds. Amateurs Katie Cranston of Oakville, Ont., Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., Yeji Kwon of Port Coquitlam, B.C., Sarah-Eve Rheaume of Boischatel, Que., and Monet Chun of Richmond Hill, Ont., additionally missed the lower.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Aug. 26, 2022.