Tournament runs Tuesday through Thursday
The century-plus B.C. Women’s Amateur, Mid-Amateur, and Mid-Master Championship will get into the swing today at Victoria Golf Club. The 120th annual tournament runs through Thursday to decide the provincial championship for the three classes.
The format feature 54 holes of stroke play with a field of 75 players. The top finishers in the B.C. tournament will advance to the 2025 women’s Canadian Amateur and Mid-Amateur championships this summer at Riverside Country Club in Saint John, N.B.
The B.C. Women’s Amateur Championship was last hosted on the Island in 2023 at Arbutus Ridge with Chelsea Truong of Victoria, now an NCAA Div. 1 sophomore with the University of New Mexico Lobos, the victor.
Amy Seung Hyun Lee of Langley, 16, won last year’s 119th B.C. Women’s Amateur at the Balfour Course in Nelson to advance to the 2024 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship that was hosted by Royal Colwood last summer.
Both Truong and Lee will be among the field teeing it up this morning.
This is the first time the B.C. Women’s Amateur is being hosted by Victoria Golf Club since 2005 and follows the PGA of B.C. Women’s Championship in 2023, the regional qualifier for the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2021 and the Men’s Canadian Mid-Amateur in 2018.
“We have a proud history of hosting provincial and national championships and are very excited to once again be able to showcase our club and to see the best players from across our province play our course,” Victoria Golf Club lead professional Lindsay Bernakevitch said in a statement.
“Our course is a very strategic course.”