The Brandon, Manitoba team of Alison Carter-Squire and Charlotte Evanyshyn and the team of Debbie Iverson and Lorraine Koehler tied for first place at the 2008 Lady Bug women’s golf tournament Friday at Minot Country Club.

Combined, the four have won 11 Lady Bug championships. Evanyshyn, Iverson and Koehler have all won three times, while Carter-Squire has won two.

Teamwork is the secret to success for Iverson and Koehler.

“You know, we ham-and-egg-it here, we just do,” said Koehler, who runs Condor Petroleum in Tioga along with her husband Ronald. “If she’s playing good I usually am not. Sometimes I’m playing good and she isn’t.”

After finishing the two-day, par-points tournament with identical scores of 118, the teams had the option of breaking the tie with a playoff or a coin flip, but chose instead to split the winnings.

“I just think it was the best way to go — it’s all about the fun anyway,” said Evanyshyn, who competed for the ninth time at the Lady Bug.

Koehler flew in from Florida to play in her seventh Lady Bug. Each time she’s paired with Iverson, who lives in Tioga. The two met 10 years ago at the country club in Tioga and have been friends ever since.

Both enjoy the Lady Bug for multiple reasons.

“It’s this friendship and tradition,” Koehler said. “It’s a great tournament. The Minot Country Club does a fabulous job running it. It’s by far the best.”

Play started an hour late because of cold and rain, but that didn’t keep Evanyshyn from shining.

“Compared to Manitoba, this is nothing,” she said. “This is like a cake walk.”

Koehler and Iverson bundled up to beat the cold.

“We were just trying to survive out there. It was cold and it was windy,” Koehler said. “I had a ski jacket on and (Iverson) brought me winter gloves that I cherished.”

Evanyshyn learned of the Lady Bug by word of mouth and upon experiencing it for the first time, she was hooked. She’s been making the three-hour drive to Minot ever since.

“The way we look at it is we’re winners before we even hit the golf course,” Evanyshyn said. “It’s a three-day holiday and they treat us so good down here. It’s not even about the golf really.”

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second title in three years belongs to St. Boniface’s Tammy Gibson, who caught fire in the afternoon round and defeated Kathryn McKenzie of the Public Players’ Club 6-and-4 in the 36-hole final of the Manitoba Match Play golf championship.

Gibson, the winner in 2006, had a 1-up lead when the pair finished the morning 18, then won the first seven holes of the afternoon action to put an unbreakable grip on the trophy.

On the men’s side, Pine Ridge’s Brad Kirton also got hot in the afternoon at Niakwa Country Club and took out two-time former champ Peter More of Elmhurst by a 3-and-2 count.

Kirton, 26, now holds the provincial match play, amateur and mid-amateur title

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he tall glass of wine and the smile as wide as a fairway said everything about Tammy Gibson’s opinion on birth certificates.

The St. Boniface member was celebrating her second Manitoba match play title in three years on the patio at Niakwa Country Club after a 5-and-4 victory over Kathryn McKenzie in Saturday’s 36-hole final.

“I’m 50 next year and I feel like I can still compete with some of the younger golfers,” Gibson said.

“I made the (provincial amateur) team last year (finishing fourth in the amateur). I just do the best I can and I’m trying not to take it too seriously. I think I’ve matured that way. I’m not doing it for a living, so why let it bother you?”

The second match play title felt just as good as the first.

“I cherish them both,” Gibson said. “I’ve always liked match play. When you have a bad hole, you can just forget about it. In stroke play, you’re always thinking about your score all day.”

After a tight morning that gave her a 1-up lead, Gibson put a virtual lock on the trophy by winning the first seven holes of the afternoon.

McKenzie, of the Manitoba public players’ club, cut into the margin by winning Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 13, but the deficit was too large and Gibson closed her out with a two-putt par from about eight feet at the par-3 14th.

On the men’s side, it’s becoming clear that Brad Kirton may have to change his phone number.

The 26-year-old Pine Ridge member is going to have to do something to keep all the trophy-cabinet makers away.

Kirton is in an enviable place right now as the holder of three of Manitoba’s top amateur golf trophies. As well as the Jack Blair Memorial trophy for Saturday’s 3-and-2 final win over Elmhurst’s Peter More, Kirton is the reigning provincial amateur and mid-amateur champ.

“It’s a real feeling of satisfaction, a reward,” Kirton said “It’s about seeing all the hard work pay off and having patience and finding out the effort was worth it.”

He figures to be the target in the balance of the summer’s amateur competitions.

“It’s nice to be at the top but it’s harder to stay there,” he said. “I’m taking one day off, well, OK, another one, too, this week for Iron Maiden, and then it’s back to the course to work on things.”

After an all-square morning, Kirton won Nos. 7, 8 and 9 in the afternoon to go from 2-down to 1-up.

“It was the first time I’ve been down two the whole tournament but I started to hit some quality shots and that put some pressure on him,” said Kirton, who lost last year’s match play final in a blowout against Ben Bandura. “Last year, I got overzealous. This year, I just breathed and let it out, got the tension out of my upper body.”

In hitting good shots most of the rest of the way, Kirton denied More a third match play title.

More had previously won in 2006 and 2001 and was bidding to equal Terry Hashimoto’s trio of Jack Blair trophies.

“He’s had my number lots of times — I read that and I already knew that — and I used that for some motivation today,” Kirton added. “I figured eventually the ball had to go the other way.”

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Organizers of the PGI Golf Tournament for
Literacy NB 2008 have their sights aimed high this year as they attempt to
become the first PGI in Canada to get to the million-dollar mark in just seven
years.
    "Seven figures in seven years is our goal and that means we have to raise
approximately $180,000 this year" said Michelle Carinci, Co-Chair of PGI NB
2008. "Most of our organizing committee has been together since 2002 when the
tournament found its new home in Moncton, and our success is owed to the
understanding of the issue by our local corporate and community supporters."
    The PGI NB tournament has consistently grown in annual revenue earned for
adult literacy programs in New Brunswick establishing national records for the
past three straight years raising $162,000 last year.
    "This year's events kick-off with the 2008 RBC Children's Art and
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July 4. Three prizes will be awarded in three age categories and the winners
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“Yeah, it’s just been an unbelievable week,” Taylor said yesterday at the Credit Valley Golf & Country Club after the Royal Canadian Golf Association announced the 11-member team.

But hot streaks are nothing new to Taylor. In a two-week period last summer, he won the Canadian Amateur championship and reached the quarter-finals of the U.S. Amateur. He is also a former Canadian and B.C. junior champion (both 2006).

The U.S. Open represents the next big challenge in his skyrocketing career, which he hopes is headed to the PGA Tour after he graduates from the University of Washington in 2010.

The major tournament will begin a week from today at Torrey Pines in San Diego and Taylor will get a taste of competing alongside the world’s best, including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and fellow Canadians Mike Weir and Stephen Ames.

“This is the tournament I’ve always dreamed of playing in,” said Taylor, who booked his ticket to Torrey Pines by winning a 36-hole qualifying tournament in Creswell, Ore., on Monday. “It’s not going to sink in until I’m down there.”

Taylor, one of seven Canadians in the 156-man U.S. Open field, said qualifying isn’t satisfaction enough. He wants to play well.

“I just want to play my best and see where it takes me,” he said. “… I think that I could make the cut.”

Taylor isn’t the only member of the national team who’s on a roll. Sue Kim has won both of the events this year on the CN National Women’s Tour, a developmental circuit for touring professionals.

Kim, 17, of Langley, B.C., said she’d like to stay on tour and compete in the next Women’s Tour event in Winnipeg later this month, but she has to get home to finish Grade 11. “I have to do makeup classes and exams,” she said.

In August, Kim will compete in the CN Canadian Women’s Open in Ottawa.

The five other men chosen for the national team yesterday are Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, Graham Hill of Forest, Ont., Michael Knight of Calgary, Mathieu Rivard of Granby, Que., and Mark Sommerfeld of Waterloo, Ont.

Joining Kim on the women’s side are Sara-Maude Juneau of Fossambault, Que., Maude-Aimée Leblanc of Windsor, Que., Kira Meixner of Richmond, B.C., and Stephanie Sherlock of Barrie, Ont.

The national team, which originated in 2005, has been trimmed to 11 players this year from 15 last year. The RCGA said a smaller number allows it to focus its limited financial and other resources more intensely on individual players.

Team members receive everything from coaching and equipment to fitness training and psychology support. They have a full schedule of stroke-play tournaments to compete in. As a team, their agenda culminates in the world amateur team championship in Australia in October. Three men and three women will represent Canada.

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