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Aileen Robertson, Terry Hashimoto and Rob McMillan will be inducted into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame and Museum this September, along with broadcaster Bob Picken.

McMillan is a former amateur standout, who won the 1996 Canadian Amateur crown. He also won the Manitoba Open that year as an amateur and won three provincial amateur crowns as well as three national junior titles. He will serve as executive chairman of this week’s Players Cup in Winnipeg.

Hashimoto, who once ran Jazz Golf, won the Manitoba Amateur title twice and played in the Willingdon Cup eight times. He also played on the Canadian Tour.

Robertson, who works for Henry Brunton Golf, won the Canadian women’s amateur title in 1994 and won the provincial title six times. She turned pro in 1997.

Picken, 77, has been covering golf and other sports for over 60 years and has been an active contributor to the provincial hall of fame.

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Four-time LPGA champion Lorie Kane made a long detour today to help promote the upcoming CN Canadian Women’s Open at St. Charles Country Club.

Kane made Winnipeg a middle stop en route from Rochester, N.Y., and this week’s LPGA event in Toledo, Ohio, giving a clinic and interviews during Open media day today at St. Charles.

Canada’s national championship takes place here Aug. 26-29.

Tournament director Sean Van Kesteren said this afternoon that the top 10 players on the current Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings have all declared their intention to play the US $2.25 million event.

That includes Cristie Kerr, who won the LPGA Championship on Sunday in Rochester by 12 shots. That victory vaulted Kerr to the No. 1 spot in the women’s rankings.

Ai Miyazato of Japan, Jiyai Shin of Korea, defending CN Canadian Women’s Open champ Suzann Pettersen of Norway, Yani Tseng of Taiwan, Anna Nordqvist of Sweden, Karrie Webb of Australia, Song-Hee Kim of Korea and Americans Michelle Wie and Angela Stanford have also signed up to play.

Kerr won the 2006 edition of the Open.

Kane, from P.E.I., finished tied for 64th at Rochester as she continues her comeback from a variety of injuries.
She said today she’s feeling rejuvenated and optimistic under coach Sean Foley. Having made three straight cuts, Kane, with career earnings of more than $6.7 million, has banked $19,002 on the tour this season.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Tiger Woods has made it official by sending in his entry form to play in the PGA Championship.

The PGA of America said Friday that Woods was among the first four players to enter. The others were Masters champion Phil Mickelson, U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell and two-time PGA champion Vijay Singh.

The PGA Championship will be played Aug. 12-15 at Whistling Straits, where Singh won in a three-man playoff in 2004.
Woods was the runner-up at the PGA Championship last year, losing a two-shot lead in the final round to Y.E. Yang, who became the first Asian male to win a major. It was the first time Woods had blown a lead going into the final round of a major.

Woods was in the middle of a swing change at Whistling Straits in 2004 and tied for 24th.

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TWO-TIME defending champion Jill Hardy withdrew from the Golf Manitoba Women’s Amateur Championship this weekend, opening the door for several other contenders to step forward and claim the title.

Playing at her home course of St. Boniface, Mindy Lichtman has taken that opportunity and run with it.

Lichtman started the tournament with a blistering 3-under on the front nine in the first round on Saturday, never bogeying until a double on the par-4 16th. She finished the day with an even-par 74.

Lichtman, who missed last year’s tournament to compete in the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel, struggled on the greens early on Sunday but found her stroke on the back-9, finishing with a solid 4-over 78.

Despite a five-stroke lead on Elmhurst Golf & Country Club’s Angela Martens after two rounds, Lichtman isn’t getting overconfident. In fact, it’s against her nature. “I’m never totally comfortable,” she said, adding that she’s so nervous before a round she usually doesn’t eat all morning.

“I’m just hoping to play well, shoot another 70 and make the team.”

The top four finishers in the tournament will make up the Manitoba Provincial Amateur Team, who will compete in the Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship at Kingsville Golf & Country Club in Kingsville, Ont. at the end of the month.

Also within striking distance of Lichtman is Elmhurst’s Bri-Ann Tokariwski. The recent graduate of St. Mary’s Academy finished the first round only three strokes back of Lichtman, but admitted the added pressure of being within striking distance rattled her on Sunday.

She said she “started out a lot more nervous (than in the first round),” shooting five bogeys in the first eight holes. She managed to recover with a strong back-nine and currently sits six back of the leader.

“I’m feeling pretty good, pretty confident.”

Meanwhile, in the Golf Manitoba Women’s Senior Championship, being held simultaneously with the Amateur, Elmhurst’s Judi Lidstone recovered from a difficult first round with a 5-over 79 on Sunday — the best round of the Senior tournament thus far — to claim the second-round lead with an 18-over 166.

She said she felt strong off the tee, and her putter, which caused her some trouble in the first round, co-operated a little bit better.

“I hit some good putts, I hit some crappy putts.”

Falling squarely in the former category was her final shot of the round, a snaking birdie putt on the tricky 18th green, which had been a nightmare for players all weekend. Lidstone’s birdie was the first, and only, on 18 in the tournament thus far.

Sitting two strokes back of Lidstone entering Monday’s final round are last year’s runner-up Karen Saarimaki, playing out of Kenogamisis Golf Club in Geraldton, Ont., and 2008 champion Noreen Stewart of Southwood Golf & Country Club.
As with the Amateur, the top four finishers will comprise the Manitoba Provincial Senior Team, who will play in the Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Senior Championship at Morningstar Golf Course in Parksville, B.C., in late August.

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Canadian LPGA member Lorie Kane, here last week for CN Canadian W omen’s Open media day at St. Charles Country Club, may have said it best.

“We’re here to leave more than divots behind,” Kane said.

The field for the US $2.25 million national championship, August 26-29 at St. Charles, will be nothing short of stellar but now organizers are turning their attention to a most important element of the tournament.

The fund raising component has been critical to staging the Open since CN got involved in 2006. Through four championships as title sponsor, the company has put some real locomotive power behind its commitment to the tournament’s charity work.

It’s called the CN Miracle Match and by matching funds raised by the communities in which the tournament is held, the total is more than $3.5 million for children’s hospitals.

Last year’s tally in Calgary was $1.6 million alone, a number the folks on the Winnipeg organizing committee are eying.
“I’d love to reach that goal, reach even higher but it may be unrealistic because there have been other events that have needed to be supported,” said RCGA tournament chair and Open fund-raising committee member Cathy Macatavish. “I’m glad they were.”

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Specifically, Macatavish was referring to the Mike Weir Miracle Golf Drive for Kids, which also happened to be at Winnipeg and at St. Charles in June. That event generated $625,000 for the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba, the same beneficiaries of the Open.

Whether or not that timing was good is beside the point. The dollars are going to wind up in the same place and the CN Canadian Women’s Open organizers are now starting their push to hold up their end of the deal.

“We need Winnipeg to embrace the idea, which is, ‘Just give,’ because for every dollar we can raise, we’re going to get another one from CN with the Miracle Match,” Macatavish said.

Karen Fowler of the Children’s Hospital Foundation said Tuesday that apart from capital campaigns, the CN Canadian Women’s Open may well end up the single best one-event contributor ever to the foundation.

“We are thrilled about the possibility, but we haven’t taken our focus off the work of fulfilling the ongoing, year-to-year support the hospital needs,” Fowler said.

Before being awarded the 2010 championship a year ago, the Winnipeg bid committee was putting the pieces in place for a successful fund-raising effort.

“For me, when we were doing the bid, it was a big reason why I wanted to see the tournament here because I knew the money would stay in the marketplace, that we wouldn’t just be doing a tournament and that’s all,” Macatavish said. “The tournaments that do the charity (component) just raise their status heads above any other tournament that’s just for the sake of pros coming in and winning a bunch of money and away they go.

“Nowadays, it’s important that an event of this magnitude leave some kind of legacy behind. What’s better than doing this for the children’s hospital?”

The Winnipeg committee knew the charity component was a priority for CN, which more or less directs which cities will stage the Open.

With the tournament’s exposure now ramping up in newspaper ads, buses, banners and billboards, golf fans will find a variety of ways to help the cause.

Straight donations, of course, are welcome. Macatavish said appeals have been sent to golf club presidents and employee groups of tournament sponsors, but she’s encouraging any group, from golf leagues to neighborhood barbecues, to try to pitch in.

A great recent example is the St. Charles member-guest day, which came up with $12,000. The CN Miracle Match turns that into $24,000 for the Children’s Hospital Foundation.

To participate, special ticket packages have been designed for groups or companies and even individual ticket buyers for the tournament can pitch in by using the special charity promotion code (CNMM-10) when they buy their tickets at www.cncanadianwomensopen.com.

There, a $30 daily gate ticket is just $20. Ten dollars goes to the charity and is matched by CN.

At the tournament, purchasing a Miracle Match bracelet will be $10, which turns into $20 because CN matches it, and it also entitles the purchaser to a seat in the special grandstands.

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The amateur who beat the pros headlines the class of 2010 for the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame, it was announced today.

Rob McMillan, whose victory at the 1996 Manitoba Open was one of the three Canadian Tour titles he earned, will be inducted into the Hall in September, along with six-time women’s amateur champ Aileen Robertson, two-time men’s amateur champion Terry Hashimoto and respected broadcaster Bob Picken.

McMillan’s lengthy list of accomplishments includes four Manitoba juniors, three Canadian juniors, three Manitoba Amateurs, five Manitoba golfer of the year awards, two Manitoba male athlete of the year awards along with his three professional tour victories.

A rousing final round of 65 on his home course, Pine Ridge, in July of 1996 helped him come from behind and become the first amateur in 20 years to win a Canadian Tour championship. McMillan captured the Canadian Amateur later that summer and turned pro in 1997.

Robertson won two Manitoba junior titles and six amateurs as the province’s dominant female player in the 1990′s. In 1994, she added the Canadian Women’s Amateur title to her resume, lifting her to Manitoba’s golfer of the year award.

The former St. Charles member turned pro in 1998 and currently works as a teacher at Henry Brunton Golf in Ontario.

Hashimoto captured his Manitoba player of the year award in three different decades, winning in 1976, 1980 and again in 1998 after regaining his amateur status.

His second of two Manitoba Amateur titles (1998) came 13 years after his first and marked the first time any player had won the province’s top three competitive events — the match play title, the Amateur and the mid-amateur — in one season.

Hashimoto was also one of the founders of the popular Canadian golf brand, Jazz Golf.

Picken’s game as a left-hander wasn’t bad, but he was selected for a sportscasting career that spanned more than 60 years.

In that time, he distinguished himself in coverage of curling, baseball and football, inducted into Canadian and Manitoba halls of fame in those sports.

Picken has also been a director of the popular Grey Owl tournament since 1979.

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Put the money on the table and watch the Canadian Tour professionals make their travel plans to Winnipeg.

Add in a involuntary shrinking of the Tour’s schedule and a winner’s ticket to the RBC Canadian Open and you’ve got a stellar field for next week’s Players Cup at Pine Ridge Golf Club.

This year’s purse rises to $300,000, up from $200,000, and the winner earns a cheque for $48,000 and takes a spot in the PGA Tour field a week later at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto.

“No disrespect to Pine Ridge because it’s a fantastic golf course and they do a great job but on the Canadian Tour if you’re playing for $300,000 and a spot in the Canadian Open, you could play it in a parking lot and guys would show up,” said Players Cup executive chairman Rob McMillan during Thursday’s media day.

“It’s that big a deal.”

McMillan, who will be among the inductees into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame, won this Tour event at Pine Ridge 14 years ago and knows what a springboard a win can be.

“I’ve been there and for a guy to win close to $50,000 and really set yourself up for the rest of the year and going to Q school … it’s going to really give these guys some opportunities,” he said.

This will be the third year in a row the Tour offers the winner a Canadian Open exemption and not surprisingly, an elite field is entered for the seventh official event of the year.

Forty of the top 42 money-winners this season are entered, including money-list leader Brock Mackenzie of the U.S.
Missing from the event will be No. 3 Dustin Risdon, who is in next week’s Nationwide Tour event, and No. 4 David Vanegas, the Columbian who won the year’s first event but has played in no other CanTour tournaments.

You have to go all the way down to No. 43 on the list, Mexico’s Octavio Gonzales, to find another player who’s skipping Winnipeg.

Also missing this season will be defending champion Graham DeLaet of Saskatchewan, who’s now a full-time member of the PGA Tour.

Among the locals entered are Tour members Adam Speirs, Matt Johnston, Ryan Horn and Tyler Mancini. Dean North of Carman, host pro Shane Dick and Niakwa amateur Scott Markham have also been given exemptions.

Tickets for next week’s event are available at Pine Ridge, at the gate starting next Thursday and at any Red River Co-Op.

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New names will be introduced to both women’s amateur and women’s senior championship trophies in Manitoba this year.

Mindy Lichtman of St. Boniface built an eight-stroke lead early in today’s final round of the 54-hole provincial women’s championship and held on to win by one over Elmhurst’s Angela Martens, a former champ.

Lichtman, in winning her first amateur, posted a three-round score of 232 after today’s six-over 80.
Four-time champion Jill Hardy, who had won the last two, withdrew from the event before it started due to an out-of-province opportunity.

In the senior women’s division, Karen Saarimaki of Kenogamisis came from two shots off the pace to claim her first Manitoba crown. She fired an 82 today at St. Boniface to beat Southwood’s Noreen Stewart, the 2008 winner, by two shots.

Four-time champion Judi Lidstone of Elmhurst, the second-round leader, shot 87 anbd finished in a tie with Bonnie Stephenson of Niakwa.

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