Ingram impressed with Oakmont
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 14/07/2010 (5876 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OAKMONT Country Club, with its traditional layout and lightning-fast greens, made quite an impression on Team Canada’s golf coach Derek Ingram last week.
Ingram, the Winnipeg-based coach of the national women’s amateur team, travelled to the Pittsburgh-area club to watch three of his team members play the U.S. Women’s Open.
“It’s maybe the best course I’ve seen in my life,” Ingram gushed this week, back from his trip. “It was just such an awesome test. If you don’t do your homework, you would get slaughtered out there.
“They say Oakmont has the best greens in the world, though I’m sure the guys from Augusta might argue.”
Canadian amateur Christine Wong made the cut last week and was the second-best amateur at the tournament at 305.
One item we didn’t have room for in the Saturday Sports Special on Ingram last week was the fine results the national women’s amateur and development teams have had in 2010.
They include:
Maude Aimee Leblanc, who helped Purdue to an NCAA championship, finished second in the individual standings there and was named a first-team all-American.
Wong’s finish at the U.S. Open, and that five Canadian players qualified to play.
Rebecca Lee Bentham’s trip to the semifinals of the women’s British Amateur. Six of seven Canadians entered made the matches and there were three Canadians in the final eight.
Stephanie Sherlock lost a playoff in a recent CN Canadian Women’s Tour event.
Kids golf free
THE National Golf Course Owners Association sponsors a great promotion every golf season, Take a Kid to the Course Week.
They do it one better at Grand Pines in recent times, where head pro Tom Betz has spearheaded the Kids Golf Free program.
Again this season, Grand Pines has free evenings for junior golfers. That play will begin at 6 p.m. most nights for nine holes. If adults want to tag along, the course charges only $10.
Betz even has clubs, bags and balls available for juniors who need equipment.
“If the course isn’t busy, what better use for it than to introduce kids to the game, get them playing,” Betz said recently.
Last season, Grand Pines had 500 free rounds under this junior program.
Contact the club directly for availability on specific days.
