TRAINOR BECOMES FIRST CCAA FEMALE TO WIN RCGA CHAMPIONSHIP
June 1, 2009
by Jim Bialek
TORONTO, Ont -- Maggie Trainor completed her post secondary golf career on the biggest stage possible, as she won the Women's Individual Title at the Royal Canadian Golf Association University National Championship Tournament which was held at King's Forest Golf Club in Hamilton.
She did it in fine fashion as she birdied the eighteenth hole during the third and final round to win by two strokes. She took a slim one stroke lead into the final round and went hole for hole with the University of British Columbia's Kyla Inaba. With the eighteenth looming, the players were tied on the day, and Trainor still holding on to that slim one stroke lead. The birdie, on the par five hole, gave Trainor 78 on the day and a score of 227 for the three-day event. During the second round, Trainor soared to the best round recorded by a female golfer on the course as she carded a 1-under 71.
Trainor's triumph in the field of 53 females marked only the second time in the seven-year history of the national finals that an Ontario woman has taken top honours. London's Lindsay Edmunds of Western was the other in 2005.
The first-place finish earns Trainor an exemption into the 2009 Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur Championship at Royal Oaks Golf Links in Moncton, N.B.
This ends Trainor's post secondary career at Humber, as she is graduating from the Professional Golf Management Program. Over the two years here she has won back to back Canadian Colleges Athletic Association National Team Titles, and Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Provincial Team Titles. On the individual side, she won the CCAA Women's Individual Silver Medal the last two years, and the OCAA Women's Individual Gold Medal in 2008 and the Silver in 2009.
“Maggie has accomplished so much in such a short period of time” noted Doug Fox, Humber Athletic Director. “Winning the biggest tournament in university and college golf is just proof that she should be viewed as one of the best to ever play here.”
