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Christian Bender \/ Golf Canada<\/p>\nKent State University\u2019s Veronika Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1 shot 2-under to secure wire-to-wire victory in individual competition; Clairey Lin nabs win at Team Canada \u2013 NextGen Selection Camp<\/p>\n
AURORA, Ont. \u2013The Auburn University Tigers shot a field-best 12-under on Tuesday to complete a come-from-behind victory at the inaugural Women\u2019s Canadian Collegiate Invitational at Beacon Hill Golf Club in Aurora, Ont.<\/p>\n
The Tigers began the final round trailing the Kent State University Golden Flashes by three strokes after opening the tournament with a collective score of 4-under in wet conditions. On Tuesday, the Tigers pounced on the course\u2019s dry terrain to claim the team championship by six strokes, using a field-best 66 from sophomore Balma Davalos of Castell\u00f3n de la Plana, Spain to cement their victorious charge up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has improved so much,\u201d praised Auburn\u2019s head coach Melissa Luellen of her sophomore, Davalos, following the win. \u201cShe had a tremendous summer \u2013 shooting 22-under par in the European Individual Championship \u2013 and her confidence is the biggest difference. Her belief is really high right now and if you believe, you can do great things in this game,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Davalos got Auburn off to a hot start with three birdies through her opening four holes. She filled the cup with three more on Nos. 10, 16 and 1 while mixing in an eagle at the par-5 12th to negate a pair of consecutive bogeys on Nos. 13 and 14. Her efforts were supported by a 4-under performance from Molly Brown Davidson of Springville, Ala. and a pair of 1-under finishes by Anne Fernandez of Singapore and Anna Davis of Spring Valley, Calif.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Cantonis of Tampa, Fla. carded a round of 74 to also help the Tigers clinch their win at the debut championship on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a very young group here,\u201d said Luellen, noting their oldest player at the tournament being Davis, a junior while two of her seniors were out competing at Q School this week. \u201cFor the young ones to pull together and shoot some great scores, I couldn\u2019t be more proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the individual competition, Veronika Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1 of Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic was able to convert on her 18-hole lead with a 2-under showing on Tuesday to claim the championship over Davalos by two strokes.<\/p>\n
The Czech international kicked off her final round with a birdie at the first to get to 7-under par. A bogey at the third reeled her back a touch but would only cause a brief wobble for Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1, who responded with four consecutive pars and a birdie at the par-3 eighth to hold onto her multi-stroke lead. After the turn, Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1 filled the cup with three more birdies, working around dropped shots at Nos. 11 and 16 to put the finishing touches on her first individual victory of the 2025 campaign. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing. I\u2019ve been struggling a little in the last couple of months and this event was a good turnaround. I\u2019m just so happy,\u201d praised Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1, who struggled to put into words the meaning of Tuesday\u2019s win following her final round.<\/p>\n
Christian Bender \/ Golf Canada<\/p>\n
The victory secures Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1 a spot in the 2026 CPKC Women\u2019s Open as well as next year\u2019s Canadian Women\u2019s Amateur Championship, presented by BDO. She will be joined in the latter by Davalos, Fernandez, Madison Messimer of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Leon Takagi of Tokyo, Japan and Jaclyn LaHa of Pleasanton, Calif. who all picked up exemptions into the 112th playing of Canada\u2019s oldest female amateur event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never thought I\u2019d get to play in an LPGA Tour event this soon so I\u2019m super excited to see how I\u2019ll do,\u201d said Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1, who has previously teed off in Ladies European Tour events but none to the magnitude of the LPGA Tour.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Clairey Lin of Langley, B.C. was able to clinch her third victory of the 2025 campaign with a comeback win at the Team Canada \u2013 NextGen Selection Camp. Lin, who started her round on Tuesday in a three-way tie for the top spot of the leaderboard, rallied around a 4-under front nine to secure her place on the 2026 Team Canada \u2013 NextGen team and win the event by a trio of strokes with rounds of 73-67-140.<\/p>\n
To view the full leaderboard from the final round of the Women\u2019s Canadian Collegiate Invitational, please click\u00a0here<\/a>. For the final leaderboard of the Team Canada \u2013 NextGen Selection Camp, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent State University\u2019s Veronika Kedro\u0148ov\u00e1 shot 2-under to secure wire-to-wire victory in individual competition; Clairey Lin nabs win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-164739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}