{"id":18524,"date":"2025-07-23T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18524\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:52:10","slug":"kyle-teenager-chloe-wills-wins-saskatchewan-amateur-womens-golf-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18524\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle teenager Chloe Wills wins Saskatchewan Amateur women\u2019s golf title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Darren Zary\/Saskatoon StarPhoenix
\nAt age 17, Kyle’s Chloe Wills is the 2025 Saskatchewan Amateur women’s golf champion after finishing atop the field at the Humboldt Golf Club. Photo taken Thursday, July 17 in Humboldt, Sask. <\/p>\n

Darren Zary<\/p>\n

Saskatoon StarPhoenix<\/p>\n

HUMBOLDT \u2014 Chloe Wills has ditched the hockey stick.<\/p>\n

For now on, it\u2019s golf sticks only.<\/p>\n

Golf, golf and more golf.<\/p>\n

The newly crowned Saskatchewan Women\u2019s Amateur golf champion \u2014 just 17 \u2014 will soon be heading south of the border to attend college in Springfield, Missouri, and focus on NCAA Div. 2 golf at Drury University.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting close,\u201d pointed out Wills, a native of Kyle, who flies out August 8.<\/p>\n

But, for now, she can celebrate an \u201cunexpected\u201d provincial women\u2019s golf championship at the Humboldt Golf Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great \u2014 it\u2019s really exciting,\u201d says Wills, who prevailed Thursday with a one-shot victory over runner-up Ella Kozak of Yorkton.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t really coming here expecting to win. I was just hoping to have three solid rounds, which I was able to do. The greens were rolling great. The course played to my advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wills finished at 1-under-par over the three-round tournament with scores of 70-74-72\u2014216.<\/p>\n

Kozak had rounds of 74-72-71\u2014217.<\/p>\n

Wills had been playing hockey, as a forward, for the Swift Current AA Wildcats and, before that, back home in Kyle until the pee wee (U13) ranks, but she is now only focusing on golf.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a family sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad (Curtis Wills) has always been a golfer and he took my brother and I out when we were younger,\u201d offered Wills, whose family has golf memberships at both Saskatchewan Landing and Swift Current, where they\u2019ve taken junior group lessons, \u00a0as well as doing a bit golf at home in Kyle.<\/p>\n

Wills started doing tournaments at age 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I started being competitive,\u201d she said, \u201cI really started to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winnipeg\u2019s Charmaine Hayden (77-76-74\u2014227) placed fourth in the Saskatchewan Amateur, followed by Saskatoon\u2019s junior-aged Grace Odnokon (84-72-75\u2014231).<\/p>\n

Hayden captured the mid-Amateur women\u2019s crown for 2025, finishing six shots better than Chaplin\u2019s Holly Knudsen.<\/p>\n

dzary@postmedia.com<\/p>\n

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