{"id":790294,"date":"2026-10-03T03:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790294\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:32:34","slug":"kamloops-merritt-cache-creek-salmon-arm-golfers-to-compete-in-pga-scramble-national-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790294\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamloops, Merritt, Cache Creek, Salmon Arm golfers to compete in PGA Scramble National Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEverybody helps everybody out,\u201d Scott said. \u201cOne guy has a bad shot, somebody pulls through. It\u2019s just a rush and a thrill.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Twenty teams have qualified for the 54-hole tournament, which gets underway on Sunday (Oct. 4) at Cabot Cape Breton. They will play two rounds on Cabot Links and one on Cabot Cliffs, the second- and first-ranked courses in Canada, according to Score Golf<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scenery, the golf, the food \u2013 it\u2019s going to be quite the experience,\u201d Scott said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In scramble golf, each player on a team hits a shot, the group selects the best one and everyone plays their next stroke from that location.\u00a0In the national final, each golfer\u2019s handicap is taken into account when calculating the final score.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The amateur foursome claimed victory at a local qualifier at Shuswap National Golf Course on July 5 in Salmon Arm, posting a total net score of 49.3<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Munn, a PGA of Canada golf pro, joined the team for a\u00a0regional qualifier at\u00a0GreenTee Country Club Tobiano\u00a0on Aug. 18, with the winner advancing to the national final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team posted a total net score of 50.4<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no live score, so we couldn\u2019t really tell, but when they were starting to announce the scores, we knew we were right there,\u201d Ghostkeeper said. \u201cIt was kind of surreal when they announced our team being on top. Some of our lifelong dreams are coming true.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Added Anderson: \u201cWell, we all cheersed and I think we bought a round.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second-place team recorded a score of 50.5.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ghostkeeper and Scott are the team\u2019s longest-tenured members and have been attempting to qualify for the national final for about 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those attempts finally paid off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tournament that money can\u2019t buy,\u201d Ghostkeeper said. \u201cThey treat it like a professional event and for an amateur golfer, you can never ask for a better situation to be in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverybody helps everybody out,\u201d Scott said. \u201cOne guy has a bad shot, somebody pulls through. It\u2019s just a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}