Local golfer Greg Ward carded a second-straight par-72 on Friday to finish in a tie for 17th place at the Canadian Club Champions Championship in Calgary.
He wound up with a 14-over 302 total. He had a slow start in the first two rounds Tuesday and Wednesday, firing a pair of 79s, before finishing with consecutive rounds of 72.
The 23-year-old said he had gotten more comfortable with the Springbank Links course as the week progressed.
Ward finished 25 shots behind tourney winner Craig Doell. The Victoria, B.C. native captured his second-straight Club Champions crown after carding a one-under 71 in the final round Friday for a 277 total.
Runner-up Matt Makinson of Coquitlam, B.C. had been tied for the lead at one point but wound up three back overall. He had shot the tourney’s single-round low of 66 in the second round on Wednesday.
The 15th-annual Club Champions Championship, organized by the Royal Canadian Golf Association, featured 120 of the top Canadian amateurs who had won their respective club titles.
Ward won his second-straight Kitchen Creek title last September to earn this trip out west.
While Ward said he was gunning for a top 10 finish, his Friday placing was seven better than his 25th-place showing last year in Beddick, N.S.
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