GOLF: Chandlers to tee off at amateurs

Chester’s Allison Chandler can have one eye on her ball and the alternative on the out-of-town ratings this week.

Chandler is one of the favorites on the three-spherical Nova Scotia girls’ beginner golfing championship, which runs Friday to Sunday at Greenwood. The event coincides with the 54-hollow provincial guys’ newbie that allows you to be held over the identical three days at Abercrombie. Her more youthful brothers Matthew and Mark are within the field.

“Oh yeah, I’ll be watching their ratings, maintaining close tabs on how they’re doing,” said Chandler, the 2017 girls’ novice champion. “It is going to each method. We want to see every different do correctly.

“But when we play collectively, we want to overcome every other,” she introduced with a laugh.

The elder Chandler might be seeking to get returned into the winner’s circle at the NSGA girls’ newbie championship. She co-led after 18 holes ultimate 12 months at Truro earlier than completing inside the runner-up role, four strokes back of first-time beginner champion Heather McLean of Ken-Wo.

Meanwhile, three hundred kilometers away, on the outskirts of New Glasgow, her brothers will tee it up at the MCT guys’ newbie championship. It’s the second one immediately yr they’ve both been inside the beginner discipline.

Mark made his novice debut last year at River Hills and tied for thirty-sevenths at the same time as older brother Matthew tied for seventeenth.

“It’s pretty cool to have Mark there inside the match,” stated 20-12 months-antique Matthew, who completed in 0.33 region at the 2017 championship at Oakfield.

“But there’s sincerely a few oppositions between us. It’s amusing to play with Mark and to peer how every other does. We attempt to make each other higher and push each other.”

His more youthful brother, who heads into Grade 12 next fall, said there’s “wholesome competition” among him and Matthew.

“I want to see if I can beat him,” Mark said with fun. “It’s amusing to tease him a little bit when I play nicely.

“But I’m happy for him, and I’m now not honestly involved if I don’t beat him. I likely would instead have him win than me. That’s my personality.”

Matthew, who finished his sophomore year at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo., become the top player all through the past two years with the Bearcats’ men’s golf program.

But the unthinkable took place in March. Southwest Baptist announced that it’d get rid of the golf program, leaving Chandler scrambling for every other school, every other golfing group to latch on to.

Luckily, before he was again domestic to Nova Scotia, he determined some other college, an eight-hour pressure north of the Missouri campus.

He will pass to Winona State in Minnesota for his final two years of NCAA golfing.

“It became a shock,” Matthew stated while he heard SBU became removing golf. “It sincerely turned into unexpected. It came out of nowhere.

“But I turned into at an event, and the train from Winona was there. I took place to play correctly, so he talked to me afterward and it snowballed from there.