Junior Skills Challenge

We hope that you enjoyed your 2023 experience. We LOVED hosting you here at our Sawmill qualifying site. The results are HERE.

1st, 2nd & 3rd place in each division received a prize as a token of their success. We hope that the real prize was Driving! Chipping! & Putting!

Unfortuantely, our Boys 12-14 group and our Performance Team ran into severe weather and many could not finish or didn't get to start. The Challenge results had to be uploaded to Golf Canada on Monday so there wasn't time to reschedule. We apologize for this.

We hope that your golfer will keep playing, practicing, and dreaming.
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This is Canada’s version of Drive, Chip & Putt!!! The objective is to develop golf skills and to provide an important (and FUN!) introduction to competition.

Who: We are inviting all of our kids age 7-14 (as of August 20th, 2023).
**Open to Sawmill Junior Program participants ONLY - kids that are enrolled in 2023 TRY/LEARN/PLAY, Performance Team, Summer Camps).

What:
• Each player receives an official scorecard that they take with them as they rotate through 3 stations – Drive, Chip, Putt
• Each player receives three shots in each golf skill. Points are awarded for each shot based on distance and aim (driving) and proximity to the hole (chipping and putting).

When:
• Sunday July 23rd, 2023
• Sessions will run from 9am to 12pm
• The final schedule will be released on Saturday July 22nd (eg Boys 12-14: 9-10am / Girls 9-11: 10-10:30am / etc)

Awards:
• Sawmill will give awards to 1st/2nd/3rd in each age/gender category (based on total points)
• Golf Canada will select the top four nationally ranked players in each age and gender category and invite them to compete in the 2023 Junior Skills Challenge National Event on August 19th & 20th at Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, British Columbia

Registration
• This event is a lot of work to prepare for so PLEASE ensure your child is 100% available on Sunday, July 23rd from 9am to 1pm.
• Registration opens today and closes once we are maximum capacity (100 kids)

If you have any questions, please email carrie@sawmillgolf.com.

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Junior Skills Challenge is an online and interactive program that focuses on developing the key golf skills of putting, chipping and driving. The online leaderboard allows instructors (Sawmill will do this) to upload players’ scores so they can view their standing on the National Leaderboard. The top competitors nationally are invited to compete in the annual Junior Skills Challenge National Event.

In 2022, Sawmill hosted the largest qualifier in Canada. Here are some pictures of the day: