With over 60 years of history, the Canadian Junior Girls Championship continues to produce top calibre players who contend years later for amateur and professional titles. Top Canadian golfers like Sandra Post, Marilyn Palmer (O’Connor), Gayle Hitchins (Borthwick), Alena Sharp, Maude-Aimée LeBlanc, Rebecca Lee-Bentham, and Brooke Henderson all saw early success at this coveted championship.
Heather Kuzmich remains the top name in the Canadian Junior Girls Championship record books by boasting four consecutive championship wins from 1981 to 1984. Kuzmich, Lisa Meldrum and the legendary Mabel Thompson are the only three women to ever accomplish a ‘four-peat’ in Canadian Women’s amateur golf history. (Mabel Thompson earned four amateur titles while Meldrum won a single junior and three amateur titles).
The Canadian Junior Girls Championship has been conducted since 1955 and has also been referred to as the CLGA National Junior Championship.
The Canadian Junior Girls Championship is a 72-hole stroke play championship:
- Junior and Juvenile Division: These competitions will run concurrently through completion of 72 holes.
- Inter-Provincial Team Competition: This competition will run concurrently through completion of the first 36 holes. Each day, the lowest two out of three individual 18-hole scores will count towards the team score.
Eligibility
- Junior: This competition is open to female amateur golfers who have not reached their 19th birthday by the first day of the month that the competition is taking place on.
- Juvenile: This competition is open to female amateur golfers who have not reached their 17th birthday first day of the month that the competition is taking place on.
- Handicap Index must be 17.4 or less on the date of the application filing and at the registration deadline. It is the player’s responsibility to ensure their Handicap Index is up to date before the registration deadline.
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Exemptions
The champion of the Canadian Junior Girls Championship earns an exemption into the following events:
- U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship (if eligible)
- Canadian Junior Girls Championship (if eligible)
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Past Winners
Year | Junior Winner | Juvenile Winner | Host Club |
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2024 | Shauna Liu | Shauna Liu | Marine Drive Golf Club |
2023 | Eileen Park | Eileen Park | Hampton Golf Club |
2022 | Yeji Kwon | Yeji Kwon | The Marshes Golf Club |
2021 | Nicole Gal | Nicole Gal | Leduc Golf & Country Club |
2020 | No Championship due to COVID-19 | ||
2019 | Emily Zhu | Emily Zhu | Lethbridge Country Club |
2018 | Céleste Dao | Emily Zhu | Beach Grove Golf Club |
2017 | Susan Xiao | Susan Xiao | Camelot Golf & Country Club |
2016 | Naomi Ko | Chloe Currie | The Links at Penn Hills |
2015 | Michelle Kim | Hannah Lee | Deer Park Golf Course |
2014 | Grace St-Germain | Grace St-Germain | Thornhill Golf & Country Club |
2013 | Maddie Szeryk | Brooke Henderson | Cherry Downs Golf & Country Club |
2012 | Brooke Henderson | Brooke Henderson | River Spirit Golf Club |
2011 | Jennifer Yang | Jisoo Keel | Quilchena Golf & Country Club |
2010 | Rebecca Lee-Bentham | Taylor Kim | Sawmill Creek Golf Resort |
2009 | Jennifer Kirby | Jennifer Yang | Hampton Golf Club |
2008 | SooBin Kim | Soobin Kim | St. Charles Country Club |
2007 | Laura Blanco | Laura Blanco | Sunningdale Golf Club |
2006 | Maude-Aimée Leblanc | N/A | Gowan Brae Golf & Country Club |
2005 | Lindsay Calijouw | N/A | Arbutus Ridge Golf & Country Club |
2004 | Inah Park | N/A | Hillcrest Sports Centre |
2003 | Anita Gahir* | N/A | Club de golf Royal Quebec |
2002 | Eom-Ji Park | N/A | Mill River Golf Club |
2001 | Christine Boucher | N/A | Southwood Golf & Country Club |
2000 | Lisa Meldrum | N/A | Fredricton Golf & Country Club |
1999 | Alena Sharp | N/A | Stony Plain Golf Club |
1998 | Salimah Mussani | N/A | York Downs Golf & Country Club |
1997 | Karen England | N/A | Kamloops Golf & Country Club |
1996 | Salimah Mussani | N/A | Melfort Golf & Country Club |
1995 | Karen England | N/A | Club de Golf de Lorette |
1994 | Anna-Jane Eathorne | N/A | Blonidon Golf & Country Club |
1993 | Brionie Brown | N/A | Canmore Golf & Country Club |
1992 | Dana Kidd | N/A | Gowan Brae Golf & Country Cub |
1991 | Cheryl Mackintosh | N/A | Pine Ridge Golf Club |
1990 | Marie-Josee Desbiens | N/A | Credit Valley Golf & Country Club |
1989 | Sandra Haines | N/A | Abercrombie Country Club |
1988 | Kelly Doohan | N/A | Marine Drive Golf Club |
1987 | Marie-Josee Rouleau | N/A | Royal Québec Golf Club |
1986 | Jackie Twamley | N/A | North Battleford Country Club |
1985 | Audrey Bendick | N/A | Ken-Wo Country Club |
1984 | Heather Kuzmich | N/A | Earl Grey Golf Club |
1983 | Heather Kuzmich | N/A | Point Grey Golf & Country Club |
1982 | Heather Kuzmich | N/A | Belvedere Golf & Winter Club |
1981 | Heather Kuzmich | N/A | Rossmere Country Club |
1980 | Audrey Bendick | N/A | Sunningdale Country Club |
1979 | Rebecca Stark | N/A | Blomidon Country Club |
1978 | Michele Guilbault | N/A | Fredericton Golf Club |
1977 | Stacey West | N/A | Carleton-Rideau Golf & Yacht Club |
1976 | Stacey West | N/A | Regina Golf Club |
1975 | Pam Jones | N/A | Brightwood Golf & Country Club |
1974 | Stacey West | N/A | Highlands Golf Club |
1973 | Valerie White | N/A | Brundenell Golf & Country Club |
1972 | Valerie White | N/A | Rossmere Country Club |
1971 | Louise Larochelle | N/A | Royal Colwood Golf & Country Club |
1970 | Holly Botham | N/A | Summit Golf & Country Club |
1969 | Lisa King | N/A | Moncton Golf Club |
1968 | Lynda Devine | N/A | Elm Ridge Country Club |
1967 | Coreen Burnham | N/A | Riverside Country Club |
1966 | Sandra Post | N/A | Brightwood Golf & Country Club |
1965 | Sandra Post | N/A | Westmount Golf & Country Club |
1964 | Sandra Post | N/A | Earl Grey Golf Club |
1963 | Cathy Galusha | N/A | Rivermead Golf Club |
1962 | Sue Hilton | N/A | Southwood Golf & Country Club |
1961 | Gayle Hitchens | N/A | Marine Drive Golf Club |
1960 | Gail Harvey | N/A | Riverside Golf & Country Club |
1959 | Gail Harvey | N/A | St. George’s Golf & Country Club |
1958 | Gail Harvey | N/A | Saskatoon Golf & Country Club |
1957 | Judy Darling | N/A | Royal Montréal Golf Club |
1956 | Betty Stanhope | N/A | Niakwa Country Club |
1955 | Noreen Laing | N/A | Royal Colwood Golf Club |