Coquitlam's A.J. Ewart was in the golf groove last weekend in the B.C. Bantam boys provincial championship at the Nico Wynd course in Surrey.
A member of Pitt Meadows Golf Club, the 12-year-old Ewart fired a pair of sizzling 68 rounds to finish at four-under-par 136 to win the 30-shooter tournament by three strokes.
"Every time I missed a green I managed to get it up and down," Ewart said. "My shots from the fairway weren't great but I putted very well. I feel really good and, hopefully, I can win again next year."
Henry Lee, also of Coquitlam and a member of Swan-e-set Bay Resort, shot 139 -- with a second round-best 67 -- to finish runner-up via retrogression to snap a three-way deadlock for second at one-under each with Vancouver's Sy Lovan and Alex Francois of Burnaby.
In the Bantam girls tourney also at Nico Wynd, Coquitlam resident Shania Remandaban placed second among 12 finishers with a 76-76-152 total.
The Pitt Meadows Golf Club member was a distant 11 strokes back of Victoria's Naomi Ko, who shot 70-71-141 on way to victory. Nanaimo's Shirin Anjarwalla was third, one shot behind Remandaban at 75-78-153.
LINDBJERG 3rd AT SENIOR NATS
Port Moody's Gudmund Lindbjerg fired four steady rounds at the 2011 Canadian Senior Mens Golf Championship last week in Port Blanford, Nfld. Unfortunately for him, Chip Lutz of Reading, Pa., was smokin' hot.
A Pitt Meadows Golf Club member, Lindbjerg was the top Canadian in the field of 68 finishers, finishing third at nine-over-par 293, while Lutz was the clear winner by nine strokes at seven-under 277, including a sizzling 68 on Friday's final day at Twin Rivers Golf Course.
Defending-champion Paul Simson of Raleigh, N.C. placed second at two-over 286. Lindjberg beat the next-best Canadian and fourth-place finisher Gerry MacMillan of Kingston, N.S. by four strokes after MacMillan finished at 13-over 297. The reigning B.C. champion Lindbjerg, who won his fourth straight provincial title last week in Squamish, shot his best round at the Canadians on opening-day Monday, when the 62-year-old carded a 70.
