Nanoose Bay golfer depends on health to proceed domination of newbie golf world

Shelly Stouffer has prioritized her health to remain atop North America’s newbie golf world.

Stouffer, from Nanoose Bay, B.C., received 5 newbie golf championships in 2022, together with the U.S. Senior Girls’s Newbie, the Canadian Girls’s Mid-Newbie Championship, the Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship and the Canadian Girls’s Mid-Grasp Championship.

She hopes to defend her crown in any respect 5 and add some extra laurels, too. To do this, she’s labored laborious on the fitness center within the low season.

“I labored out quite a bit, like did a whole lot of golf workouts, and I labored laborious to train, health smart,” stated Stouffer, who additionally received the Inter-Provincial Group Championship with Group BC and was named the Pacific Northwest Golf Affiliation’s 2022 Girls’s Participant of the Yr. “I hit apply too, however principally it was working extra on my physique.

“I needed to have the endurance and the power to swing.”

Stouffer shot a 5-over 77 on Tuesday within the first spherical of the Canadian Girls’s Mid-Newbie Championship at Mad River Golf Membership in Creemore, Ont., to sit down in a tie for fifth on the occasion. Judith Kyrinis of Thornhill, Ont., was the chief at 3-under 69, 5 photographs forward of the pack.

Though that eight-shot distinction is giant, Stouffer believes she will shut the space.

“If I can get someplace round par the subsequent couple of days and perhaps go below one of many days, we’ll see what occurs,” stated Stouffer earlier than going again out to apply. “You by no means know. Something can occur out right here on this course.

“It will possibly sneak up you and you may get some large numbers right here.”

Efficiently defending her Canadian Mid-Am crown is only one of her many objectives this yr. On high of that, she needs to get into the match play of the U.S. Girls’s Newbie, attain the Spherical of 64 at U.S. Mid-Am, and repeat as champion on the U.S. Senior Girls’s Newbie and Canadian Senior Girls’s Newbie.

That frenetic schedule is partly why health was her focus within the low season, particularly with the U.S. and Canadian senior occasions on reverse sides of the continent.

“We’re going to go from Portland, Oregon to Prince Edward Island, so it’s going to be a troublesome transition,” stated Stouffer, who’s a kinesiologist that does the Titleist Efficiency Institute golf health program. “I’m taking part in a whole lot of golf. It is likely to be an excessive amount of, however you solely dwell as soon as.

“I simply wish to do in addition to I can in all my occasions and see the place it goes. Hopefully I don’t get too drained and burnt out.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed July 26, 2023.

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