Kyle teenager Chloe Wills wins Saskatchewan Amateur women's golf title
HUMBOLDT — Chloe Wills has ditched the hockey stick.
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For now on, it's golf sticks only.
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Golf, golf and more golf.
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The newly crowned Saskatchewan Women's Amateur golf champion — just 17 — will soon be heading south of the border to attend college in Springfield, Missouri, and focus on NCAA Div. 2 golf at Drury University.
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'It's getting close,' pointed out Wills, a native of Kyle, who flies out August 8.
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But, for now, she can celebrate an 'unexpected' provincial women's golf championship at the Humboldt Golf Club.
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'I wasn't really coming here expecting to win. I was just hoping to have three solid rounds, which I was able to do. The greens were rolling great. The course played to my advantage.'
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Wills finished at 1-under-par over the three-round tournament with scores of 70-74-72—216.
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Kozak had rounds of 74-72-71—217.
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Wills had been playing hockey, as a forward, for the Swift Current AA Wildcats and, before that, back home in Kyle until the pee wee (U13) ranks, but she is now only focusing on golf.
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It's a family sport.
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'My dad (Curtis Wills) has always been a golfer and he took my brother and I out when we were younger,' offered Wills, whose family has golf memberships at both Saskatchewan Landing and Swift Current, where they've taken junior group lessons, as well as doing a bit golf at home in Kyle.
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Wills started doing tournaments at age 11.
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'Once I started being competitive,' she said, 'I really started to enjoy it.'
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Winnipeg's Charmaine Hayden (77-76-74—227) placed fourth in the Saskatchewan Amateur, followed by Saskatoon's junior-aged Grace Odnokon (84-72-75—231).
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Hayden captured the mid-Amateur women's crown for 2025, finishing six shots better than Chaplin's Holly Knudsen.
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