Canada Seeking 2nd World Amateur Team Title

Playing at Royal Adelaide Golf Club and the Grange Golf Club's West Course, Canada is hoping to go one step further than 2006 when the team finished in second place. In 25 years of competing in this international Men's team event Canada has one victory (1986) and 11 top-5 finishes.

"This is undoubtedly a team deep in skill, knowledge and determination," says non-playing captain Doug Roxburgh of Vancouver, the RCGA's Director of High Performance. "We anticipate an excellent showing from this squad and are hoping to build on the team's great success from 2006."

Also accompanying the team in Australia is Henry Brunton, head coach of the National Men's Amateur Team.

Last week in Adelaide Canada's women's squad, of Kira Meixner of Richmond, B.C., Maude-Aimée LeBlanc of Windsor, Que., and Stephanie Sherlock of Barrie, Ont., finished fourth in the Women's World Amateur Team Golf Championship with a combined team score of 583.

Conducted by the International Golf Federation, which is comprised of the national governing bodies of golf in more than 110 countries, the biennial World Amateur Golf Team Championships is contested over four rounds of stroke play with the top two scores from each team counting towards the team total.

The competition is rotated among three geographic zones of the world: Asia-Pacific, North American and European-African. In 1992 Canada hosted the competition at Vancouver's Marine Drive and West Vancouver's Capilano Golf Clubs. In 2010, the event will be held in Argentina and the 2012 event will be held in Turkey.

THE RCGA NATIONAL TEAM PROGRAM
The RCGA National Team Program incorporates advanced coaching, sport science expertise, training camps and world-class competition. The RCGA allocates over $1 million of its resources annually to the National Team program, encompassing strength and conditioning, sports psychology, nutrition, biomechanics and technique development. Players who are selected to the National Amateur and National Developmental Teams represent Canada at six to 10 internationally-sanctioned golf competitions throughout the year. The intent of this comprehensive program is to aid Canada's top up-and-coming amateur players in all areas of their development, helping Canada produce the best golfers in the world.

Team Canada, the pinnacle of the RCGA's High Performance Program, provides access to world class resources including coaching, nutrition, sport science, mental management, equipment and elite competitive opportunities.
For more information about Team Canada or to make a donation towards the development of Canada's future golf stars, visit www.rcga.org.