Red Deer golfer Mitch Evanecz has been named as the alternate for Team Canada which will compete in the 2010 World Amateur Golf Team Championship Oct. 28-31 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The team includes Cam Burke of New Hamburg, Ont., reigning Canadian amateur champ Albin Choi of Toronto and Eugene Wong of North Vancouver. Doug Roxburgh, an honoured member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and seven-time Canadian world amateur team representative, will return as non-playing captain. Henry Brunton, the men’s national coach, will also accompany the team to Argentina. Evanecz, one of the country’s finest amateur players and easily among the top three in Alberta, plans to turn pro in the near future and will attempt to earn a PGA card during qualifying play this fall. The Central Alberta Amateur, which he won for a second consecutive time in early August at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club, and the Canadian Amateur two weeks later in London, Ont., may stand as his final amateur events.
l ST. THOMAS, Ont. — Frank Van Dornick of Camrose is tied for ninth place and is 13 strokes back of leader Paul Simson of Raleigh, N.C., heading into today’s final round of the Canadian senior men’s golf championship. Van Dornick, a former champion of the Central Alberta Amateur at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club, carded a 75 in Thursday’s third round to sit at 8-over 224. Dave Raabis of Rocky Mountain House shot an 80 and was tied for 28th after the third round at 231, while Merv Dusyk and Tom Skinner were tied for 45th and 59th with 54-hole scores of 235 and 239. Dusyk turned in a 78 Thursday, with Skinner checking in with an 81.