By Mitch Bach

Taylor digs deep for 67, jumps into top 10 at CCAA National Championship

Oct 18, 2018 | 5:07 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — For about a half hour, Matt Taylor was one of five golfers proudly sharing the course record at Desert Blume Golf Club.

Then he had it stolen away from him.

The two-year MHC Rattler signed off on a course record-matching 67 at the CCAA National Golf Championship, complete with an eagle on the 18th hole. A little while later, Laurent Desmarchais of the AL Boomerang took the title away from him, setting a new course record of 66.

The original record-setting 67’s were notched in the 2014 Alberta Men’s Amateur Championship by Jack Wood and Tyler Saunders.

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Granted, the 2014 version of the links-style track, located just south of Medicine Hat, was playing strictly off the black tees. Taylor, and the rest of the men competing in the nationally acclaimed tournament, are teeing off a slightly shorter course with a black/green tee combo.

Regardless of the length of the course, matching or breaking the record at one of Canada’s premier championship courses is an incredible feat.

Taylor’s 67 is the third five-under round of the week — Philip Isabelle of Boomerang d’André-Laurendeau in Quebec and Thomas Code of Fanshawe College in London, ON carded the same score in the second round.

Taylor, playing in his first CCAA National Championship, currently sits seventh individually at even par for the tournament. 

Desmarchais enters the final round with a two-shot lead at -9, with Conner Watt of the Humber College Hawks at -7.

Complete results for men’s and women’s divisions can be found here.