FEATURE | CN Canadian Women's Open / CN Miracle Match

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special information feature

CN Canadian Women’s Open CN Miracle Match

Claude Mongeau, President and CEO of CN with Lorie Kane, LPGA player and CN Miracle Match Ambassador, 2012 CN Miracle Match Child Ambassador Natasha Feuchuk and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation President and CEO, Teri Nicholas

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hen CN and Golf Canada announced in March that the 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open would be held in Edmonton, and that the official beneficiary of CN Miracle Match would be the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, it came as no great surprise to those who know CN’s deep roots in this community.

There is a history of CN support for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. CN and Golf Canada brought the CN Canadian Women’s Open to Edmonton back in 2007, when CN Miracle Match raised $546,682 for the Stollery. This year, the goal is higher.

CN Miracle Match is a national charitable initiative that CN launched in 2006, which rallies communities across Canada behind a very worthy cause — supporting children’s hospitals. Funds raised through this year’s initiative in communities in the Capital Region and throughout Alberta will be given to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Each year since 2006, CN and Golf Canada have raised funds to support children’s hospitals by matching funds raised through initiatives connected with the CN Canadian Women’s Open. In the past seven years, the CN Miracle Match program has raised more than $8.2 million for children’s hospitals located in the cities across Canada that have hosted the Open.

In 2013, CN hopes to help raise $1.8 million for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and its many programs, including transportation to the Stollery Children’s

In the past seven years, the CN Miracle Match program has raised more than $8.2 million for children’s hospitals located in the cities across Canada that have hosted the Open.

Hospital to children living in Alberta’s remote communities. This would bring the cumulative total raised for children’s health care through the CN Miracle Match program to $10 million.

“At CN, we are committed to giving back to the communities in which we operate, and we are very proud that CN Miracle Match has been able to help children across Canada since 2006,” said Claude Mongeau, President and Chief Executive Officer of CN. “It is only through the generous support of community leaders like CN and Golf Canada that the Stollery Children’s Hospital can deliver the highest levels of care in pediatric medicine,” said Mike House, President and CEO of the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. “The Stollery Children’s Hospital has the second largest catchment area of any pediatric hospital in the world, serving the most critically injured and chronically ill children from some of the most isolated and far reaching corners of the country. We are so proud to be in partnership with CN and Golf Canada, and we are grateful that the funds raised through the CN Miracle Match program will make a significant and lasting difference towards ensuring a full range of excellence in care is accessible to patients and their families from across Canada.”

“We are thrilled to come back to Edmonton, a city that is so important to our business. I am confident that the community will support the CN Canadian Womens’ Open, and that we will make a major donation to a great Alberta institution — the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. “ “Together with CN, Golf Canada believes it is very important that the CN Canadian Women’s Open leave a lasting legacy in our host communities while also providing our top Canadian athletes the opportunity to compete against the world’s best,” said Golf Canada CEO Scott Simmons.

“Edmonton has proven itself a world-class host for Canada’s National Women’s Open Golf Championship with extremely passionate golf fans and we are thrilled that this year’s event can once again contribute to the Stollery Children’s Hospital and its important work.”

DONATING is easy!

CN and Golf Canada announced on March 26 of this year that Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation has been selected as the official beneficiary of the CN Miracle Match campaign from now and through the 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open.

CN will be partnering with the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation through its many programs including transportation to the Stollery Children’s Hospital to children living in Alberta’s remote communities.

In 2013, CN hopes to help raise $1.8 million for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, which would bring the cumulative total raised for children’s health care through the CN Miracle Match program to $10 million.

There are many ways you can help.

Give online CNMiracleMatch.ca

Purchase any regular priced ticket

to the 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open and five per cent of your ticket price will go towards the CN Miracle Match program.

Purchase a CN Miracle Match lanyard for $20 on-site during the 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open, and receive exclusive access to the CN Miracle Match Grandstand on the 18th Green (pending seat availability).

Canadian LPGA player Lorie Kane and Jocelyn Regnier, CN Miracle Match Child Ambassador at the Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton.

To buy tickets or donate, visit cncanadianwomensopen.com

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magine being 14-years-old and on your third heart.

That’s the reality for Jocelyn Regnier of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan — a confident teenager, a proud Stollery Kid and this year’s CN Miracle Match Child Ambassador.

Jocelyn doesn’t like to waste time. She’s always on the go. In fact, she started life the same way. Born in a Saskatoon hospital six weeks premature, Jocelyn entered the world in February of 1999. She was diagnosed with a slightly enlarged heart and complications with her lungs that doctors were confident she would outgrow. Jocelyn spent five weeks in hospital before going home for the first time. The joy her parents experienced over having their beautiful baby girl home soon turned to more fear and uncertainty when Jocelyn went into heart failure a week later.

Jocelyn’s parents rushed their daughter back to the hospital where pediatric doctors diagnosed her with dilated cardiomyopathy, meaning the left side of her heart was not working properly. Doctors told them to prepare for the worst. Jocelyn, however, had other plans. She started to get better and her doctors were able to regulate her blood pressure with medication. This experience repeated itself three times before her medical team considered another option.

The head of the transplant team from SickKids in Toronto happened to be at the hospital in Saskatoon. They checked Jocelyn to see if she would be a good candidate for the transplant program — and she was! Jocelyn’s parents were told not to get their hopes up as Jocelyn was third on the transplant list and, at that time, the transplant team had never done three heart transplants in one year.

To the delight and amazement of her parents, Jocelyn was accepted into the transplant program on June 16 and received a call one month later. Her family packed their bags and headed to Toronto. Just over one month later on August 22, 1999, Jocelyn received her new heart.

She started to grow and thrive.

Her lung problems, however, persisted. For the next three-and-a-half years of Jocelyn’s young life, she would spend an average of one month each year in hospital. When she was four-years-old, Jocelyn caught a common virus that attacked her lungs and sent her into a coma for ten weeks. With a stronger immune system she easily could have fought off the virus. Instead, Jocelyn spent a total of five months in Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary where the family had moved months earlier.

Child Ambassador Jocelyn Regnier

Imagine being 14-years-old and on your third heart.

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After getting home from the hospital, the Regnier family decided to move back to Saskatchewan, near Lloydminster. Not too long after that, Jocelyn stopped growing. She began experiencing pain in her left shoulder. It was then that Jocelyn visited pediatric cardiologist Dr. Coe at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. During Jocelyn’s checkup, Dr. Coe examined her shoulder pain as well as her lungs. He ran tests and diagnosed Jocelyn with Coronary Heart Disease. She would need another transplant.

Jocelyn’s family did not have great hopes that she would be accepted into the transplant program again, nor did they believe she would receive another heart.

Thankfully, they were wrong. Five weeks later, Jocelyn received a second heart transplant, performed this time at the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

Jocelyn’s family rallied and, with four other children, spent lots of time between an apartment in Edmonton and their home in Lloydminster.

Today, Jocelyn is a relatively healthy 14-year-old. She has a radiant smile and a quick laugh, especially when talking about her favorite musical performer Justin Bieber. Jocelyn routinely visits the Stollery every six months for heart checkups, and every two months for growth hormones, hemoglobin, or sessions with respiratory therapists.

Since her second transplant, Jocelyn continued to play hockey and dance.

But pneumonia was a risk in playing hockey due to the temperature at the rink so she’s taken a step back from one of her favourite pastimes. On one occasion playing hockey, Jocelyn required the skilled care of the Stollery’s Transport Team who quickly flew her to the Stollery for medical attention.

This never dampened her love of the game. An avid Calgary Flames fan, Jocelyn also faithfully watches her siblings play hockey at her local arena.

Jocelyn is going into grade eight. She loves math and home economics, and participates in Concession Club where school kids volunteer by preparing lunches for other students. Jocelyn also partakes in a baking and crafts club after school. She loves to keep active and busy. Between bike rides and swims, Jocelyn recently started to babysit, and despite her size, she is excited at the thought of getting her driver’s license next year.

Jocelyn dreams of one day becoming a nurse or doctor so she can help other sick children at the hospital.

The Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units at the Stollery Children’s Hospital perform at a level that is on par with the best in North America —­ including leading cardiovascular care that rivals Boston Children’s Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

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f you are reading this, you have an amazing opportunity to make a profound, positive impact on the life of a sick or injured child in your community.

Each year, thousands of children in western Canada require urgent, complicated medical attention and care.

That’s when they turn to the expert, family-centred care at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.

These kids need our help and we need yours.

The Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation remains committed to its mission to fund excellence at the Hospital, above-and-beyond what is funded by government. There are more than 210,000 patient visits to the Stollery each year, with more than 39,000 children coming through the pediatric emergency unit — the only dedicated pediatric emergency in central and northern Alberta.

Close to half of all patients at the Stollery live outside the greater Edmonton region.

The Foundation ensures the Hospital’s elite medical teams have the state-of-the-art tools and resources they need to help children and families that rely on specialized care only the Stollery

can provide. Children like 14-year-old Jocelyn Regnier of Saskatchewan, this year’s CN Miracle Match Child Ambassador.

Jocelyn has undergone two heart transplants in her young life, experiencing the incredible difficulties surrounding pre-transplant as well as medical complications that can come with being a transplant survivor. Thanks to the love of her family and the skilled, caring medical team at the Stollery, this positive and resilient teenager takes it all in stride.

If you have ever thought of donating to the Stollery to help give kids like Jocelyn a fighting chance, the time is now! By donating, your gift goes even further thanks to the generosity of Foundation partners, CN. By giving through the CN Miracle Match campaign, CN is doubling your donations up to $5,000, to a maximum of $700,000.

Half of all the funds raised through CN Miracle Match go directly to supporting the Stollery Children’s Hospital Transport Program, which provides specialized, emergency medical transport for kids living in remote areas. In Jocelyn’s case, the transport program has been a critical lifeline for her and her family who live nearly 300 kilometers east of Edmonton. In fact, without it, Jocelyn may not have survived. It’s because of supporters like you that more lives are saved by extending the Stollery’s specialized care to remote areas throughout northern and western Canada. Thank you for your gift of giving.

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The true gift of community giving

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f you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go farther, go together.

At the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, this adage exemplifies what the Foundation stands for. We rely on our entire community to help us fund excellence at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in order to provide the best care to those who need it most.

Whether it’s individuals, community groups, small businesses, large corporations, volunteers or sponsors who support our many events and community initiatives — we couldn’t do it without you. Your generosity year after year makes it possible for the Foundation to provide millions of dollars to fund medical enhancements that improve the care and quality of life of a sick child.

One such example is the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute at the University of Alberta.

Made up of more than 300 leading researchers, clinician scientists, academics, health care professionals

and service providers, this organization works both locally and with world-class thinkers to develop groundbreaking biomedical, clinical and translational research to improve children’s health.

On behalf of the more than 210,000 children and their families who visited the Stollery last year — thank you!

On behalf of the 1,600 babies admitted to the NICU within the past year — thank you!

On behalf of the 200 pediatric specialists and 1,000 nurses and allied health providers who work tirelessly so more kids can go home — thank you!

It’s because of donors like you that the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation can continue to do what it does best — fund excellence at the Stollery.

Stollery transport teams deliver critical care where it counts E Busiest pediatric transport program in Canada gets a big lift from CN

ach year, more than 250 children and youth with life-threatening injuries or medical conditions are safely transported to the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. They come from across four provinces and three territories. Two-third of all transports involve a nurse and a respiratory therapist, and in more complex cases, one-third of those trips require a physician. As a result, the Hospital is seeing a subsequent rise in the rate of survival because of these expert medical teams in critical care transport.

The Stollery Children’s Hospital has the busiest pediatric transport program in Canada serving a catchment area eight times the size of France and 40 times the size of England.

Transport teams with both the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) travel long distances to treat and stabilize critically ill infants and children before transporting them to the Stollery for further care. Here are some more facts:

Almost 50 per cent of Stollery patients live outside the Edmonton area. In addition to patients from the greater Edmonton region, children from central and northern Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut also benefit from family-centred care at the Stollery.

More than 200 pediatric specialists and sub-specialists work at the Stollery.

The Stollery is world-renowned for its complex and specialized medical services: heart surgery, solid organ transplantation, pediatric and neonatal intensive care and transport, cancer care and neurosciences.

The PICU provided critical care to more than 800 children in 2012. The NICU provided critical care to more than 1,600 babies in 2012, many who required surgery.

The Pediatric and Neonatal intensive care units at the

Stollery perform at a level that is on par with the best in North America. Additionally, the Stollery provides leading cardiovascular care which rivals Boston Children’s Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

With the help of the CN Miracle Match campaign, the Foundation is committed to raising the necessary funds to elevate the level of critical care at the Stollery: Cuttingedge research, innovative technologies, attracting worldclass medical experts and researchers, and providing quality programming to educate future generations of elite care givers.

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The Stollery Children’s Hospital has the busiest pediatric transport program in Canada serving a catchment area eight times the size of France and 40 times the size of England.

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growing golf in communities from coast to coast

s the National Sport Organization (NSO) and governing body, Golf Canada is committed to growing participation, excellence and passion in the sport while upholding the integrity and traditions of the game.

Each season, Golf Canada introduces thousands of children to golf through CN Future Links – Canada’s national junior golf program. Last year, CN Future Links reached a monumental milestone as participation eclipsed 1million participants.

The organization is also growing participation in golf through grassroots programming like Golf in Schools, which has reached more than 2,000 elementary schools and high schools coast to coast.

With over 340,000 members and 1,500 member clubs across the country, all dollars collected from Golf Canada’s membership are invested back into the sport throughout various programs. For Golf Canada CEO Scott Simmons, developing a relationship with more of Canada’s 5.7 million golfers could mean great things for the growth of the sport in Canada.

“Everything we do as the National Sport Organization is an investment back into golf and every membership helps increase that investment,” said Simmons. “For Canadian golfers, membership is an opportunity to reap some important benefits while giving back to the sport they love.”

A proud member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Golf Canada also conducts the country’s most prestigious national golf championships – both amateur and professional. In the case of the CN Canadian Women’s Open, the event not only serves as a rallying point for Canadian golf, it is an opportunity for Canada’s top golfers to compete against the world’s best.

As well, the event allows Golf Canada in partnership with CN to leave a lasting legacy in the host community with this year’s beneficiary being the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Since 2006, more than $8.2 million in charitable proceeds have been raised in the name of the CN Canadian Women’s Open.

For more about what Golf Canada is doing to grow golf in your community visit www.golfcanada.ca

Players to Watch Brooke Henderson

Lorie Kane

HOMETOWN: Smiths Falls, Ont.

LPGA VICTORIES: 0

LPGA VICTORIES: 4

Member of Team Canada and Canada’s top ranked amateur at the young age of 15, Henderson already has one professional win under her belt after winning the 2012 CN Canadian Women’s Tour Quebec. The victory earned her the distinction as the youngest ever to win a professional golf event. Her outstanding junior career has included two CN Future Links victories, the 2011 Ontario Junior Girls Championship, and the 2012 Royale Cup Junior Girls Championship. In June, she made the cut at the US Women’s Open.

A Canadian golf icon, Lorie Kane has been on the LPGA Tour for 17 years.

She is one Top 10 finish away from 100 in her career, and has accumulated nearly $7 million in earning. Her accomplishments earned her the Order of Canada in 2006.

DID YOU KNOW?

Kane said she is fine with 99 career Top 10 finishes. As she puts it, “99 career victories isn’t a bad thing. (Wayne) Gretzky was 99 for a long time. He had a little bit of success.”

DID YOU KNOW?

Brooke’s sister Brittany is a professional golfer. In addition to being a phenomenal golfer, Brooke is also a good goalie when she plays her second favorite sport, hockey.

Jennifer Kirby LPGA VICTORIES: 0

Brittany Lincicome

@kirbyjennifer

HOMETOWN: Paris, Ont.

LPGA VICTORIES: 5

A former member of Team Canada, 2013 is Jennifer’s first year as professional.

Her first victory came in her debut event, the CN Women’s Tour Quebec.

Kirby won an NCAA National Championship in 2012 while playing for the University of Alabama and was first-team All-SEC twice in addition to being All-American in 2012. In 2009, Kirby won both the Royale Cup Canadian Junior Girls and Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championships.

Lincicome’s par­ents have owned a daycare for more than 23 years, and she says she would likely have been involved in the child care business if she wasn’t a golfer. Brittany loves to play Texas Hold’em and is said to catch really big fish.

Suzann Petterson

@Lko424

LPGA VICTORIES: 11

HOMETOWN: Auckland, New Zealand

After winning the 2012 CN Canadian Women’s Open at the age of 15, Ko became the youngest golfer to ever win an LPGA event. Last year Ko also won the 2012 US Women’s Amateur Championship in addition to becoming the first New Zealander to win the New Zealand Women’s Open.

DID YOU KNOW?

LPGA VICTORIES: 7

@suzannpetterson

HOMETOWN: Oslo, Norway

Petterson has been a force on the LPGA Tour for the past decade.

Currently ranked third in the women’s world golf rankings, Petterson captured the CN Women’s Open title in 2009. Her most recent Tour win came in April when she took home the LPGA Lotte Championship title.

DID YOU KNOW?

Because she is still in high school and far from home, teachers email her assignments that she completes when on the road.

Stacey Lewis

HOMETOWN: St.Petersburg, Fla.

DID YOU KNOW?

After a tremendous amateur and collegiate career she won her first ever event as a professional – the CN Canadian Women’s Tour event at Cowansville – to earn her exemption into the 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open.

LPGA VICTORIES: 1

@brittany1golf

The 2011 CN Canadian Women’s Open Champion, Lincicome is a three-time member of the U.S. Solheim Cup Team (2007, 2009, 2011).

She qualified for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt, and since her rookie season in 2005 has won over $5.1 million.

DID YOU KNOW?

Lydia Ko

HOMETOWN: Charlottetown, P.E.I.

In 2012 Petterson was featured in ESPN’s “Body Issue”, where she posed nude with other famous professional athletes.

Inbee Park

@Stacey_Lewis HOMETOWN: Toledo, Ohio

LPGA VICTORIES: 9

One of the top players in the game today after only being on the LPGA Tour for four years, Lewis is currently ranked number two in the women’s world golf rankings after having won seven tournaments in addition to earning nearly $5 million. She has two victories so far this year after capturing both the HSBC Women’s Championship and the RR Donnelly LPGA Founders Cup.

@InbeePark HOMETOWN: St.Petersburg, Fla.

One of the LPGA’s Seoul Sisters, Park is the top ranked female golfer in the game today. She has earned nearly $6.5 million in only six years on the LPGA Tour. So far in 2013, Park has six four LPGA events - including the season’s first three majors - and has earned over $2.1 million.

DID YOU KNOW?

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Inbee’s fiancé is also her swing coach. In 2007, she changed the English spelling of her name from In-Bee to Inbee to make it easier to pronounce.

From the age of 11, Lewis wore a back brace 18 hours per day for seven and a half years to correct curvature in her spine from scoliosis, removing it only to play golf.

2013 Quick Facts

TV Schedule

when: August 19 – 25, 2013

where: Royal Mayfair Golf Club

Edmonton, AB

how: 72 holes with cut after 36 who: 156 players, reduced to

lowest 70 scores and ties after two rounds

Date Thursday, August 22

Friday, August 23

Saturday, August 24 Sunday, August 25

The CN Canadian Women’s Open Time Channel 3pm - 6 pm TSN 11pm (repeat) TSN2 3pm - 6pm TSN 9:30pm (repeat) TSN2 2pm - 6pm CBC 2pm - 6pm CBC

*All times listed MDT. Times are approximate and are subject to change without notice.

purse: $2 million (US)

Tournament Schedule*

Date Time Event Monday, August 19 7 am - 7 pm Women’s Pro-Am

Qualifying Practice Rounds

Tuesday, August 20

All day

Thursday, August 22

7:15 am - 7:30 pm Championship Round 1

Wednesday, August 21 All day

Friday, August 23

Saturday, August 24

Sunday, August 25

Practice rounds

Championship Pro-Am CN Future Links “Walk with a Pro”

7:15 am - 7:30 pm Championship Round 2

8 am - 4 pm

8 am - 4 pm

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Championship Round 3

Championship Final Round

*All times listed are MDT. Times are approximate and are subject to change without notice.

call 1-877-571-5742 or visit cncanadianwomensopen.com

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Fan Experience

he roar of the crowd, the fist pumps, the legendary shots, the sun on your face, the world-class players: it’s all part of the spectator experience. At the CN Canadian Women’s Open, crowds have a chance to see the world’s best female golfers challenge for Canada’s National Women’s Open Championship.

At this year’s CN Canadian Women’s Open, spectators will have a chance to not only experience the thrill of watching professional golf from the sidelines, but they can also participate in various activities in the CN Spectator Village. Some options will include hitting nets where professionals will provide tips and email you a video of your swing, a CN Future Links Junior Skills Challenge tent with a golf simulator, an autograph tent, and a Golf Canada tent where you will have the opportunity to take a photo with the CN Canadian Women’s Open trophy.

“The CN Canadian Women’s Open is a great event for spectators, with various activities to keep the public entertained and great chances to get up close to some of the world’s best female golfers,” said Brent McLaughlin, Tournament Director of the CN Canadian Women’s Open. “We always have a great turn out and this year should be no different, especially since it’s being hosted at such a legendary club.”

Tickets on sale now

Clubhouse badges and hospitality packages are also available.

Children aged 17 and under get in free when accompanied by an adult

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2013 marks the 40th anniversary of Jocelyne Bourassa’s victory of La Canadienne – the last Canadian to win an LPGA event in Canada.

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hat does junior golf in Canada mean to CN? – Well, just about everything. It starts with a simple vision, an idea stemming from fair play, honesty and integrity; An opportunity to extend the ideals, values and traditions of the game of golf to Canadian youth who may not otherwise get the chance.

CN continues to be the driving force behind CN Future Links – Canada’s national junior golf program that has engaged more than 1 million junior linksters.

Since 2006, CN – as a proud partner in Golf Canada’s efforts to grow golf at the grassroots level – has dedicated their efforts to this junior program and will be bolstering their involvement in the coming years through several new acidities.

The first initiative, Golf in Schools, is the introductory program that shows young students the joys and fundamental values of golf. Registered schools are provided with a safety-approved kit for the students to use in addition to a program manual for teachers, which can be followed regardless of prior golf knowledge.

The elementary school program targets grades one through six. In 2012, the program was extended with the introduction of a high school component. The equipment becomes more advanced and the lessons become more in-depth, however the end goal is still the same – increase golf participation among the nearly 4.5 million students through the Canadian school physical education curriculum.

CN Future Links is broken into six core programs – Learn To Play; Junior Skills Challenge; Mobile Clinics; Girls Club; Junior League; and six

in Fundamentals Future Links Regional Championships.

The Learn to Play program is composed of seven different levels that each student must successfully complete with online performance tracking. The Junior Skills Challenge focuses on four key player scores that are recorded and compared to other juniors across Canada via an online leader board. The Mobile Clinics enable PGA of Canada members to travel to any location with a fully-equipped van to deliver a fun, instructive day of golf. Junior Golf League is an organized league for young golfers with online features to track your statistics and communicate with peers and golf instructor. The Girls Club encourages females aged between 7-18 to develop fundamentals, values and skills in a friendly environment.

Lastly, the six regional championships provide the opportunity to put the lessons learned into competitive play at the highest level for junior golf.

The latest initiative backed by CN is the new CN Field Trip program. The concept started with the goal of bridging the gap between Golf in Schools and CN Future Links so that those students who wish to pursue golf outside of school can do so at golf facilities in communities across Canada. The program busses an eager classroom from an elementary school to a fully active CN Future Links junior site in the community for an eventful day of fun and fundamentals at the golf course.

To help this new program hit the ground running, CN has offered 50 grants at $500 each to transition Golf in Schools to Future Links facilities.

These grants help accommodate facilities with the costs of hosting a field trip.

Investing in the health and wellness of Canada’s youth has long been a core focus of CN’s community engagement. Golf Canada’s vision is to get more children actively involved in golf – a game rooted in camaraderie as well as core values such as honesty, integrity and fair play. For Canadian golfers and future enthusiasts of the game, call it a perfect pairing.

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Skills Challenge offers up trip to CN Canadian Women’s Open

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et ready Edmonton - the CN Future Links Junior Skills Challenge National Event returns in 2013 and will be a featured event at Royal Mayfair Golf Club on Tuesday, August 20th during CN Canadian Women’s Open tournament week .

Juniors can qualify for the event by participating in local CN Future Links Junior Skills Challenges at various locations, such as golf courses and driving ranges, across Canada.

Once a junior’s score is determined at a local event, he or she will then have his or her name on the National Leaderboard. The top five players in the age group—11 and under; top four players 12-14; and top three players 15-18—for both boys and girls are will then have the chance to play in the National Event at Royal Mayfair Golf Club.

The National Leaderboard also offers up a chance for kids to track their own progress in the four skills through a personal practice scorecard.

“We have found that kids just love checking their scores online,” says Golf Canada’s Manager of Youth Development, Ted Logan. “It’s a great online resource that’s part of the overall CN Future Links Skills Challenge program.”

In addition to the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rub shoulders with the stars of the LPGA Tour, each participant is offered a $500 travel subsidy from CN to travel to the National Event.

Each of the qualified and attending participants of the National Event will receive a performance recognition package valued at over $200 courtesy of Titleist.

The winners of the National Event in each age group for each gender will also receive a performance recognition package valued at $300 courtesy of Titleist.

National Junior Skills Challenge participants will also be invited to attend the CN Future Links Walk with a Pro event on Wednesday August 21 during Championship Pro-Am. Participants will have the chance to be an LPGA Tour star’s caddie for a hole and even hit their first putt.

“The Walk with the Pro is just amazing,” Logan says. “The smiles on the faces of those kids are absolutely priceless,” adding, “and you know what, the LPGA Tour pros have just as much fun as the kids.”

Just one of the many aspects of the CN Future Links program, conducted by Golf Canada in partnership with the PGA of Canada and Canada’s provincial golf association — which is aimed at getting more kids in Canada involved in golf — the Junior Skills Challenge is all about kids having fun and furthering their skills.

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Looking for a CN Future Links site in Edmonton?

Contact one of these participating facilities.

The Derrick Golf and Winter Club

Adam Werbicki golfstaff@derrickclub.com

Windermere Golf and Country Club Shannon Werbicki shannon.werbicki@gmail.com

Sturgeon Valley Golf and Country Club

A Champion for Junior Golf

hile 2013 marks the final year of CN’s title sponsorship of the Canadian Women’s Open, the railway leader is committed to supporting junior golf activities across Canada including its continued title sponsorship of CN Future Links – Canada’s National Junior Golf program – through 2016.

In addition, three new initiatives will be launched under the terms of CN’s new agreement with Golf Canada: The School Adoption Program and the Field Trip Program in 2013, and the Leader Program starting in 2014.

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As part of its increased investment in junior golf, the CN Future Links junior golf program will be on full display during the CN Canadian Women’s Open at the Royal Mayfair Golf Club.

Children 17 and under are permitted free access to the grounds all week long when accompanied by a ticketed adult.

Tuesday, August 20th will be CN Future Links Junior Day and any adult accompanying a child to the event will gain free admission. As well, Tuesday of tournament week will see the Junior Skill Challenge National Event take place on site at Royal Mayfair with 24 qualifiers from across Canada selected from a leader board of

Wayne Fairbairn wfairbairn@calgaryelks.com

nearly 5,000 participants expected to compete.

The 24 qualifiers will have travel expenses up to $500 subsidized by CN for travel to the event.

Junior Skill Challenge activities will also be open to all children attending the CN Canadian Women’s Open with daily prizes to be won.

As well, on Wednesday of tournament week, 58 CN Future Links participants from the Edmonton area will take part in CN Future Links Walk with a Pro during the Championship Pro-Am. The juniors will act as the ceremonial caddie for LPGA Tour pros on the 11th hole par 3 at Royal Mayfair and will make the pro’s first putt on the hole.

Vegreville Kinsmen Golf Course James McCrimmon james@reteegolf.com

Edmonton Girls’ Club Debbie Keller keller_d@shaw.ca A full list of participating facilities in Alberta can be found at

cnfuturelinks.com

cnfuturelinks.com

Graham DeLaet is a CN Future Links graduate and is currently ranked in the top 100 golfers in the world!

Did you know over one million children have participated in CN Future Links?

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Looking Back

8 years of making a difference

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n October 2005, CN and Golf Canada announced that CN was taking on the lead sponsorship of Canada’s only Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tournament. Starting in 2006, with the event to be held in London ON, the tournament became known as the CN Canadian Women’s Open.

By taking on the sponsorship, CN saved the event, which had been in danger of disappearing. As a major North American company, headquartered in Canada but with a continental reach and looking for ways to engage communities across its network, it was a perfect fit.

But from the beginning, it had to be much more than a golf tournament. While it was a privilege to bring world-class female golfers to Canadian communities, CN wanted, right from the beginning, to use the CNCWO as a vehicle to give back to the hosting communities in real, tangible ways.

That led to the creation of the CN Miracle Match program.

CN knew bringing world-class sporting events to Canadian cities would generate attention and support. CN also knew that residents would channel their natural generosity to worthy causes linked to the event, if CN found the right partners and developed the right donations mechanism.

That led to two decisions: to partner with children’s hospitals in the hosting cities and to set up a giving mechanism through which CN would match donations made by citizens. CN called it the “CN Miracle Match”.

And miracles happened. The CN Miracle Match idea was adopted by all involved. CN and Golf Canada, assisted by the tremendous enthusiasm and tireless work of Canadian golf champion Lorie Kane, ensured the women’s golfing world knew that the CNCWO would be a world-class event, in terms of purse, organization, spectator enjoyment and overall professionalism. Lorie made a point of telling everyone she spoke with that this wasn’t only about golf, it was also about giving.

At the same time, CN was working with the selected children’s hospital in each host city to set up donation programs that used the latest internet and on-site giving mechanisms, supported by armies of volunteers and comprehensive publicity and advertising campaigns, to ensure host city residents knew not only that golfing greats were coming to town, and they had the chance to come see (even meet!) these professionals in person, but that they could also support children’s health while they were doing so.

And who could not take note of the child ambassadors in each host city. Young boys and girls who had been restored to health by the dedication, professionalism and compassion of hospitals and staff whose work could be supported through CN Miracle Match.

And the miracles started - $8.2 million worth of miracles, Miracle Match donations directed to children’s hospitals and children’s health across Canada.

First in London Ontario in 2006, when $413,000 was raised for the Children’s Health Foundation (the thought at the time was that $100,000 would be a realistic target).

In 2007, $546,682 was raised for Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. In 2008, CN Miracle Match hit the $1 million dollar mark, with a donation to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation at the Ottawa CNCWO. In 2009, another $1.6 million was raised in Calgary for the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, and $800,000 went to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba during the 2010 Winnipeg tournament.

CN passed the $2 million mark with a $2.1 million dollar donation to the Ste Justine Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation at the Montreal CNCWO in 2011, and added another $1.8 million to the CN Miracle Match total at the 2012 CNCWO in Vancouver.

That’s $8.2 million worth of making a difference, in seven Canadian communities, in seven years. And one more to go, in Edmonton, in 2013, with the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and its program providing transportation to the Stollery to children living in Alberta’s remote communities as this year’s CN Miracle Match beneficiary.

As in every aspect of life, things change over time. CN announced earlier this year that it is relinquishing its title sponsorship of the Canadian Women’s Open after the 2013 season, while continuing its title sponsorship of CN Future Links – Canada’s national junior golf program – and increasing its support of grassroots junior golf across Canada. But CN Miracle Match will live on.

CN is very proud of its role as a backbone of North American economy. And the CN Miracle Match partnership over the course of the CNCWO has given CN an opportunity to act as a backbone to children’s health initiatives, enabling children’s hospitals across Canada to purchase needed equipment, to expand their programs and facilities and to continue to make the most fundamental contribution imaginable to families and communities – addressing the health needs of our sickest children.

So the CN Miracle Match program and CN’s focus on improving the health and safety of communities and their residents, will continue. Stay tuned for the next installment in this story.

Since 2006, CN has proudly supported Canada`s national junior golf program as title sponsor of CN Future Links and has increased its support of grassroots junior golf across Canada going forward.

2012 CN Miracle Match Child Ambassador Natasha Feuchuk and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation guests meet with LPGA Players

WATCH THEM PLAY

AND DONATE TO GET SICK KIDS BACK TO PLAYING

Stacy Lewis LPGA Player

Make a donation today* As proud sponsor of the CN Canadian Women’s Open, CN invites you to make a donation to CN Miracle Match for the benefit of the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, helping them offer specialized services including pediatric transport teams that provide children in rural and remote communities with life-saving care.

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It’s the perfect occasion to support a great local cause and help give our children in need the best possible care.

Visit CNMiracleMatch.ca for details.

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AUGUST 19 TO 25

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