Ella Kozak is from Yorkton, and was golfing in the Moose Mountain Classic golf competition, which is held annually at Golf Kenosee in Moose Mountain Provincial Park.
Kozak started golfing, encouraged by her father to take up the sport, when she was seven years old. She remembers playing Golf Kenosee once previously when she was a junior and just beginning to learn the game. She started to enter competitions around the age of 11, and has played many events in the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour, winning at the Tor Hill Course in Regina and at the Elwood Course in Swift Current.
Kozak placed third in the Saskatchewan Women’s Amateur in Warman this year.
Deer Park in Yorkton is her home course where she has a club membership; she has played Woodlawn in Estevan, Moon Lake and The Willows in Saskatoon and many other courses around the province.
The most memorable course she has played outside Saskatchewan is Pinehurst in North Carolina, mentioning the beautiful scenery the course offers, and also mentions the Marine Drive Course in Florida as a particularly scenic golf course. She recommends Pinehurst as a course that every golfer should play if they have the opportunity of being in the area, she hopes someday to tee it up at Pebble Beach in northern California if she could choose any golf destination to play.
Kozak uses Ping woods, irons and wedges and a Scotty Cameron putter, and likes to play the Titleist ProV 1 ball.
Her lowest round to date is a even-par 72 at the Legends Golf Course in Warman and she has one hole in one at the Niakwa Golf Club in Winnipeg, doing the magic on the par 3, 130-yard, second hole with an 8 iron.
Kozak’s favourite golfer is the PGA’s Lexi Thompson, who was the youngest golfer to ever qualify for the Women’s U.S. Open championship, thanks to Thompson’s length off the tee.
Congratulations Ella Kozak; this year’s Moose Mountain Classic’s Women’s Champion
