Schmidt; Viken tie low score record at Mixed on route to championship

Joergen Viken and Alex Schmidt tied the record for lowest winning score at the Saskatchewan Mixed Championship in North Battleford.

For the second year in a row Alex Schmidt is a mixed champion, but the Regina product had a new partner in the co-ed formatted event this year.

Last summer Schmidt won the event at Golf Kenosee alongside her father Wayne, this year Joergen Viken joined the Royal Regina Golf Club member and the duo won the event by a whopping 16 strokes.

Schmidt and Viken shot a 7-under par 65 on day one at North Battleford Golf and Country Club (NBGCC), during the second round Sunday they shot 5-under 67 to claim the 26th Saskatchewan Mixed Championship.

Second place was much more dramatic, a four hole playoff was needed between Elanne Krainyk and Colton McAllister and Holly Knudsen and Keaton Kelln. Krainyk and McAllister were able to earn second place thanks to a par on hole three after two attempts to break it on hole 18 at NBGCC and one try on three where they finally decided the silver medalists.

There were 32 teams in the field this year with 64 players in the alternate shot format championship.

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