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EDMONTON—Calgary’s Scott Stiles needed one extra hole at the Stony Plain Golf Course on Tuesday to secure the 2025 Ping Club Professional Championship title.

Stiles, the head teaching professional at Early Grey Golf Club, edged Kevin Black (Redwood Meadows Golf and Country Club) with a par on the first playoff hole.

“I didn’t hit a great tee shot. I was in the right rough, Kev was in the fairway. I hit it in the left bunker and then he hit it in the bunker,” said Stiles while reflecting on the playoff hole. “I hit mine to five feet and was able to make it.”

Two of Alberta’s top professionals matched 36-hole scores at -7. Black birdied the final two holes of his round that included a 20-foot birdie putt on 18 to force the playoff.

“In the Alberta zone, we have some of the best players in the country, so you have to show up and play well no matter what tournament is,” said Stiles. “We are really lucky to have a bunch of good players in our zone because it forces everybody to get better and you need to play your best golf if you want to do well.”

Stiles has been sizzling over the last two weeks. He ended June by winning the Players Tour 1-Day event. Sitting one-shot off the leaders after a 69 in his first 18-hole spin this week, Stiles was on a mission Tuesday. He bolted out of the gate with back-to-back birdies that propelled him to a 68 for a two-round total of 137.

“I played pretty solid today and was good off the tee. I was in play all day, so I had chances the whole way around the golf course,” said Stiles. “Most of the tricky stuff was around the greens. The pins were tough, so you wanted to be in the right spots. I was able to manage it well enough and made a few birdies when I needed to.”

He sure did.  

But Black still had something to say.

Sharing the first-round lead, Black battled to the end, backing up his opening round 68 with a 69 in his final rip around the Stony Plain track.

Eric Locke, of Priddis Greens Golf and Country, finished one-shot off the leading mark at -6 after carding back-to-back rounds of 69.

The Ping Club Professional Championship featured 63 of the head professionals in Alberta competing in a 36-hole stroke-play test at the Stony Plain Golf Course on the outskirts of Edmonton

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