Maggie Trainor just completed her post secondary golf career on the biggest stage possible, as she won the Women's Individual Title at the Royal Canadian Golf Associations University National Championship Tournament that just completed at King's Forest Golf Club in Hamilton.

She did it in fine fashion as she birdied the eighteenth hole during the third and final round to win by two strokes.

She took a slim one stroke lead into the final round and went hole for hole with the University of British Columbia's Kyla Inaba. With the eighteenth looming the playes were tied on the day, and Trainor still holding on to that slim one stroke lead. The birdie, a four on the par 5 hole, gave Trainor 78 on the day and a score of 227 for the three day event.

During the second round, Trainor soared to the best ever round recorded by a woman on the course as she carded a one under 71. Her three round total was 78/71/78.

This ends Trainor's post secondary career at Humber. Over the two years here she has won back to back Canadian Colleges Athletic Association National Team Titles and Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Provincial Team Titles. On the individual side, she won the CCAA Women's Individual Silver Medal the last two years and the OCAA Women's Individual Gold Medal in 2008 and the Silver in 2009.

Trainor, along with graduating teammate Shauna Wilde,and returning star Bev Peel may go down as the most successful female golfers in OCAA history.

Story: Larry Moko - Hamilton Spectator (May 30, 2009)

TRAINOR TRIUMPHS FOR ONTARIO

A Canadian flag attached to the 18th pin flapped gently in the breeze as Maggie Trainor tapped in a short putt to restore some Ontario provincial pride.

Trainor, a Humber College student from Dundas, won the rain-shortened Canadian University/College women's individual golf championship at King's Forest Golf Course yesterday.

Her 54-hole total was 227 (11 over par), two shots ahead of runner-up Kyla Inaba, from University of British Columbia.

Trainor's triumph in the field of 53 females marked only the second time in the seven-year history of the national finals that an Ontario woman has taken top honours. London's Lindsay Edmunds of Western was the other in 2005.

To exemplify the dominance of Western Canadian schools in collegiate golf, the women's team title has gone six times to the UBC Thunderbirds and once to the University of Victoria Vikings.

"It feels good to win at home," Trainor said.

From 125 yards out on the 18th, the Dundas Golf and Curling Club pro shop employee landed her third shot on the 440-yard hole within six inches of the cup. She then sank the birdie putt to finish her round at six-over 78.

"I actually didn't play great, but I kept it together enough to hold on," the Highland Secondary School graduate said. "I was nervous."

Trainor entered yesterday's final round just a stroke up on Inaba.

The former Ontario Colleges Athletic Association champion and two-time Canadian college silver medallist opened and closed the Hamilton tournament with 78s. In between she set a King's Forest course record with a 71.

On the final hole yesterday, Trainor hit her drive into the trees on the left, but was then able to punch it out to the middle of the fairway.

Said Inaba: "She just stuck her third shot. It was awesome."

The low score of 74 in the women's division yesterday was carded by both Tiffany Terrier of the Waterloo Warriors and July Fraser of Laval Rouge et Or.

Following Trainor and Inaba in the individual standings were Danielle Greene from University of Toronto (232), Marianne Banton of UBC (232) and Alyssa Herkel of Victoria (233).

UBC, UVic and Humber finished 1-2-3 in the women's standings.

The first-place finish earns Trainor an exemption into the 2009 Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur Championship at Royal Oaks Golf Links in Moncton, N.B.