One of Canada's top female golfers will be making her final LPGA Tour appearance on native soil.
Dawn Coe-Jones of Campbell River, B.C., announced yesterday that this will indeed be her final season on the LPGA Tour, meaning this week's CN Canadian Women's Open in Ottawa will be Coe-Jones' final tournament appearance in Canada.
"I'm filled with both happy and sad emotions," Coe-Jones said in a statement yesterday. "I have had the pleasure of doing what I love for over 20 years.
"It has been an honour to represent Canada. It is a dream career and I'll miss it very much but I'm looking forward to new adventures with my family. I love being a hockey mom."
Coe-Jones, 48, and her husband, Jimmy, have a son, James, who will turn 13 in October.
She has been plagued by a broken foot that has limited her to just one tournament appearance this season.
Coe-Jones joined the LPGA Tour in 1984 and has won three tournaments and more than $3.3 million in earnings over that span of her career.
As an amateur, she registered consecutive B.C. junior amateur titles in 1978 and '79.
Coe-Jones also earned All-American honours while attending Lamar University.
Coe-Jones' first professional victory came in the 1992 Women's Kemper Open.
She won the '94 Healthsouth Palm Beach Classic as well as the '95 Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Champions.
Coe-Jones was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.
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