Shannon Birchard/Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB) won
6-5 over
Jamie Sinclair/Korey Dropkin (Blaine, USA) in the Final of the Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational, held October 13 - 15, 2017 at the Seattle Granite Club in Seattle, United States. To advance to the championship game, Birchard/Gunnlaugson won
10-7 over
Rui Wang/De Xin Ba (Harbin, CHN) in the semifinals of the 2017 Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational in Seattle, Washington, United States; and won
9-2 over
Hyeji Jang/Ki Jeong Lee (Uiseong, KOR) in the quarterfinals.
Birchard/Gunnlaugson finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birchard/Gunnlaugson defeated
Maureen Stolt/Peter Stolt (Minneapolis, MN) 8-0, then won
7-6 against
Bobbie Sauder/Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) and
5-3 against
Wang/Ba in their final qualifying round match.
For winning the Pacific Northwest Mixed Doubles Invitational Championship title, Birchard/Gunnlaugson earned
0.000 world rankings points along with the $3,762CDN first prize cheque. For week 10 of the event schedule, Birchard/Gunnlaugson did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the
World Ranking Standings with
total points. Birchard/Gunnlaugson ranks th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
points earned so far this season.
