The 2018 Golf Manitoba Rural Championship was contested this past August 12 & 13 at Shilo Country Club.  After two great days of competition, Golf Manitoba would like to congratulate this year’s champions!

Amateur Men’s Champion
Colwyn Abgrall – Golf Manitoba Public Player

Amateur Women’s Champion
Mikyla Albert – Golf Manitoba Public Player

Senior Men’s Champion
Keith Fawcett – Clear Lake Golf Course

Junior Men’s Champion
Dalen Schulz – Dauphin Lake Golf Course

12 & Under Junior Men’s Champion
Zostrianos Giordani-Gross – Shilo Country Club

Full results >>

Thank you to all players who competed and made this year’s event a success! We would also like to extend our sincere thank you to Shilo Country Club and general manager Scott Ramsay and PGA of Canada Class A Professional Dave Scinocca and their entire staff for hosting this year’s event.

The 2018 Golf Manitoba Bantam Championships was contested this past August 8 and 9 at The Players Course in Winnipeg. The championship is a 36 hole event with 18 holes daily at stroke play. Awards are presented for the overall championship, runner up and the following age categories:

• 12 & under
• 13 & 14 years of age

At the completion of this year’s event, Noah Fiks of Pine Ridge claimed the overall boys title by shooting rounds of 75 and 71 to and beating fellow club mate Ryan Blair by one shot who contributed with rounds of 77 and 70. Crystal Zamzow of Swan River Golf & Country Club took the girls title shooting a two day total of 195 on rounds of 93 and 102 against Armaan Dhillon of Rossmere Country Club against her rounds of 105 and 111.

In the 12 and under boys division, Grady Chuback of St. Charles Country Club shot rounds of 84 and 78 for a 162 total with Jacob Bell from Breezy Bend finishing in second place on his rounds of 109 and 102.

In the 13 and 14 boys division, Adam Ingram of Elmhurst posted 155 on rounds of 76 and 79 to edge Bijan Salimi of Minnewasta on his two day total of 160 (82-78).

Full results for the Bantam Championship are available at golfmb.ca.

Golf Manitoba would like to express our sincere thanks to Rob Damsgard, general manager and PGA of Canada head professional at The Players Course and his entire staff for hosting the event.

Long time Golf Manitoba employee Carol Muzychka retired at on July 31, 2018 after 25 years of service. Carol worked in a variety of capacities for Golf Manitoba and most recently as the Office Administrator.   Carol was involved in all aspects of operations with Golf Manitoba including membership, volunteer management, tournament administration, event support, communications and provincial team support.

Both Carol and her husband Greg entered retirement in the very same week and will begin their new adventures together with a trip out to western Canada to visit family and friends.

From all of us at Golf Manitoba, we sincerely thank Carol for her many years of service and dedication and wish her and husband well in this new and exciting chapter of their lives together.

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OTTAWA – Today, Canada’s national golf industry associations announced the first annual National Golf Day, May 29, an event aimed at raising awareness to the public and government decision makers on the many positive impacts of the golf industry.

“More Canadians play golf than any other participation sport and our industry is #1 in driving economic impact, employment and charity fundraising,” said Jeff Calderwood, National Allied Golf Associations (NAGA) and We Are Golf Chair. “Combined with golf’s diversity, healthy fitness benefits and environmental stewardship, we really do have such a positive message to communicate.”

National Golf Day provides the opportunity for Canada’s golf industry leaders to discuss these wide-reaching benefits of the sport directly with MPs, Senators and policy advisors at Parliament Hill. A May 28 evening reception will also be held in Centre Block, and NAGA will be hosting a day of interactive golf activities on the front lawn where MPs and visitors will be able to participate. This day of outdoor golf activities will include a focus on junior golf.

“We are really looking forward to our time in Ottawa and expect that government officials from all parties will be impressed to learn about all the ways golf contributes in virtually every riding throughout Canada,” added Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum. “There are so many meaningful benefits that golf delivers in communities from coast to coast and it will be great to share all those insights on National Golf Day.”

Golf courses and all related stakeholders throughout Canada are encouraged to promote the same positive messages. NAGA will provide shareable social content.

NAGA is also announcing a rebranding of its public facing name to We Are Golf. This aligns with the same brand name used by the American golf industry for allied association activities such as National Golf Day. NAGA does carry on as the administrative body but will use the We Are Golf brand for all public communications.

Please watch for additional We Are Golf and National Golf Day communications over the coming weeks as we lead up to the May 29 event itself.

For more information on We Are Golf, visit wearegolf.ca  

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WINNIPEG – Golf Canada is pleased to celebrate Golf Mentor Academy by honouring them with the Future Links, driven by Acura Facility of the Year Award for the 2017 season.

The Golf Mentor Academy, located just south of Winnipeg, earned the award for its outstanding success in delivering Future Links—Canada’s junior golf program. Under the direction of PGA of Canada professionals Glen Sirkis and Adam Boge, The Golf Mentor Academy excelled in delivering Future Links programming.

“Golf Canada is pleased to recognize the impressive accomplishments in junior golf by the staff at Golf Mentor Academy,” stated Jeff Thompson, Golf Canada’s chief sport officer. “Glen and Adam demonstrated excellence with their Future Links program, and we’re proud to celebrate their achievement as one of leading junior facilities in Canada.”

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More than 2000 juniors participated in the Future Links suite of programming at the Mentor Academy, including Junior Skills Challenge, Girls Club and Learn to Play. Through the online reporting tool, students received complimentary PUMA hats as a reward for graduating each of the four stages of the Learn to Play program.

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— Golf Canada (@TheGolfCanada) April 28, 2018

Part of the success of the program stems from conducting several Get Linked initiatives, connecting the golf course with local schools in the community. In 2017, Golf Mentor Academy conducted eight in-school visits in the Winnipeg area and hosted one field trip to their facility. In total, Sirkis conducted nine of the 192 Get Linked initiatives conducted in 2017.

“We’re thrilled to be receiving the 2017 Future Links Facility of the Year Award – it’s a great feeling to celebrate the growth of junior golf at our facility and across Canada,” said Sirkis. “We’d like to thank our staff that helped us achieve this award and reach over 2,000 juniors at our facility.”

Golf Mentor Academy is the fifth Canadian golf club to receive the Future Links Facility of the Year Award. This marks the second award for Sirkis, who also received the inaugural honours back in 2013.

“On behalf of the PGA of Canada and its 3,700 members, I’d like to congratulate Glen Sirkis, Adam Boge and their staff on the Future Links Facility of the Year award,” said PGA of Canada CEO Kevin Thistle. “It’s important for PGA of Canada professionals to be recognized for all their hard work in growing the game of golf in Canada through the Future Links program.”

In 2017, Future Links programming was conducted at 548 golf facilities with more than 83,000 registered students. Since 1996, more than 1.4 million children have been introduced to golf through the Future Links junior golf program.

For more information on how to participate in Future Links, click here.

The 2018 Championship Schedule is set and online registration will begin April 15^th.

To view the complete schedule, please click here.