34 two man teams tee off Thursday morning at Brandon’s Wheat City Golf Course in the Taylor McCaffrey Men’s Four-Ball Championship.

Back to defend their title is the 2024 championship team of Kenny Keeler and Carson Inman of Portage Golf Club.

New for this year’s event is a both a Net & Gross Division where teams chose which division they would like to compete in at registration.

Net Division:

• The form of play where sides of two partners compete, with each player playing his ball.
• A side’s score for the hole is based on the Stableford Scoring System.
  
  • A player’s or side’s score for a hole is based on points awarded by comparing the player’s or side’s number of strokes (including strokes made and penalty strokes) on the hole to a fixed target score for the hole.

• Each team is responsible for recording their gross score on a hole on a single scorecard. The system will calculate the net scores at the scoring table.
• Maximum handicap per player is 20.0 at time of draw
• We will also take 85% of the handicaps as recommended by Golf Canada as an allowance in a Four-Ball Stableford Competition.

Gross Division

• The form of play where sides of two partners compete, with each player playing his ball.
• A side’s score for a hole is the lower gross score of the two partners on that hole.
• Maximum handicap index per player is 9.9 at time of draw
  
  For tee times, click here.
  
  For the Manitoba Blue Cross leaderboard, click here.
  
  Vying for the championship are teams representing Carman Golf & Curling Club, Deloraine Golf Club, Glendale Golf & Country Club, Glen Lea Golf Club, Kenora Golf & Country Club, Kildonan Park Golf Course, Lorette Golf Course, Minnewasta Golf & Country Club, Niakwa Country Club, Pine Ridge Golf Club, Portage Golf Club, Quarry Oaks Golf Course, Scotswood Links, Selkirk Golf & Country Club, Shanks Driving Range & Grill, Shilo Country Club, Southwood Golf & Country Club, Transcona Golf Club, Wheat City Golf Course and Winkler Centennial Golf Club.

A half dozen of Manitoba’s youngest golf stars are on the west coast today at the Pitt Meadows Golf Club in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia for the 2025 Canadian U15 Championship.

Representing our province are Mackenzie Bartlett (Team Manitoba / Carman Golf & Curling Club), Payton Chapman (Team Manitoba / Glendale Golf & Country Club), Hunter Oakden (Team Manitoba / Wheat City Golf Course), Ryder St. Laurent (Team Manitoba / Niakwa Country Club), Maisy Shewchuk (Team Manitoba / Quarry Oaks Golf Course) and Angelina Sitarz (Team Manitoba / Elmhurst Golf & Country Club).

For the opening round tee times, click here.

For the opening round leaderboard, click here.

Rhonda Orr (Southwood Golf & Country Club) shot a 15-over par 87 in the opening round of the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship, presented by BDO in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Orr sits T41 on the leaderboard as the top Manitoban.

Also representing our province:

T78 Lisa Benson (St. Charles Country Club) 90
T96 Shannon Taweel (Elmhurst Golf & Country Club) 94
T96 Susan Wright-Cassan (Emerald Greens Golf Course) 94
T123 Cathy Derewianchuk (Glendale Golf & Country Club) 99
135 Nicole Morton (Breezy Bend Country Club) 120

Manitoba sits in seventh place at 37-over par in the Inter-Provincial Team Championship (Derewianchuk, Orr and Taweel).

For the opening round leaderboard, click here.

For second round tee times, click here.

The Nanaimo Golf Club in Nanaimo, British Columbia plays host to the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship, presented by BDO, as well as the concurrent Inter-Provincial Team Championship starting this morning.

Representing our province are Hodson Financial Women’s Senior Champion Rhonda Orr (Southwood Golf & Country Club), Cathy Derewianchuk (Glendale Golf & Country Club), Lisa Benson (St. Charles Country Club), Nicole Morton (Breezy Bend Country Club), Shannon Taweel (Elmhurst Golf & Country Club) and Susan Wright-Cassan (Emerald Greens Golf Course).

Representing Manitoba in the Inter-Provincial Team Championship are Derewianchuk, Orr and Taweel.

For the opening round tee times, click here.

For the opening round leaderboard, click here.

“We are thrilled to welcome a strong field with several past champions to compete for our Canadian Women’s Senior Championship title this week at Nanaimo Golf Club,” said Golf Canada Tournament Director, Madeline MacMillan. “We’d like to sincerely thank the course staff and volunteers for their warm hospitality in the buildup to this national championship and we can’t wait to get action started this week.”

The Canadian Women’s Senior Championship features a pair of competitive divisions, the Senior division and the Super Senior division that run concurrently throughout the competition’s 54 holes. Female with a handicap index of 16.4 or less are eligible to compete in the 2026 Canadian Women’s Senior Championship

An Inter-Provincial Team competition is held throughout the event’s first 36 holes as players accumulate scores for their province over the course of their opening two rounds. Each day, the two lowest scores of the three players representing each province will count towards the team’s total score, with Team British Columbia leading that charge in 2024 to claim their second Katherine Helleur Trophy in the last three years. The province will look to add another title this week when they tee off in front of a home crowd at Nanaimo Golf Club.

Opening in 1962 with 14 of their 18 holes ready for action, Nanaimo Golf Club has since become one of the finest courses on Vancouver Island through its championship-caliber test and year-round accessibility. Designed by revered course architect A.V Macan, Nanaimo Golf Club features superior putting greens and exceptional course conditioning that continues to stand as a true reflection of the vision set out by the well-known Pacific Northwest designer from the early 1950’s. 

The course has undergone several major renovations over the years, to maintain the excellence that Nanaimo Golf Club is known for and as of 2025, features a covered driving range, two putting greens and a 12-year-old clubhouse that offers a picturesque view of the Strait of Georgia.

Conducted since 1971, the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship has featured many of the country’s top senior golfers. Canadian Golf Hall of Fame members Marlene Streit, Gayle Borthwick, Marilyn O’Connor and Margaret Todd all own senior championship titles.

The event’s historic past is paired with a notable list of exemptions awarded to the winner of the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship, including a spot in the field at the 2025 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship set for September 13-18 at the Cascades Course at Omni Homestead Resort. Additionally, a spot in the 2026 U.S. Senior Women’s Open, 2026 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship, 2026 Canadian Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship and 2026 Canadian Women’s Senior Championship will be claimed by the winner. This week’s champion will also earn a 10-year exemption into the Canadian Women’s Senior Championship and can compete in the competition if eligible.

Charmaine Hayden (Breezy Bend Country Club) is one phone call away from competing in the 2025 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship.

Hayden shot a 3-over par 74 during a qualifier at Mount Vernon Country Club in Alexandria, Virginia to finish in fourth place. The top three players advanced to the championship. As next in line, Hayden is the first alternate should a player ahead of her be unable to participate.

The U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship is scheduled for October 4th to 9th on the Dunes Course at Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, California.

For the qualifier leaderboard, click here.

Theo Humphrey of Chicago shot a 6-under par 65 Sunday at Breezy Bend Country Club to win the PGA Tour Americas Manitoba Open.

With an 11-under par total, Humphrey earned a one stroke victory over Georgia’s Peter Knade, who shot a final round 67.

Sebastian Szirmak of Toronto closed with a 66 to finish as the top Canadian on the leaderboard T3 at 9-under par.

Locally, Breezy Bend’s Braxton Kuntz finished at 1-over par firing a 1-under par 70.

2025 Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Champion Evan Nachtigall of Shilo Country Club carded a 74 Sunday to finish at 8-over par.

Winnipeg Jets goaltender Eric Comrie shot a final round of 88.

For the final leaderboard, click here.

The 2026 Manitoba Open is scheduled for Elmhurst Golf & Country Club.

It may have taken a couple of extra days due to a weather delay, but Saturday at Breezy Bend Country Club is a day Braxton Kuntz will remember forever.

Following a remarkable amateur career, Kuntz made his professional debut in front of friends and family at the course he’s grown up on carding a 2-over par 73 in the opening round of the PGA Tour Americas Manitoba Open.

2025 Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Champion Evan Nachtigall of Shilo Country Club made six birdies during his Manitoba Open debut en route to a 5-over par 76.

Despite carding a 96, Winnipeg Jets goaltender Eric Comrie was a fan favourite interacting with fans throughout the day signing autographs and posing for pictures.

Riley Lewis of Arizona birdied the first four holes he played on his way to an 8-under par 63 and sits atop of the leaderboard. Fellow Americans Jake Stalano and Joel Thelen are tied for second place, one stroke back.

For the opening round leaderboard, click here.

For Sunday’s tee times, click here.

Drew Jones (Shilo Country Club) carded a 6-over par 77 during his final round in Vancouver on Friday at the Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship.

With a 17-over par 301 total, Jones finished as Manitoba’s top player on the leaderboard at T35.

Closing with a 1-over par 72, Allan McDonald (Breezy Bend Country Club) moved up 25 spots to finish T38 just two strokes back of Jones.

Patrick Perrin (Elmhurst Golf & Country Club) shot an 81 to finish T46 while Jordy Lutz (Elmhurst) had an 80 to end play T66.

For the final leaderboard, click here.

Spence Mott (Team Manitoba / Shilo Country Club) shot a 2-over par 74 in his final round at the Canada Summer Games to finish one stroke shy of a medal.

Mott’s 16-over par 304 tournament total was a single stroke back of a earning a bronze medal and only five strokes from a silver at Bally Haly Country Club in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Brayden Boge (Team Manitoba / Rossmere Country Club) concluded play with an 81, good for 19th on the boys leaderboard.

Maisy Shewchuk (Team Manitoba / Quarry Oaks Golf Course) moved up to 18th in the girls championship ending play with an 82 while Camryn Thomas (Team Manitoba / St. Charles Country Club) finished 19th after a 94.

“I am really proud of the week all four of our athletes had out here” said Golf Manitoba Director of Player Development Sean Murray. “Obviously Spence was right there for a medal and showed tremendous poise when it counted. Brayden, Maisy and Camryn continued to show the development we’ve been working on together throughout the season and represented Manitoba with class and integrity throughout the trip. I am excited about their futures both on and off the course.”

For the final leaderboards, click here.

Fingers crossed, the PGA Tour Americas Manitoba Open will tee off Saturday morning at Breezy Bend Country Club.

The Tour announced Friday the schedule has been reduced to 36 holes of competition.

Golf Manitoba Director of Communications & Development Brian Munz caught up with Manitoba Open Tournament Director Brendan Baldwin for the latest.

Included in this year’s field are Winnipeg Jets goaltender Eric Comrie, Breezy Bend member Braxton Kuntz who will play his first event after officially turning pro and 2025 Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Champion Evan Nachtigall of Shilo Country Club.

For tee times, click here.

For the leaderboard, click here.