For the second consecutive year, Grady Chuback (Team Manitoba / St. Charles Country Club), Crystal Zamzow (Team Manitoba / Swan River Golf & Country Club) and Marco Trstenjak (Elmhurst Golf & Country Club) are champions of the Elmhurst Invitational at Elmhurst Golf & Country Club.

Chuback won the Junior Boys title in a playoff versus Carson Inman (Portage Golf Club). Both players finished at 11-over par through 36 holes. Chuback made a par on the first playoff hole for the win.

After opening on Saturday with a 4-under par 67, Trstenjak cruised to the Men’s Championship with another 67 earning an eight stroke decision over Braxton Kuntz (Breezy Bend Country Club) and Jordy Lutz (Elmhurst Golf & Country Club). Kuntz had the low round Sunday at 5-under par 66 while Lutz had a sensational opening nine holes with a 5-under par 31.

Zamzow is wearing the Junior Girls crown once again following an 11 stroke victory over Keira Krahn (Team Manitoba / Carman Golf & Curling Club). Both players carded impressive rounds of 2-over par 75 during Sunday’s final round.

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The annual Elmhurst Invitational is underway at Elmhurst Golf & Country Club.

The 36 hole championship opened Saturday and will conclude Sunday afternoon with three divisions of competition: junior girls, junior boys and men’s division.

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The province’s top amateur golfers are at Elmhurst Golf & Country Club this weekend competing in the Elmhurst Invitational Amateur Championship.

The 36 hole event featuring 57 competitors will tee off at 2:00 Saturday afternoon with three divisions of competition: junior girls, junior boys and men’s division.

All three defending champions return from 2023:

• Men’s Division – Marco Trstenjak (Elmhurst)

• Junior Boys Division – Grady Chuback (Team Manitoba / St. Charles Country Club)

• Junior Girls Division – Crystal Zamzow (Team Manitoba / Swan River Golf & Country Club)

For the opening round tee times, click here.

Registration by Member Clubs

Breezy Bend Country Club (7)
Carberry Sandhills Golf & Country Club (1)
Carman Golf & Curling Club (2)
Dauphin Lake Golf Club (2)
Elmhurst Golf & Country Club (15)
Glendale Golf & Country Club (2)
Glen Lea Golf Club (1)
Kyalami Country Club – South Africa (1)
Niakwa Country Club (5)
Pine Ridge Golf Club (5)
Portage Golf Club (1)
Riverside Country Club – Saskatoon (1)
Rossmere Country Club (1)
Shilo Country Club (3)
Southwood Golf & Country Club (1)
St. Boniface Golf Club (1)
St. Charles Country Club (3)
Steinbach Fly-In Golf Club (1)
Swan River Golf & Country Club (1)
Wheat City Golf Course (1)
Whitewater Golf Club (2)

Thanks to the generous contributions of the Alex & Peggy Colonello Foundation, participants in the junior boys and girls division were assisted with their registration fee.

Once again this year, the winner of the men’s division will receive an exemption to either the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan or the Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship in Manotick, Ontario.

Founded in 2003 by long-time Elmhurst member John Multan, the Elmhurst Invitational Amateur Championship has become one of the highest regarded amateur events held in the province outside of the Golf Manitoba championship calendar. The field is continually one of the strongest of the year with most of the province’s top players taking part.

Past champions include the likes of the DP World Tour’s Aaron Cockerill, along with past Manitoba Men’s Amateur Champions Garth Collings, Derek East, Todd Fanning, Matt Johnston, Brad Kirton and Peter More.

Austin Dobrescu of Shilo Country Club continued his hot play this season with a T31 finish at the Golf Canada Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship that was played August 5-8 at the Glen Arbour Golf Course and The Links at Brunello in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia. Dobrescu, a member of Team Manitoba that finished 5th in the Willingdon Cup inter-provincial team championship, was the lone Manitoban to make the cut in this year’s event shooting rounds of 76-74-72-71 for a 293 total. Equally impressive in his feat, Dobrescu was in a tie for 11th for Canadians who made the cut in what has now become a top international event on the world amateur golf circuit.

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Adding to his impressive finish at the Canadian Amateur, Dobrescu, who plays collegiate golf for the Chicago State NCAA Division I Cougars, started the season with a win at the Golf Manitoba Match Play Championship, finished T3rd in the Elmhurst Invitational and had a runner-up finish in the Nott Autocorp Men’s Amateur Championship.

Upon his return to Manitoba, Dobrescu will have little time to rest as he was recently awarded a sponsor’s exemption into the 2019 Players Cup, the local stop on the PGA Tour Canada Mackenzie Tour, that will take place August 12-18 at the Southwood Golf & Country Club.