The Lloydminster Golf and Curling Centre is in the midst of another busy season, but that hasn’t stopped both the city and Head Professional Marty Wheaton from continuing to build the game and benefit the course.

This year saw the club upgrade several fairways and tee boxes plus an irrigation upgrade has made the 7,000 yard course from the tips one of Saskatchewan’s top facilities again this year.

Combined with Wheaton’s extremely successful junior program, ladies nights with over 100 players on a weekly basis and weekly men’s nights the club is very busy.

The course recently hosted the First Nations Cup that drew over 600 players, that will ease Wheaton into hosting the 2024 Western Canada Summer Games as well as the 2025 Saskatchewan Junior Championships.

Wheaton and City of Lloydminster Senior Manager of Parks and Green Spaces Jordan Newton joined Golf Saskatchewan to discuss the recent upgrades, the value the club provides to the area, the next couple years, and more.

Josh Nagy was the top Saskatchewan finisher at the 2023 Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship that wrapped up Thursday in Caledon, Ont. at Pulpit.

The Riverside Country Club player and Saskatchewan amateur winner was tied for the lead at the national event thanks to an opening round 65 on Monday. A second round score of 81 dropped Nagy down the leaderboard, but he still made the cut and played well through the third and fourth rounds shooting 73 and 76 leaving him in a tie for 39th.

The team of Nagy, Chase Pochylko, and Cole Obrigewitsch placed fourth in the race for the Willingdon Cup, Ontario took the inter-provincial championship.

For the fourth time, Wynyard duo Cheryl Lawrence and Linda Sokul are the Saskatchewan Rosebowl champions.

The Wynyard Golf Club members won the 36-hole, two-player team event at Moon Lake Golf and Country Club on Thursday afternoon with a score of 10-under par 134 thanks to back-to-back rounds of 67.

The pair won their first Rosebowl in 2010, again in 2011, and their third title was in 2016.

In second place was Lynn Tulloch and Lindsay Folk, both of Regina and members of the Wascana Country Club. The team shot 70 and 69 to finish five shots behind the winners.

A three-team playoff was held for third place, the bronze medalists ended up being Royal Regina members Cheri Ward and Christine McGregor-Kristoff, they defeated both Mamin Lee-Sing/Angela MacDougall and Cathy Lebioda/Donna McNaughton in the playoff for third place.

The complete results can be seen here.

Saskatoon, SK) – Golf Saskatchewan is pleased to announce the Saskatchewan Academic and Golf Excellence (SAGE) Scholarship recipients for 2023. The SAGE Scholarship program annually presents scholarships to assist deserving member golfers in their pursuit of high school and post-secondary academic excellence.

The successful Golf Saskatchewan recipients were selected based:

• academic average | grade point average (GPA), and
• a small percentage based on the individual’s sports excellence.

The 2023 SAGE & High School Bursary recipients include:

Graham DeLaet Scholarship (valued at $1,000)
o Luke Cote, Royal Regina Golf Club, Regina

Golf Saskatchewan Scholarship #1 (Valued at $1,000)
o Autumn Neiszner, Wascana Country Club, Regina

Golf Saskatchewan Scholarship #2 (Valued at $1,000)
o TJ Baker, Waskesiu Golf Course, Prince Albert

Fletcher-Reid Scholarship (valued at $1,000)
o Davin Karst, Assiniboia Golf Club, Assiniboia

Ron Young Memorial Scholarship (valued at $1,000)
o Josh Nagy, Riverside Country Club, Saskatoon

Cooke-Kinnear Scholarship (values at $1,000)
o Myles Johnson, Riverside Country Club, Martensville

Kozy Scholarship (valued at $1,000)
o Max Regier, Riverside Country Club, Saskatoon

Leddy-Heywood Scholarship (valued at $1,000)
o Chase Gedak, Golf Kenosee, Estevan

Dr. Garry Hayes Memorial Scholarship (valued at $776.59/ea)
o Nicholas Kitchen, Evergreen Golf Course, Nipawin
o Will Blake, Royal Regina Golf Club, Regina ‘

Meredith MacPherson-Stalwick Memorial Scholarship (valued at $1,119.54)
o Alex Swinnerton, Riverside Country Club, Saskatoon

Golf Saskatchewan High School Bursary (valued at $400)

o Chloe Wills, Saskatchewan Landing Golf Resort, Kyle
o Dane Giesbrecht, The Legends Golf Course, Warman

For more information on our scholarship program or any of our other programs please visit the Golf Saskatchewan website at www.golfsaskatchewan.org or contact our office.

Cory Selander is a three-time Men’s Northern champion after holding off Travis Fehr Monday in the 102nd edition of the historic event.

The back-and-forth match between the reigning champion and Fehr needed 19 holes before Selander earned the win, his third in the last five years.

He spoke to reporters after the win.

In Estevan, the annual Frametech Classic took place at TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club.

In the women’s division Paige Wheeler was the champion with a three-round score of 256 (88, 83, 85).

Roxanne Willerth placed second at 269, Rachel Harms was third at 271.

In the senior men’s division Weyburn golfer Rick Hallberg continued his strong play winning the championship by 19 shots over Rob Peloquin.

Hallberg shot rounds of 67, 73, and 69 on route to the win.

Trevor Gessner was third at 232.

In the men’s category Estevan product Jace Carlisle finished on top of a stellar leaderboard once the 54 holes were final on holiday Monday.

Carlisle was pushed by Weyburn youngster Darien Herlick who was just two strokes back, Carlisle was 8-under par 208.

Shawn McNall, Carson Harcourt, and Chase Gedak all tied for third at 211.

The complete results of the Frametech can be found here.

The Order of Merit standings will be updated ahead of the next event on each tour.

Regina’s Taylor Carter has been a Special Olympics golf champion before, but the 30-year-old’s recent win at the Special O World Games took the feeling to a new level.

Carter had a four round score of 190 after shooting 9-hole rounds of 47, 56, 42, and 45 to win the golf event by eight shots over a player from Korea in late June.

Carter joined Golf Saskatchewan to talk about his journey to Germany and the feeling of winning a gold medal.

The Canadian Amateur Women’s Championship will continue into the third round Thursday without any Saskatchewan representation.

Both Chloe Wills of Kyle and Autumn Neiszner of Regina were back of the cut line at the national event on Tuesday in Halifax, N.S. at the Ashburn Golf Club and will not play the final two rounds.

For Wills, making her amateur national debut, the highlight came on Tuesday in the opening round when the Sask. Landing Golf Resort member hit a hole-in-one on hole 14. That assisted her in an opening round 82, she shot 83 in round two for finish at 21-over par.

Neiszner posted an opening round 93 and followed that with a 91 for a two-day score of 40-over par, 184.

As a team the duo finished in eighth place overall in the inter-provincial competition, that honour was taken by Ontario who won by 12 shots over British Columbia.

The championship of the 109th women’s amateur will be crowned on Friday afternoon.

To see the complete results click here.

Two-time Saskatchewan junior women’s champion, college winner and national team champion, you can now add PGA of Canada Professional to the impressive resume of Melville’s Chloe Sies.

Following a college career that started in Red Deer and ended in Kelowna at the UBCO, Sies is now the general manager of the Melville Regional Park Golf Course. She is also the newest member of the PGA, receiving her certification just last week.

Golf Saskatchewan caught up with Sies earlier this summer to hear about school, taking the Melville job, working towards professional certification, her home course, and what’s next.

The Golf Saskatchewan Junior Order of Merit Tour (OMT) has been busy of late with a couple events taking place since the provincial under-19 championships in Swift Current in early July.

On July 18 and 19 the Canadian Junior Golf Association (CJGA) made a stop at Deer Valley Golf Club for a two day event, the results can be seen here.

From July 24 and 25 the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour (MJT) was just outside Saskatoon for a tournament at Moon Lake Golf and Country Club.

Tayla Perry of Regina was the winner of the under-15 girls division thanks to rounds of 81 and 83. The Wascana Country Club player was 30 shots better than fellow Regina golfer Yuna Lee. Saskatoon’s Youran Zhu was third.

Kaylee Chung of Vancouver was the lone participant in the under-19 category, largely due to the Canadian Junior Girls Championship in Hampton, N.B.

On the boys’ side of the 36-hole event Hunter Kutcher of Regina was the overall winner holding off Darien Herlick of Weyburn in a playoff in the under-19 boys category and overall championship.

Both Kutcher and Herlick were at 142 following two rounds but a par for Kutcher gave him the win in his last MJT event.

A three-way tie between Brett Leonard, Davin Karst, and Josh Czuy made up third place.

In the under-15 division Saskatoon’s Aricin Franklin won again. Fresh off an under-15 provincial win and events in California (IMG Academy Junior World Championships and the Callaway World Championship) the Riverside Country member has won every bantam event on the MJT Saskatchewan slate this year and leads the OMT standings for his age group by 350 points.

Lucas Sturgeon of Saskatoon was second, North Battleford golfer Finn Silver placed third.

The under-13 division winner was Austin Nesbitt of Pilot Butte.

Just like Franklin, the 12-year-old returned from California events to capture another MJT title. The Wascana Country Club member shot 70 and 73 to win by seven shots over Regina’s Jun Lee.

Melville golfer Keaton Kreklewich was third at 155 (79, 76).

There was also a playoff for the under-17 title that was won by Saskatoon’s Jack Maharaj.

The 15-year-old was tied with Ryan Mosher and Dane Giesbrecht after 36 holes, but in the playoff Maharaj sunk a 15-foot birdie putt to claim the win, the Saskatoon Golf and Country Club members’ first of the year.

Ben Staines was fourth a shot outside the three-way playoff, Jordan Heller shot 152 to round out the top five.

All the results can be found here, the one-day MJT Mini-Tour was also in the Bridge City on Monday, the results are available here for the 18-hole event at Wildwood Golf Course.

To see the up to date OMT standings for all the tours click here.

Next up for the juniors on the OMT is the CJGA Saskatchewan Championship at Deer Park Municipal Golf Course in Yorkton from Aug. 1 to 3.

The Women’s OMT resumes Aug. 5 to 7 with the TS&M Woodlawn FrameTech Ladies Classic in Estevan.

The Men’s and Senior Men’s OMT also features Estevan’s FrameTech event. Cooke Municipal Golf Course in Prince Albert will hold the Men’s Northern Championship that weekend as well.

The Canadian Junior Girls Championship wrapped up in Hampton, N.B. Thursday at the Hampton Golf Club.

Yorkton’s Ella Kozak was the top placing Saskatchewan player at the national event tying for 24th at 19-over par. The 17-year-old Deer Park Municipal Golf Course member shot 77, 75, 75, and 76. Kozak was 22 shots back of winner Eileen Park of Red Deer, Alta.

Regina’s Hallie Crozier made the cut as well carding rounds of 83, 77, 89, and 81 for a 72 hole score of 46-over par, 330. The 18-year-old was 67th overall.

Sarah Henderson of Saskatoon and Niya Friesen from Swift Current joined Crozier as Team Saskatchewan. Both players missed the cut, but gained valuable experience with several years left as junior competitors.

Friesen, 14, shot back-to-back rounds of 86 in her national debut. Henderson was also competing in her first national event, the 15-year-old posted a 94 on day one before shaving six shots off her score in round two carding an 88.

Grace Odnokon also competed as the team alternate, the 13-year-old shot 91 and 93 in her first of potentially many Canadian events.

In spite of a young team representing the province the team placed a respectable seventh overall just 13 shots back of both Ontario and Alberta at 8-over par. Ontario won the team competition through a tie breaker.

The next national event is the Canadian Amateur Women’s Championship in Halifax, N.S. at the Ashburn Golf Club. Autumn Neiszner of Regina and Kyle’s Chloe Wills are the lone Saskatchewan competitors at the championship that begins on Aug. 1.