Amanda Minchin's penchant for competing well in tournaments is starting to become well known.
Minchin won the PGA Sask Lady Pro Am at Saskatoon's Greenbryre Golf Club earlier this month and was the only golf pro on the unique course.
“Those events are a good way to connect with your members and connect with the people who play your golf course,” said Minchin, the TS&M Woodlawn G.C. club pro. “The goal is to go and have fun. For myself, I'm obviously playing in an event with the other pros in Saskatchewan so there's a team aspect and the individual aspect as well. It's a competitive round but it's also fun as well.”
Her expectations with the team weren't to win the event, but they did anyway. Estevan's Jane Moriarty and Kathy Epp played on her team.
The teams scores were selected by two scores per hole, net ball. The players with handicaps got 75 per cent of their handicaps.
Greenbryre is a different kind of golf course, with only 12 holes versus the usual 18.
“I've played it once and they're never played it,” Minchin said. “It's a cool layout, six and six. A front six and a back six... We played a practice round so that helped. But that speaks volumes to how well they played. One practice round you don't typically feel completely comfortable but they seemed to figure it out.”
Minchin is also helping out as an assistant coach with the Golf Saskatchewan High Performance Team for a Canada Summer Games qualifier. Two members of the top 25 members in the province are from Estevan (Jayce Carlisle and Jayden Dudas), and at Deer Valley they played 36 holes along with a camp Sunday.
The club is gearing towards hosting the FutureLinks Golf Canada Western Canadian championships the first week of July.
