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Winning golf tournaments is tough enough.

Authoring history — now that takes some talent.

Meet Garth Collings, history-maker in claiming a third Manitoba Amateur title Thursday at Elmhurst Golf and Country Club.

Not only is the 51-year-old Breezy Bend member believed to be the province’s oldest-ever amateur champion, he joins an elite group of players with at least three (1987, 1994, 2009) on his resume.

The feat is all the more remarkable if you examine the trophy, first presented by theManitoba Free Press, and championship records since 1922.

Collings has 22 years between his first and newest victory — 16 was the previous record by Ted Homenuik — and it’s been 15 years between wins, bettering the previous longest span of 13 years by Terry Hashimoto.

“It’s been a slow 15 years,” an emotional Collings said after shooting three-over 74 to finish at four-over 290 on Thursday, good enough to squeeze past four young rivals. “I thought last year might have been my year but lost to Brad (Kirton), who played phenomenal.

“And after Pinawa (three-putting the 72nd hole and losing by one to Jordan Krantz in 2004), that was hard. But anything can happen in golf and you saw it today.”

On a windy day on Elmhurst’s difficult greens, Collings had one important edge — starting the day in fourth spot and three shots back, he didn’t have to play in the final group, which caught the contagion of nerves early.

By the turn on Thursday, Pine Ridge’s Scott Loewen, the leader through the first three days, had given away all his lead and closest chasers Scott Markham of Niakwa and Tyler Mancini of Pine Ridge were also over par.

That allowed Collings, who turned in one-over 36, and Selkirk’s Scott Borsa, who turned even, back into the game and all five of those players either shared or had the lead at one stage or another on the back nine.

Borsa — who wound up second by a shot after a superb 69 — gained a brief share with a birdie at No. 16, but Collings pulled ahead for good by chipping in from the fringe for a birdie at the par-3 17th.

When the final trio came to the 72nd hole, it was Markham who needed the birdie to force Collings to a playoff. He bogeyed and tied for third with Loewen, two shots behind.

After he lost last year’s title to Kirton in an epic, five-hole playoff, Collings admitted he’s often wondered how many more chances he’d get.

“All the time,” he said.

His short game, again, allayed those fears on Thursday.

He had two chip-ins and numerous par saves that helped him win the title with the fewest birdies — just nine — of any of the top six players this week.

“I didn’t think 74 would be enough to win,” he said. “But it’s a tough golf course. One guy under par over two days (Borsa), that’s pretty good.”

Collings, inducted into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame last fall, said he’s had all kinds of thoughts about golfers and their ages after Tom Watson’s near-miss at the British Open last week.

“It was a great story; I’m kind of glad I made my story work out.”

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GREAT Scott, it’s turning into a fine battle at the 2009 Manitoba Amateur Golf Championship.

Scott Markham of Niakwa fired a 4-under 68 on Tuesday at Pinawa Golf Club to vault himself from fourth to second, just three strokes behind Scott Loewen of Pine Ridge, who remained the leader after the second day of the four-day tournament.

Loewen shot a 70 and leads with a 7-under total of 137.

The event moves to Elmhurst Golf Club for action today and Thursday.

“It was a good day, I played well and ended up shooting four-under 68 and I was quite happy with that considering the fact that we had some rain on the back nine. It was a pretty big downpour so it was nice to keep the game together through that,” said Markham, 23, in a telephone interview. He has played in this event since he was 14, with his best finish a second-place tie in 2005.

“I made a few birdies today but more than anything it was the continual par saves that sort of kept the round going and kept the momentum going for me.

“That was kind of the objective for the first couple rounds — to not shoot myself out of it, play two solid rounds at Pinawa, a tough, tight golf course and be able to go out to Elmhurst for the last couple days knowing that with a couple more good rounds… maybe have a shot at winning the tournament.”

Markham’s 68 was one of just two such scores on the day. The other belonged to former champion Garth Collings, who sat in a third-place tie with Pine Ridge’s Tyler Mancini (72) and Selkirk’s Ben Bandura (72) at 1-under 143 through 36 holes.

Markham said he ended up playing some of his best golf of the day when the weather was at its worst.

“On the fourth hole, which would have been the 15th hole for me, I hit it a bit right off the tee, it was sort of in the thick rough. I chipped it to five feet and made the putt. When I hit that tee shot, it was pouring rain and I managed to make par there and birdie the next hole,” he said.

Markham said he had one major plus in his corner — his father David as his caddy.

“It’s great to have my dad on the bag for me,” he said, noting his father had battled cancer recently. “Something like that really makes you want to enjoy the time together as much as you can.”

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WHO’S hot heading into this week’s Manitoba Amateur championship?

No former champions.

Only two are entered, two-time winner Garth Collings, who’s last year’s runner-up, but he played erratically and missed the cut at the Players Cup last week.

Jamie Wilkie is also in the field, but he’s struggled to find a better game since winning in 1997.

The higher-profile news is who’s not entered.

Two-time defending champ Brad Kirton of Pine Ridge has decided to turn pro and will instead caddy for his friend and clubmate, 2009 match play champ Tyler Mancini.

“I’m going to keep up and shut up,” Kirton said.

Kirton said he decided last summer not to play the Manitoba Amateur again, but had to remain an amateur to take advantage of his exemption to last week’s Players Cup, where he shot 73-77.

“And as I found out this week, it’s a lot more competitive, and by playing (Canadian Tour) Q-school (earlier this year),” Kirton said. “It’s a new kind of monster.”

Kirton said he plans to get busy with pro competition next month.

“I’m moving on to the Dakotas Tour, learning how to play week to week, just a smaller scale of the Canadian Tour, leading up to that Q-school (in the fall),” he said.

And also taking pass on the 2009 Manitoba Amateur is former champion and restored amateur Todd Fanning, like Collings already a member of Manitoba’s Golf Hall of Fame.

Fanning finished tied for third last year at Links at the Lake with Peter More, who’s in the field.

When the players hit the course for today’s opening round at Pinawa — action is also there on Tuesday before moving to Elmhurst for the final 36 holes Wednesday and Thursday — one player with some momentum will be Pine Ridge’s Scott Loewen.

Loewen Monday qualified for the Players Cup last week and played decently, missing the cut by just one shot after firing a one-under 70 on a difficult opening day.

“I’m looking forward to it as always,” Loewen said during the Players Cup.

But looking at rivals and missing past champs, Loewen wondered which direction Manitoba’s amateur championship is headed.

“I don’t want to sound negative saying this but it almost seems like the competition depth is decreasing,” he mused.

“I definitely don’t want to make is sound like there aren’t a lot of good competitive players in the province but when you go back to competition and the intensity, if you have 20 or 30 guys who can potentially win or make the team, it becomes a horse race.”

Pinawa’s going to make the players keep strict track of their golf ball this week.

“If it’s windy, watch out, and you’ll see the field be defined more than ever,” Loewen said.

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Women’s junior golf champ got some help

And on the final day the skies finally cleared, but this time it was raining controversy at the Manitoba Men’s and Women’s Junior Golf Championships at Rossmere Golf and Country Club.

Actually, the controversy only rained on the junior women’s event, which was decided by an official’s ruling. The junior men’s title was a much more straightforward affair, as final-round leader Ryan Pitzel fired four birdies on the final 18 to shoot 72 on his home course and win the 2009 title by three strokes over Southwood’s Bryce Barr.

The 2009 Manitoba Junior Women’s title, on the other hand, was decided on a rules violation when co-leader Jessie Choi was asessed a two-stroke penalty as she walked off the 18th green.

Penalty

The penalty — for failing to replace her ball in its original position when it was struck by an opponent’s ball earlier in the round — broke a tie between Choi and Selkirk’s Lindsay Stewart and handed Stewart her first provincial golf championship.

“It means so much. I’m at a loss for words right now,” said Stewart, 18, who just graduated from high school and will play on the University of Manitoba golf team next year.

“So many years of golfing and it finally paid off. It’s my last year and I finally won.”

Choi’s parents live in Manitoba but she attends high school in Houston so she can golf year-round. It was a bitter pill to swallow for Choi, who also finished second at last year’s provincial juniors.

She had a commanding six-stroke lead on Stewart coming into the final round but recorded double bogeys at the seventh, 12th and 16th holes, not to mention the quintuple bogey on 10, which was already a triple even before the penalty was assessed.

Choi’s ball was lying on the 10th green when Stewart’s approach struck it. Because the strike caused her ball to roll further from the hole, Choi said she figured it was OK to just play it from there instead of trying to figure out where it originally was.

But that’s contrary to the rule, which states that the ball that was struck must be moved back to its original position while the ball that did the striking is played where it finally comes to rest, said Lisa Andersen, director of competitions for Golf Manitoba.

Andersen said Choi sought a ruling, but only after playing out the hole. “And it’s too late then,” said Andersen.

Choi was incredulous. “Her ball hit my ball and my ball went further from the hole. And I get a penalty?” asked Choi.

“She should get the penalty.”

Choi was not informed she’d been assessed the penalty until after the completion of the round, which saw her tie Stewart when she made par on the 18th while Stewart bogeyed, meaning both women finished with three-round totals of 250 — before the penalty was imposed.

Stewart empathized with Choi, but only so far. “Rules are a huge part of golf,” she said. “If she’d known that rule, we’d still be tied.”

Like Stewart, Pitzel will also play on the University of Manitoba golf team next year.

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It really was a case of the blind leading the ‘blind’ at Crown Isle golf course.

For the first time, the annual Western Canadian Blind Golf Association Golf Championship was being staged there.

The prestigious contest has attracted 24 leading blind and partially-sighted players from Canada and the United States, 21 of them from outside B.C.

The event was organized and hosted by the Comox Valley Monarch Lions Club.

To get the competition off to a high-profile start, dignitaries including local MLA Don McRae, Courtenay Mayor Greg Phelps, and the Mayor of Comox, Paul Ives, were invited along to welcome the visitors to the Valley and wish them good luck.

But it was the civic leaders themselves who were more in need of luck when they were asked to have a go themselves, wearing blackout spectacles so they couldn’t see the ball.

In blind golf, even the top competitors need a bit of help in lining things up, so are briefed by a coach before each shot.

The same benefit was offered to the three guests with varying degrees of success – or, more generally, lack of it.

Despite their helpers’ best efforts, just hitting the ball turned out to be something of a challenge, although in the end all managed to get in shots of sorts.

And all were happy to enter the spirit of the occasion, laughing at the outcomes of their best efforts.

Lions co-chair Ron Webber also stepped forward in a bid to demonstrate the technique, but managed to miss at all three of his attempts while wearing the spectacles.

But blind golfer Vince Hooper from Texas was certainly able to explain how it should be done, having completed all 18 holes on a practice round the day before in 78.

And competitor Brian MacLeod from Nova Scotia demonstrated his perfect swing as an inspiration to all the onlookers and their civic guests.

The competition is held in B.C. once every four years, and Western Canadian Blind Golf Association president Doug Penner of Manitoba said they were delighted to be at Crown Isle.

“It’s a lovely course, a gorgeous course,” he commented. “It has some nasty bunkers to add to the challenge.”

The other Lions co-chair, Bob Scales, said the club was proud to be sponsoring the two-day competition that culminated in an awards banquet on Wednesday night.

Other activities in the week included a barbecue and entertainment on Monday evening, and a seafood feast with traditional dancing at the K’ómoks First Nation on Tuesday.

At the start of the event, Andy Everson of the K’ómoks Band, dressed in traditional costume, carried out a blessing of the course on which the competition was to take place.

During the week, the Monarch Lions also hosted a meeting for golfers who were members of other Lions Clubs.

He thanked several organizations that had actively supporting the Monarchs in hosting of the competition, including the Lions Clubs of Comox Valley, Black Creek and Royston-Cumberland, the B.C. Blind Sports and Recreation Association, Comox Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Coast Realty Group and Crown Isle Resort itself.

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DeLaet finds success recipe and keeps on running with it

A year ago to the day, Winnipeg golf star Adam Speirs was asked to point out an unheralded dark horse for the Players Cup at Pine Ridge.

He didn’t even think about it.

“Graham DeLaet,” Speirs said, a seemingly odd choice at the time because the then-second-year tour pro from Weyburn, Sask., hadn’t finished better than 20th in 2008 and had missed as many cuts as he’d made.

DeLaet played two rounds at Pine Ridge and went home, leaving Speirs’ words to come true just a few weeks late.

August saw the former Saskatchewan Amateur champ win the Montreal Open and finish second the next week in Ontario, then finish second over the Labour Day weekend in the Tour Championship.

The 27-year-old didn’t stop there.

He played for Canada at the World Cup with defending Players Cup champ Wes Heffernan, then early in the new year went to the South African Tour and had a couple of runner-up finishes early and was never worse than 12th.

Back on the Canadian Tour in 2009, DeLaet has been second, first and third in his last three events, making him somebody to keep an eye on this week at Pine Ridge.

“I always knew I had it in me, but last year, up until this week, I had been really struggling,” DeLaet said before Tuesday’s wet pro-am round at Pine Ridge. “You go through that in the game of golf sometimes, but I knew I had it in me.

“When I got the win in Montreal, it started a streak of confidence I’ve been rolling with ever since. There have been ups and downs, too, but in general, after the win, I really felt I had what it takes to win out here.”

Convincing himself he was a winner was the hardest part.

“You always think you have what it takes, but until you actually do it, you just don’t have that full momentum and feeling,” he said. “Now I expect to win, even though I won’t every week, and I feel if I play well I’ll be in the hunt on Sunday.”

Not only is it not bold, it’s not news to Speirs.

“He is the best ball-striker I’ve ever played with, and I’ve played with some good ones,” Speirs said. “He hits the ball better than anyone I’ve played with, and I’m a pretty good ball-striker myself.”

Speirs, reminded of his prediction last July, said he’s not surprised in the least by what has taken place since.

“And I won’t be surprised at what happens in the next year,” he said.

DeLaet admitted to surprising himself in South Africa early in the year.

“I left Jan. 3, hit balls in Las Vegas for just one day before I left, so I didn’t have any expectations,” he said. “I hadn’t played any golf in a month, but I happened to play well in the first week, so it was the same thing — I had some confidence going.”

All the recent additions to his resumé, including the Canadian Tour win in Calgary three weeks ago, has earned him an exemption to play next week’s RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey.

“I’m obviously extremely excited about the Open… for the money — that’s a huge purse — and also to see where I’m at against the world’s best,” DeLaet said. “This week, I’m here to try to win the golf tournament. If I don’t, I’ll be OK with that, but I want four solid rounds and if I do that, I should be in the mix on Sunday.”

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‘Never seen anyone like him,’ top pro says of 6-year-old phenom Mini-golfer competing in world championship

He can drive — long, straight and consistently.

His short game is solid and he’s got a gift for reading putts.

He’s got a great attitude, readily acknowledging his game’s weakness — long irons. “I have a hard time getting them up,” he says. Kid, join the freaking club.

He’s got one of the leading golf instructors in the country tutoring him — and the coach says he’s never seen anything like him.

He’s already won internationally and next month will travel to the fabled and historic North Carolina loop of Pinehurst to compete for a world championship.

And he’s, wait for it now — six years old.

Winnipeg, meet Bailey Bjornson.

“I’ve taught some young kids — lots of them,” says two-time Canadian golf teacher of the year Derek Ingram, “but I’ve never seen anyone like him. I almost hit the floor the first time I saw him.”

Now, the temptation at this point is to evoke the legend of Tiger Woods in all this, to recall in the telling of Bjornson’s story the oft-told tale about how Woods was introduced to the game at the age of nine months by his father Earl and how by two years old, Tiger had already made an appearance on the Mike Douglas show (where he putted with Bob Hope).

But that would be wrong for a couple of reasons. First, Bjornson’s no Tiger. Nobody is. Is he good beyond his years? Yeah. But Tiger good? Not even close — Tiger had already appeared in Golf Digest by the time he was Bjornson’s age. Bjornson has now appeared in the Free Press, which isn’t quite the same.

Second, I don’t care how good Bjornson is — no six-year-old deserves to have that kind of pressure put on him, least of all a kid from a northern burg like Winnipeg who at this point is still just playing golf because, well, it feels good.

“I like to hit the ball,” says Bjornson, between pulls of apple juice.

But what is interesting though is this — ask Bjornson who his favourite golfer is and he’ll tell you that it’s Woods. That’s what you’d expect him to say.

But ask him why he likes Woods the best and the answer’s more revealing.

Because it’s not Tiger’s success, his money or even his hot Swedish wife (the kid is just 5 after all — give him time) that Bjornson most admires; rather, it’s the way Woods handles himself on those rare occasions when golf’s greatest fails that young Bailey cites as his reason.

“When Tiger hits a bad shot,” Bjornson says, “he always comes back with a good shot.”

That he chose that aspect of Tiger’s game — his composure amidst adversity — shows wisdom and maturity beyond Bjornson’s tender years.

And that — as much as Bjornson’s 110-yard drives, as much as the 36 he recently shot on a nine-hole loop, as much as the tournament he recently won in Minneapolis that qualified him to play in next month’s US Kids Golf World Championship at Pinehurst — is why some people who should know say this Bjornson kid just might yet be something very special.

Take Ingram, for instance. On Thursday, Ingram was teeing off for the opening round at Pine Ridge as one of the Manitoba hopes in the 2009 Players Cup. But more than a golfer, Ingram is internationally respected as a golf teacher. He’s twice been named the Canadian PGA Teacher of the Year, has been named one of the 10 best golf coaches in Canada by Golf Digest and Golf Magazine and was named in the Top 50 in North America by Golf Range Magazine.

Dude knows his golf, in other words. And Ingram says this Bjornson kid is something special. “He’s really good. It’s pretty crazy how good he is,” says Ingram, who has been coaching Bjornson this year. “Part of it is athleticism. But he’s also got a super-high golf IQ for a kid.”

And there’s something else Bjornson has, says Ingram, perhaps the most important thing of all — a parent who is supportive, but not pushy. “This is not one of those cases you see where the Dad is pushing him into this,” says Ingram. “This really does come from Bailey.”

His father, Tyler Bjornson, first introduced his son to golf at age two (the kid holed his first shot using a ‘Snoopy’ iron). And since then, whether it’s playing a round at local courses like Kingswood or hacking away on ranges or in the backyard, the elder Bjornson has been by his son’s side and holding his hand at every step.

“What I’m here to do is provide him the opportunity,” says Tyler Bjornson, “and to keep it fun.”

And, as he ponders the cross-continent trip the family will make next month to watch his son play at the golfing mecca of Pinehurst, to also keep it in perspective. “He tells us he wants to be a pro golfer when he grows up,” says the father, “but then he also told us when he was 3 that he wanted to be Spiderman.

“So who knows?”

What I know is this: Asked this week what his favourite part of golf is, what the thing that he most enjoyed about the game is and Bjornson didn’t hesitate a moment in his response.

“That I get to spend time with my Dad.”

Which is, interestingly enough, exactly what Tiger has said over the years about his golf game and the way it brought him and Earl Woods closer together.

It’s highly improbable, of course, that Bjornson will ever duplicate the success of Woods on a golf course. But off of it — where it really matters most — the kid and his dad already seem well on their way.

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Weir slugs it out at soggy U.S. Open

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — This was supposed to be a ring for the heavyweights, but welterweight Mike Weir went toe-to-toe and punched above his class yesterday.

The Canadian lefty led for most of a long day at the U.S. Open at soggy Bethpage Black — helped by his best ever round at a major, a 64, in the weather-delayed first round.

He faded with a 2-over-par 37 on the first nine holes of the second round and had to settle for a tie for third at 4-under par before play was called on account of darkness.

Lucas Glover, who opened with a 69, made five birdies in the first 12 holes of his second round to grab top spot. Former U.S. Amateur champ Ricky Barnes is second at 5-under after a 67 and two more birdies through eight holes before play was called.
Long day

With play almost wiped out Thursday by heavy rains, players had a long day yesterday as the USGA scrambled to get back on schedule. Play resumes this morning at 7:30 with another threatening forecast.

For a while yesterday, the clouds parted and the sun shone on the Canadians.

When Weir’s star faded with the light, 21-year-old Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., just crowned the No. 1 amateur in the world, took up the charge and rose to a tie for sixth.

The Winnipeg-born Taylor splashed seven 3′s and a deuce across his card to go 5-under through 14 holes of his second round and get to 2-under on the tournament.

Taylor holed out from the bunker on par-3 14th for a birdie before having to pack it in or the night.

“After I was 4-over through seven (in his first round) and going to eight I made about a 12-footer for par, I’d have never guessed I’d make a bunch of birdies,” said Taylor, who had a first-round 73. “I was confident. I was hitting well. I just wasn’t making any putts. The second 18, I started to make some putts.”

Weir’s iron play was spot on in the opening round as he set an Open scoring record on the Black Course, bettering Nick Faldo’s 66 in 2002.

He made eight birdies and the total length of those eight putts was just 58 feet.

Calgary’s Stephen Ames, playing with Weir, bounced back from a 74 with a 31 on the nine holes he played in the afternoon to get to even and a tie for 17th. London’s Andrew Parr, who led overnight after play was suspended Thursday, had a 74 and will hopefully get his second round in today.

Weir’s round was a stroke off the record for the lowest round in any major. Weir took double bogey on the sixth hole (his 15th of the first round) and had makeable putts that didn’t find the hole on 17 and 18.

But, before heading out for the start of his second round, Weir said he was enjoying himself too much to contemplate the possibilities of making history with a 62.

“I didn’t think much about it. It was just one of those days where I was so focused on what I was doing, had a great feel and just wanted to kind of let it ride,” said the 2003 Masters champ. “I had a great feel with my irons and didn’t give much thought to the score at all.”

Loves the parallel

Weir, whose previous low round in a major was a 65 at the 2006 PGA Championship, loves the parallel developing here with what happened when he became the first Canadian to win a major on a rain-soaked Augusta National six years ago.

“We were rained out on Thursday (in 2003) and it played really, really long and everybody talked about the long players are going to have a big advantage.

“But, you know, I think all of us medium-length hitters think we can compete and if we hit some longer irons and rescue clubs into the greens, the greens are going to be soft enough to hold those.”

Tiger Woods, who was in the morning draw, had a 4-over 74 after bogeying his last four holes.

“I wasn’t playing poorly,” he said. “You know, that’s the thing. I was even par with four to go and I was right there where I needed to be and two bad shots and a mud ball later, I’m at 4-over par.”

Phil Mickelson, the crowd favourite, had an opening round 69 and was even through 11 holes of the second round, tied for 12th.

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