Cooke Municipal Golf Course will host the 2022 Golf Saskatchewan Amateur Championships. (File photo/paNOW Staff)

By Derek Craddock

GOLF

2022 Golf Saskatchewan Amateur Championships coming to Prince Albert

Oct 13, 2021 | 2:30 PM

Prince Albert will soon welcome the best amateur golfers in Saskatchewan.

Golf Saskatchewan announced Wednesday the Cooke Municipal Golf Course in Prince Albert will host the 2022 Women’s Amateur Championship, the Men’s Amateur Championship, and the Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship next July.

The course hasn’t hosted a Saskatchewan provincial championship since 2014 when hometown golfer Martin Ring won the tournament.

“We’re really excited to host this event,” said head professional at Cooke Darcy Myers. “It’s been quite a while since we have had the amateur and mid-amateur, a lot has changed here since then and we’re looking forward to showcasing our golf course to the province.”

Cooke has played host to many amateur tournaments including the championships in 2007, which was won by Prince Albert product Ron Stewart. In 1995 Colin Coben won the first of his two amateur titles at Cooke, as well while Melfort’s Kim Brozer won the Women’s Amateur Championship at Cooke in 1991.

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Myers said the course will provide all golfers with a supreme test on a premier Saskatchewan course.

“We’re hoping for much of the same conditions wise for next year,” Myers said. “If we get a normal winter, we will come out really great in the spring again and we’ll have a chance to prepare the course for the event. Cooke is always a good test of golf, and we can’t wait to host the province’s best women and men.”

The women’s and mid-amateur championships will run from July 12 – 14, the men’s championship will be four rounds with a champion crowned on July 15.

Golf Saskatchewan manager of championships Steve Ryde said it’s great to have Cooke back on the provincial schedule and will be a wonderful host.

“Cooke is a premier golf course in the province with arguably the top conditions tee to green in Saskatchewan this year. Darcy and the entire crew at the club, in the heart of a great city with all the amenities we expect the 2022 amateur championships to be a week our organization remembers and the participants that compete in the three coinciding championships.”

Saskatoon’s Roman Timmerman is the defending amateur men’s champion while Prince Albert’s Danny Klughart will seek his fourth straight mid-amateur championship. Ella Kozak of Yorkton is the reigning women’s amateur champion.

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