GIMLI — Pine Ridge’s Tyler Mancini conquered the wind, rain and some early bad luck to post the best score mid-way through the first round of the Manitoba men’s amateur golf championship today at Links at the Lake.
Despite a double-bogey six at the second hole, Mancini shot a four-under-par 68 to lead the pack on Day 1 of the championship.
That’s three better than the next-best score posted, a one-under 71 from former two-time champ Garth Collings of Breezy Bend.
“I was two-over after two but I realized this is a marathon,” Mancini said after making seven birdies on a miserable day. “I’m proud of myself for staying with it.”
Mancini’s second shot at the par-4 second went out of bounds after he bladed a sand wedge from a greenside bunker.
Also in the hunt in the early going is former four-time champion Todd Fanning of Niakwa, who shot even-par 72, the same as Breezy Bend’s Brad DePape and Glendale’s Michael Goldberg. Defending champ Brad Kirton of Pine Ridge was in at 73.
For full coverage, read Tuesday’s Free Press.
tim.campbell@freepress.mb.ca
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