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Glenboro's Wytinck named golfer of year

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 10/30/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Phil Hossack / Winnipeg Free Press Archives Josh Wytinck accepts congratulations after winning the 2012 men�s amateur.

IN the defining moment of the province's amateur golf season, it was focus and calm that got the job done.

With a three-foot birdie putt to win a four-man playoff, Josh Wytinck captured the Nott Autocorp Manitoba Men's Amateur championship.

It turned out to be his biggest asset when Golf Manitoba announced Monday night the 20-year-old native of Glenboro is the 2012 Golfer of the Year.

"It's fantastic," Wytinck said after Monday night's annual award dinner and ceremony at Glendale Golf and Country Club. "It's extremely humbling. It was an honour to just be nominated with all the great players who had great seasons."

Wytinck, the first player-of-the-year winner from western Manitoba since the award's inception in 1975, got the nod over finalists Charlie Boyechko of Southwood, five-time former player of the year Garth Collings of Breezy Bend and Jenna Roadley of Glendale.

A runner-up in both the player-of-the-year award and the Amateur in 2011, Wytinck clearly progressed in 2012.

Two weeks before he edged Collings, Boyechko and 2012 match play champ Aaron Cockerill in a windy Amateur playoff, Wytinck made the cut and was the low amateur at the Canadian Tour's Players Cup at Pine Ridge, his home course.

His between week was spent at the Saskatchewan Amateur, where he finished in the top seven.

And after an excellent fall of 2011 that saw the University of Manitoba Bisons golf team start to make some noise in tournaments in the U.S., Wytinck returned to the team this year and captained it to five victories in seven tournaments.

Four of the team championships came in the U.S.

His play during 2012 has moved him up the ladder in Golf Canada's national amateur rankings, to No. 13.

Collings, who last won the player-of-the-year award in 2009, has now been runner-up in the Amateur nine times. There have been playoffs in the Amateur just twice in the last 25 years; he has lost them both.

The 54-year-old proved his game is still sharp, winning a seventh Manitoba mid-amateur this summer.

Apart from his runner-up finish at the Amateur, Boyechko had a stellar season with the Bisons, winning or sharing individual honours this fall at three tournaments to help the team to its best-ever semester.

Roadley, a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., won the Manitoba Junior by 16 shots and lost the Amateur in a playoff.

Three players were given honourable mentions by Golf Manitoba: Derek East of St. Charles, Cockerill of Teulon and and women's amateur champ Bri-Ann Tokariwski of Elmhurst.

-- staff

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 30, 2012 C6

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