Open berth for champ

Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011

-- BIG perks are on the line this week at Niakwa and Elmhurst.

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-- BIG perks are on the line this week at Niakwa and Elmhurst.

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— BIG perks are on the line this week at Niakwa and Elmhurst.

The winner of the 2011 Canadian Amateur — the final round of the 72-hole championship is Sunday — gets an entry into next year’s RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton and into the U.S. Amateur in two weeks at Erin Hills, Wisc.

Last year’s Canadian Amateur champion Albin Choi of Toronto was in last month’s Canadian Open field at Shaughnessy.

— NINETEEN players from Manitoba are entered in this week’s Canadian Amateur.

They include the top seven finishers from the Manitoba Amateur last month in Portage, six players who gained spots via exemptions given to the two local host clubs, five players who advanced through Monday’s qualifying event at Niakwa, and former Canadian Amateur champion Dale Goehring of Winnipeg, who now lives in Calgary.

— THE winner of the last Canadian Amateur played at Niakwa is back at the club this week.

Doug Roxburgh, however, is not playing.

Roxburgh won the first of his four Canadian titles at Niakwa in 1972.

The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member is now Golf Canada’s director of high performance programs and is here keeping a close eye on Team Canada.

— IT’S fair to wonder if the City of Winnipeg has something against big golf tournaments.

Many fans laid the blame for last summer’s mosquito fiasco on the weekend at the CN Canadian Women’s Open at St. Charles on the city’s lack of interest in fogging the area.

Spectators and players alike were besieged by the perfect storm of weather and bugs, certainly damaging Winnipeg’s reputation and undoing some, but not all, of the goodwill established by running a superb Open.

Monday found the city busy resurfacing the only road leading to Niakwa Country Club in the St. Vital area. It certainly wasn’t the ideal day or week to undertake the oil, tar and pebbles project on that road surface.

— Campbell