Three provincial champions were crowned Thursday at the Saskatchewan Amateur Golf Championships at Golf Kenosee.
Saskatoon’s Connor Scissons produced the round of the tournament, firing a course-record 9-under 63 that featured seven birdies and an eagle to erase a seven-shot deficit and capture the Men’s Mid-Amateur (25+) championship. Scissons finished at 5-under, one shot ahead of Kipling-born Carson Harcourt after Harcourt narrowly missed a birdie putt on the 18th hole that would have forced a playoff. Jesse Gibson finished third to earn the final Team Saskatchewan berth for the Canadian Mid-Amateur Championship.
Scissons‘ remarkable round also vaulted him 20 spots up the Men’s Amateur leaderboard, leaving him tied for the lead heading into Friday’s final round with 15-year-old Pilot Butte standout Austin Nesbitt. Nesbitt carded a 3-under 69 on Thursday, while Drayjon Sparvier, Harcourt and Ethan Hunter sit one shot back, setting up a tightly contested finish in the 72-hole championship.
On the women’s side, 16-year-old Grace Odnokon added another provincial title to her growing resume, capturing the Saskatchewan Women’s Amateur Championship just one week after winning both the Under-19 and Under-17 provincial titles in Warman. After opening the tournament with an 81, the Saskatoon product battled back to catch Regina’s Alex Schmidt before edging her by one shot. Odnokon also made history by joining her mother, Carla, as the first mother-daughter duo to win the Saskatchewan Women’s Amateur title.
Despite narrowly missing out on the amateur crown, Schmidt left Kenosee with a championship of her own, cruising to the Women’s Mid-Amateur title by 27 shots with a three-round total of 235. Kyle’s Chloe Wills finished third in the Women’s Amateur Championship after posting the low round of the day with a 3-over 76, earning a spot on Team Saskatchewan for the national championship.
The fourth and final round of the Men’s Amateur Championship gets underway Friday morning at Golf Kenosee.
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