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PGA honours TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club

TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club and its head professional Amanda Minchin were honoured last Tuesday by PGA of Saskatchewan for their exceptional contributions to the game during the 2015 season.
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Amanda Minchin, bottom right, with her fellow employees of TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club.

TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club and its head professional Amanda Minchin were honoured last Tuesday by PGA of Saskatchewan for their exceptional contributions to the game during the 2015 season.

Minchin earned the PGA of Saskatchewan Teacher of the Year award for her dedication to improving the game of all who ask for her help. The award also recognized her teaching philosophy, her focus on increasing her own education of golf and the contributions she has made for professional development.

TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club was awarded the PGA of Saskatchewan Facility of the Year prize for staging a successful Saskatchewan Amateur Men’s Championship and PGA of Saskatchewan Championship in July along with developing a new atmosphere and era of success at the club a mere four years after being devastated by a flood.

“It’s very humbling,” said Minchin, who also won PGA of Saskatchewan awards for Assistant of the Year in 2012 and Junior Promoter of the Year in 2013. “When you get voted on something by your peers, people that are your colleagues and golf pros in Saskatchewan, that’s a very humbling experience. I’m very honoured to be a member of the PGA of Saskatchewan.”

Kyle Mulligan, general manager of TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club, said the course being voted as Facility of the Year is a high honour as it was nominated and voted on by other golf professionals and business industry people in the province. He said this is not an easy award to win because TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club was running against some high profile private and public courses such as Saskatoon’s Willows Golf and Country Club and Royal Regina.

“But in the eyes of the committee we were the course that was chosen that had the best season and operation throughout the year of 2015,” said Mulligan. “To me it’s the biggest award you can win. It doesn’t encompass one person. It encompasses the entire team at the golf course and in my opinion there is no bigger award that you can win as a golf facility.”

Mulligan said the award proves the hard work and dedication everyone did to bring the club and especially its back nine that suffered the most damage after the 2011 flood back to glory was worth it. He said receiving Facility of the Year honours only four years after the flood rewards the vision from the club’s board of directors to management to their members.

“What this does is it really reenergizes what we were about down here in southern Saskatchewan,” he said. “We are a major contender in the province. It gives us some provincial spotlight and it gives us the honour of saying we are the facility of the year for 2015 and it’s definitely something that we’re going to hold very near and dear to our hearts.”

Mulligan was also honoured by being nominated for Professional of the Year and for sportsmanship with the Bill Taylor Trophy, although it was Cooke Municipal Golf Club’s Darcy Myers and Deer Valley Golf and Estates’ John Greenough who ended up walking away with those trophies.

Minchin said being recognized for these personal and club awards are a testament to all the people that have supported them and their course. She said getting the Facility of the Year award shows they’ve made an impact on people across the province this year and opened everyone's eyes to what they can accomplish.

“As a member of the management team, I think we set the bar for us and we’re going to work harder to not only maintain that, but go above and beyond,” she said. “To get noticed from professionals at other golf clubs and to be voted Facility of the Year is pretty huge.”