The head professional and general manager at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Course knows a thing or two about how great the course is, and how far it’s come over the years.
Amanda Minchin learned to play the game and found her love of the sport at Woodlawn. She went through the club’s junior program, and is one of numerous graduates of the junior program to go onto bigger things in the golf world because of what she learned at Woodlawn.
Minchin graduated from the Estevan Comprehensvie School in June 2000 and went on to play Division 1 golf in the NCAA at Eastern Illinois University. She was a two-time tournament winner and three-time first team all-conference player at Eastern Illinois.
Minchin also won multiple Saskatchewan Junior Girls titles and twice finished second in the Saskatchewan Women’s Amateur.
She wound up on provincial teams and competed nationally for the first time at the 1998 Canadian Junior Girls.
Upon graduating from Eastern Illinois, Minchin gave tour life a shot, plying her trade on the old Canadian Women’s Tour and competing in mini-tour events.
Eventually she decided to return home to Estevan to become the assistant pro at Woodlawn, and was hired as the head pro in 2016.
She has held both the head pro and general manager titles since early 2018.
In 2015, she was named the PGA of Saskatchewan’s Teacher of the Year, and the following year, she was named PGA of Canada’s National Junior Promoter of the Year.
