{"id":70642,"date":"2025-08-15T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70642\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:25:10","slug":"jets-eric-comrie-invited-to-compete-at-pga-tour-americas-manitoba-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70642\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets’ Eric Comrie invited to compete at PGA Tour Americas Manitoba Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winnipeg Jets<\/a> may have another two-sport athlete on their hands. <\/p>\n

Goaltender Eric Comrie<\/a> is the latest Jets player to be invited to hit the links for the Manitoba Open, an official PGA Tour Americas Fortinet Cup event, the team announced Thursday. <\/p>\n

Comrie has been granted a sponsor’s exemption and will compete as an amateur alongside professionals. The tournament will take place from Aug. 21-24 at the Breezy Bend Country Club, just outside Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

“I’m very excited to play in this year’s Manitoba Open. Golf has become such a passion of mine in recent years and the opportunity to play with professionals who are on the verge of becoming tomorrow’s stars is a special opportunity,” Comrie said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“I’m really looking forward to the challenge of competing in such an important event to the community of Winnipeg and Manitoba.”<\/p>\n

It’s become a tradition for the Jets to send a player to the Manitoba Open, with Mark Scheifele in 2018 and 2022, Kyle Connor in 2019, and Morgan Barron in 2023 all gearing up for the four-day tournament.<\/p>\n

The Manitoba Open and the Winnipeg Jets\/True North Sports & Entertainment began its partnership in 2013 after the PGA Tour acquired the Canadian Tour, rebranding it to the PGA Tour Canada.<\/p>\n

American Johnny Keefer won the tournament in 2024, with Jets invitee Dylan Samberg unable to make the cut after finishing with a plus-10.<\/p>\n

The tournament, which dates back to 1919, has had champions that include Moe Norman, George Knudson and current PGA Tour player C.T. Pan.<\/p>\n

PGA Tour Americas serves as a developmental circuit, with its top players moving on to the Korn Ferry Tour and potentially the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

— With files from the Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets may have another two-sport athlete on their hands. Goaltender Eric Comrie is the latest Jets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-70642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}