The Saskatchewan Men’s Amateur Golf Championship has a new champion, and he’s only 15 years old.<\/p>\n
Fifteen-year-old Austin Nesbitt is the new Saskatchewan Men’s Amateur golf champion.<\/p>\n
The Pilot Butte product capped off an impressive week at Golf Kenosee by firing a final-round 2-under 70 on Friday to capture the 2026 Saskatchewan Men’s Amateur Championship by one shot to become the youngest winner ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nesbitt finished the 72-hole event at 7-under par, edging Regina’s Drayjon Sparvier and first-round co-leader Ethan Hunter of Casa Rio, who both finished at 6-under with four-round totals of 282.<\/p>\n
Nesbitt and Sparvier traded the lead throughout the final round before Nesbitt rolled in a pivotal birdie on the 15th hole to move ahead. He carried a one-shot advantage to the par-3 18th, where both players made bogey, allowing Nesbitt to secure the provincial title.<\/p>\n
Saskatoon’s Max Regier, Aricin Franklin and Men’s Mid-Amateur champion Connor Scissons tied for fourth place.<\/p>\n
The Saskatchewan Men’s Amateur Championship wrapped up a busy week at Golf Kenosee, where four provincial championships were decided.<\/p>\n
The top 10 finishers from Friday\u00a0earned spots in the 121st Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship, scheduled for July 27-30 at Mickelson National Golf Club in Calgary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saskatchewan Men’s Amateur Golf Championship has a new champion, and he’s only 15 years old. Fifteen-year-old Austin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-810226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810226","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=810226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}