BRANTFORD, Ontario \u2014 NHL referee Garrett Rank won his fourth Canadian Men\u2019s Mid-Amateur Championship on Friday, breaking a last-hole tie with a six-foot par putt at Brantford Golf & Country Club.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Rank, from Waterloo, Ont., closed with a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke victory. He finished at 18-under 270. Third-round leader Evan Nachtigall of Brandon, Man., bogeyed the last for a 72 to drop into second.<\/p>\n
“As soon as I saw my ball was on the back of the green, I knew it was a good time for lag putt to try and two putt, and luckily enough I was able to make the 6-footer at the end to win,\u201d said Rank, who worked his first Stanley Cup Finals as a referee this year.<\/p>\n
Rank\u2019s previous Canadian men\u2019s mid-am wins came three years in a row from 2014-16. He has five national titles, also winning the 2012 Canadian College\/University Individual Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a huge honour,” Rank said. \u201cWinning a golf tournament is never easy. To do it four times is pretty special. I think it\u2019s been 10 years since I last did it so to do it close to home in a place like Brantford is something that I will remember for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rank received a spot into the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Sand Valley Resort in Nekoosa, Wisc., in late September and early October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRANTFORD, Ontario \u2014 NHL referee Garrett Rank won his fourth Canadian Men\u2019s Mid-Amateur Championship on Friday, breaking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-867476","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\/867476","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=867476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}