WINNIPEG — Another foursome will be added to the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame & Museum next month.
Garth Goodbrandson, Gord Lenton, Mauriel (Bremner) Rogers and Casmir Zabowski all make up the Class of 2016. Rogers and Zabowski will both be inducted posthumously.
“We are pleased to be able to recognize the outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the game by this year’s honoured members,” said Don MacDonald, President of the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame & Museum. “Their inclusion in the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame is a public and permanent recognition of all that they have done to advance the game of golf in the province.”
Goodbrandson was brought in by Golf Manitoba as its Director of Player Development in 1997, making him the first coach to be hired full-time by a provincial golf association. Goodbrandson has led more than 20 provincial teams since 1998. He also co-founded the University of Manitoba Bisons’ golf team in 1999. Goodbrandson later mentored the Bisons to a national championship in 2014, earning him the Canadian University Coach of the Year Award.
Lenton won both the Manitoba Senior Championship and Manitoba Rural Senior Championship twice during the 1980s. He was also the Senior ‘A’ Group Winner in the 1982 Canadian Senior Championship. Lenton finished as the low amateur in the Manitoba Open in back-to-back years in the 1960s and in the Quebec Open in 1971.
Rogers was the first Manitoban to win the Canadian Ladies’ Golf Union Open Championship in 1937. She capture the provincial women’s amateur title in 1932 and 1938.
Zabowski won the Manitoba Open three times, the Martimes Open four times, the Nova Scotia Open four times and the Saskatchewan Open once between 1936 and 1954. He also made the cut at the U.S. Open in 1937 and 1939.
The Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame & Museum’s 14th annual induction ceremony will take place September 19.
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