
Former junior champ Luke Cote adds 2025 Saskatchewan Amateur title to his golf resume
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A first-time Amateur champ, at that.
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The 20-year-old golfer, who plays out of the Royal Regina Golf Club, captured the provincial men's golf crown Friday at the Humboldt Golf Club with a two-stroke victory over runner-up over 2025 Saskatchewan mid-Amateur champ Corey Bailey.
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Cote finished at 11-under-par over four days, shooting rounds of 69-70-65-73 for a total score of 277.
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'It's something I'll look back on and remember. Something to add to my resume, too. I'm super-excited about it. It was great.'
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Bailey, who won the mid-Am title one day earlier, finished at 9-under with a four-round score of 279 (64-71-74-70).
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Saskatoon's Ryan Mosher, who was the 2024 Saskatchewan junior championship winner, placed third overall at 8-under. Mosher was the only golfer in the field to shoot under-par every day with rounds of 70-71-70-69.
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'It's a field full of young guys,' said Cote. 'Lots of young guys from college. It's a really good field and I'm just super happy to get it done today.'
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Cote got it done despite some mid-round hiccups Friday that saw him take bogeys on No. 8 and No. 10, plus a double-bogey on Hole No. 12. However, he recovered with a birdie on No. 13 and played bogey-free golf the rest of the way. An eagle on the par 5 No. 16 helped him pull away from the pack for good.
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'That,' said Cote, 'was a really big putt after Corey made a great putt (for eagle). Just to make that one and keep the two-shot lead really gave me some good momentum going into (Hole) 17. It was really good.'
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Cote plans to return to Southern Arkansas with no desire to enter the transfer portal.
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'I'm happy with where I'm at right now,' he said.
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'I'm just going to keep playing and hopefully things keep going the way they are.'
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Saskatchewan will send nine golfers to the Canadian Amateur, slated for July 28-31 at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club & Rivermead Club de Golf in Gatineau, Quebec.
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Prince Albert's Danny Klughart, who was the Saskatchewan mid-Am champ a year ago and Saskatchewan Amateur champ in 2019, finished in a three-way tie for fourth with Saskatoon's Brett Leonard and Alex Swinnerton, all at 3-under-par.
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Klughart shot rounds of 73-71-70-69—285, while Leonard carded rounds of 70-76-68-71 and Swinnerton recorded scores of 70-69-71-75.

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