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By Ben Tompkins

Dominant Run

Spiritwood’s Turgeon wins third straight mid-masters

Jul 29, 2025 | 6:00 AM

A local golfer continued his dominant run late last week, winning his third consecutive Provincial Title.

Spiritwood’s Todd Turgeon captured the Men’s Mid-Masters Championships with a final round of 66 (6 under par), which gave him the three-shot win in the end, after trailing by one stroke, entering the third round.

“I don’t think I’d call it a walk in the park,” Turgeon said in response to paNOW. “I’ve just been fortunate enough to play well when needed to and making my share of putts. Everybody’s got chances, it’s just who makes the most putts sometimes.”

“I can’t say that I feel I’ve had more pressure each year… down the stretch, you think about it a little bit more, but never too bad.”

With the victory, which came at the Chinook Golf Course in Swift Current, Turgeon earned a berth in the National Mid-Amateur Championships.

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Turgeon has attended the Canadian event before, however, work kept him from it last year, and it might this year as well.

“It’s just work, we have jobs that we have to attend to, and I’m trying to get out of my work week that week. Just with the rules of work, sometimes you have to wait, and I won’t know for a week, so I kind of told them to move on. If they don’t find anybody, there’s a chance I get to go still, but as of right now, I probably might not be going, unfortunately, but that’s just the way it goes,” Turgeon added.

“Two years ago, when I went, it was my fourth or fifth nationals I’ve been to, so I’ve been to a few in the past. It’s always exciting just to go compete at another level and take a trip somewhere you’ve never been. This year, it’s in North Vancouver, so it would be exciting to go, but we’ll see. I still might get to go, but as of right now, it might not happen. Nice to go visit somewhere you’ve never been, that’s the biggest thing, see some new part of the world, and its golf course, and meet new people.”

Last year, Turgeon won at the Evergreen Golf Course in Nipawin, with the prior year coming at Cooke Municipal in Prince Albert. Those two courses he was quite familiar with, however, as far as Chinook was concerned, he had never played it.

“I don’t think I felt too much of a disadvantage. I got there a day early and made sure to take my time to learn it. I also don’t think I felt more pressure because I don’t go into this event really thinking I’m gonna win it… obviously, I do try to win it though, and it is a tournament that I’m definitely trying to play every year, now that I’ve been doing well,” Turgeon concluded.

“Knowing you’ve been in the position before and performed under pressure helps the nerves a little bit, and you just try to live shot by shot… you just can’t get too far ahead of yourself or too far behind. You can’t think about what happened last hole or what will happen on the next hole because that’s when you get complacent.”

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