EDMONTON - St. Albert's Shane O'Neill has won the Alberta Junior Order of Merit for 2008. O'Neill won this summer's Edmonton Junior by 10 shots and the RCGA's Future Links Western Championship by four shots.
O'Neill, who plays out of the Sturgeon Valley G&CC, accumulated 785 points to outdistance Calgary's Jack Wesche, runner-up in this past summer's Canadian Junior Boys Championship held at the Edmonton Petroleum G&CC. Also a winner of a Canadian Junior Golf Association tournament at Stony Plain and runner-up in the Alberta Junior/Juvenile held at Claresholm, O'Neill, 18, will be presented with an award at next week's annual Alberta Golf general meeting in Calgary.
SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
Congratulations, Shane, on another well-deserved honor. Maybe, just maybe, folks, one day we'll be able to cheer for Shane on the PGA Tour. You just never know.
