Curtis Stock: Thomas overcomes weather to win Alberta Mid-Amateur

Weather. All kinds of it — howling wind, hard rain and the occasional sunny day — was the story of local golf last week.
On the bad weather front, Edmonton’s Neil Thomas didn’t let persistent rain hold him back taking the three-day Alberta Mid-Amateur after a four-hole playoff with Lacombe’s Tom Mckinlay Jr. at Grande Prairie’s Golf and Country Club.
Thomas made a 20-foot birdie on the final playoff hole while Mckinlay Jr. barely missed a six-footer that would