Warren Sye is a Canadian amateur golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

er who has won several important championships.

Biography

Sye was born Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. He began playing at a young age at the Weston Golf Club in Toronto, where his father, a low-handicap player, had a membership. He attended the University of Houston

University of Houston

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 on a golf scholarship, graduating in 1980. While there, he was a teammate with players such as Fred Couples

Fred Couples

Frederick Steven Couples is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. A former World No. 1, he has won numerous events, most notably the 1992 Masters Tournament. In August 2011 he won his maiden senior major at the Senior Players Championship...

, Blaine McCallister

Blaine McCallister

Blaine McCallister is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour....

, and Jim Nantz

Jim Nantz

James William Nantz, III is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his work with CBS Sports television.-Early life:...

.

Sye was a member of the Canadian team which won the Eisenhower Trophy

Eisenhower Trophy

The Eisenhower Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. It is named for Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States when the tournament was first played, who was a keen amateur golfer. Recent tournaments have...

 in Venezuela

Venezuela

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 in 1986, along with Brent Franklin

Brent Franklin

Brent Franklin is a former Canadian professional golfer.-Biography:Franklin was born in Barrie, Ontario. He was coached in golf by Jack McLaughlin as a youth, and first came to prominence when he won the 1981 Vancouver City Match Play Championship as a 15-year-old amateur, to become the youngest...

, Mark Brewer, and Jack Kay Jr.

Sye has won the Canadian Amateur Championship

Canadian Amateur Championship

The Canadian Amateur Championship, begun in 1895, is the men's amateur golf championship of Canada. It is staged annually by the Royal Canadian Golf Association. It was played at match play until 1968, went to stroke play beginning in 1969, and reverted to match play in 1995...

 twice, in 1990 at his home course, Weston Golf Club, and in 1994 at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Also, Sye finished third in the Canadian Amateur in 1988. He has won the Ontario Amateur Championship five times, the first time in 1988 at the Board of Trade Club (West Course), where he crushed the field with an 11-stroke margin over the runner-up. Sye finished as runner-up in the 1998 U.S. Mid-Amateur, held at NCR Country Club in Kettering, Ohio

Kettering, Ohio

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, losing in the match play

Match play

Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...

 final to John "Spider" Miller.

Sye broke the longstanding course record at the Hamilton club with a round of 62, smashing the previous mark of 64, which had been first set in 1930 by Tommy Armour

Tommy Armour

Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot.Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh....

, and then tied in 1977 by Jim Nelford

Jim Nelford

Jim Nelford is a Canadian professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour. He has also been a golf commentator for ESPN....

. The Weston Golf Club has conferred honorary life membership upon Sye. He currently works as a sales representative in the golf industry, and has remained an amateur

Amateur

An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training....

golfer playing recreationally, while taking a break from the competitive golf scene in recent seasons.