Allan Boes
One of Manitoba’s best-known amateur golfers, Allan Boes had particular domination over the provincial golf scene during the 1940s.
Four times – in 1941, 1943, 1944 and 1948 – this long-time member of Southwood Golf and Country Club captured both the Manitoba Open and Manitoba Amateur championships. He played on Manitoba’s Willingdon Cup team 10 times and it could have been many more but that competition was suspended from 1940 to 1945 because of the war.
Allan was on the provincial team in 1933 and 1934, returned in 1938 and 1939, then was on six consecutive teams after the war, from 1946 through 1951.
In addition to his four double-championship years in the 1940’s, he added a Manitoba senior championship to his long list of accomplishments in 1968.
He was a life member at Southwood and was that club’s champion 15 times, including a stretch of 10 in a row.
Allan was the first golfer to be inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1983 and he is an inaugural inductee into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame & Museum Inc., September 29, 2003.