Garth Collings was born in Winnipeg April 15, 1958, and began his golfing career as a junior player at Assiniboine Golf Club, where he won the club’s junior championship three times and the men’s championship twice. He also won the Bel Acres Golf and Country Club men’s championship once before moving to Breezy Bend Country Club in 1970, where he has claimed the men’s championship 15 times.
On the provincial scene, his record includes 14 appearances on Manitoba Willingdon Cup Teams and 10 appearances on the Manitoba Mid-Amateur Teams.
He was a Manitoba Willingdon Cup team member in 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was on the Manitoba Mid – Amateur team in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
He was winner of the Manitoba Amateur championship twice (1987 and 1994) and was runner-up four times. He won the Manitoba Mid-Amateur championship five times (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006) and was runner-up twice. He won the Manitoba Match Play championship in 1996 and was runner-up the following year. He also won the Grey Owl golf title at Clear Lake seven times between 1997 and 2007 and travelled to Saskatchewan to win that province’s Mid-Amateur championship four times in succession from 2003 to 2006.
Collings was nominated as a finalist for the Manitoba Amateur Golfer of the Year honours 13 times and was the winner of that award four times (1999, 2003, 2005 and 2006).
On the national scene, he was a member of Manitoba’s winning Willingdon Cup team in 1995 and Manitoba’s winning Mid-Amateur team in 2005. He won the Canadian Club Champions Championship in 2003 and was runner-up in 1994. He won the Canadian Mid-Amateur Championship in 2003.
On the international scene, Collings played twice for Team Canada – in 1997 in Costa Rica and 2003 in Argentina.
Garth Collings is an inductee into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., September 22, 2008.