Glen Anthony Hnatiuk was born May 15, 1965, in Selkirk, honed his early golf skills at the Selkirk Golf and Country Club and went on to win more than $2,400,000 on the PGA Tour.
In his amateur days, Hnatiuk played in the Western Canada junior team matches and the Manitoba/Minnesota junior matches in 1982, won the Manitoba Men’s Amateur championship in 1986 and played on three provincial Willingdon Cup teams in 1985, 1986 and 1987. He was named Manitoba Amateur golfer of the year in 1987 and was a finalist in 1986.
In his collegiate years, he was on the University of Southern Mississippi golf team from 1984 to 1988, named to the All-Metro Conference team in 1988, had numerous top 10 finishes, won one individual championship and was team captain in his senior year. He was inducted into the University of Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
As a pro on the local scene, Hnatiuk was Manitoba Assistant Pro champion and MPGA champion in 1989, placed second in the Manitoba Open in 1990 and seventh in the Manitoba Open in 1991. He was MPGA player of the year in 1989. His mini-tour career featured leading money winner on the Emerald Coast tour in 1990, 1991, winner of the Jackson Open on the United States tour in 1990 and winner of the Disney World tournament on the Spalding Space Coast tour in 1993.
In his rookie season on the Nationwide Tour in 1992 he won the Mississippi Gulf Coast Classic, he played 28 events on the Nationwide Tour in 1993, then full seasons from 1993 to 1997, winning for the second and third times at the Carolina Classic and Utah Classic. He played full-time on the PGA Tour in 1998, winning $148,000. He won his fourth event on the Nationwide Tour, the Tri Cities Classic, in 1999. He finished with $583,773 in career earnings on the Nationwide Tour.
He was a full-time member of the PGA Tour in 2000 with two top-10s and five top-25s and $428,000 in earnings. In 2001, he had five top-25 finishes and more than $400,000 in earnings. In 2002, he had eight top-25s, led the St. Jude Classic for three rounds and won more than $500,000. He was a full-time PGA member in 2003, played only nine events in 2004 due to injury and was back on the tour in 2005, earning more than $650,000 in 2003-05. He played again on the Nationwide Tour in 2006.
Internationally, Hnatiuk teamed with Mike Weir to represent Canada in the 2000 EMC World Cup of Golf in Bella Vista, Argentina. With a team total of 272, Canada placed ninth in the event which was won by the U.S. team of Tiger Woods and David Duval.
Glen is an inductee into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame and Museum Inc., September 24, 2012.