His interest in golf began as a teen-age caddie at St. Charles Country Club in the late 1920s and he was 18 before he played the game but Harold (Hal) Eidsvig made a big mark in the annals of golf in Manitoba.
Born in Winnipeg Feb. 26, 1914, he established an enviable record along the way. He was a member of Pine Ridge Golf Club when he won the Manitoba Amateur championship in 1946, then followed that with another Amateur crown in 1947.
He also won the Manitoba Open championship in 1947 and became a golf professional that same year at Assiniboine Golf Club, serving that club through the 1949 season. He moved on to Niakwa Country Club and served as pro there until his death in 1959.
Three more Manitoba Open championships were won by Eidsvig in 1949, 1952 and 1955.
Harold Eidsvig was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 and is an inductee into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame and Museum Inc., September 28, 2015.