Warren Sye

Category: Amateur Player

Warren Sye

Inducted: 2016

In 1986, Warren Sye would set the standard against which Canadian teams at the World Amateur Team Championship would be measured. He, alongside three teammates, became Canada’s first team to claim victory in the international competition – a feat which has yet to be matched 30 years later. Sye’s provincial success included five Ontario Amateur Championship titles between 1988 and 1996, as well as Ontario Champion of Champions victories in 1983 and 1991. At the national level, Sye is one-of-seventeen individuals to capture two-or-more Canadian Men’s Amateur Championships (1990 and 1994).

Sye’s extraordinary accomplishments as an amateur golfer were recognized by SCOREGolf Magazine, winning their “Male Amateur Golfer of the Year” award in 1985, 1990, 1994 and 1996.

 

Provincial:

  • 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996 Ontario Amateur Champion (runner-up in 1989 and 1992)
  • 2012 Ontario Senior Champion
  • 1983, 1991   Ontario Champion of Champions
  • 1979, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Eastern Ontario Amateur Champion
  • 1984 Western Ontario Amateur Champion
  • Ontario George S. Lyon Team Champion winners: 1981, 1983, 1991
  • Member of 9 Ontario Willingdon Cup Teams
  • 1977 and 1978 Ontario Open, Low Amateur
  • 1969 and 1970 Father and Son Champions

National:

  • 1990, 1994 Canadian Amateur Champion
  • 1981, 1990, 1992, 1994 Member of 4 winning Willingdon Cup Teams

International:

  • 1985  Simon Bolivar Cup, 2nd place Team, 3rd place Individual
  • 1986 Winning World Amateur Team Championship (Caracas, Venezuela)
  • 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994 World Amateur Team Championship team member
  • 1987, 1989, 1993 Pacific Rim Team Matches team member
  • 1995 US Mid-Amateur Championship, runner-up
  • 1994, 1997 (winner), 1998 International Team Matches for the Carlos A. Raffo Cup
  • 1997 Individual Champion for the Manuel Prado Cup

Awards:

1985, 1990, 1994, 1996 SCOREGolf Award Male Amateur Golfer

1986 Federation of Canada’s “Sport Team of the Year” Award

Inducted to Ontario Golf Hall of Fame in 2003

Inducted to Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame in 2003

 

Resources:

Photos of Warren Sye from our collection.