Despite logging a bogey on the final hole, Gligic edged four other golfers by one stroke to win the event and the $7,000 prize money that goes with it.

“I looked at the leader board on the 18th hole and thought I needed a birdie because one of the guys had a stroke on me,” he said. “But maybe I was over-aggressive or something and I got the bogey. I thought it was over.”

Fortunately for Gligic, the cold, rainy conditions during last Wednesday’s second round at the Brantford Golf and Country Club hampered his opponents as well. Gligic’s identical rounds of 73 for a two-over par total of 146 — the highest winning score ever in this event — was just good enough.

“I was in the clubhouse already and one of the guys needed a birdie to force a playoff and he parred the 18th,” said Gligic.

Included in the four-way tie for second was another Burlington golfer, David Banks.

At 19, Gligic figures he was the youngest golfer in the field, which included 38 professionals and nine GLT amateurs.

It has been a successful season for the M. M. Robinson High School graduate, his first on the pro tour.

Fourth at Q-School

A consistent top-10 finisher on the GLT, Gligic earned exempt status for the 2009 Canadian pro tour by finishing fourth at the fall Q-School tournament at Royal Ashburn last month.

His win at the Moe Norman Cup vaulted him into seventh place on the Order of Merit standings.

Gligic calls two courses home, Burlington’s Hidden Lake and Mississauga’s Credit Valley, and is coached by Sean Foley, also of Burlington, and Conor O’Shea. Pin High and Acushnet Canada are his main sponsors.

A trip to Florida in November to work on his game is Gligic’s only plans for the foreseeable future.

“The money will help with that,” he said. “I won’t be in any serious competitions until the Canadian tour starts again.”