As noted early last week, Elmwood Golf Club professionals Brennan Rumancik and Jeff Chambers will be serving in different roles starting in 2019.

Chambers, the former head pro is shifting to Teaching Professional, while Rumancik is making the jump from Associate Professional to Chambers' former head pro role.

The Swift Current course now sports the two-time - and reigning - PGA of Sask 'Player of the Year' as its Head Pro. Not to mention, the Teaching Professional has been named 'Junior Promoter of the Year' and'Teacher of the Year', and is the reigning PGA of Canada 'Coach of Year'.

It's a pair of pretty notable roles for the Elmwood duo ahead of the club's Centennial season.

Rumancik

"It's always something that I've worked towards, and I'm extremely grateful for," said Rumancik. "I'm really looking forward to the opportunity. Having 'Head Pro' behind your name is certainly a nice feather in your cap, but there's a lot of work to do, and I'm excited to get to that."

Rumancik has long served under Chambers, and this is his first taste of life fully gripping the reins at Elmwood.

"I shared a photo on Twitter of Jeff and I, I think I was in grade 10, and we were in the Juvenile Golf Championships in Grande Prairie," he said. "He was my coach at that time, we kind of worked together until grade 12, and we've worked together ever since."

"This is my tenth year now (at Elmwood), and to be working with a guy like that, you just learn so much. He's just such a great guy, and he know his stuff really well. So for me to be working under him for the last nine years, nothing but great things to say about Jeff. He's going to succeed at whatever he does, and I know he's going to do great in his Teaching Professional role for sure."

Though it's the first full season as the Head Pro for Rumancik, the idea for the shift had been in the works for a few years now for he and Chambers, with some of the duties being handed over last season.

"I was doing quite a bit last year with Jeff moving more into a teaching role, so I'm a little bit familiar with it for sure. With Jeff kind of going into an 80/20 role last year, that forced me to do a couple extra things that I wasn't already doing already."

"So, by having him do that, it just made it a little bit easier coming into this year. Obviously there's new things that I have to do this year, but there's no question that made it a little bit easier for sure."

Rumancik said he expects the enjoyable working relationship to continue between he and Chambers, and that he's happy the former Head Pro can settle into a role like this.

"He's by far the best teacher, in my opinion, in the province, and in Canada - he's that good of a teacher. It only makes sense for Jeff to start moving into that role. He's just so good at what he does, and he's been looking forward to this for a long time. It's great for him, I'm excited to jump into the opportunity as well."

Chambers

For Chambers, the idea and need for the move was born out of a battle to fit what seems like 30+ hours into a 24-hour day.

"It was really hard for me to basically turn people down because I had no time. I'm in a lot of different areas in what I do in my career," he noted. "I run a Maple Leaf Junior Tour, I like to play myself and still compete, and I just found I couldn't do everything."

Though it's a new title for Chambers, he was quick to point out that the home base and interactions with golfers will still continue.

"I'm still here - I'm still helping everybody everybody that walks through the door - it's just that the day-to-day stuff Brennan will be looking after."

"Now I can take more time to do teaching and coaching. That's the area that I feel that I'm really good at, whereas all that paper work, the tracking, the planning, it wasn't my strong point anyways."

"To have Brennan doing it, and with his new creative ideas, I think it's a home run for the Elmwood Golf Club."

Though, with the same office in the club house, Chambers will also now be able to log more hours at the academy that bears his name, tucked on the left-hand side of the driving range at Elmwood.

With extended academy hours, comes the obvious chance for more extensive sessions with, for lack of a more fitting term, his juggernaut team of junior golfers.

"I have about 20 competitive kids (up to age 18) in the province," he said. "Some of them are at the top - the provincial champion for one of them, and then basically the Top 10 I have about 7 of them. They travel a long way - I think I have 15 kids that travel over two-and-a-half hours to come see me at any given time. So, I can't just say 'Yeah I'll give you an hour'... I have to give them some time to make it worth their trip down."