Mike Weir, Canada’s only male major championship winner, entered Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday alongside hockey legend Lanny McDonald, and Olympic skating star Cindy Klassen, among others.

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Weir, who famously won the 2003 Masters, along with seven other PGA Tour wins, entered the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2009. At the time, he felt it was too early; he was only 39 and felt there was a lot of his career ahead of him.

“This feels a little bit different,” says Weir from his home in Utah after dropping his youngest daughter at school. “I’m a bit more comfortable with this one. It is a great honour.”

Having recently worked as an assistant captain on the Presidents Cup International Team, Weir deserves his spot in Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. With eight wins, he’s tied for the most victories by a Canadian with the late George Knudson. But it was the quality of those wins that raises the Canadian left-hander from Brights Grove, Ont., into a group of the greatest athletes in the country’s history. After breaking through by winning the Air Canadian Championship in 1999, he followed it with wins at the World Golf Championship in Spain, as well as twice coming out on top at the Nissan Open, which was held at the legendary Riviera Country Club.

It was the Masters win in a playoff over Len Mattiace that elevated Weir to among the best in the world.

Now he’s a member of an elite group of Canadian athletes, and Weir is pleased he’s been given the recognition.

“I’m thrilled to be included,” Weir says. “It is an amazing recognition.”