Volunteers Needed For Jane Rogers Championship

After Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., became low Canadian at last week’s RBC Canadian Open, he will swing back on to the Canadian Tour, which resumes Aug. 12-15 when the ClubLink Jane Rogers Championship takes place at Greystone Golf Club, near Milton, Ont. The tournament is still looking for volunteers, scorers and caddies. If any [...]

Preparing For My Second Major At St. George’s

Keith Bartlett, the superintendent at St. George’s Golf and Country Club, has been contributing a regular GNN blog as he prepared the course for last week’s RBC Canadian Open. In this contribution, he looks back at the week that was and ahead to getting the course ready for the club championship, which gets underway Aug. [...]

Open Was A Positive Experience For St. George’s

Joe Murphy, general manager of the St. George’s Golf and Country Club, has been writing a regular blog leading up to this year’s RBC Canadian Open and now that it’s over, he deals with the experience from a club perspective and the question of whether St. George’s would consider hosting the national championship again.   [...]

Survey Says …

What’s your policy on staff play? Many golf courses see it as a way to reward a job well done, but it can be a challenge if you have members out on the course. Golf Business Canada, the magazine of the National Golf Course Owners Association of Canada, recently surveyed its readers to see how [...]

Memories From Half A Lifetime At Cottonwood

I’ve spent half my life at the Cottonwood Golf and Country Club, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and like anybody, an occasion such as that is cause to reflect. I started about three weeks after Cottonwood opened. I drove down here the third week in July of 1990, interviewed and started that day as [...]

Sunice Introduces New Pullovers

The Sunice Golf collection is designed to offer classic cuts, interesting contrasts and subtle detailing for a clean, contemporary feel, while providing comfort and freedom of movement to meet form and function. Its colour palette offers updated blues and reds to brighten collections of black, gray and navy. Poppy and Arctic highlights the men’s collection [...]

Responsible Wildlife Management

With increased urbanization, exposure to wildlife is on the rise, leading to golf course damage and more incidents of chance meetings with the public and staff members. What’s the best way to deal with wildlife issues, while maintaining a healthy balance with the environment? The new July/August issue of GreenMaster, the digital magazine of the [...]

PGA Tour Could Be A New World In 2012

As part of his role as tournament director of the RBC Canadian Open, Bill Paul endures questions to which he has no definitive answers, which was the case as Canada’s only PGA Tour stop wound down at St. George’s Golf and Country Club on Sunday. One of those questions was whether the 2010 host club [...]

Travel Is The Only Concern About Shaughnessy

As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, playing in the 2009 RBC Canadian Open was one of the most cherished experiences of my life and I hope to make it back there one day. It would be extra sweet if I could play in my own backyard in 2011 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in [...]

Pockets Galore In Hyper-Lite Bag

The new Hyper-Lite 3.0 Stand Bag from Callaway Golf has an eight-inch top with three-way divider, an Izzo double strap comfort system and a Xtra Traction Flex Foot base with stabilizing stand system. The Hyper-Lite 3.0 comes with seven pockets, including a fleece-lined valuables pocket, a waterproof pocket, full-length apparel pocket and fluid storage pocket. [...]

Open Emphasized Importance of Canadian Tour

When the greatest show on earth from a golfing perspective rolls into town, whether it’s St. George’s in Toronto this year or Shaughnessy in Vancouver in 2011, the denizens of this fine pastime tend to fall all over themselves in going goo-gah for the PGA Tour. It’s natural, I suppose, considering the obsession our society [...]

Saskatchewan Hall Announces Inductees

The Saskatchewan Golf Hall of Fame has announced the following people will become its first inductees at a ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 18, at the Willows Golf and Country Club in Saskatoon. Information is available by clicking here. The inaugural class will include the following: Gayle Borthwick (Player) Hubert Cooke (Builder) Barbara Danaher (Player) Margaret [...]

Skura Joins Core Academy

Former Canadian Tour player Bob Skura has been named director of mental performance by the Core Golf Junior Academy. “Bob brings the level of experience and expertise that we look for in our directors,” said Tom Jackson, director of instruction and founder of Core, which is based in Orlando. “We have long recognized the impact [...]

Final Leaderboard

Carl Pettersson made up a four-shot deficit in the final round of the RBC Canadian Open at St. George’s Golf and Country Club. The following are the leaders and the final scores of Canadian players: 2010 RBC Canadian Open 1.   Carl Pettersson       -14 2.   Dean Wilson           -13 3.   Luke Donald          -12 Canadians T37 Adam Hadwin       [...]

Carl Pettersson: RBC Canadian Open Champ

RBC Canadian Open winner Carl Pettersson talks about the big move from cut line to champion, shooting a 60 and how he feels St. George’s Golf and Country Club stood up to the PGA Tour. Click play below to watch the video. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view [...]

Dean Wilson -13

Dean Wilson had a four-shot lead going into the final round of the RBC Canadian Open, but saw it erased by Carl Pettersson, who went three-under on the day. Click play below to see what Wilson had to say. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please [...]

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