Callaway CEO Resigns

After nearly six years as president and chief executive officer of Callaway Golf, George Fellows has resigned. Callaway has named Anthony S. Thornley in the interim to take over in Fellows’ former role. Thornley has served on Callaway’s board since 2004 and has been the chair of the board’s audit committee. For more information, click [...]

Waterloo Event Needs Fast Planning

These probably won’t be the first suggestions thrown at Hugh Morrow, the CEO and chairman of Sports Properties International, or the good folks at Manulife Financial, and I’ll bet you a tankard of ale at Oktoberfest, the annual German beer bash in Kitchener-Waterloo, they won’t be the last. Now that Canada’s second LPGA Tour event in Waterloo is official, even [...]

Winning Is All In The Family At Tour Finale

Amateur Jessica Wallace of Langley, B.C., carded a final round, even-par 72 and went on to defeat Kirby Dreher of Fort St. John, B.C., in a one-hole playoff to capture the season’s third and final event on the 2011 CN Canadian Women’s Tour at Blue Springs Golf Club in Acton, Ont. Wallace carded three birdies [...]

Happy Canada Day/Fourth Of July

Happy Canada Day and to our friends in the United States, Happy Fourth of July on Monday. Assuming there are no breaking news stories, GNN will be taking the day off on Friday to celebrate Canada’s birthday, but over the weekend, we’ll be providing round by round coverage of the Montreal Championship. In the meantime, [...]

Hard To Define Versatile iPING App

Conflict management was necessary as I took strokes in the PING Canada office on the border between Mississauga and Oakville, Ont., last week under the watchful eye of Bob Elliot, who had attached his iPhone to the shaft for a demo of the new iPING putter app. That download, which you can read about by [...]

Second LPGA Tour Event For Canada

WATERLOO, Ont. — Canada has a second LPGA Tour event to go along with the CN Canadian Women’s Open. Manulife Financial has made a three-year commitment to title sponsorship, with a two-year option on an event that will first be played the week of June 18-24, 2012. It will be a 72-hole, full field stroke [...]

Shepley Back On Top At Final Tour Event

Jessica Shepley of Oakville, Ont., shot a three-under-par 69 to take the opening-round lead at the season’s third and final CN Canadian Women’s Tour event at Blue Springs Golf Club in Acton, Ont. Shepley, who secured a champion’s exemption into the 2011 CN Canadian Women’s Open with a victory at the season-opening event in Squamish, [...]

Faceoffs And Tee-Offs On Tour

National Hockey League alumni will be involved in a pro-am at the Canadian Tour Championship on Aug. 23 at the Ambassador Golf Club in Windsor, Ont. “Our alumni are excited to get involved with the Canadian Tour in such a great city like Windsor,” said Mark Napier, who played for Montreal, Edmonton, Minnesota and Buffalo. [...]

New LPGA Tour Event To Be Announced

A new LPGA Tour event for Canada will be announced at a press conference in Waterloo, Ont., Tuesday, where more specifics will be announced. The new event is expected to be played at Grey Silo in that city west of Toronto, beginning next year. GNN will be at the press conference. Watch for more details [...]

Open’s Stock Is Rising On Tour

Back in the summer of 2007, what is now the RBC Canadian Open was a shadow of the event that’s coming up in a few weeks at Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club. Four years after dipping to one of its lowest points in the long history of the tournament, this year’s Open features players [...]

Cleveland/Srixon Goes To The Max In Quebec

Industry veteran Max Oxford has joined Cleveland Golf/Srixon Canada as territory manager for all green grass accounts in Quebec. Oxford has worked in the golf industry for over 40 years, serving in various capacities from head professional to national sales manager for Acushnet Canada. He has also served on the board of directors for the [...]

Industry Notes: June 28, 2011

Skycaddie, distributed in Canada by Jancor Agencies, now supports multiple languages, including French-Canadian. Anyone with an existing unit can do a simple update for the language of their choice … The CN Canadian Women’s Tour concludes it season with its final stop at Blue Springs Golf Club in Acton, Ont., beginning Tuesday. The winner will [...]

Will Young Guns Fire Up Participation?

The pompous pundits have been preaching from their pulpits about the perils of predicting premier status for U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy. Of course, public predictions prior to the McIlroy’s victory were that he would still be devastated by his final round Masters meltdown, so besides being off-base on that assessment, the columnists and bloggers [...]

CPGA Rankings Update

As expected, Danny King has jumped from No. 3 to No. 1 in the Canadian PGA player rankings released after the recent playing of the PGA Championship of Canada at Cottonwood Golf and Country Club near Calgary. For more on King’s move up the rankings, click here. Tournament champion Vincent Dumouchel made a huge jump [...]

Who Won In Alberta? That Sahl Folks

After 79 starts on the Canadian Tour without a win, Danny Sahl of Sherwood Park, Alta., not only won his first Canadian Tour event, but did it in convincing fashion in his home province. Starting the day at 14-under-par for the tournament Sahl shot two-under-par 70 en route to a 16-under-par total at the Syncrude [...]

World No. 1 Will Be At Shaughnessy

World No. 1 Luke Donald, Masters champ Charl Schwartzel and British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen highlight a list of players confirmed for the RBC Canadian Open being played July 21-24 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club in Vancouver. Defending Canadian Open champ Carl Pettersson also joins a field that includes Matt Kuchar, Paul Casey, Anthony [...]

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