Liberty National takes a hit, LPGA stupidity continues and Richdale skips Open to collect her card
Poor Liberty National. Throw a big PGA Tour party in the shadows of the Statue of Liberty, and the thanks you get is very public whining from some of the best players in the world.
Consider these two gems from a couple of cowardly anonymous players:
“It’s like this beautiful birthday cake you bring into the room and slice into pieces, everyone takes a bite and realizes there’s [****] inside.”
“If it was a fish, I’d throw it back.”
At least Robert Allenby put his name on his quote when asked his thoughts on the track:
“I really don’t know how to answer that in the right way, because I could really get myself into a lot of trouble.”
As could be expected, Padraig Harrington was once again the classy one of the bunch, offering this take:
“This is a phenomenal golf course,” Harrington said, unprompted. “I think this is good enough for a major. This is a major golf course we are playing here, this is a superb test.”
Enough, boys. Sometimes it sucks, we know, when a golf course actually bites back instead of laying down for an 18 or 20-under winning score. Golf is meant to be a test. Just play the game, collect your payday and try to keep your mouths shut if you can’t support those who help make life pretty damn easy for you.
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Carolyn Bivens may be long gone, but the lunacy remains.
Golf’s head-scratcher of the week comes courtesy of – who else – the LPGA Tour, who decided to implement the lift-clean-and-place rule in the first cut of rough at the Safeway Classic.
Uh, who cares how cracked the ground is in the rough? That is why you don’t hit it there. The LCP rule is meant to “reward” players that hit good shots in bad conditions - meaning the fairway. You don’t hit the fairway, you don’t get a preferred lie. It’s pretty simple.
Well, to most, anyway.
It turns out officials at Pumpkin Ridge were less than impressed, for good reason.
The ghost of Bivens, apparently, lives on.
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For those wondering why rising Canadian star Samantha Richdale won’t be at this week’s CN Canadian Women’s Open, there’s a good reason.
Richdale, a two-time winner on the Duramed FUTURES Tour this season, has locked up a full ride on the LPGA Tour for 2010.
As part of the deal, however, she has to be at the FUTURES Tour’s season-ending ILOVENY Championship to be presented with her LPGA card – and that event runs side-by-side with the Canadian Open.
Richdale was granted an exemption into the Safeway Classic – fitting, how the 25-year-old from Kelowna, BC once worked as a clerk for the supermarket chain.
FedEx Cup Playoffs still desperate attempt to make something out of nothing
Buckle up, kiddies. It’s playoff time on the PGA Tour.
OK, so The Barclays doesn’t exactly have that World Series, that Super Bowl-esque feel to it. Even with the changes to its format, the FedEx Cup playoffs are, well, just a cheap marketing ploy – and not a very effective one – at keeping us somewhat interested in these dog days of the golf season.
With NFL football just a couple of Sundays away, the PGA Tour somehow feels the need to make a phantom post season that will somehow keep fans tuned in.
The concept isn’t wasted – just the format.
When Adam Scott – a guy that has made one cut since the end of June with a scoring average in his past two events pushing 76 – makes the “playoffs”, something is amiss. Scott is the Washington Nationals of the PGA Tour, and yet he is rewarded with a spot in the, ahem, playoffs.
Troy Matteson does not have a single top ten this year, yet there he is at The Barclays.
The PGA Tour tries to cram the FedEx Cup down our throats. “This is our Super Bowl”, the commercials bellow. Hmmm. So what does that make The Masters? U.S. Open? The Open Championship? Golf has its playoffs in the form of four majors – it just so happens they are spread out over the spring and summer, and not the tail end of the schedule.
You put lipstick on a pig, well, it’s still…you know the rest.
After taking some intense criticism when Vijay Singh just had to show up at the final event to win the FedEx Cup a year ago, the PGA Tour made some changes to the format that, if nothing else, will ensure a little drama for The TOUR Championship.
But they’ve still got it wrong.
The FedEx Cup playoffs should be, like any other sport, reserved for the best. Win or go home. If you have to drag the golf playoff season over a month, do it the elimination way. Start with 80 players. Top 50 move on, then 30 –give or take – so the final event is, say, a 12-man match play field. Sunday afternoon, the last two go head-to-head for the crown.
Give us a reason to remain interested.
Anything else is simply not the post-season.
Just a desperate attempt to make something out of nothing.
Desjardins Montreal Open first-class - in every way
They made not play for multi-million dollar purses, get 50,000 out following in their gallery or drive BMW courtesy cars, but you would have been hard-pressed to realize anything minor-league about the Canadian Tour show in Montreal last week.
Nothing but class.
OK, so I am a bit biased, perhaps, seeing how I spent about seven seasons as the Media Director with the tour, but there was a very PGA-esque feel with the Desjardins Montreal Open, from pro ams featuring Vincent Lecavalier and Yvan Cournoyer to corporate tents, from Chez Reavie and Hank Haney to Jason Zuback and Sunday galleries in the thousands.
Chilean long-bomber Hugo Leon, a seven-time South American champion at various levels, posted an 11-under 60 Friday at a golf course measuring over 7,000 yards and was a few rotations of a ball – as in about a foot – from converting his eagle attempt on his second-last hole. No need to be reminded what number that would have meant.
But it was Sunday afternoon, in the waning moments of the week, that stole the show.
As Stuart Anderson walked up the final fairway with a four-shot lead, his third Canadian Tour championship all but mailed in, Leon, playing in the final group with the 6’6 teddy bear from Victoria-via-Alberta, wrapped his arm over his friend’s shoulder and said something that only the two will know. Anderson did the same and then they walked, two close friends from different worlds, up the fairway of the par-5 closing hole.
It began with a few starting to clap at the show of friendship taking place a couple hundred yards away. The applause grew louder and by the time they were forty feet from the green everyone around the final hole, in the hospitality tents, walking behind the players in a wall of humanity, were standing, shaking Saint-Raphael Golf Club.
The chills told you were watching something special.
And when it was over, after Leon had given Anderson another warm hug and shared a few more words, they talked.
As soon as Anderson began his post-round interview with the Montreal media, the tears came. He couldn’t get the words out, for a wife, for his two young daughters, back home.
“I’m at a loss for words,” Anderson said, choking up. “Sorry….”
Pause.
“I’ve got a little girl at home who…,”
Pause.
“I was on the road for eight weeks before the week off last week and I went home and saw them. It was quality time, I wish they were here…”
Pause.
On Sunday, Anderson picked up a cheque for $32,000, which is about two hundred bucks less than his total earnings in 2007 and 2008. Together.
That will pay for a lot of diapers, buy a little more time to pursue the dream of the PGA Tour.
And Anderson, who is often referred to as a big teddy bear, wasn’t afraid to open the faucets.
Leon, who began the final day with a three-shot lead, had no troubles walking up 18 hugging Anderson, not caring who saw them. Testosterone took a back seat. Behind 18 green, Clayton Rask, who finished second, stood with his girlfriend, Caitlan, cheering and clapping as Anderson walked on the putting surface.
Afterwards, like Anderson and Leon seconds before, Leon and the new Montreal champion embraced.
They know Anderson’s family situation, having two young girls at home, wondering when daddy will walk through the door. Every cent counts.
That trumped the final leaderboard at Saint-Raphael.
“I think that’s the way every sport should be,” said Leon. “There’s nothing wrong with trying your best. I tried my hardest. Sometimes you just don’t have it. A close friend of mine did, and that can never be a bad thing.”
Whoever considers the Canadian Tour minor-league should have been in Montreal Sunday afternoon.
In fact, they could have taught some of the big boys a lesson or two – in class.
Butt smacks, name Annika’s baby and who is FIGJAM?
Yikes. Good morning, at the risk of keeping your Cheerios down after seeing that eyesore of a picture.
What’s with Michelle Wie and Christina Kim taking this “close team” thing a little two literally at the Solheim Cup? Talk about over the top. Boo Weekley is envious.
Yeah, just what we need. More flag-waving, chest-thumping butt-slapping “We Are The Best” trash from the U.S. team at an international event.
At least if there has to be a butt-smack and a little dance between friends on the U.S. team, can it not be Nat Gulbis and Cristie Kerr?
Just saying…
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If you are so inclined, you could get a chance to name Annika’s baby. Honest.
She has put up an Internet poll asking visitors to help name her offspring. The choices? Julia, Nicole, Jessica, Ava, Madelyn, Anne and Other. Hmmm, other? Rather funny name for a girl, huh?
We suggest Elin, for no particular reason.
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Quick, pop quiz time. Which PGA Tour star is affectionately known among Tour members as FIGJAM?
Oh, you want to know what that means, right? OK, it stands for F – oh, wait, can’t say that here – I’m Good Just Ask Me.
If you said Phil Mickelson, congratulations. Here’s your cookie.
Now, the golf world has rallied around Lefty for most of the summer for rather obvious reasons. But over at Wei Under Par, they’re not biting their tongue when it comes to their disdain for Mickelson, calling him, among other things, a well-oiled media machine.
Sensitive, huh?
Um, and what exactly does that make Tiger? Just wondering….
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The Canadian Tour moves back into Ontario for the final stretch of the 2009 Canadian swing beginning with this week’s Seaforth Country Classic followed by the Canadian Tour Championship next week at St. Catharines G&CC.
The Tour closes out its 2009 season by heading back across the Mexican line for a pair of tournaments in September, making up for the postponement due to the H1N1 virus earlier in the spring.
Hank Haney puts rumours to rest and recession? What recession?
As could almost be expected, it was high-fivin’, back-slapping time after the National Allied Golf Association released the results of its Canadian golf economic study Monday.
Representing about $11.3 billion of Canada’s GDP – along with over 340,000 jobs – the golf industry may be feeling the effects of these rough times on the wallet, but those rather positive numbers seem to suggest otherwise.
GolfTown President and CEO Stephen Bebis backed up what the study’s numbers indicate when we spoke on the phone a few months ago on this very issue.
“I would say golf is recession-resistant, not recession-proof,” Bebis told me then.
“The avid golfer doesn’t consider the game a voluntary part of his or her life,” he added.”When things get tough, they tend to escape to the game of golf. It’s an important part of their lives.”
Truth in numbers.
Is there a chance the numbers are, shall we say, a little padded? Perhaps, but not by much. There is little doubt that golf is overwhelmingly popular in this country and has a participation rate that is, per capita, highest on the planet.
It seems total number of rounds played will take a hit – some say as much as ten percent – but with rising costs and less than ideal weather in most of the country last summer, it’s not hard to see why. Mother Nature has bared her fangs this summer as well, so expect that rounds played statistic to drop again when the numbers come out for 2009. With a short playing window as we see in Canada, if the elements don’t cooperate and the costs continue to shut some golfers out, people aren’t playing. It’s rather simple math.
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Had a chance to sit down with legendary coach Hank Haney in Montreal Wednesday – who, for those not paying attention, is the personal teacher of you-know who.
One of the key points he brought up was golfers need to make changes when something isn’t working –whether it is the best player in the world or a 20-handicap.
“Everybody talks about Tiger chasing Sam Snead for most wins or whatever, but when he’s with me he never mentions it,” Haney said. “For Tiger, it’s always: ‘I want to get better. Teach me how to get better.’ ”
“You can’t be scared to change,” Haney said. “Sometimes people are so scared to change. I helped some folks this morning and it was, ‘Oh, I feel so uncomfortable,’ and I said: ‘Yeah, but comfortable is not working very good.’”
“We’re not trying to be comfortable, we’re trying to be correct. What good does comfortable do ya?”
As for those rumours that Tiger and Haney may be be parting ways?
“I don’t know how people can just make stuff up,” says Haney. “People have no idea of our relationship. With the internet, it is so easy to start rumours. It’s called a rumour for a reason.
“I have to please one person –that’s Tiger.”
Daly bails on Montreal, Reavie helps fill void and enough with the Y.E. first-time talk…
John Daly left organizers of the Canadian Tour Desjardins Montreal Open high and dry Monday by pulling out of a guest appearance slated for today.
Somehow, it isn’t exactly a shocker, is it?
Citing a back injury he sustained that eventually led to his withdrawal at the PGA Championship, Daly, who was to be the star attraction in the events leading up to Thursday’s opening round of the $200,000 event, left tournament organizers scrambling to fill the void.
Turns out 2008 RBC Canadian Open champion Chez Reavie, who conducted a clinic and took part in a pro am Monday and was slated to fly to Greensboro last night, is going to stay in Montreal an extra day. No doubt the fans clamoring for a look at Daly are going to be disappointed he bailed, but Reavie showed a whole lot of class by staying for another day. Hank Haney will also stick around for an extra day and will be in Montreal both Wednesday and Thursday.
Can’t blame Daly for an injured back – after all, it’s his health – but for a guy looking to get his career back on the rails, giving the organizers a little notice probably wouldn’t have hurt.
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Speaking of Reavie, had a chance to sit down with him Monday and talk about his current game and his attraction to Canada. Interesting to note that he made his pro debut at the 2004 Montreal Open and, playing on a sponsor’s exemption, finished third.
Still proudly wearing the brand of Canadian apparel label Quagmire, with the Arizona Diamondbacks logo on the sleeve. Oh, and as he waited to hit his tee shot on the 10th Monday, the personable Reavie got up on a Segway for the first time and held his own on the self-balancing vehicle, although I am sure his agent would be less than thrilled to hear that…
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Who really cares if Y.E. Yang is the Asian-born male golfer to win a major? The first this, the first that…
Significant? You bet. But this story is a little bigger than all this first-time chatter.
A self-taught, late-bloomer went toe-to-toe with Tiger on a Sunday of a major, and spanked him. That is pretty darn close to a first as well. It was great for golf and should be recognized for what it is – one of the best sports stories of the year. Tiger didn’t lose the PGA as much as Yang won it.
Tiger was the first someone to do a little something not all that long ago, as well.
Enough with “the first…” rhetoric already. It’s already tiresome.
Hoping Beatriz passes test at school, we’re all Tigered out and Daly singing a new tune
All right, so the final major of the year is in the books, and we aren’t leading off with Tiger, Y.E., Paddy, the Olympics or anything else but this.
Not sure about the rest of you, but I know who I will be pulling for at LPGA Tour Qualifying School, apart from the token golf clap for our Canadian lasses.
One Beatriz Recari. And for purely selfish reasons.
According to her own website, Recari began piano lessons when she was nine before giving up the ebony and ivory for golf clubs, which could very well become the best decision in the history of pro sport. Well, in the eyes of male golf fans, anyway.
She is just 22 and apparently plays on the Ladies European Tour. Outside of that, not sure what else she has accomplished in golf, nor do we care. Let’s just pray she can get it together for LPGA Q-School. Please.
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This space brought to you by the People Who Are Just Sick And Tired Of Reading About Tiger. Oh, and a special thank you to Y.E. Yang. Just because.
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John Daly is following me on Twitter. Seriously. Well, me and 26,000 others, but let’s not split hairs.
I’ll catch up with Big John Tuesday in Montreal, where he is appearing at the Canadian Tour’s Desjardins Montreal Open, but it’s safe to say Daly is one of the most popular Tweeters – as if that is even a word – in cyberspace.
Consider this tweet to the masses moments after pulling out of the PGA Championship with an injury:
camera back injury from 3 yrs ago still haunting me–pain is just unbearable making it tough to play–stretch all day thru the round
But why talk golf? Daly has recorded a song in Kid Rock’s old studios for his upcoming CD, which we are sure will light up the Billboard charts. It’s called Lost Soul and you can hear it here. No joke.
Again, here are three separate entries tweets from JD’s Twitter feed, just a few hours after pulling the plug at Hazeltine:
This is a true song of some bad things that I can express thru music again this is just a rough, rough copy and my true emotions about 14 hours ago from web
Recorded it at Kid Rock’s old studio….really wanting some feedback from my fans–gonna be the title of my album “LOST SOUL” about 15 hours ago from web
I’m thinking of uploading a song I wrote while on the road a few years back & I recorded it…it’s a rough, rough, rough, draft about 15 hours ago from web
And you thought Twitter was a waste of time, didn’t you?
Our ten to watch at Hazeltine
Are we just wasting our time here?
Given the recent roll the world’s best is on, are we just prolonging the inevitable? Maybe the Wanamaker trophy engraver should just starting etching away now to get a head start to give himself the weekend off?
Perhaps, but we’re taking a look at ten to watch at Hazeltine because, well, one to watch isn’t nearly as fun.
If Tiger Woods is indeed to go major-less in 2009, we’re guessing one of the following nine will be the one to make it a dark year for majors for the world’s best:
10. ANTHONY KIM
We may be giving Kim a little too much credit here, but he makes the list on talent factor alone. Kim is just 24 and about to make his ninth major start, so we’re guessing he will win one sooner than later. And after a slow start by his standards, he seems to be coming into his own. Don’t be surprised if he gives it a serious run at Hazeltine.
9. PAUL CASEY
The Englishman takes a dive only because, well, we’re not even sure if his rib injury will keep him off the fairways at Hazeltine. Even if he is OK to go, Casey is going to be less than 100% and that probably isn’t going to be good enough here.
8. SERGIO GARCIA
One of these times Garcia is going to get it right. Is this the week El Nino finally shakes off the choke collar in majors? Probably not, given the company he will be keeping this week. One has to think the law of averages, however, will catch up and Garcia will finally win one of these things. Well, one day, anyway.
7. STEWART CINK
Yeah, we know, Cink is the guy that spoiled The Open Championship for seniors everywhere. Still, he has a trio of top tens in his last five starts – including his thrilling victory over Watson at Turnberry – and was tenth at Hazeltine seven summers ago. Might be considered a bit of a longshot here, as tough as that is to say to an Open champion but then again, how many of you had him winning at Turnberry?
6. KENNY PERRY
It was 13 years ago when Perry bogeyed the final hole that would ultimately cost him the PGA Championship. At this year’s Masters, he hopped aboard the bogey train at the worst possible time – the final two holes – and Angel Cabrera ended up stealing his green jacket. Perry turns 49 Monday, and we’re guessing he may get a jump-start on the party a day earlier.
5. LEE WESTWOOD
An 18-time winner on the European Tour, Westwood is 0-for-47 in major appearances. All he needed was to save par at the British Open to get into that playoff with Cink and Tom Watson and, once again, he came up short. Then again, like Garcia, the law of averages is bound to catch up to him one of these times.
4. STEVE STRICKER
This is Stricker’s time. Like Perry, he is showing no signs of slowing down, particularly in majors, where he has five top-tens since the 2006 U.S. Open. Is he, indeed, the proverbial best player to have never won a major? Come Sunday afternoon, Stricker is hoping that is no longer open for debate.
3. PADRAIG HARRINGTON
We’re not dumb enough to bet against the defending champion here, especially after he went toe-to-toe with you know who last week before that gong show on 16. Paddy hasn’t been himself in 2009, but seemed to regain his touch in Akron, which is good enough for us. Could salvage an ugly season at Hazeltine.
2. PHIL MICKELSON
OK, it makes for a good storyline, anyway. Lefty will once again be the sentimental favourite here but is bound to be a little rusty seeing how he has more pressing issues to contend with right now. The dream matchup, as always, is Phil and Tiger in Sunday’s final pairing. For that alone, we’re giving Mickselson second slot. Wishful thinking? Probably, but we’re not about to count Lefty out. Seems to us he has a little something more to play for this week.
1. TIGER WOODS
So much for my poker face. Tiger Woods, the betting favourite for a major? Yeah, we know, it’s obvious, but about the only thing worse for the field than Tiger on a roll is Tiger on a roll AND angry. After rumours he was about to be nicked in the wallet for calling out rules official John Paramor in Akron, expect Woods to be in an ornery mood. Oh, and in his last 11 starts, Tiger has ten finishes inside the top nine, including five wins. And he has won four of his last six. Everyone else could be playing for second this week.
Rules are meant for all…even you, Tiger
Apparently having the television networks, Tim Finchem and the front office staff and tournament sponsors puckering up to him isn’t enough for Tiger Woods. Now, it seems, he wants PGA Tour rules officials in his hip pocket, as well.
How else to explain the rather childish outburst Woods directed at European Tour rules official John Paramor, who – get this – had the cajones to put Tiger and Padraig Harrington on the clock Sunday afternoon in the waning moments of the Bridgestone Invitational.
“Like I was telling him (Harrington) out there, ‘I’m sorry that John got in the way of a great battle,’ because it was such a great battle for 16 holes,” Woods said. “And unfortunately, that happened.”
Nice, huh? That will cost Tiger a few bucks, but we’re sure he’ll get by. Seems Woods has been hanging out a little too much with Sergio. As in, ‘what the hell can I find to whine about today?’
Of course, what Tiger forgets to mention is that he and Paddy were on the 15th green and the entire 16th hole was open. This, after being behind most of the afternoon. Regardless of who you are, if that happens, you’re getting timed. Hey, the golf term “keep up” applies to the God’s gift to golf and final pairings as well.
Paramor, like Woods, was just doing what he gets paid to do. His job. Contrary to popular belief, rules officials don’t get a charge putting players on the clock and, more often than not when a group falls behind, they are given more than enough time to try to get back on pace.
When you are more than a full hole back and 17 minutes behind time par, no matter who you are, odds are the stopwatch is coming out.
Apparently, Woods didn’t get that memo.
Notice Harrington –who had more of a reason to be in a foul mood than anyone after putting up that triple on 16– took his lumps like a man:
“There are rules, and the players make the rules and we’ve got to apply them. If you’re put on the clock, you always want to be nicely in position so you’re not having to think too much. I got out of position with my tee shot, my second shot and my third shot. I got out of position and just got myself out of the zone…if you’re asking a player two or three groups ahead of the lead to play within a certain time frame, it’s unfair to give the leaders any leeway.”
Well, we know at least one of the two players in the final group in Akron showed a little class Sunday.
The other? Well, he’s $1.4 million richer, anyway.
Had Paramor just let Woods and Harrington lag behind, he likely would have been called on the carpet to see if he did enough to earn his pay at the Bridgestone. So he did what he thought he had to do and instead gets called out publically by the best player in the world.
For doing his job.
Could all the press, the collective smooch on the posterior from the golf world be going straight to his head?
It would seem Tiger now wants the rules officials to pucker up as well.
He may be waiting a while.
If Woods, Harrington or any other player wants to whine about getting put on the clock, there’s one rather simple answer.
Keep up.
Kirby run deserves more attention, Yip gets Jane Rogers win and, yawn, more Tiger…
Perhaps it is because she is just 18-years-old and is still taking her cuts as an amateur, but it’s hard to believe the attention – or, more precisely, lack thereof – being afforded Jennifer Kirby.
What the youngster from Paris,Ont. has accomplished over these past few weeks is, quite simply, almost unheard of.
Since July, Kirby has won the Ontario Junior Girls, Ontario Amateur, Canadian Women’s Amateur and, most recently, the Canadian Junior Girls crowns. Four major titles in as many weeks.
And yet ask most golf fans who Jennifer Kirby is and they’ll look at you like you have two heads. Go figure. In this little corner of the world, if you aren’t Mike Weir or the Leafs, you’re an afterthought.
But the ignorance does nothing to take away from what Kirby has accomplished this summer. It is nothing short of mind-boggling.
It’s rather unfortunate most of the country isn’t paying attention but, then again, the majority of “fans” are too busy bellyaching about the perceived lack of golf talent in this country to notice or even care.
Too bad. Kirby deserves better.
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It figures – as most of us living in this neck of the woods can attest to – that Mother Nature wasn’t going to cooperate with Rick Janes, the Canadian Tour and organizers of the Roxul Jane Rogers Championship during Sunday’s final round.
Heavy rain and a suspension of play at a Southern Ontario pro tournament? Who knew?
Heck of finish though, with Canadian Ryan Yip holding off Americans Trey Denton and Jeff Cuzzort in a three-hole playoff.
Hats off to Elliott Kerr, George Sourlis and the gang over at Landmark Sport Group for putting the third edition of the tournament together at Greystone. The tournament is held in honour of Jane Rogers – the late wife of Kerr – and all proceeds from the event went to the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada and the Trillium Hospital’s Oncology Unit, Jane’s hospital as she battled cancer.
Kudos, also, to Rick Janes and Deputy Director Dan Halldorson. A few short years ago, the Canadian Tour had no presence in Ontario. This summer, there are three full-field events – the Jane Rogers Championship, Seaforth Country Classic and Canadian Tour Championship in St. Catharines – as well as the International Team Matches at Scarboro G&CC.
Oh, and for what it is worth, there are ten players taking their full-time cuts on the Canadian Tour right now who were at the RBC Canadian Open a couple of weeks back.
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OK, we get it, it’s Tiger overkill, but even the most pessimistic of his critics has to be impressed with Woods winning his 70th PGA title before his 34th birthday.
Even if Woods nearly proved himself to be mortal Sunday. Almost.
Hands up those of you who figured Woods would hunt down Paddy Harrington, build a two-shot lead and almost blow it coming in? And by that, we don’t mean another breaking wind scandal.
But, in typical Tiger fashion, Woods was, well, Woods when he needed to be, and it was curtains for Harrington after a snowman on 16.
The striped one is firing on all cylinders heading into the PGA Championship. Which, from where we sit, means it will NOT be a major-less year for the world’s best.
Fairways Web Editor Marty Henwood spent more than six years as the Media Relations Director with the Canadian Tour and has been involved in sports journalism for more than a decade, including stints in newspaper, radio, new media and media relations. He will offer his unique take on the world of golf, with nothing and no one off limits.