Shaughnessy gets ’11 national tourney
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This article was published 15/04/2009 (6212 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
THE RBC Canadian Open is heading west.
Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club will be unveiled today as host of the 2011 edition of the tournament.
It will be the fourth time the national golf championship will be held at the scenic course, which overlooks the Fraser River and Strait of Georgia.
The last time it was played there was 2005, when Mark Calcavecchia won with a score of 5-under 275. The venue received rave reviews from the players that week.
The Canadian Open will be played at Glen Abbey in Oakville, Ont., this July. Next year’s event will be held at St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto.
The decision to bring the tournament back to Vancouver in 2011 could signal the start of a rotation of courses for the event. That has been stated as a long-term goal by RCGA brass.
Executive director Scott Simmons has said he’d like to see a rotation of five to seven courses that would probably include the likes of Shaughnessy, Royal Montreal, Hamilton and Glen Abbey.
The event has been held almost exclusively in Ontario during the past three decades, in part because Glen Abbey was its permanent home through the ’80s and ’90s, and more recently out of necessity as the RCGA navigated a turbulent period after Bell dropped out as title sponsor.
Now that the tournament appears to be on more solid footing under RBC, there might be more of an opportunity to move it around the country.
— The Canadian Press
