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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 15/07/2010 (5868 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
THE Canadian Tour is following the new PGA Tour policy on grooves this season and has acquired a testing kit from the USGA.
Grooves, especially on wedges, are now required to be more shallow and less sharp so less spin can be put on the ball, especially from the rough.
Canadian Tour officials can now test any club on site.
Mostly, equipment is checked against a database of conforming and non-conforming clubs, and only two needed to be tested this week.
They both belonged to the only amateur in the field, Niakwa’s Scott Markham, and both metal woods passed.
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Players Cup competitors, especially those from out of province, have been cautioned this week at Pine Ridge about cellphone use.
Canadian Tour players are not allowed to use cellphones during competition, and starting today, the players have been warned that anyone caught with one in their hand while driving in Manitoba could get a ticket.
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None of the four Manitobans who are Canadian Tour members are coming into the Players Cup in hot form.
At No. 85 on the money list, Adam Speirs has the highest standing in 2010.
In 2009, Dauphin’s Ryan Horn had a huge week, nearly a career-changer, but he finished tied for second, just one shot back of winner Graham DeLaet, who’s now an exempt member of the PGA Tour.
“I started off the year OK, but I haven’t been playing very much,” said Horn, who’s made only one cut — last week’s in Saskatoon. “And trying to find conforming clubs, left-handed ones, has been an issue. My coach found these (irons) down in Austin. They’re used.”
Horn is expecting a new set of conforming Adams irons, his preferred brand, any day now.
Matt Johnston, No. 111, and Tyler Mancini, who has yet to make a cut, are also in the field.
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It’s 21 years and counting without a playoff at the Canadian Tour event in Winnipeg.
The last was in 1989 at Southwood when Stu Hendley won the Manitoba Open on the first extra hole against Dave Barr and Steve Chapman.
— Campbell
