CP Women’s Open cancelled for second year in a row due to COVID-19 challenges

By: Adam Stanley - Special to the Star, Toronto Star Posted: 5:00 PM CDT Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2021 Last Modified: 5:10 PM CDT Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2021

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For the second year in a row the CP Women’s Open will not be played.

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For the second year in a row the CP Women’s Open will not be played.

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For the second year in a row the CP Women’s Open will not be played.

Tournament organizers cited ongoing COVID-19 challenges, including logistics and continued border restrictions, as some of the reasons for this year’s cancellation.

“Together with (Canadian Pacific), the LPGA Tour, and our friends at Shaughnessy, we share in the deep disappointment of the players, volunteers, partners, and golf fans with the cancellation of the 2021 CP Women’s Open,” said Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum in a press release. “Even with our extensive health and safety plan, we continued to face a number of significant logistical challenges that led to this unfortunate decision for a second year.”

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The Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club will hold the event in 2022, and the club’s GM tells The Star that the membership of the club – which bestowed memberships on 2018 CP Women’s Open winner Brooke Henderson and her sister Brittany in 2016 – is “very excited” to bring back the national open. — JONATHAN HAYWARD - THE CANADIAN PRESS The Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club will hold the event in 2022, and the club’s GM tells The Star that the membership of the club – which bestowed memberships on 2018 CP Women’s Open winner Brooke Henderson and her sister Brittany in 2016 – is “very excited” to bring back the national open.

The event, scheduled for August 23-29, was set to be hosted by Vancouver’s Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club.

The venerable layout will instead host the LPGA Tour in 2023, with Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club hosting in 2022 as per an announcement last August.

“We are so grateful to CP and Golf Canada for their continued support of the CP Women’s Open and the LPGA Tour,” said Ricki Lasky, Chief Tournament Business Officer for the LPGA. “While we share in this disappointment, we have no doubt that Shaughnessy, CP and Golf Canada will provide our players with an amazing experience when we are together in 2023, and we look forward to working with these partners for years to come.”

Guy Prevost, the general manager of the Ottawa Hunt Club, tells The Star that the membership of the club – which bestowed memberships on 2018 CP Women’s Open winner Brooke Henderson and her sister Brittany in 2016 – is “very excited” to bring back the national open next year.

The 2017 edition, won by Sung Hyun Park, featured a course-record 63 by Henderson. The 10-time LPGA Tour winner grew up about an hour from the course and had a legion of local fans support her every move.

Despite the cancellation, Canadian Pacific confirmed they had extended their partnership with Golf Canada an addition year, to 2024, which includes the title sponsorship of the CP Women’s Open.

Canada’s men’s national open, the RBC Canadian Open, was also cancelled for 2020 and 2021. It will be played at Toronto’s St. George’s Golf and Country Club in 2022.

Adam Stanley is an Ottawa-based contributor to the Star’s Sports section and the host of golf podcast Next Round’s On Me. Follow him on Twitter: @adam_stanley