Happy Canada Day to all including the Royal couple who are touring this great country of ours. Minutes ago the sun, a great big orange ball rose over the eastern horizon and for a moment bathed my living room in a beautiful warm reddy orange light. Not a cloud in the sky, it looks like another beauty day..
Speaking of beauty days, this is the 2nd year of the Montreal Championship presented by Desjardins at the Club de Golf Fontainebleau and while the likes of Couples and Watson have not showed up, there is a strong Champions Tour field ready to tee it up at 10am and what a day to be a Canadian, or even a Canadien in Montreal today...
Michael Cammalleri of the Canadiens, Vincent Lecavalier of the Tampa Bay Lightning along with Canadiens legends Guy Carbonneau and Stéphane Richer will compete in the Hockey All-Star Skins Game, after today's opening round of the Montreal Championship. The special event will feature the players competing for $25,000, with all proceeds from the exhibition donated to the Birdies for Charity program, which benefits the Desjardins Foundation, Montreal Canadiens Children's Foundation and Golf Québec. During the inaugural 2010 Montreal Championship, the Birdies for Charity program raised more than $140,000.
In the tournament proper, we have 4 Canucks, and in a nice touch 3 of them are paired together..
Rod Spittle who earned his earned a full 2011 exemption by winning the AT&T Championship in San Antonio last October has had a solid year,posting three top-10s this year, including a T2 at the Allianz Championship and a T3 at The Principal Charity Classic.
He will be joined by fellow Canadian's Jim Rutledge, Yvan Beauchemin and Daniel Talbot, all of whom competed in 2010 and will play on sponsor's exemptions.
They tee off together at 11.49..
Rutledge has made six starts on the Champions Tour in 2011 with a best finish a T6 at the Allianz Championship. He also finished T10 at last week's Dick's Sporting Goods Open.
Former Canadian Open winners, Bob Gilder(1980), John Cook (1983), Wayne Levi (1990), David Frost (1993) and Hal Sutton (1999) are all playing at this Club de Golf Fntainebleau which was the second-easiest course on Tour last year, with an average score of 70.01
Whatever you do today, take just a moment to think about what a great young country we have to spend days like this in. You never appreciate something completely until you lose it, and I thought of that often as I lived and worked in other country's away from home.
We far too often get caught up in all of our life's problems, I am as guilty as the rest of you, so take a moment today, look at the big picture and be happy you are here..
Happy Canada Day..
Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles (with notes from pgatour.com)
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