This week I cover play in Hawaii, South Africa, La Quinta California and Hua Hin Thailand

This week I span the globe again (from my office !!) as the seniors get started in Hawaii, the European has it's Tournament of Champions equivalent on the links at Fancourt RSA, someone will shoot 35 under to win the Hope and 8 Canucks face a pressure packed week in the final stage of Asian Tour Q school in Thailand.

Hope you can join me as always and listen for my radio report on Sunday morning on the International Sports Report on TSN1050radio between 8am-10

Champions Tour
Jan. 20 - 22 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai
Hualalai Golf Course, Ka'upulehu-Kona, Hawaii
Purse: $1,800,000 GOLF
John Cook (D)
$305,000
Kicks off 2012 season with Rod Spittle and Jim Rutledge in the field

European Tour
Jan 19 Jan 22 Volvo Golf Champions

The Links at Fancourt,George,South Africa
€2,000,000
(The 2012 Volvo Golf Champions will take place over The Links at Fancourt, George, South Africa from 19th – 22nd January 2012, the first exclusively-sanctioned European Tour event of the year, open only to winners from 2011 and European Tour players with 10 or more Tour titles to their name.)


PGA Tour
Jan. 19 - 22 Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation (formerly The Bob Hope Desert Classic)

PGA West (Palmer Course), La Quinta, California
PGA West (Nicklaus Course), La Quinta, California
La Quinta CC, La Quinta, California
Purse: $5,600,000
Jhonattan Vegas (D)
$900,000
Big clumsy new title to honour the sponsor, to all it is simply called " The Hope " and David Hearn and Stephen Ames are in the field.


Asian Tour Q School Final Stage
Royal Springfield Country Club
Hua Hin, Thailand.
January 18-21

As I wrote earlier last week 8 of our guys have made it in the field of 89 where the top-40 and ties will earn Asian Tour cards for 2012.


1 Danny SAHL Sherwood Park Alta  Highest ranked and available player from top10 2011 CanTour Order of Merit gets direct to Asian Tour finals

2 Darren GRIFF Nanaimo, B.C, last played on the Asian Tour in 2006
3 John SHIN Burnaby, B.C
4 Lindsay RENOLDS Christina Lake, B.C
5 Matt JOHNSTON Winnipeg
6 Mitch EVANECZ Red Deer, Alta, former Alberta Amateur Champion
7 Rafael DW LEE  Burnaby, B.C, former Canadian Junior Champion
8 Ron HARVEY Jnr Sussex, N.B

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