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The weather forecast is perfect, and Glen Abbey is in the best condition I have ever seen it. There are 19 Canadians,.. which one will contend this year ??...
updating 1230pm****
* the weather may end up being the star out here today. cool, sunny, breezy... nice Thursday crowd, a real mixed bag...women always worth watching at big events and for golf there seems to be an etiquette they all get.. For example at the Honda Indy weekend in the heat earlier, there were bikini tops and short shorts everywhere, heels as well..
At golf they are much more reserved,, sensible shoes for the walk on grass, tank tops galore, but the short shorts and skirts from the Indy are nowhere to be found...
* The afternoon flight are heading out now with Els, GMac, Furyk, Ames and Weir amongst the names I will be following
* The leader from the morning flight is a 2nd year PGA Tour pro Brendan Steele, a 6'2 string bean from California who has missed 7 of his last 10 cuts. He shot -7 65. He spent 3 years on the Canadian Tour as he worked his way up the ranks..I'm not saying these guys are loaded, but this guy isn't really a household name but get this.. His first car was a Mercury Cougar and now drives a Maserati.
* He just got caught on by a birdie 2 on 15 by Aussie Scott Gardiner who is at -7 with 3 to play. He ran off 6 straight birdies on the front 9.
* Matt Kuchar eagled 18 for a -6 66 , also on that number is American Scott Brown..
* Canadians out this morning.. Graham DeLaet E 72 with a triple bogey 7 on 14,..... David Hearn -2 70 5 birdies 3 bogey's....
* Notables...Mahan -5 67... BWatson -4 68....Snedeker -2 70...Vijay Singh -3 69
updating **** 515pm
* Canucks Roger Sloan finished -1 71...Weir, Ames, Fritsch all on course Hadwin +6 78.. Eric Banks +1 73...MacKenzie Hughes +2 74... the rest are still on course
* Woody Austin has a destructive side to his personality. He won last week on the PGA Tour event opposite the Open Championship.. Today he is dead last... +11 thru 15 with 7 bogey's and 2 doubles in his last 10 holes
* Brendan Steele's -7 65 will stand up as the leader going into Friday..
* What a glorious day in Toronto and at the Abbey, pity about the trek home for so many of us who don't live in the west end... Rush hour traffic in so many cities, this one included starts as early as 200pm on the DVP, 300pm on the 401...and the loop around the airport through Weston Rd getting on to the 400 N is a disaster from 6am- 7pm every day..
* Anne-Catherine Tanguay, 22, of Quebec City, Que., leads the 2013 Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship after the third round of competition at Club de golf Beloeil in Beloeil, Que.
Tanguay, a former member of Team Canada, leads by a single stroke over Team Canada’s, Brooke Henderson, 15, of Smiths Falls, Ont. Tanguay’s 2-under 69 round tied for best of the day – she currently sits at 5-under 208 for the tournament (71-68-69).
* American Gene Sauers, who three years ago was battling a potentially fatal skin condition, carded a three under par 67 to lead The Senior Open Championship Presented by Rolex by one stroke, as Colin Montgomerie marked his debut with an opening round of 72.
Sauers, a three-time winner on the US PGA Tour, only returned to golf less than two years ago after suffering from the painful Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, which caused his skin to burn from the inside-out.
Making his maiden Senior Open appearance this week at Royal Birkdale, the 50 year old posted a hat-trick of birdies from the 15th hole to open up a one shot advantage over a four strong group that included 2010 champion Bernhard Langer.
Also on 68 following a testing first day when only ten players broke par were 2012 MCB Tour Championship winner David Frost of South Africa, who eagled the 17th, Australian Peter Senior and Frankie Minoza of the Philippines
* CHALLENGE TOUR
Daan Huizing was the talk of the opening day at Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge as he flirted with history en route to a sumptuous round of 61 in France.
In just his sixth start on the Challenge Tour, the Dutchman was ten under par through 15 holes at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil, as he attempted to become only the second man in Challenge Tour history to shoot 59.
A birdie at the seventh, his 16th, was the ideal start to the final trio of holes as he neared history, but a couple of pars to finish still saw him sign for the lowest round of the season so far, a new course record, and a two stroke advantage over Englishman Jason Barnes
* Brendan Steele fired a 7-under 65 to take the opening-round lead. Steele, a 1-time winner on the PGA TOUR with his victory at the 2011 Valero Texas Open, carded eight birdies at Glen Abbey and closed with a 4-under 31 back nine. He currently leads by one-stroke over Matt Kuchar, Scott Brown and Scott Gardiner, who all sit in a tie for second at 6-under.
* Brad Fritsch of Ottawa, Ont., led the way for the 18-member Canadian contingent after closing his final nine with three straight birdies to post a 3-under 69. Fritsch currently sits in a tie for 16th one stroke ahead of David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., who carded an opening round 2-under 70.
Hearn played alongside fellow Canadian Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., who carded an opening round even-par 72 after an early triple-bogey on the par-4 14th hole.
Top Canucks...
| Brad Fritsch | -3 | F | -3 | 69 |
 | T29 | 48 |  | David Hearn | -2 | F* | 70 |
| T41 | | Roger Sloan | -1 | F | -1 | 71 |
| T69 | 27 | | Graham DeLaet | E | F* | 72 |
| T93 | 173 | | Mike Weir | 1 | F | 73 |
| T117 | 167 | | Stephen Ames | 2 | F | 2 | 74 |
| T150 | | Adam Hadwin | 6 | F | 6 | 78 |
* More great weather expected tomorrow and I will be back at the Abbey early to report on Mike Weir, Els etc who are up and at them early...
BryanA
More to follow on the afternoon action...
BryanA
I will be there all weekend, updating this blog so join me as always with your comments, questions, opinions..
Bryan
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