Missing Montreal !!

I'm missing all my colleagues and pals at our annual get together at the Canadian Open as I can't go to Montreal this week, it's always one of the media highlights to catch up with Rube (Lorne Rubenstein), Perky (Dave Perkins) Hutch (Ian Hutchinson) Weeksy (Bob Weeks) Wilbur (Bill Paul) just to mention a few..


Normally I'd spend the weekend in the media room broadcasting our Fairways Golf show with Scott Metcalfe (680 News) and Weeksy when he was available after his duties with Scoregolf and TSN, and I'd ask all the guys to join us on air over the weekend... It mean't long days, in at 6am often not back home til 10pm.


We have had some hair raising experiences, usually weather related like the year in Hamilton where a river of water from a torrential downpour swept right through our location in the media tent, leaving us doing the show live, standing on chairs with 9 billion watts of electrical equipment beneath us and the torrent, until the tent was secured properly !...


Look, this great event, and it's RBC sponsor, led by Bill Paul (Tournament Director) may have the worst possible date (right after Open Championship and before a WGC event and the PGA Championship), and it is often faced with some volatile weather, but it is our national championship, thanks to Wilbur's efforts and the RBC player sponsorship money it has as strong a field as any regular PGA Tour stop, Els, Couples, Donald, Furyk, Snedeker, just to name a few.


Of course the main hope is that one of our Canadian's in the field will get hot and get in contention. Remember it was here during the President's Cup in 2007 that Weirsy beat Tiger in his singles match..a career highlight for sure..


I'll be covering it all here and you can here me on TSN1050 radio with my analysis on various shows, and for sure at 845am Sunday morning.


For a hole by hole look at The Royal Montreal Golf Club and the changes on its famed Blue course since it last held the RBC Canadian Open in 2001.
http://www.golfcanada.ca/news/article/professional/royal-changes/




Live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/rbc-canadian-




Bryan Angus




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