Canadians making headlines at Wimbledon, Connors TEE TIMES at the Scottish Open...

 European Tour: Aberdeen Investments Scottish Open Tee Times

It's the two weeks or a "fortnight" as they say in Britain that sports fans cherish every summer in the UK. The second week of Wimbledon with all it's drama followed by the Open Championship this year at Royal St. George's GC, the only one to be held in southern England at Sandwich in Kent.

These weeks are a tradition along with the weekend of the Grand National, the famous steeplechase that every granny has a 50p bet on.

At Wimbledon it was a historic Monday for Canada with lefty Denis Shapovalov beating tough #8 seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-1 6-3 7-5, followed by a stunning 5 set win by his buddy Felix Auger-Aliassime over the #4 seed Alex Zverev.

Felix Auger- Aliassime

It's the first time in the long history of Wimbledon, two Canadian men have made it to the quarter finals. Auger- Aliassime will play Italian #1 Matteo Berrettini who has won 22/25 matches, while Shapovalov the 2016 junior champion here draws Russian Karen Khachanov, both on Wednesday.

For golf fans in Scotland it's also the week of their national championship, the Aberdeen Investments Scottish Open, this year in North Berwick at the fairly recently built Renaissance Club. I will say most of my golf colleagues over there would rather it was played on the links at the historic North Berwick GC, however we are not paying the bills.

Corey Connors is the lone Canadian he's early, off the 10th tee at 7.50am local, with Scotland's Marc Warren and South African Wilco Nienaber. I can't remember Corey playing this course.

It's a strong field, so regular Canadian, Aaron Cockerill hasn't been included, the featured pairing at 1300hrs (1pm) is Rory, with new world #1 Jon Rahm and Justin Thomas.. 

Aaron Rai from England by way of Kenya and India won here in a playoff last year, after Tommy Fleetwood missed two 3 footers on his last two holes to hand Rai his first win.

With international COVID quarantines playing havoc with travel schedules, Rory, for example, is in the middle of a 3 week tour leaving the wife and Poppy home in Florida. Rory had a lousy weekend at the Irish Open, so should be looking for better things this week before the Open.