Weir misses cut at RBC Canadian Open

As of 230pm the cut is set to fal at -1 and we have 7 Canadians on that number or better.. none of them called Mike Weir who's 74 74 +4 means he has missed his 11th cut in a row..

Here are their scores...

T20	4	88		David Hearn	-4	7*	-2		info	68				68
					Shot 3: 18yds to Green, 12ft 3in to hole on the 550yd, Par 5, 17th Hole

	T34	32	222		Matt McQuillan	-3	F	-3		info	70	67			137
					Round complete

	T34	5	--		Albin Choi (a)	-3	F*	-2		info	69	68			137
					Round complete

	T48	9	107		Graham DeLaet	-2	F	-1		info	69	69			138
					Round complete

	T59	7	--		Matt Hill	-1	2	-1		info	70				70
					Shot 2: 151yds to Right Fairway, 13yds to hole on the 408yd, Par 4, 3rd Hole

	T77	11	182		Stephen Ames	E	6	E		info	70				70
					Shot 4: in the hole on the 224yd, Par 3, 6th Hole

	T77	65	--		Adam Hadwin	E	F*	4		info	66	74			140
					Round complete

	T77	38	--		David Markle	E	1	1		info	69				69
					Shot 3: 5yds to Green, 7ft 8in to hole on the 442yd, Par 4, 2nd Hole

	T96	72	--		Brad Fritsch	1	F*	3		info	68	73			141
					Round complete

	T105	10	--		Mackenzie Hughes (a)	2	F	1		info	71	71			142
					Round complete

	T129	17	256		Mike Weir	4	F*	2		info	72	72			144
					Round complete

	T129	17	--		Michael Gligic	4	F*	2		info	72	72			144
					Round complete

	T148	5	--		Eugene Wong	7	F	1		info	76	71			147
					Round complete

T153

9

--

Nick Taylor

9

F*

4

info

75

74

149

At the RBC Canadian Open

Finally found my way through the Leafy side streets of Ancaster to the Hamilton G&CC and I recognized the big old clubhouse that is at the hub of the first and 10th tees and of course the 9th and 18th green. Harry Colt laid it out that way back in 1914, obviously at a time when courses weren't polluted by golf carts, or even pull carts and architects used a third of the land their present day colleagues use

Old traditional Hamilton G&CC, just what the modern day pros love.

Nice to see Tournament Director Bill Paul and his Media Director Dan Pino. Ken Fidlin, my long time broadcast partner Bob Weeks, Lorne Rubenstein all the guys who for years gather together at the media center where ever the Canadian Open is to relate the story as it unfolds..

It is a bright breezy day, cool right now, just what this course needs to dry it out and stop the attack on par we witnessed yesterday..

Having said that William McGirt is leading at -11 at -4 today and there are a few -6's and -5's.

Stay tuned..


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Piercy matches course record..players take advantage of soft conditions at RBC Canadian Open

It was an muggy overcast day in Hamilton, rain overnight mostly softened Hamilton G&CC leaving the course vulnerable to these guys. Here is a Day 1 report from pgatour.com. I will be out on site Friday and Sunday with live reports here.


pgatour.com   Scott Piercy shot an 8-under 62 Thursday in the first round of the RBC Canadian Open, taking advantage of perfect scoring conditions at rain-softened Hamilton Golf and Country Club.

Piercy, eagled the par-5 fourth and 17th holes and had five birdies and one bogey in the rainy conditions to match the competitive course record set by Warren Sye in the third round of the 1991 Ontario Amateur. The 33-year-old American is coming off a third-place finish two weeks ago in the John Deere Classic

( Sye it might be added set the record as an amateur on a shorter course than these are playing according to course superintendent Rhodd Trainer in a recent interview)

Greg Owen and William McGirt were a stroke back, and Robert Garrigusopened with a 64.
Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters winner, was at 65 along with 2004 Canadian Open champion Vijay Singh, Troy Matteson, Bo Van Pelt, Jhonattan Vegas, Stuart Appleby and Gavin Coles

Jim Furyk, the winner in 2006 at Hamilton and 2007 at Angus Glen, shot a 70. Ernie Els, the Open winner Sunday at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, opened with a 72.

Adam Hadwin topped the 23 Canadians in the field, shooting a 66. The 24-year-old player from Abbotsford, British Columbia, tied for fourth last year at Shaughnessy in Vancouver.
"It seems every time we hit the end of July, I kind of springboard my game back into shape," Hadwin said. "I shot 4 under and I was 1 over on the par 5s today. So that's pretty good confidence going into tomorrow knowing that if I play those par 5s pretty well I'm going to play pretty well.

Canadian scores
 T12 - Hadwin, Adam, Abbotsford, Ont. 32 – 34 – 66 (-4)
T24 - Hearn, David, Brantford, Ont. 34 – 34 – 68 (-2)
T24 - Fritsch, Brad, Manotick, Ont. 35 – 33 – 68 (-2)
T39 - Markle, David, Shelburne, Ont. 34 – 35 – 69 (-1)
T39 - Choi, Albin, (a), Toronto, Ont. 33 – 36 – 69 (-1)
T39 - DeLaet, Graham, Weyburn, Sask. 31 – 38 – 69 (-1)
T66 - Ames, Stephen, Calgary, Alta. 34 – 36 – 70 (E)
T66 - Hill, Matt, Bright’s Grove, Ont. 35 – 35 – 70 (E)
T66 - Renfrew, Cory, Victoria, B.C. 34 – 36 – 70 (E)
T66 - McQuillan, Matt, Kingston, Ont. 36 – 34 – 70 (E)
T95 - Hughes, Mackenzie, (a) Dundas, Ont. 35 – 36 – 71 (+1)
T112 - Gligic, Michael, Burlington, Ont. 38 – 34 (+2)
T112 - Weir, Mike, Bright’s Grove, Ont. 35 – 37 – 72 (+2)
T128 - Couture, Rob, (a) Trenton, Ont. 35 – 38 – 73 (+3)
T137 - Ciesielski, Victor, Cambridge, Ont. 38 – 36 – 74 (+4)
T137 - Doherty, Greg, Mississauga, Ont. 37 – 37 – 74 (+4)
T137 - Ross, Christopher, Dundas, Ont. 37 – 37 – 74 (+4)
T144 - McCann, Brian, Mississauga, Ont. 34 – 41 – 75 (+5)
T144 - Parr, Andrew, London, Ont. 36 – 39 – 75 (+5)
T144 - Taylor, Nick, Abbotsford, B.C. 39 – 36 – 75 (+5)
T152 - Wong, Eugene, North Vancouver, B.C. 38 – 38 – 76 (+6)
154 - Mills, Jon, Oshawa, Ont. 39 – 38 – 77 (+7)
155 - Ferguson, Ben, Ancaster, Ont. 40 – 38 – 78 (+8)

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Weather alert will affect Thursday play at RBC Canadian Open.. scheduled tee times.

It's 230am on Thursday morning as rain thunder and lightning roll through the GTA and Hamilton and the forecast is for more of the same all day until Friday morning... 70-80%..

HERE IS THE WEATHER ALERT .. Weather radar at 2:00 AM indicated a line of severe thunderstorms extending from near Toronto to just north of London to near Wallaceburg. Motion is southeastwards at around 50 km/h. They are expected to reach a line from Grimsby to St Thomas to Chatham by 3:00 AM. Strong wind gusts to 90 km/h and torrential rainfall of 50 mm are the main threats with this line. Isolated large hail of 2 centimetres is also possible. They severe thunderstorms are imminent or occurring in the area. These storms may produce large hail, damaging winds or heavy rainfall. Remember that some severe thunderstorms can also produce tornadoes. Emergency management Ontario recommends taking cover immediately when threatening weather approaches.

The rain thunder and lightning are in the forecast all day Thursday... Friday and Saturday calls for showers, clear and sunny on Sunday

It must be time for the RBC Canadian Open which certainly has had it's fair share of this stuff. Extraordinary, when you consider tha absolute drought we have been suffering through for the last 2 months

I remember 2008 at the Abbey the year Chez Reavie won. How we ever got that one played in time and with the entire 72 holes is amazing. Tournament Director Bill Paul was out in the middle of the night with the grounds crew and all the volunteer groundskeepers from surrounding courses pumping out bunkers, squeegeeing greens, at one point the fairway and green at #17 were completely under water, it looked like a pond..

Rhodd Trainer, the long time superintendent at Hamilton for the last 21 years told me  his staff have been reporting at 430am for weeks in preparation and I'm sure they'll be out even earlier this morning.

While the water table is low and the course can handle the rain, it's the lightning in the area that will keep the players off the course, and the spectators if it's bad enough...

You can bet play will be affected this morning at least, there will be an official announcement around 6am with the first tee times scheduled at 710..

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Tee times for rounds 1 and 2 at RBC Canadian Open... 23 Canucks

Well it all gets under way out here in Hamilton early Thursday morning with Open Champion Ernie Els now in town off the 1st tee at 1.10pm with Vijay Singh and Matt Kuchar

There are 23 Canadians in the field, and the weather forecast for a change is great, boy we have had some kind of rain in past years, but not this,.... hopefully..

Stay here with me all week. I am out there Thursday and Sunday reporting live and writing here everyday with all the latest..


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Field complete.. 23 Canucks at RBC Canadian Open

David Markle of Shelburne, Ont. carded a round of 5-under 66 to top the 52-player field during Monday’s Final Qualifier at Heron Point Golf Links near Hamilton, Ont., and earn an exemption into this week’s RBC Canadian Open.

Markle, who got into the qualifier by posting the low round at the regional qualifier in Épiphanie, Que. earlier this month, will be making his first appearance at the RBC Canadian Open.

Jon Mills of Belleville, Ont., a veteran of eight Canadian Opens, also earned a spot in the 103rd playing of Canada’s National Open Golf Championship by finishing second with a round of 68.

Victor Ciesielski of Cambridge, Ont. and Ben Ferguson of Ancaster, Ont. also qualified by finishing tied for third at 2-under 69.

The 27-year-old Markle is a former standout at Kent State University and a former Team Canada member. A quarterfinalist at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship in 2007, Markle represented Canada internationally at both the Four Nations Cup and the World Amateur Team Championship.

Also a product of Kent State University, Mills will be making his ninth appearance in the Canadian Open and his first since 2010. This year has been a bit of a struggle for the two-time Web.com Tour winner. After barely missing out on his PGA Tour card two years ago, Mills has limited status on the developmental tour in 2012 and has missed four of five cuts. He also failed to make the cut in his only PGA Tour start at the Greenbrier Classic.

Ciesielski will be making his third appearance in Canada’s National Open Championship and his first in five years. A product of both Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Waterloo, the former Team Canada member earned a spot in the Final Qualifier by finishing tied for fifth at a regional qualifying event in Ontario last month.

Ferguson was the 2004 Great Lakes Order of Merit Winner and Player of the Year. He competed in both the 2001 and 2007 Canadian Opens, missing the cut on both occasions.
The addition of the four players brings the total number of Canadians who will be in the field this week at Hamilton Golf and Country Club to 23