The 2014 RBC Canadian Open has just begun at the historic Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal, Canada. This is one of the few times that the PGA comes up north to play a professional tournament and it is a tournament written into the history books almost as much as any other Open. For example, Royal Montreal Golf Club is the oldest golf course in North America and the first course to host the Canadian Open, in 1904. Many of golf's greats, both past and present, have at some point or another been involved in the Canadian Open. Then amateur Bobby Jones, at just the age of 17, tied for second place here in 1919. And of course, the great Arnold Palmer, having won the Canadian Open in 1955 in that his first PGA tour victory.
The Canadian Open has always attracted some of golf's elites, however more and more higher ranked players have began to play it recently, such as the Graeme McDowell's, the Luke Donald's, etc, perhaps due to RBC taking over as the title sponsor in recent years. It is of course also played by many Canadians, as it is "their Open", including out favourite Canadian golfer Mike Weir. Incidentally, Weir will be paired with Graeme McDowell and Luke Donald for their first two rounds.
With that in mind, here are our picks for this week,
1) Graeme McDowell: Of course! He played solid golf last week at the Open Championship
2) Aaron Baddeley: He's been a little quiet this year, but who knows that can happen this week?
3) Charl Schwartzel: He also played well at the Open Championship last week.
We'll also be watching Mike Weir as well.
Stay tuned Friday evening to see how the tournament's played going into the weekend,
-Nick
Toronto Golf Reviews
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