Jim Rutledge knows a thing or two about what it takes to close out big time golf events.

“The game plan for the final round is to fire at all pins and try and go really low,” Rutledge said after his second round at Carleton Golf and Yacht Club in Ottawa. “I’m really just going to try and take it to the guys chasing me and see if any of them can catch me.”

Thru two rounds of the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada, Rutledge sits atop the leaderboard at -11; three shots clear of his nearest competitor Ken Tarling of Ontario. The 59-year-old from Victoria is in search of his sixth PGA Seniors’ Championship title.

“The key to scoring well around here is keep hitting greens,” Rutledge said about Carleton Golf and Yacht Club. “The greens are so tiny around here that when you hit a green you’re going to have a good chance for birdie.”

Rutledge’s second-round 5-under-par 66 included six birdies and a bogey (which came at the last).

Rutledge’s past PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada wins came in 2017 at Burlington Golf and Country Club; 2015 at Credit Valley Golf & Country Club; 2013 at Lookout Point Country Club; 2012 at Emerald Hills Golf Club; and 2010 at Rattlesnake Point Golf Club. The 59-year-old is also a former winner on the Korn Ferry Tour; has six Mackenzie-PGA TOUR Canada titles and is a former PGA Championship of Canada winner.

The PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada was first played in 1938 as a division of the Canadian PGA Championship and features the historic Albert H. Murray Trophy. In 1973, the championship became an independent event and has stayed that way since.

Among the Canadian golf legends to win the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada are Stan Leonard, Moe Norman—who won a record seven straight years from 1979-1985—Bob Panasik, Al Balding, Rutledge, Ray Stewart, Dave Barr, Bob Panasik, Murray Tucker, Bill Kozak, Gar Hamilton and Remi Bouchard.

Tarling is a past PGA Seniors’ Championship winner as well; and after rounds of 68-66 he finds himself alone in second place, within striking distance of Rutledge. Don’t expect the 61-year-old from Sanford, Ont., to be too consumed with what his playing competitor is doing on the course Friday, however.

“I’m not really going to worry about what Jim does out there tomorrow,” Tarling says. “I’m just going to do my own thing and at the end of the day you add it up and see how it unfolds.”

Danny King—a three time PGA Head Professional Championship and 2015 PGA Championship of Canada winner—lurks four shots off the pace in third place. Recent BC Golf Hall of Fame inductee Philip Jonas is in fourth at -6, while Ben Boudreau rounds out the top five at -4. Scott Allred, Marc Hurtbuise, Martin Plante and Bradley Rollinson are T6 at -3. The group at -2, T10 includes Marc Girouard, Graham Gunn and Dennis Hendershott.

For the full leaderboard and final round tee times can be found here.

Admittance to the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend the 54-hole championship.

Benjamin Franklin once wrote that in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

He obviously never saw a sunrise or witnessed Jim Rutledge play golf.

As certain as the sun rising in the east, the 59-year-old from Victoria began his campaign for a sixth PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada title with a bogey-free opening-round 6-under-par 65 at Carleton Golf and Yacht Club in Ottawa.

“With as little as I’ve been playing, I’m really happy with my score,” Rutledge modestly said about his effort in round one. “I hit some shots fairly close and made a couple putts, so that usually works out to a decent number.”

In pursuit of his sixth PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada, Rutledge’s past PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada wins came in 2017 at Burlington Golf and Country Club; 2015 at Credit Valley Golf & Country Club; 2013 at Lookout Point Country Club; 2012 at Emerald Hills Golf Club; and 2010 at Rattlesnake Point Golf Club. The 59-year-old is also a former winner on the Korn Ferry Tour; has six Mackenzie-PGA TOUR Canada titles and is a former PGA Championship of Canada winner.

A bevy of accomplished players are chasing Rutledge, looking to dash his dreams of another PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada win. Two-time PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada winner and recent BC Golf Hall of Fame inductee Phil Jonas is one-back of his long-time friend Rutledge after a first-round 66. Perennial favourites Scott Allred of Alberta and Ontario’s Danny King lurk two-back of the lead after opening with 67 at Carleton Golf and Yacht Club. Past PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada winner Ken Tarling and Martin Plante of Quebec round out the top five at 3-under-par.

For the full leaderboard and second-round tee times, click here.

“Jim (Rutledge) is such a good player and he’s been playing well for a long time,” Jonas admitted Wednesday afternoon. “We’ve played together more than 100 times and I’ve never seen him play badly, he’s that good.”

The PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada was first played in 1938 as a division of the Canadian PGA Championship and features the historic Albert H. Murray Trophy. In 1973, the championship became an independent event and has stayed that way since.

The host of both the 1998 and 2002 PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada, Carleton is considered a true shot-maker’s venue, requiring timely strategy and rewarding accuracy.

“This is the first time I’ve been here and I’m impressed at how good this golf course is,” King said. “It’s pretty tricky and you’ve got to navigate yourself around those quick, small greens.”

Among the Canadian golf legends to win the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada are Stan Leonard, Moe Norman—who won a record seven straight years from 1979-1985—Bob Panasik, Al Balding, Rutledge, Ray Stewart, Dave Barr, Bob Panasik, Murray Tucker, Bill Kozak, Gar Hamilton and Remi Bouchard.

Admittance to the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend the 54-hole championship.

A number of notable Canadian golf legends will tee it up in our nation’s capital region next week for the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada.

The Carleton Golf and Yacht Club—which sits on the banks of the Rideau River, just south of Ottawa—hosts the likes of Jim Rutledge, Graham Gunn, Phil Jonas, Danny King, Ken Tarling, Serge Thivierge and many more Aug. 6-9.

“The PGA of Canada is absolutely thrilled to be returning to the Ottawa region and the Carleton Golf and Yacht Club for this year’s PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada,” said PGA of Canada President Mark Patterson. “There’s so many fine past PGA of Canada national champions in the field, it will most definitely be a riveting event.”

Rutledge looks to secure his sixth PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada title, however past winners such as Thivierge (2018), Hocan Olsson (2005), Gunn (2006), Tarling (2011) and Claude Grenier (2016) should have something to say about the Victoria native’s run at Moe Norman’s record eight wins.

Rutledge’s past PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada wins came in 2017 at Burlington Golf and Country Club; 2015 at Credit Valley Golf & Country Club; 2013 at Lookout Point Country Club; 2012 at Emerald Hills Golf Club; and 2010 at Rattlesnake Point Golf Club. The 59-year-old is also a former winner on the Web.com Tour; has six Mackenzie-PGA TOUR Canada titles and is a former PGA Championship of Canada winner.

Additionally, past PGA of Canada national championship winners Marc Girouard, Ian Doig, Benoit Boudreau, King, Jonas and John Cochrane undoubtedly will want to add their to names to the list of champions of this historic event.

The PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada was first played in 1938 as a division of the Canadian PGA Championship. In 1973, the championship became an independent event and has stayed that way since.

Among the Canadian golf legends to win the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada are Stan Leonard, Moe Norman—who won a record seven straight years from 1979-1985—Bob Panasik, Al Balding—who wowed the golf world by winning at age 76 in 2000—Rutledge, Ray Stewart, Dave Barr, Bob Panasik, Murray Tucker, Bill Kozak, Gar Hamilton and Remi Bouchard.

The host of both the 1998 and 2002 PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada, Carleton is considered a true shot-maker’s venue, requiring timely strategy and rewarding accuracy.

Admittance to the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend the 54-hole championship.

Click here for the full field.

It wasn’t long ago that Rebecca Lee-Bentham walked away from chasing the dream of playing competitive professional golf at the game’s highest level.

Somewhere along the line the former Canadian National Amateur Team standout and LPGA Tour player lost her passion for competitive golf. She wasn’t the first golfer this has happened to and she certainly won’t be the last. But, as golf has a way of doing, pulled her back.

And today, the 27-year-old from Markham, Ont., can officially say she’s back on track to the long and winding road of competitive professional golf after winning the DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada in thrilling fashion Thursday at the Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto.

Lee-Bentham posted a final round 9-under-par 63—both a new course record at Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto and personal best—to come from behind and claim the title by four-shots over last year’s winner Jessica Porvasnik.

“I really leaned on my past experiences today,” Lee-Bentham admitted after her round. “All day I was thinking about all the little moments in my golf journey out and tried to use them as a guide throughout today’s round.”

Starting the day two shots off the lead—held by 15-year-old Emily Chu, Elizabeth Tong, Selena Costabile, Liv Cheng and Tiana Cruz—Lee-Bentham made 11 birdies and two bogeys on the day, setting a new course record (that was set just hours earlier with Porvasnik’s 64.)

“To be honest, I got a lot of good bounces out there today,” Lee-Bentham said. “A lot of times when you get a bad bounce or two your mood gets down, but when you get a good bounce, your spirit stays up and allows you to keep playing good golf.”

With the win, she joins the likes of Brooke Henderson, Lorie Kane, Alena Sharp, Cathy Sherk, Gail Graham and Nancy Harvey as a winner of this historic event.

“There are so many great names on this trophy and it’s so nice to add my name to it,” she said.

Lee-Bentham also earns an exemption into this year’s CP Canadian Women’s Open at Magna Golf Club later this summer.

Porvasnik finished alone in second at -6, while Zhu rounded out the top three at -5. Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto member Costabile was at -4 in fourth with Valerie Tanguay and Cheng rounding out the top five at -3.

The Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto hosted the inaugural DCM PGA Women’s Championship in 1987, which was won by PGA of Canada Hall of Fame member Cathy Sherk. The club also hosted the event in 1999 (won by Lorie Kane), in 2007 (won by Salimah Mussani).

The PGA of Canada’s Women’s PGA Cup spot were handed out Thursday.

Taking place Oct. 22-26 at the Omni Barton Creek Resort  & Spa in Austin, Texas, PGA members from across the world come together in a team competition for this landmark event.

The five members representing the PGA of Canada at the event are determined by their performance at the DCM PGA Women’s Championship in 2018 and 2019. Furthermore, the low club professional at the championship in ’18 and ’19 receives an automatic spot on the team.

The team consists of:

• Emma De Groot, Hamilton Golf and Country Club;
• Meghan Allum, Magna Golf Club;
• Casey Ward, Credit Valley Golf and Country Club;
• Rebecca Lee-Bentham, RLB Golf;
• Christine Wong, Langara College

The next PGA national championship takes place this August at Carleton Golf and Yacht Club for the PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada.

For the second-straight year, the Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto is set to host some of the best in Canadian women’s golf for the DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada.

A field highlighted by four-time LPGA Tour winner and Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member Lorie Kane, as well as a number of noted up-and-coming players, will tee it up July 2-4 at Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto.

“It’s shaping up to be a very competitive week at the tremendous Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto,” said PGA of Canada president Mark Patterson. “In addition to Canadian and PGA of Canada Hall of Fame member, Lorie Kane playing, we’ve got a solid mix of up-and-coming Canadian talent and a number of PGA of Canada members who will vie for the championship.”

The field also features players from Sweden, India, Venezuela, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States.

FOR THE FULL-FIELD AND FIRST ROUND TEE TIMES, CLICK HERE

“Once again DCM is delighted to sponsor the 2019 DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada,” said DCM president Greg Cochrane. “Our involvement and support of women’s golf in Canada directly ties into our belief of giving back to our local communities across Canada and internationally,” he said, adding, “providing women with the chance to compete at the highest level is inspiring for all of us at DCM.”

The Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto hosted the inaugural DCM PGA Women’s Championship in 1987, which was won by PGA of Canada Hall of Fame member Cathy Sherk. The club also hosted the event in 1999 (won by Lorie Kane), in 2007 (won by Salimah Mussani) and of course last year when American Jessica Porvasnik captured the title.

As North America’s only golf club created by women for women, we are thrilled to host the DCM PGA Women’s Championship,” said Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto PGA head professional Padraig Kelly. “We are so proud of our club and are excited to showcase it for this great championship. The golf course will be a great test and the membership is looking forward to watching the professionals take on their home course.”

The winner of this year’s championship will earn an exemption into the CP Canadian Women’s Open at the Magna Golf Club, Aug. 19-25.

Additionally, with the inaugural Women’s PGA Cup taking place later this year; the race for spots on Team PGA of Canada is about to heat up.

Taking place Oct. 22-26 at the Omni Barton Creek Resort  & Spa in Austin, Texas, PGA members from across the world come together in a team competition for this landmark event.

The five members representing the PGA of Canada at the event are determined by their performance at the DCM PGA Women’s Championship in 2018 and 2019. Furthermore, the low club professional at the championship in ’18 and ’19 receives an automatic spot on the team.
Currently, the top five is:

• Emma De Groot, Hamilton Golf and Country Club;
• Meghan Allum, Magna Golf Club;
• Casey Ward, Credit Valley Golf and Country Club;
• Rebecca Lee-Bentham, RLB Golf;
• Meghan McDougall, Weston Golf and Country Club.

“We’ve got some nice players currently in our top five to represent our association at the inaugural Women’s PGA Cup later this year in Texas,” says the PGA of Canada’s managing director of championships and foundation Adam LeBrun. “Other than De Groot, the other four spots are completely up for grabs and will add another exciting element to this year’s DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada.”

Admittance to the DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend the 36-hole championship play.

The DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada was first played in 1987 and past champions include five-time winner Lorie Kane, Brooke Henderson, Alena Sharp, Cathy Sherk, Gail Graham, Nancy Harvey, and Jessica Shepley.

To follow the DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada online throughout tournament week, visit pgaofcanada.com, twitter.com/pgaofcanada, instagram.com/thepgaofcanada and facebook.com/pgaofcanada

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – If you take nothing else from the 2019 PGA Championship of Canada, take this: Dustin Risdon was determined.

He wasn’t the longest. He wasn’t smoothest. He wasn’t the crispest.

He was the most committed to winning, though.

On a Friday afternoon when both Mother Nature and his opponent Oliver Tubb threw everything they had at the 38-year-old from The Players Shack in Alberta, Risdon didn’t waver in his ultimate goal of putting his name on the historic P.D. Ross Trophy.

“This is the one trophy in Canadian golf that I really wanted to win,” Risdon said after his 3&1 win over Vancouver’s Tubb. “If you look at the names on the trophy it’s amazing and now my name will be on there too for the rest of time.”

Risdon joins the likes of golf legends Arnold Palmer, Moe Norman, George Knudson, Al Balding, Bob Panasik, , Lanny Wadkins, Jim Rutledge, Wilf Homenuik, Stan Leonard and Lee Trevino as winner of the PGA Championship of Canada.

“I had so much determination out there and I knew I just had to keep fighting,” Risdon said. “I didn’t have my best swing, didn’t have my best putting stroke but it all kind of came together at the end when it had to and I can’t even begin to tell you how good this feels.”

Risdon is now a two-time PGA of Canada national champion, having won the 2016 PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada. He’s expected to jump inside of the top five of the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC thanks to the 60 points for the win. Risdon is also a former Canadian Junior and Juvenile champion and a three-time PGA TOUR-Mackenzie Tour winner.

Risdon’s final match against Tubb—who is now a two-time runner-up at the PGA Championship—featured a handful of birdies and a timely eagle on the ninth to saw the hole and keep match all-square heading to the back-nine.

“The eagle on nine was huge and was probably the TSN Turning Point,” Risdon said. “You definitely don’t want to start the back nine down, so to keep it all-square was massive.”

He would win the 10th and 12th before losing the 14th. After both players made par on No. 15, Risdon put his foot on the gas, winning the 16th with an impressive birdie and ending it on the 17th with a two-putt par.

In the consolation match, past PGA Championship of Canada winner bested Wes Heffernan 2&1.

The next PGA national championship takes place July 3-5 at Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto for the DCM PGA Women’s Championship of Canada.

Full results can be found here.

It’s going to be an all western Friday at the PGA Championship of Canada.

Parry (Seymour Golf Centre) squares off against his good friend and fellow B.C. resident Oliver Tubb (University Golf Club) on one side of the bracket. The other side of the bracket features a pair of Alberta boys—Wes Heffernan (Golf Canada Calgary Centre) and Dustin Risdon (The Players Shack).

Parry, the only one of the four remaining players with a PGA Championship of Canada win (2013 at Magna Golf Club) says he’s not going to get ahead of himself and think about what it would mean to win a second.

“While it would be very cool and fantastic to win, I’m not even going to think about it,” Parry said. “I’m not the type of person who gets too far ahead of himself, so tomorrow I’ll just stay in the moment and play golf.”

In the match of the day, Tubb defeated the PGA of Canada’s No. 1-ranked player Marc-Etienne Bussières in 21-holes.

“I got up on Marc early and he’s such a good player that he comes back and keeps coming,” Tubb admitted. “But my strategy at the beginning of the day was to not let him beat me and I guess that worked.”

The winner of the Parry and Tubb match takes on the victor of the Heffernan and Risdon duel.

“I’ve never actually played Dustin in match play, but we’ve played together so many times over the years,” Heffernan said. “Our games our completely different—Dustin has a great short game and mine isn’t such a strength. Where as, I’m pretty long off the tee and Dustin is definitely shorter and more precise.”

A past PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada winner, Risdon says he’s starting to get the winter rust off his game.

“My game is starting to come around—I haven’t played a lot of golf yet this year, but the more and more I ‘m playing here this week, the more and more my game is coming together,” Risdon said. “If I do the same things I did today and make five or six birdies, I’ll probably be all right.”

For the full leaderboard and match play bracket, CLICK HERE.

Re-launched in 2011, the PGA Championship of Canada was contested strictly as a match play event through 2014 with players from the four brackets—Stan Leonard, George Knudson, Al Balding and Moe Norman—looking to advance through the six rounds to capture the historic P.D. Ross trophy. However, the 2015 championship at Cabot Links saw a format change, with top-ranked players from the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC playing two rounds of stroke play. The top-16 players from the 36-hole stroke play portion of the event filled out the four match-play brackets with the eventual champion winning four match play rounds. This year’s championship follows the same format.

Built on more than 230 acres, Whistle Bear is regarded as one of southern Ontario’s most distinctive golf destinations. Host of the 2004 and 2005 PGA Championship of Canada (as part of the Korn Ferry Tour schedule), the links-style venue features more than 100 bunkers, as well as water on more than half of the holes.

PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC points are also up for grabs at Whistle Bear. The eventual winner will take home 60 points, with the runner up gaining 50 points. The player who earns the most ranking points (in national and zone events) in 2019 will be awarded the Mike Weir Player of the Year crown at next year’s Canada Night.

Attendance to the PGA Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend during championship play.

It was another windy and wild day at Whistle Bear Golf Club for the second round of the PGA Championship of Canada.

The 72-player field was whittled down to the top 16 advancing to the match play portion of the championship, which begins bright and early Thursday morning in Cambridge, Ont. However, it wasn’t so cut and dry Wednesday afternoon as a six-for-five playoff was needed to determine the final spots in the match play.

The PGA of Canada’s No. 1-ranked player Marc-Etienne Bussières, Thomas Keddy, Brad Kerfoot, Kent Fukushima and James Skrypec outlasted Mark Bicknell on the first playoff hole. It was the second-straight year Bussières survived extra-holes to squeak into the match play.

“I guess I just like the challenge of getting through to the match play via a playoff,” Bussières joked Wednesday afternoon at Whistle Bear. “But seriously, I feel like I found a little something out there today and we’ll see if I can keep that going for the next couple days.”

Thursday’s round-of-16 matches include:

• Kevin Stinson (1) vs. Fukushima (16)
• Jim Rutledge (2) vs. Kerfoot (15)
• Billy Walsh (3) vs.  Keddy (14)
• Oliver Tubb (4) vs. Skrypec (13)
• Nick Kenney (5) vs. Bussières (12)
• Wes Heffernan (6) vs. Brian Hadley (11)
• Dustin Risdon (7) vs. Danny King (10)
• Bryn Parry (8) vs. Billy Houle (9)

For the full leaderboard and match play bracket, CLICK HERE.

Of the remaining 16; Rutledge, Parry, King and Bussières are all past PGA Championship of Canada winners. Furthermore, Kerfoot and Risdon are past PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada winners.

The winners of the morning matches Thursday qualify for the afternoon quarterfinal matches. The eventual champion will win four match play rounds, adding his name to the historic P.D. Ross trophy.

Re-launched in 2011, the PGA Championship of Canada was contested strictly as a match play event through 2014 with players from the four brackets—Stan Leonard, George Knudson, Al Balding and Moe Norman—looking to advance through the six rounds to capture the historic P.D. Ross trophy. However, the 2015 championship at Cabot Links saw a format change, with top-ranked players from the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC playing two rounds of stroke play. The top-16 players from the 36-hole stroke play portion of the event filled out the four match-play brackets with the eventual champion winning four match play rounds. This year’s championship follows the same format.

Built on more than 230 acres, Whistle Bear is regarded as one of southern Ontario’s most distinctive golf destinations. Host of the 2004 and 2005 PGA Championship of Canada (as part of the Korn Ferry Tour schedule), the links-style venue features more than 100 bunkers, as well as water on more than half of the holes.

PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC points are also up for grabs at Whistle Bear. The eventual winner will take home 60 points, with the runner up gaining 50 points. The player who earns the most ranking points (in national and zone events) in 2019 will be awarded the Mike Weir Player of the Year crown at next year’s Canada Night.

Attendance to the PGA Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend during championship play.

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – Jim Rutledge turned back the clock Tuesday at Whistle Bear Golf Club for the first round of the PGA Championship of Canada.

The championship’s second-oldest player—who turns 60-years-old later this summer—torched a windswept Whistle Bear in Cambridge, Ont., posting an opening round 6-under-par 66.

Rutledge’s sizzler of an opener included seven birdies and just a single bogey on the second hole of the day.

“I got off to a bit of a shaky start with that bogey on No. 2, but got rolling after birdies on Nos. 4, 5 and 9 and then made some simple birdies on the back-nine to finish it off,” Rutledge said. “It’s not really a secret, but you’ve got to put yourself in the fairway out here because the rough is so unforgiving.”

A five-time PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada winner and champion of the 1984 PGA Championship of Canada, Rutledge is clearly an artful veteran of the game of golf. The former Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour player says his love for the game and his fellow competitors keeps him motivated to keep playing well in tournaments.

“I really just enjoy coming out to these events and catching up with the fellas who I’ve known for a lot of years,” he says. “And, of course, I enjoy competing against them too.”

Rutledge is one of eight past PGA Championship of Canada winners in the field this week at Whistle Bear.

The National Golf Club of Canada’s Nick Kenney sits just three shots back of Rutledge after an opening-round of 3-under-par 69. Mark Bicknell (Victoria Golf Club); last year’s runner-up Gordon Burns; Riley Fleming (National Golf Academy Dome); Brian Hadley (Thames Valley Golf Club); past PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada winner Dustin Risdon; and Oliver Tubb (University Golf Club) are all T3 at 2-under-par.

The 72-player field will be whittled down to the top-16 players following tomorrow’s second round. The final 16 will fill out the match play brackets with the eventual champion winning four match play rounds.

For the full leaderboard and second-round tee times, CLICK HERE.

This week’s field features 43 of the top 50-ranked players from the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC are in the field, including the entire top 10.

Built on more than 230 acres, Whistle Bear is regarded as one of southern Ontario’s most distinctive golf destinations. Host of the 2004 and 2005 PGA Championship of Canada (as part of the Korn Ferry Tour schedule), the links-style venue features more than 100 bunkers throughout the 18 holes, as well as water on more than half of the holes.

PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC points are also up for grabs at Whistle Bear. The eventual winner will take home 60 points, with the runner up gaining 50 points. The player who earns the most ranking points (in national and zone events) in 2019 will be awarded the Mike Weir Player of the Year crown at next year’s Canada Night.

Attendance to the PGA Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend during championship play.