Toronto to host 2021 RBC Canadian Open

St. George’s Golf and Country Club (Wikimedia Commons)

According to Golf Canada on Wednesday, Toronto will host the 2021 RBC Canadian Open. The 2020 RBC Canadian Open was to take place at the St. George’s Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Ontario from June 11-14, 2020, but was cancelled due to coronavirus. It has also been reported that the St. George’s Golf and Country Club will be the golf course used for the 2021 RBC Canadian Open, with Islington Golf Club being used as a practice facility.

This will be the sixth time that the St. George’s Golf and Country Club will have hosted the Canadian Open. They previously hosted the event in 1933, 1949, 1960, 1968, and 2010.

The five former champions were Joe Kirkwood Sr. of Australia (1933), Dutch Harrison of the United States (1949), Art Wall Jr. of the United States (1960), Bob Charles of New Zealand (1968), and Carl Pettersson of Sweden (2010). Of the five former champions at St. George’s, there were two major winners. They were Wall Jr., who won the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, in 1959, and Charles, who won the 1963 British Open at the Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s Golf Club in England. Charles was known as the first left-handed golfer ever to win a major.

St. George’s Golf Course is recognized as being one of the golf courses designed by Canadian architect Stanley Thompson of Toronto. In addition to designing St. George’s, Thompson designed the Fairmont Jasper Park golf course in Jasper, Alberta, Highland Links Golf Course in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta, and the Capilano Golf Club in Vancouver, British Columbia. All five of the aforementioned courses are ranked among the top 10 in Canada. In 2015, Thompson was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Ontario has been the second hardest-hit province of coronavirus in Canada. There are currently 31, 544 cases of coronavirus in Canada and 2487 deaths.

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