Canadian Open

[lmanchur.]

On August 30, Tiger Woods announced that he would indeed come back to Canada to defend his Canadian Open title, which is set to take place from September 6 to September 9, 2001.

Last year, Woods became only the second player to complete the career Triple Crown, and not only that, but he did it in grand style, winning ALL of the Triple Crown events in the same season -- the U.S. Open first, the British Open second, and, finally, the Canadian Open. His Canadian Open victory came at the Glen Abby Golf & CC last season with what could quite possibly be his shot of the 2000 year -- a 6-iron from the fairway bunk, over the river onto the fringe of the far side of the green whose cup was cut to the back corner of the green.

Although Glen Abby is the "home base" for the Canadian Open, it sometimes ventures off to the Royal Montreal Golf Club, which will be the site of the 2001 Canadian Open. Royal Montreal was also the site of the 1997 Canadian Open where Tiger Woods missed the cut for the first and only time in his career. Now he returns to the only course which remains his only blemish in his entire professional career. . . . . . . . .


Bell Canadian Open Coverage: ESPN: Thu. 3-6 p.m. ET; Fri.-Sun. 4-6 p.m. ET

[RaviPachai18]

Yeah! I guess I will have to watch this one on TV. I just returned to university and earlier this summer we were planning on taking a train to Quebec to see this tournament. It didn't end up working out because everyone was unsure if Tiger was going to return to defend his title. He was basically the only reason we were going to go! Oh well, hopefully if he wins this year and it goes back to Glen Abby we would be able to see him.

Ravi

[RaviPachai18]

Well he surely did start off good, tied for the lead after the first day. I'm not sure what happened on the second but looking at his scorecard I see he got a seven one on of the first holes...it was a par 4 too so that's 3 over right there. Currently he stands at 2 under and the leader at 9 under I believe. At least he made the cut :).

Ravi

[lmanchur.]

Originally posted by RaviPachai18
I'm not sure what happened on the second but looking at his scorecard I see he got a seven one on of the first holes...it was a par 4 too so that's 3 over right there.Tiger was 8 strokes off the lead after Friday because he scored a triple-bogey on hole 2 like you said -- he was +3 for the round, and +3 on hole 2, so there ya go!: the one hole really costed him.

What happened was that Tiger's tee shot went way right and it got caught up in a tall tree. Tiger saw the ball up there, but couldn't identify it as his from where he stood, so he had to go back to the tee and shoot his third shot from there again.

Canadian David Morland IV was tied for second after Friday and is playing well currently during Saturday's round... the last time a Canadian won a PGA Tour event in Canada was something like the 1970s.....