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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4685882, member: 1969"] Went to the Canadian Open in Toronto on Thursday. Debated whether I should support the event or not given how the Tour treats the status of the event. In the end I did - went to Toronto for a few days watch the open and went to a few ball games. Highlights / The Good / Amusing Things [B]The Course [/B]I lived in Toronto for many years and this was never noted as one of the top "private courses" in the city. Never in Canada top 100 courses. Honestly had never really heard much about it until they announced the Open would be there in 2023 and 2026. I would say the course was much better than I expected. It seems like a valid PGA tour course which was my concern. They have 27 holes, so they were able to remove some of their weaker holes. It's a solid layout (not elite) but fairly good. A lot more valleys than I expected in that part of the city -- many elevated greens that can be tricky with a few mild false fronts. The rough was long -- Graham Delaet said the rough may have been a bit longer than the PGA at Oak Hill - obviously the rest of the course was not as difficult. That being said there were some holes that the driver was taking out of play, because of short fairways, narrow fairways at longer yardages. Can be viewed as a good or bad thing. Corey Connors - Was able to follow about 5 holes of his last 9 (didn't arrive for his first 9). Crows were fairly big around him, but much smaller than the Rory groups. [B]Rory Drive on 7:[/B] Not a highlight for Rory, but a highlight for me. but his drive on 7 was about 50 yards crooked and he was in some nasty crap. I was close enough to where the ball landed - so i was one of the first 5 people to get at the ball. It was interesting to be about 5 feet away as Rory arrived and he (and caddy) tried to figure out what the heck to do. [B]Crowd[/B] - Always good crowds at the Canadian Open despite getting shafted on the field. [B]Thank you Europeans -[/B] Of the few top 30 players that came many were Euro's - Mcilroy, Fitzpatrick, Hatton, Fleetwood, Rose. That was a positive for an otherwise shaky field that did not have many top Americans. (Burns, Young and Theegala were probably [B]Kramer Hickok Drive on 15, sliced about 100 yards offline [/B]- More of an amusing thing as it also involved his wife. I was just walking a few holes at the end seeing some no names. I ended up following the obscure group of Kevin Stadler, Paul Haley (I think) and Kramer Hickok for #14 and #15 - who had a group of maybe 10 people following them down 15. I get ahead of the group as they tee off on #15, so that I am near the driving land area by the time Hickok hits. He hits a massive slice, that not only misses the 15th fairway, but crosses past the ajacent 16th fairway as wall. The ball markers do not see where the ball land. Some female fan starts giving directions to the ball markers where to go, as she was the only one that saw where it landed. It ended up being Hickok's wife - she said she had never seen him a ball so offline before. As I did the rest of the hole it was interesting to see how she followed her husband. She always went well ahead ahead of him / or stayed in the shadows. She always moved towards his landing spots rather than being close to him when he hit.. or when he putt sort of went beside a tree far enough from the green. Never wanted to get too close. She also wore some tight pants that showed some certain aspects of herself quite well ... not that I look at that type of stuff. [/QUOTE]

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