Tee 2 Green with Barry Sharpe - - February 6/2010

Canadians didn't fare too well on the PGA TOUR this week, however, the Canadian flag is still fluttering in the breeze in Australia on the Nationwide Tour.

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PGA TOUR
Northern Trust Open - Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Cal.

1 Steve Stricker, U.S.A. 67 65 -- 142

cut Mike Weir, Canada 69 77 Thru 14 -14
WD Stephen Ames, Canada 68

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Nationwide Tour
Moonah Classic -- Moonah Links, Fingal, Victoria, Australia

1 Chris Kirk, U.S.A. 70 72 65 -- 207
T7 Jon Mills, Canada 68 70 75 -- 213
T37 David Hearn, Canada 68 76 74 -- 218
73 Ted Brown, Canada 70 75 79 -- 224

cut Bryan DeCorso, Canada 71 75 -- 146
cut Barrett Jarosch, Canada 73 74 -- 147
cut Julien Trudeau, Canada 73 78 -- 151

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PGA Champions Tour

With a grant of $2,350,000 from the Government of Canada to fund marketing and promotion over a three year period the U.S. PGA TOUR will stage a Champions Tour event for their senior players in Montreal in July.

The inaugural 54-hole Montreal Championship, featuring a 78-player field, will be conducted at Fontainebleau Golf Club in Quebec boasting a $1.8 million USD purse with the winner earning $ 270,000. It will be broadcast on both The Golf Channel and Le Réseau des sports (RDS).

The Champions Tour event will be organized by Montreal-based Synchro Sports, the same group that staged last year's Desjardins Montreal Open in August on the Canadian Tour. With this year's Montreal Open as yet undecided, it looks like the Canadian Tour is getting the shaft once again from the PGA TOUR, as well as both the federal government and the tournament organizer.

Two years ago Wayne Gretzky and Ford joined together with the PGA TOUR's secondary Nationwide Tour to stage an event in Clarksburg, Ont., just down the road from where the Canadian Tour normally holds an event and last year the Nationwide event was scheduled for the same weekend of a Canadian Tour event going on in Saskatoon.

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Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour

The Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour (MJT), has signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Srixon as the Official Ball of the Tour. Cleveland Golf/Srixon Canada has been involved with the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour since its inception 11 years ago but this new arrangement will be a huge bonus for MJT Executive Director Murray Poje and the hundreds of young players competing this season.

Junior golfers will receive a dozen Srixon golf balls at every MJT tournament in 2010 in addition to a bonus dozen at every third tournament played. This valuable gift to young golfers will help their parents out financially while benefitting their golf games with a technologically superior product.

"Srixon is proud to support the future of golf in Canada via players on the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour's highly-regarded program," says Dan Dodman, President of Cleveland Golf/Srixon Canada.

The MJT launches its 12th season of more than 50 tournaments and clinics across Canada in 2010 on March 11th and 12th at Quilchena Golf Club in Richmond, BC. The organization also qualifies players for spots to international events in Australia, Thailand, the U.K. and the USA. Players benefit from annual awards, scholarships, and frequent player incentives

For more information on the Maple Leaf Tour visit www.maplejt.com

For information on Cleveland Golf visit www.clevelandgolf.com/

For information on Srixon visit www.srixon-worldwide.com/

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Canadian College Golf Team

Eleven college golfers, including University of Victoria's Mitch Evanecz and Anne Balser together with University of British Columbia's Jocelyn Alford, will represent Canada at this year's FISU world university golf championships in Antequera, Spain June 7-10.

The men's side for this four-day tournament will also include Humber College's Ryan Willoughby and Mike Zizek, Laval University's Mathieu Gingras, University of Waterloo's Garret Rank and the University of Montreal's Philippe André Bannon.

On the women's side, the team will consist of Humber College's Danielle Greene, McGill University's Mélissa Coré and Waterloo University's Tiffany Terrier.

Ray Chateau of Humber College, who coached the team in 2008 in South Africa, 2006 in Italy and 2004 in Thailand, will accompany the team as head coach for a fourth time.