If you followed the Canadian Tour, you\u0027ll recognize plenty of names on the tee\u002Dsheet at the 2023 Shaw Charity Classic presented by Rogers.
Like this week at the Shaw Charity Classic. The annual PGA Tour Champions stop in Calgary has the feel of a class reunion for graduates of the Canadian Tour.
“This is what I try to relay to the younger guys coming out of college — that mini-tour golf doesn’t prepare you for the PGA Tour or trying to get onto a tour,” said Weir, who topped the Canadian Tour’s Order of Merit in 1997, became a national hero with his major triumph at Augusta National in 2003 and is inside the Top-10 at Canyon Meadows after Friday’s spin of 3-under 67.
“That day, it’s still a bit of a blur,” reminisced Bohn, who needed 69 shots to complete his first lap Friday of the tree-lined layout at Canyon Meadows. “I guess that’s what they call ‘The Zone.’ I don’t know, I haven’t seen it too many times. I just got off to an amazing start and through the first seven holes, I’d eagled both Par-5s and birdied every other hole. So I was 9-under through seven. I bogeyed the eighth hole and I was like, ‘Oh no,’ but then I birdied Nos.
SNOQUALMIE, WASHINGTON – AUGUST 13: Notah Begay III hits out of a bunker on the 18th hole during the final round of the Boeing Classic at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge on August 13, 2023 in Snoqualmie, Washington.“Honestly, summer tournament golf in Canada is one of my most memorable experiences in the game,” said Begay, who signed Friday for an even-par 70. “The biggest lobster dinner I’ve had in my career was in P.E.I. And I’ll always remember that because it was the year that U.S.A.
Tim Herron, who made a pair of late bogeys after the downpour started Friday and settled for a 1-under 69, recalled a detour of another sort.
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