On the eve of the Canadian Open

Hello all

An so begins the Canadian Open tomorrow... I have my stuff ready to go to return once again to "Security" detail as my volunteer position. I begin my schedule tomorrow with a 7:00 am start on the putting green/first hole station.

The Canadian Open this year is being held at St. Georges Golf and Country Club, a very private and exclusive course. Yesterday, Colin and I went the course to pick up an extra shirt and we walked some of it to get to the volunteer pavillion. It is quite a beautiful course, very lush and green with HUGE trees. It seems much more compact than Glen Abbey or Angus Glen - maybe because it is located in the midst of a mature community.

The course was bustling though with last minute details and "construction".

It has long been announced that Samuel L Jackson will be participating in the Mike Weir Charity tournament - it will be exciting to see him. Last year the "big" celebrity was Kevin Costner. I had him sign my "Tin Cup" DVD.

On Friday they announced the field for the tournament. There are some big names coming - including Sean O’Hair, Camilo Villegas, Luke Donald, Tim Clark, John Daly, Hunter Mahan, Paul Casey, Fred Couples, Trevor Imelman, David Duval, Paul Azinger and Retief Goosen as well as Canadian PGA TOUR star Mike Weir. The players I am looking forward to seeing are John Daly (love the Loud Mouth clothes), Retief Goosen, Fred Couples, Woody Austin and Rocco Mediate. Hopefully the other big names will make it over from St. Andrews in order to play.

My schedule this year is all mornings - which means 4:00 am wake-ups in order to get to the course on time. So much for summer holidays :-)

I will try to take pictures over the first three days - once Thursday comes around there will be no cameras... guess as part of the security group I had better follow the rules...

Here are some photos from last year's Open:








I hope to have some new photos to post tomorrow!

Better go - the end of "THE OPEN" at St. Andrews is approaching... need to know who to congratulate and who to avoid tomorrow :-)