Royal Canadian Golf Club Association
Change has also been a buzzword for the Royal Canadian Golf Association in recent times.
It has landed its title sponsor for the national open. The RBC Canadian Open takes place, as mentioned above, in late July.
And in salvaging our Open’s future, the RCGA has had to change the way it does business. The $5 million PGA Tour event will now be its own self-sustaining property and the funds that had always flowed from its success to help the RCGA conduct its business will now come from elsewhere.
Since the Open deal with RBC came into effect, the RCGA has condensed its staff and begun to examine every facet of its existence under new executive director Scott Simmons.
Productivity, usefulness to its members and potential to be either worthy or self-supporting are the colours of the glasses being worn in the review of everything.
In keeping with that theme, some changes have appeared on the 2008 competitive schedule of national amateur championships. Two tournaments have been dropped altogether, the Canadian Club Champions’ Championship (not accomplishing what it was designed to do) and the Canadian Senior Match Play Championship (redundant and frivolous).
And the Canadian men’s amateur has changed format. It will be a popular move among the best players to drop the match-play format used since 1995, a format that has brought some unusual winners, to say the last.
Moving back to stroke play over 72 holes is almost certain to identify the best player and while it’s not tradition that’s being kept (the Amateur was match play from 1895-1968, as well as since 1995), and it’s not following the USGA’s format, it’s far more important in our eyes to get the best winner.
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